# Ansible Tower Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 Ansible Tower Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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Ansible Tower

## What is Ansible Tower?

Ansible Tower is an IT automation tool that helps businesses connect to nodes and execute modules over SSH. These temporary modules configure systems as desired. It requires no software or firewall changes on remote systems.

## What is Ansible Tower used for?

[Application Development](https://www.capterra.com/application-development-software/)

Overall rating

Based on 47 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

Positive

96%

Neutral

4%

Negative

0%

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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### Ansible Tower

4.5 (47)

VS.

[### SAP NetWeaver](https://www.capterra.com/p/65750/SAP-NetWeaver/)

[4.5 (54)](https://www.capterra.com/p/65750/SAP-NetWeaver/reviews/)

Starting Price

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Starting Price

Contact vendor

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

4.2 (47)

Ease Of Use

3.9 (54)

Value For Money

4.3 (39)

Value For Money

4.3 (38)

Customer Service

4.3 (39)

Customer Service

4.5 (41)

## Ansible Tower alternatives

[Django](https://www.capterra.com/p/234557/Django/)

[4.6 (18)](https://www.capterra.com/p/234557/Django/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

94%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/234557/Django/)

Highest Rated

[Cloudflare Workers](https://www.capterra.com/p/234126/Cloudflare-Workers/)

[5.0 (4)](https://www.capterra.com/p/234126/Cloudflare-Workers/#reviews)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

100%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/234126/Cloudflare-Workers/)

[Aspose.Total](https://www.capterra.com/p/154165/Aspose-Total/)

[4.4 (25)](https://www.capterra.com/p/154165/Aspose-Total/reviews/)

Starting price

$999.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

92%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/154165/Aspose-Total/)

[Boost Note](https://www.capterra.com/p/195959/Boostnote/)

[3.0 (1)](https://www.capterra.com/p/195959/Boostnote/#reviews)

Starting price

$3.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

0%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/195959/Boostnote/)

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## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Deployment Management

4.6 (11)

54.55% of 11 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Manage the processes involved when making the application ready for use

Debugging

4.4 (10)

40.00% of 10 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Detect and remove errors

Reporting/Analytics

4.3 (9)

44.44% of 9 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Source Control

4.1 (9)

33.33% of 9 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Tracks every modification made to source code

Compatibility Testing

4.1 (8)

25.00% of 8 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Preview how the app will display on multiple device types and operating systems

Task Management

4.0 (1)

100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Create, manage and track all task activities and progression

Ansible Tower 10 features

Preview how the app will display on multiple device types and operating systems

Development of custom software, web apps, mobile apps, etc.

Conceptual model of how data items relate to each other

Detect and remove errors

Manage the processes involved when making the application ready for use

Store, manage, and track all electronic documents in a centralized location

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Tracks every modification made to source code

Create, manage and track all task activities and progression

Development of applications that are delivered over the internet through a browser

Features

4.5 (47)

4.5

Based on 47 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

4.3 (39)

### Starting price

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Value for money

4.3 (39)

4.3

Based on 39 reviews

## Integrations

[

GitHub](https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/)[

Google Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/268690/Google-Cloud-Platform/)[

Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com/p/16365/Azure/)[

GitLab](https://www.capterra.com/p/159806/GitLab/)[

Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/)[

SAP S/4HANA Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/152293/SAP-S-4HANA/)[

ServiceNow](https://www.capterra.com/p/254088/ServiceNow/)[

Splunk Enterprise](https://www.capterra.com/p/94317/Splunk/)

## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.3 (39)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

4.3 (39)

4.3

Based on 39 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.5

Based on 47 reviews

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5(27)

4(18)

3(2)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

ME

Marcelo E.

Systems Analyst Coop

Banking

### "Ansible - Sensible Automation "

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

September 14, 2024

Pros

Ansible Tower offers great control and visibility for managing automation at scale. I appreciated the easy-to-use interface, especially for scheduling and tracking job runs. The role-based access control is also a great feature for large team environments and organizations.

Cons

The pricing can be a bit steep for smaller teams, and some advanced features may feel overkill for simple use cases. Overall, it's a strong tool for those managing large-scale automation.

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Marcin K.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Information Technology and Services

### "RedHat supported automation center tool"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

2.0

2.0

Likelihood to Recommend

6/10

February 14, 2024

For small projects or without a tight RedHat stack integration the free AWX might be better, but for bigger ones, with more complexity, when you are required to contractually guarantee support in all cases you want a tried and tested platform components with manufacturer support and that is where Tower comes in. A key tool to manage your nodes and their tool stack and deployments.

Pros

Ease of use and great integration with the rest of RedHat stack upon which a lot of open source products and offerings are using.

Cons

Price of enterprise support for the features it offers over open-source AWX.

Switched from

[Ivanti Device Control](https://www.capterra.com/p/193239/Device-Control/)

[Ivanti Application Control](https://www.capterra.com/p/193237/Application-Control/)

We needed official support levels per audit requirements of new contracts.

Alternatives considered

[Ivanti Application Control](https://www.capterra.com/p/193237/Application-Control/)

Reasons for choosing Ansible Tower

Contractual requirements and ease of integration with the rest of the stack heavily sourced from RedHat offerings.

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AU

Anonymous User

Senior consultant

Information Technology and Services

### "Ease of use & good API feature"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

November 15, 2023

Pros

Easy to manage tool ,& easily define the group of instances & assign the group for execution of jobs.

Cons

Dashboard can be improved& reports are not so powerful.

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SA

Samuel A.

Software

Telecommunications

### "Powerhouse of IT Automation"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

May 25, 2023

Once I got the hang of it, it made managing computer tasks much easier.

Pros

Ansible Tower is great at automating computer tasks, helping work get done faster and easier. It's really good for managing networks and making everything run smoother.

Cons

The setup can be confusing, and sometimes the program can be slow. Also, the way it controls who has access to what can be hard to understand, and creating a special access code (auth token) can be tricky.

Switched from

[Chef Enterprise Automation Stack](https://www.capterra.com/p/170467/Chef/)

[Rudder](https://www.capterra.com/p/183618/Rudder/)

Review source

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Flor C.

Software Developer

Computer Software

### "Automating IT with Ansible Tower"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

7/10

March 3, 2023

A useful tool for certain automations, with solvable problems.

Pros

What caught my attention was that with Ansible you can generate an additional layer of security and at the same time allow users to only be allowed to modify what corresponds to their role, with role-based access control by administrators. Something that can even help to keep track of the tasks of each collaborator.

Cons

The problem that has happened to us is with respect to upgrades, for example in costs. Sometimes when the software is upgraded, the licenses are also upgraded, which requires the purchase of new licenses, i.e. an added cost. This should be solved for the benefit of the user.

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HW

Hans W.

Data Engineer

Information Technology and Services

### "Great Complementary Ansible Software"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

January 11, 2023

Ansible Tower is a great product that can be used both by pro Ansible users and newcomers alike. Initial configuration can be a bit complicated in certain cases but once you get it up and running there is rarely an issue encountered on the software side. Though your playbooks might encounter what seems an unsolvable error every now and then.

Pros

For those that have the knowledge using Ansible in the cli, this will prove as a complementary tool that helps the user have a visual guidance of their projects. This product is also aimed to those who have a general knowledge of Ansible and refer to doing simple execute tasks or configurations. Its a powerful tool that can be combined with other products such as Red Hat Satellite. Ansible Tower enables graphic metrics of your playbook/workflow runs and has different options when configuring access credentials to cloud providers, github repositories, etc.

Cons

The error output messages can be at times ambiguous, which don't advise as to where the problem is happening. It gets confusing identifying the issue because your playbooks might run just fine through the CLI, but once you start using Ansible Tower there are breaking points in which the playbook/workflow fails. Since every project is different and there are various packages and modules being used, usually the user is left over examining python libraries and modules to see how the behavior might differ that from the CLI. The documentation is lacking (Ansible CLI documentation is more robust) and even though you can manage to get to Stackoverflow or blogs that have comments to a similar problem you encountered, usually these provide little to no help at all. If you have a person with experience with the software, I would greatly recommend advocating to them.

Review source

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AS

Abhishek S.

Portfolio manager

Computer Software

### "Ansible tower- Best tool to manage playbooks"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

December 29, 2022

It’s amazing to use and manage tha playbooks.I have used it expensively for playbooks for Kafka , maven etc.

Pros

It is very easy to understand and manage all the playbooks.

Cons

Online support and documentation is not too good.

Review source

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Mohit A.

Principal DevOps Consultant

Information Technology and Services

### "Ansible for Infrastructure management"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

December 3, 2022

Pros

Ansible provide good flexibility with integration with other CI tools. Also Its agentless, Its very good tool for infrastructure management and even can do deployment in one go on multiple servers.

Cons

Playbooks are difficult to manage. Also if there are custom modules, it becomes difficult

Review source

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Sachin S.

DevOps Engineer

Computer Software

### "Outstanding tool for Configuration Management"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

May 31, 2022

We are offering Ansible Tower to different kinds of teams with in the organization. So that teams don't need to worry about the environment they require. We have integration Ansible with CI/CD tool like Jenkins, Pipelines feature offered Azure DevOps.

Pros

We as a DevOps team using Ansible Tower to provide solution to user manage their hardware configuration based on the requirement. It helps us to provide IaaC service to our end users. We develop various playbooks based upon the requirement which are fulfilling the requirements without worrying about infrastructure. So that development teams can focus on their application/software developments.

Cons

Initially I struggled a bit because it comes with steep learning curve but over the period of time I get along pretty well. It will good if Knowledge articles are there I think this will help the beginners to start using Ansible referring those KBA's.

Review source

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Yuri M.

IT Infrastructure Specialist

Telecommunications

### "Ansible Tower is a user friendly portal to easily manage automation project with Ansible. "

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

May 30, 2022

I am really happy with the usage of the product. It helps us manage better all our ansible projects and also delegate to our staff roles in the projects.

Pros

Ansible tower is organize in a way that you can configure and manage every aspect of a ansible playbook and roles. It gives you a easy way to manage it. Also the self service feature its really great

Cons

Maybe in the future it can improve the interface so it has more helpful hints to use each section.

Reasons for choosing Ansible Tower

We did not consider alternative products

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