# Reprise License Manager Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is Reprise License Manager the right License Management solution for you? Explore 54 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/80272/Reprise-License-Manager/reviews --- Reprise License Manager 4.9 (54) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated November 5th, 2025 # Reviews of Reprise License Manager Ease of use 4.5 Customer Service 4.9 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews MS Michelle S Senior Software ArchitectInsurance, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Allowed us to quickly implement a licensing and activation solution by leveraging activation pro for the interim until our team could invest in implementing our own activation server to host locally.“ November 5, 2020 MS Michelle S Senior Software ArchitectInsurance, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Even in doing that, I still found it difficult to get the answers I needed, in order to determine what configuration settings we really needed to override for our company specific rlm server. “ November 5, 2020 TH Tim H PresidentAutomotive, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “All of my customers have existing installations of Reprise on their license servers, so using Reprise is easy for them.“ November 5, 2020 MS Michelle S Senior Software ArchitectInsurance, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Additionally, we struggled with understanding how to deal with proxy servers and what types of licensing models we really needed.“ November 5, 2020 Paul A CEOComputer Software, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Integration was relatively straight forward and on the whole definitely less effort than rolling your own solution.“ November 5, 2020 ZA Zaia A PresidentComputer Software, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “There are no issues that Reprise hasn't dealt with in a timely manner.“ November 7, 2020 FD Francois D Technical DirectorComputer Software, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Easy to setup, administer and integrate within our software suites.“ November 5, 2020 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 54 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Paul A. CEO Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excellent Licensing Management" November 5, 2020 5.0 Integration was relatively straight forward and on the whole definitely less effort than rolling your own solution. Costs overall put it slightly in favour on the build vs buy decision. It is not inexpensive but in most cases will cost less than your own solution unless you need something extremely basic. Pros Hosted activation option is great for avoiding the pain of setting up your own activation service and managing uptime and other issues. Lots of available options for local licensing, license servers, activation and other configurations. Documentation is extensive, though so extensive that it can be a little tricky to find your way around it, usually the information is there though. Top notch support team, extremely responsive to questions and issues. Cons No true usage based licensing system (e.g., for billing users by the hour). Possible in a way with various work around techniques but complex. Interface in web tools is somewhat "old world" at this stage, however perfectly functional. There have been some recent updates improving this however. Reason for choosing Reprise License Manager Professional and responsive company to deal with which is critically important when licensing is definitely on the critical path in most cases. Review Source ZA Zaia A. President Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Reprise serves our needs" November 7, 2020 4.0 RLM is an important tool for our licensing and revenue protection from unauthorized use Pros The software works well with no noticeable glitches. If we need any fixes or changes, we find Reprise to be a good company to deal with. They have been responsive to our needs and we are planning to continue using them over the long term Cons There are no issues that Reprise hasn't dealt with in a timely manner. No complaints here Reason for choosing Reprise License Manager They have persistently kept in touch with us even when we used other software licensing products. We appreciated their perseverance Switched from [FlexNet Manager Suite](https://www.capterra.com/p/116634/FlexNet-Manager-Suite/) Reprise was more responsive when we needed to control fees payment Review Source MS Michelle S. Senior Software Architect Insurance Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Implementing RLM Start to Finish for multiple Software packages" November 5, 2020 5.0 Once we got everything setup, implemented and tested within our software solutions, the licensing manager is now very easy to use, manage and maintain. Setup was the hard part. Better documentation might make it easier for new clients. Now that we are there, Reprise License Manager pretty much runs effortlessly in the background. Our next steps are to implement our own hosted activation site so that we can unplug from the hosted activation server, when time comes available. Pros Allowed us to quickly implement a licensing and activation solution by leveraging activation pro for the interim until our team could invest in implementing our own activation server to host locally. Cons My role was to write the license activation, revoke, validation code in order to integrate RLM into our multiple software solutions. Additionally, I designed the product and licensing models for the client support team (who would then generate and deliver activation keys to clients). Though documentation and sample code does exist, I found that I had to constantly switch between different documentation sets in order to find valid answers. Even in doing that, I still found it difficult to get the answers I needed, in order to determine what configuration settings we really needed to override for our company specific rlm server. Additionally, we struggled with understanding how to deal with proxy servers and what types of licensing models we really needed. I will say that that the support team has been wonderful with answering all of our questions and helping us to get up and running quickly. Review Source AG Alex G. CTO Automotive Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Flexible and well-priced" November 5, 2020 4.0 Pros Wide range of features, with reasonably-priced a-la-carte offerings. Lots of licensing options, and we ended up using a bunch of different configurations: \* Node-locked short-term demo licenses enabled anyone to try our software \* Cloud-based floating license servers was a big hit for customers with distributed offices \* Onsite licensing servers with proxy settings and failover was used by our larger and more restrictive automotive customers \* Hardware license dongles were used by our most restrictive customers, who wouldn't permit any authentication traffic Cons Node-locked protection on Linux was weaker than Windows (didn't support less easily-spoofed options like disk serial number) Reason for choosing Reprise License Manager Price and simple a-la-carte offerings. Quick integration. Review Source TH Tim H. President Automotive Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Happy with Reprise" November 5, 2020 5.0 I got up and running on Reprise very quickly. Once it has been implemented in my software, I rarely need to do any coding with Reprise. It just works. Pros Reprise is easy to configure and deploy. It is widely used in the industry. All of my customers have existing installations of Reprise on their license servers, so using Reprise is easy for them. Cons My code is a python code. I have to write my own C++ / DLL extensions to access Reprise. It's not hard to do. I would just like this functionality out of the box. I would like Reprise to provide workshops on how to use the basic and advanced features. Ideally these would be free, but I would be willing to pay a moderate price for this. Reason for choosing Reprise License Manager Price Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Software Architect Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "RLM Does what we want without any bloat and at reasonable cost" November 6, 2020 5.0 Very good experience throughout. Pros Easy integration, all the features we want. Cons There was nothing in particular that we didn't like. Reason for choosing Reprise License Manager Less bloat, better value. Review Source James C. Senior Software Scientist Oil & Energy Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Reprise RLM Suits our Needs" October 16, 2019 5.0 Pros Very flexible licensing model. Easy to use API. Very responsive technical support. Cons . . Review Source PS Peter S. Founder Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "An amazing software licensing solution" November 9, 2020 5.0 Pros Simple C API that is easy to integrate in any software product on any (RLM supported) platform. Things just work on our clients side. Well documented. Great support. Cons Cannot think of anything negative to say about RLM and the people we interfaced with in their support team. Reason for choosing Reprise License Manager From past experience as an user of software that used FLEXlm and then RLM for software licensing. It was always easy to install, configure and support these products. So it was a natural choice to pick RLM for our software solutions. Review Source SS Steven S. Used the software for: ### "RLM works well in all our current products, and gets few complaints from customers" February 18, 2016 5.0 We have been selling connectivity software since 1989, and were using our own license enforcement until late 2010, when a customer recommended RLM as an improvement over our clumsy ad-hoc system. We sell to all size companies, from 1 user to 1000's of users, and RLM works well for all sizes. Pros: RLM is fairly easy to install: Simply download the package, follow the instructions, and link the resulting library into your application. The license files are text and rather compact, and one format supports both node-locked and license server models. The API has simple calls, but also more advanced ones. Using the simple calls, you pass the name of your application and its version number, and it returns a yes or no. If no, you can go into a demo or evaluation mode. Reprise is very good at customer service. They usually answer tech questions the same day. Cons: When we first signed up (in 2010), the RLM activation server was primitive and not usable, so we wrote our own. (An activation server distributes an license file with the customers hostid from a sales database when given an activation key.) Since then, they have released "Activation Pro", but we had already written our own, so I can't review that. We don't use their free product, but their paid product requires an additional annual fee for each architecture, and "Windows 32-bit" is a different architecture from "Windows 64-bit". If your customer runs your application on one architecture and wishes to run their license server on a different architecture, you have to purchase both. There is not a good API for querying license use, but there is a good web interface to the RLM license server. The Linux startup script for the license server (/etc/init.d/rlm) did not work well. It can easily shut down the wrong server if it's not configured correctly. We ended up making major changes to the Linux startup script. However, the Windows RLM license server starts up very well. Review Source KV Ken V. Director, Sales Engineering Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great Value For The Money" November 6, 2020 5.0 Pros RLM was fairly easy to setup and deploy in a relatively short time-frame. Cons It possessed limited reporting capabilities when we first deployed it, but they have enhanced them over time. Alternatives considered [Nalpeiron Zentitle](https://www.capterra.com/p/80261/Nalpeiron-Licensing-Service/) Reason for choosing Reprise License Manager Pricing and ease-to-setup. Review Source JP Jon P. Senior Research Engineer Used the software for: ### "Great company. Great product" February 19, 2016 5.0 Using Reprise for our licensing solutions has helped us focus on our craft without having to worry about dealing with the pesky details that aren't our specialty (product licensing). The RLM software suite has provided the functionality we required with a professional and user-friendly interface. We have a great and long-standing relationship with Reprise. Customer service is timely and professional. Review Source RH Rand H. Senior Research Software Engineer Used the software for: ### "It works well." February 18, 2016 5.0 We've been using RLM for the past last 4 years and we haven't had a problem with the system. On a couple of occasions we had to ask customer services for how to accomplish something obscure, and always received excellent and fast responses. It does what it should, allows for lots of additional functionality, and stays current with the changes to operating systems. Review Source NA Neil A. Director - New Products Used the software for: ### "Flexible Licence Management" February 18, 2016 5.0 We've been using RLM for around three years and have found it to be a solid performer in securing our products against unauthorised use. We use both node locking and site licences and the ease of switching between the two system is a major benefit. Reprise have been a great company to deal with. Review Source JI Jeff I. Used the software for: ### "RLM with Fortran" February 19, 2016 4.0 I was initially skeptical of RLM because their examples for use with Fortran were described as "unsupported." However, their customer support personnel were very effective in helping me integrate RLM with my company's product, and RLM does exactly what we need a license manager to do. Review Source GJ Guido J. Product Development Manager Used the software for: ### "A pleaseure to work with!" February 25, 2016 5.0 Great license manager and easy to integrate. And for those few cases where needed, it is backed up by an even better support! This includes integrating non-trivial feature requests and going the extra mile to offer our customers the flexibility they need. Review Source RM Ralph M. Team Lead / Sr. Engineer Used the software for: ### "Truly excellent" February 18, 2016 5.0 Simple and easy to integrate. Well documented. Trivial to deploy. Best tech support I have come across anywhere, any bugs found were typically fixed and delivered within 24hrs. No complaints or criticisms whatsoever. Review Source WT Wei-Ting T. Technique Lead Used the software for: ### "One of best choice of software licensing solution" February 23, 2016 5.0 We are seeking for software licensing solution in Linux platform and RLM is our choice. RLM works perfectly and also provide great customer support and document at the same time. Review Source SL Shima L. Used the software for: ### "Highly recommend solution for license management software" February 22, 2016 5.0 \- Flexible, Simple, Powerful and Value for Money - Support team are very responsive and helpful. They're fantastic! Review Source SJ Suresh J. Software Developer Civil Engineering Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great Customer support" November 5, 2020 5.0 Great Pros RLM has really a great support team. The product is good too and very easy to use. Cons Two separate databases for Activation Pro and RLM Cloud. If a customer wants node locked and RLM cloud, you need to enter customer details in two places. Review Source ED ERWIN D. CEO Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Software licensing for the Photonics Design Automation Software" September 11, 2019 5.0 Pros Flexible company - good technical support Cons It is difficult to read and understand the documentation Review Source LC Lonnie C. CTO Used the software for: ### "Flexible, adaptable and transparent" February 18, 2016 5.0 We've been using Reprise for our products' licensing for more than 6 years now. Their solution client-side is in the form of a library, and it is very transparent what it does and how it works. It is in a form that is highly flexible, so that when we have requirements or processes that are unique for us, it is possible to adapt. The transparency has also allowed us to develop much of our own back-office processes and automation, from license generation to activation, to salesforce integration, around the Reprise toolset. They have a diverse set of licensing options, only a subset of which we make use of, but we are able to offer our customers floating (site) licenses as well as individual licenses. I've interacted with Bob many times, from advice on how to approach issues or client-specific problems, to addressing bugs, to implementation problems on my end. He's the expert, and I like being able to get right to the deep technical details immediately. Because the client-side is essentially a library, much of the onus for the customer experience falls on us -- how our product's UI presents licensing interactions to the user. This is less turn-key than some other options, but as I said, it gives us total flexibility. I often feel that we could do a better job on our end. Where there are areas where ERs on their end can help, I know I have a receptive ear, and have seen several of my requests implemented over the years. Review Source KP Keith P. Sr Software Developer Used the software for: ### "Code level license integration made easy" February 18, 2016 5.0 RLM is an effective tool which programmers and sales groups can use to eliminate proprietary product licensing and license management. Building a product is challenging enough without having to factor in the cost of sustaining custom licensing code and license generation software. RLM does all that and more. Need support for network licensing? RML does it. Need support for licensing renewal and expiration? Look to RLM. Cons? You have to spend a bit of time understanding licensing to realize the complexity of the task required to turn you own licensing solution. The same is true when you want to integrate RLM. You have to decide what features you need and then later branch out to use many of their more advanced offerings. The learning curve on concepts like license sharing, or detached licenses can be high at first. Once the concepts are understood the value is readily apparent. Great product, solid well thought offering, responsive support group. Review Source AP Andrew P. Lead System Architect Used the software for: ### "Great product" February 18, 2016 5.0 We use RLM in our desktop products and have been very happy with it. It didn't take us long to get it up and running (though we went a step or two further and built a nice C++ wrapper on it -- you certainly don't need to do that if you don't want to) and whenever we need support, Reprise is quick & prompt with the help (usually situations involving odd customer networking setups when they're trying to use a floating license server). Perhaps most important, we've found RLM to be of the category of 'fire and forget'. We implemented it in our software, verified it, and have had to do almost nothing since to keep it up & running. Every so often we'll upgrade to a newer version, which means compiling some binaries and putting them in the proper place so our in-house licensing system (which sits on top of RLM) can do its thing, but that's basically a couple of hours of work We upgrade to the latest version every couple of years, so this is pretty minimal. Review Source FD Francois D. Technical Director Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Licensing made comfortable" November 5, 2020 5.0 Pros Easy to setup, administer and integrate within our software suites. Cons For the use we have, we don't see any Cons. Review Source JR Jim R. VP Product Development Used the software for: ### "Excellent, flexible licensing solution backed by exceptional customer support" February 19, 2016 5.0 We have been a customer of Reprise's for many years and have found their solution to be technically excellent. As a new company, they delivered a robust product from the onset and have incrementally continued to improve. Some of the pros are: - supports many licensing models--trials, stand alone, network and mixtures. - flexible binding to various host/system ids - a fare pricing model to fit smaller businesses - very quick to respond to technical support and provide solutions - easy to use management and troubleshooting tools Cons are minimal: - not as plug-and-play as some solutions (e.g., requires compilation and more coding to integrate) - .NET wrappers are fairly basic and non-object oriented I would recommend RLM without hesitation. Review Source Similar Products Featured