Kandji vs. Jamf battle cards

Meet Kandji
The Ultimate Alternative to Jamf

Searching for a best-in-class MDM solution? Kandji's elegant approach to Apple device management wins over the competition.

G2’s conclusion: Customers favor Kandji over Jamf Pro

A perfect experience

Built from the ground up to provide a modern and native Apple look and feel, Kandji was designed with an eye on the ways Apple users and admins like to work.

Creating configurations, specifying settings, and managing apps can all be accomplished with a few clicks, rather than days or weeks of complex scoping and scripting of policies and content for your devices.

“Kandji does an excellent job of balancing ease of use and being a powerful tool. It's so easy to get things up and running, and to deploy advanced security to our environments, and it saves us a huge amount of time.”

IT Manager

100-500 employees, Industrial. Manufacturing

The G2 Comparison

G2 has compared Apple MDM products on several criteria, including feature sets, ease of use, quality of support, and more. G2’s reports include both data-driven comparisons of customer satisfaction as well as real-life customer stories from companies that have implemented these solutions in their organizations. Here’s what G2 found when comparing Kandji and Jamf Pro.

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Jamf
Customer Satisfaction

Kandji 4.8/5

Jamf 4.7/5

Meets Feature Requirements

Kandji 9.3/10

Jamf 9.2/10

Ease of Use

Kandji 9.6/10

Jamf 8.9/10

Ease of Setup

Kandji 9.4/10

Jamf 8.3/10

Quality of Support

Kandji 9.6/10

Jamf 9.1/10

Ease of Administration

Kandji 9.6/10

Jamf 8.9/10

Product Direction

Kandji 9.8/10

Jamf 9.4/10

The most loved Apple device management for fast-growing companies

Kandji is an award-winning software for innovative leaders who run on Apple.

”Very satisfied with Kandji, it's easy to use, easy to implement.”

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CJ Robinson
IT Manager

”One of the biggest eye-catchers for me was how quickly we could get our security posture up to speed.”

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Dorian Cordero
Systems Engineer, Rackspace

”So much is automated, saving us countless hours of repetitive, manual work.”

See how Kandji stacks up against Jamf

Kandji
Jamf
Features
Personalized setup experience for Mac
included with Kandji
not included with Jamf
Identity management integration of login window
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Use of single sign-on (SSO) extension
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Mac MDM migration automation
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Built-in automation workflows and Blueprints
included with Kandji
not included with Jamf
Certified CIS compliance templates
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Zero-touch deployment
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Self Service app
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Configure software updates
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Customizable enforcement of macOS updates
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Offline policy enforcement and remediation
included with Kandji
not included with Jamf
Add EDR security without extensive tooling/training
included with Kandji
not included with Jamf
Apple Business Manager integration
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Broad support of Apple's declarative management protocols
included with Kandji
not included with Jamf
G2 Ease of Setup score
Kandji score 9.4
Jamf score 8.2
G2 Ease of Administration score
Kandji score 9.5
Jamf score 8.8
Support
Email
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Chat
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Phone
not included with Kandji
$$$ additional cost with Jamf
No additional costs for higher support tiers
included with Kandji
not included with Jamf
G2 Quality of Support score
Kandji score 9.6
Jamf score 9.0

Endpoint Detection & Response

Features
Prevention
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Detection
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Remediation
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Support
Dedicated threat intelligence team
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Uses Apple's Endpoint Security framework
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Additional proprietary threat intelligence feeds
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Automatic deployment of agent
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
Single, modern agent for MDM and EDR
included with Kandji
included with Jamf
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More reasons to migrate

Kandji offers a different way to do Apple device management, one based on superior end-to-end operational efficiency, with a backbone of security, so admins can get what they want to do in just a few clicks. It’s Kandji’s clean, convenient approach that’s won over customers.

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