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Datto Remote Monitoring and Management vs LogMeIn Central comparison

datto and GoTo are both solutions in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) category. datto is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.5, while GoTo is ranked #8 with an average rating of 10.0. datto holds a 7.5% mindshare in RMM, compared to GoTo’s 4.2% mindshare. Additionally, 77% of datto users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of GoTo users who would recommend it.
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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

LogMeIn Central and Datto Remote Monitoring and Management compete in the remote monitoring and management category. LogMeIn Central appears more favorable for those on a budget, offering support and essential features, while Datto provides premium features that justify its cost, appealing to larger enterprises.

Features: LogMeIn Central offers remote access, automated task management, and endpoint security. It targets small to medium-sized businesses with its simplicity. Datto Remote Monitoring and Management provides comprehensive monitoring, patch management, and data backup. It's designed for larger organizations needing robust data protection and recovery solutions.

Room for Improvement: LogMeIn Central could enhance its advanced feature set to better cater to larger enterprises and improve its data backup capabilities. Its security features may need refinements for higher-tier users demanding more comprehensive solutions. Additionally, offering more granular control options could optimize its utility for diverse IT environments. Datto Remote Monitoring and Management could streamline its deployment process for easier integration and enhance its user interface for better accessibility. Expanding customization options could increase flexibility for users needing specific configurations. Price competitiveness could also be evaluated for broader market appeal.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: LogMeIn Central allows straightforward deployment with efficient customer support, appealing to businesses with basic IT needs. Datto Remote Monitoring and Management entails a more involved deployment process but provides dedicated support and resources, benefiting businesses with complex IT requirements.

Pricing and ROI: LogMeIn Central generally offers a lower initial setup cost, which suits smaller budgetary constraints, providing reasonable ROI for its core capabilities. Datto Remote Monitoring and Management, although associated with higher initial expenses, promises long-term savings through its comprehensive features, aiming to provide extensive and proactive IT management and protection.

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Categories and Ranking

Datto Remote Monitoring and...
Ranking in Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM)
6th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
LogMeIn Central
Ranking in Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM)
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) category, the mindshare of Datto Remote Monitoring and Management is 7.5%, down from 7.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LogMeIn Central is 4.2%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Dario Caraponale - PeerSpot reviewer
It's very easy to implement and create policies
Implementation for our first customer took about a week. The console is cloud-based, while we install agents on customer desktops and laptops, both on-premises and remote. Maintenance seems quite easy so far. I can set up alerts for anything happening in the tool, so my technical staff don't need to monitor the console constantly.
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Kelsey Braun - PeerSpot reviewer
Has good stability and an easy initial setup process
We use the solution for remote access control and endpoint protection features The solution has the best remote access control and protection features. They should provide intermediate device limit options. It would be helpful for users who require more remote control capabilities than the lower…
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Automation, in terms of the standard patches and standard updates, and remote support are valuable. When it does the standard Windows and patches, it works really well. This is something they focus on. Remote support is also something they focus on quite a bit, and it works really well. Being able to get to an agent or a client computer right away is very helpful."
"I also like how Datto integrates seamlessly with the Autotask ticketing system."
"Even when the connection to the server is lost, the monitoring continues without interruption."
"The tool's main valuable features are its ease of use and intuitive console. It's very easy to implement and create policies. I don't need highly technical staff to manage the tool, which is a big advantage."
"The remote tool is nice. If a user needs assistance, I don't have to tell the user to do anything. I just ask the user if I can remote in, and 30 seconds later, I have remoted in. It has been really handy."
"It has a single pane of glass, and it integrates well with other software."
"The alerting system helps us determine what are high level alerts, and what are alerts which can wait for a day or two. We catch RAID failures, hot servers, bad drives (or predicted failures on drives), etc."
"AEM support is great for Macs."
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"The ability to remotely access machines with no user intervention required at the remote terminal. Other software we used needed someone to click a link and do a download for me to provide support. Now, with LogMeIn Central, I can get in and fix things while they are away from their desks."
"Unattended remote assistance."
"This solution has allowed granular permission access to machines, very consistent and solid most of the time."
"It’s enabled me to remotely do updates to servers and workstations in off-hours – without needing to travel into the office. Makes my life much easier."
"It allows you to transfer along with many other functions."
"​The initial setup was pretty straightforward."
"One of the improvements they made was a LogMeIn Central client - that was a couple years ago - and that has been great. You no longer have to use their web interface. There's actually a client that you can install, which lists all of the machines and servers that you can access. That works really well."
"Using the product, we provide a quicker response when supporting customers.​"
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Cons

"They have a tab to provide information about the type of hardware the computers have. One thing they don't specify is what model of hard drive the computers have. Identification of storage models would be nice."
"Be prepared to spend a lot of time on conversions if you have a lot of clients."
"I would like the ability to remotely manage configuration and settings on individual units. Some organizations have a certain device configuration that needs to be consistent across all computers. For example, if we have computers that cannot go to sleep or hibernate because they're being accessed remotely, we need to be able to quickly configure those computers to not hibernate. With Datto, there is no easy and/or direct way to accomplish this. I can't create a group called No Hibernate and drag all those computers to that group so that they do not go into hibernation. There is no easy way to put in a policy or a procedure like that. It's still back to going to each computer and doing it by hand, which is what I'm trying to get away from. I want to automate and simplify as much as possible. I write code and scripts to do most of my work anyways. The intention is to get away from me having to be so hands-on."
"The main challenge was implementing patch management for software that was not in the tool's standard library or catalog."
"The CRM capabilities are not very good. It's clunky and could work a lot better than it does. There are no marketing add-ins, for example."
"My most significant criticism is Datto is a complex product that takes a while to understand, but that could be said of almost any solution at the same level. It depends on where you're starting from. You have to rework all your workflows, and it's some heavy lifting if you want to get it right."
"The actual setup and the automation of their product are horrific. When you buy it, there is nothing out of the box. You have to custom design it for everything you want it to do. You pay for implementation, but they don't really do a whole lot to help you get it going. I know it does a lot more than what ours is set up to do, which is frustrating. When I've demoed other systems, their setup is so much better. When you pay for their setup, there is so much more, whereas I just feel like we didn't get a very good setup."
"We would like to see a little more functionality when monitoring network devices, such as switches and routers."
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"I have had issues where LogMeIn has not been useful, then we have not been able to work that day. This happens probably two or three times a year."
"​File transfer on the free version needs improvement. Allow file transfer with drag and drop to and from Remote Desktop. ​"
"It needs backwards compatibility for non-Microsoft-supported operating systems, for example, XP and 2003. In situations where I have no options but to run older operating systems, I would like for it to be backwards compatible."
"Our clients are having issues with printing."
"The initial load is terribly slow and often has delays with the login page loading."
"They should provide intermediate device limit options for the users."
"The screen. Make it clearer. The screen resolutions don't always line up. So clarity of the screen, and speed."
"LogMeIn Rescue could be made a lot easier where you could just tell the person where to go and log in, and they could just log in. Or even make it simpler where you could just send a file to a person and they would click on it; just something easier. The way they have it right now, it's not easy."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"AEM is a lot more scalable as you just pay per agent instead of having to purchase expensive licenses."
"The license typically depends on the number of endpoints. On the RMM side, I think we're paying around $2,250 per endpoint. Then there is also a license per user and tech, so that comes out to about a hundred bucks per tech, give or take."
"Regarding pricing, Kaseya sells it as part of a bundle called Kaseya 360. This package includes several tools, such as EDR, ransomware protection, and more. Considering the bundle, the price is reasonable. However, where I am in Brazil, the high dollar rate and taxes make it not cheap for mid-sized companies. Still, it's competitively priced compared to similar tools."
"We had to pay out some overtime for a few problematic sites. Sites on domain networks are incredibly easy to install. We learned a few tricks that streamlined the process, but in the beginning, it was a bit tedious."
"It goes by how many endpoints you have. It is about $3,000 a month for us. If we can't figure it out ourselves and need additional help to set it up, we would have to pay for that."
"It fluctuates on the number of computers you have. Depending on the number of computers you have, it can fluctuate anywhere between $5 to $10 per computer per month, which is not too bad. I am not aware of any additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee. It was one flat rate per device."
"It sucks that I am paying for LogMeIn Central, LogMeIn Pro, and LogMeIn Rescue, plus LogMeIn Ignition, which is the mobile app​. It costs me a lot of money every month at LogMeIn. ​"
"It's getting more expensive and we are starting to evaluate other products. It's starting to become unaffordable."
"It really is an expensive product for me.​"
"The only thing I found is that they've gotten very, very expensive over the years. I started out with about about 100 users on it. Two years ago it was about $600 for 100 users. Now, it's that price for 25 users."
"The solution's price is reasonable."
"We've been trying to nail its cost down ourselves, and it is a disaster in that area because you get different numbers all the time. They say this is what it is, but the numbers don't make a lot of sense to me. I know that the numbers change. So, the more you have, the less they are per seat, but I don't really understand where those breakdowns are. Its billing is confusing. It is definitely the worst part. For 7,500 seats, it might be between 2,250 and 2,700 a month. It is somewhere in there."
"I complain about the price all the time. It's gone up from relatively inexpensively to, right now, about $2000 a year for me, based upon the number of machines I have. You say $2000 is not that bad, but the price has jumped up significantly over the past few years. They went three or four years without any price increases, and then they did a dramatic increase, three or four times the annual fee, two years in a row. But last year and this year it has been pretty stable."
"We are an educational institution, so anything to make it cheaper would be better because we don’t grow money on trees."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Retailer
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
10%
University
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Datto Remote Monitoring and Management?
Even when the connection to the server is lost, the monitoring continues without interruption.
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What needs improvement with Datto Remote Monitoring and Management?
We are still on the learning curve with the solution, so I can't point out many specific areas for improvement yet.
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What advice do you have for others considering Datto Remote Monitoring and Management?
The main challenge was implementing patch management for software that was not in the tool's standard library or catalog. We overcame this by working with their technical support; now, we know how ...
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What do you like most about LogMeIn Central?
It is a scalable solution.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LogMeIn Central?
The solution's price is reasonable.
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What needs improvement with LogMeIn Central?
They should provide intermediate device limit options. It would be helpful for users who require more remote control capabilities than the lower device limit plans.
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Also Known As

Autotask EM, Autotask Endpoint Management, Datto RMM
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Overview

Autotask Endpoint Management is everything you need from an RMM solution, and it is all managed On Autotask’s customizable dashboards.

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LogMeIn Central enables you to effectively monitor, manage, and secure your endpoint infrastructure with a robust endpoint management feature set.
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