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ActivTrak vs Teramind Employee Monitoring Software

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This page will compare the differences between Teramind, ActivTrak, and CurrentWare so you can make the best choice for your organization.

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Compare Key Features of
ActivTrak, Teramind, and CurrentWare

ActivTrak, Teramind, and CurrentWare all have excellent employee monitoring, productivity, and cybersecurity features.

The main difference between these employee monitoring tools is that Teramind’s feature set focuses on user activity monitoring for insider threat prevention, ActivTrak emphasizes workforce analytics to optimize business processes, and CurrentWare combines the key features of both solutions to provide a powerful and fairly priced alternative.

This section will compare the key features of each employee monitoring software solution so you can choose the right fit for your company.

Feature
CurrentWare ActivTrak Teramind
Stealth & Transparent Modes
Bandwidth Usage Tracking
Search Keyword Monitoring
Internet & App Usage
Idle Time Tracking
Employee Productivity Score
User Logon & Shutdown Tracking
Track File Transfers To/From Network Share Drives
Track Downloads/Uploads
Remote vs In-Office Insights
Geolocation Insights (City/Region/Country)
In Beta
Web Category Tracking
USB Activity Reports

⚠️
Alarms Only, No Historical Data

 

 

Paid Add-On

Email Reports & Alerts
Computer Screen Capture
Monitor Remote Employees

Employee Monitoring

CurrentWare’s BrowseReporter is the best ActivTrak and Teramind alternative for monitoring employee efficiency and detecting high-risk behavior; it provides intelligent insights into how each employee is using their computers.

Feature
CurrentWare ActivTrak Teramind
User-level Blocking
Computer-level Blocking

⚠️
Paid Add-On

Category Filtering

⚠️
Paid Add-On

Previously Visited Sites Only

Allow URLs & Domains
Block URLs & Domains

⚠️
Paid Add-On

Block Applications

⚠️
Paid Add-On

 

Custom Warning Message
Scheduled Blocking
Internet Quota & Timer
Port Filtering
Enforce Google SafeSearch
Block File Transfers to Cloud Storage

Block File Downloads

 

Web Filtering

CurrentWare’s BrowseControl provides the best alternatives to ActivTrak and Teramind’s web filtering features.  BrowseControl makes blocking websites such as Google Drive, pornography sites, and distracting websites as easy as a few clicks with its Category Filtering feature.

While ActivTrak is not designed to be web filtering software, for an extra $2 USD user/month you can get the “Screen Details” add-on that adds screenshots, alarms, additional web activity details (title bars, URLs, subpages), and the website blocking function.

Teramind’s web filtering capabilities are more robust than ActivTrak, though they fall short of CurrentWare’s BrowseControl as it lacks the ability to block websites based on category; you can only block specific websites.

Feature
CurrentWare ActivTrak Teramind
Block USB Devices
Allowed Devices List

USB Activity Alerts

 

⚠️
Paid Add-On

USB Activity Reports
Printed Document Tracking
USB File Transfer Tracking
Email Monitoring
Block File Transfers to Cloud Storage

Block File Downloads/Uploads

Track File Transfers To/From Network Share Drives

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Track Downloads/Uploads

OCR
Pop-Up Warning for Users
Data Classification
Block Transfers by File Type

 

Data Loss Prevention

CurrentWare’s data loss prevention features make it an excellent alternative to ActivTrak and Teramind for protecting sensitive information from being illicitly transferred to portable storage devices, cloud storage services, and other egress points.

AccessPatrol includes several USB activity reports and dashboards that allow you to detect data theft and attempts to use unauthorized removable media devices.

ActivTrak’s USB security features are limited to USB activity alarms that require an additional $2 PUPM. ActivTrak does not provide reports or dashboards to audit USB activity.

Data loss prevention is one of Teramind’s greatest assets; the platform provides advanced DLP features such as OCR, email monitoring, and printed document tracking

Feature
CurrentWare ActivTrak Teramind
Stealth & Transparent Modes
On-Premises
Database Access

⚠️
Paid Add-On

Cloud Platform


Self-Managed Cloud

Local & Remote Client Install
Command-Line Deployment
Active Directory Sync
Admin Activity Audit Logs

⚠️
Enterprise Plan Only

Windows OS

⚠️
No Windows 7 Support

⚠️
No Windows 7 Support

macOS

⚠️
Limited Features

Chromebooks
Remote Workforce Management
Citrix Ready

Setup & Deployment

Thanks to its simple interface and setup process, getting started with CurrentWare is easy—whether or not you’re an experienced system administrator. CurrentWare offers a variety deployment options that suit the installation needs of organizations of all sizes.

While ActivTrak is compatible with both MacOS and Windows, they only provide support for Agents running on OS versions that are capable of receiving up-to-date security patches from their vendors. For this reason ActivTrak is not suitable for environments that need to monitor devices whose operating systems have reached end-of-support/end-of-life status.

While Teramind offers macOS support, it has limited functionality compared to its Windows-based counterpart. 

The following features are NOT supported in Teramind’s Mac agent:

  • Console Commands Monitoring
  • Emailing Monitoring
  • File Transfer Monitoring
  • Instant Messengers Monitoring
  • Social Media Monitoring
  • Search Monitoring
  • Audio Recording
  • Risk Analysis
Feature
CurrentWare ActivTrak Teramind
Support Availability 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM ET, Monday to Friday

⚠️
Varies*

24×7
Live Chat Feature
Phone Support
Training Videos
Email Support
Knowledge Base

Customer Support

ActivTrak, Teramind, and CurrentWare provide several customer support channels to ensure that their customers get the most out of their platforms.

CurrentWare Customer Support

CurrentWare’s live customer support is focused on core North American business hours of 8am-7pm EST, Monday to Friday. Outside of those hours their training videos and knowlege base provide critical guidance for deploying and troubleshooting their solutions.

Teramind Customer Support

Teramind’s on-premise and private cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.) deployments are eligible for 24×7 follow-the-sun support and an Enterprise SLA, providing peace of mind for organizations that need high support availability for their employee monitoring software.

ActivTrak Customer Support*

ActivTrak’s support hours vary based on whether you stick with their Standard support  tier that is included with all of their paid subscription plans or if you opt to pay extra for their Premier or Signature support plans.

ActivTrak’s Standard support tier includes 24×7 access to onboarding and educational resources as well as live chat, email support & scheduled calls for active support cases.

Their Premier support tier adds faster response times, on-demand coaching sessions, and technical configuration and tuning once per year.

Their Signature support tier includes the Premier tier’s perks alongside a dedicated technical account manager, annual health checks, priority ticket routing, a dedicated customer success manager, guided onboarding and 1:1 support, a tailored customer success plan, and up to 10 hours of integration support.

ActivTrak’s support hours are:

  1. Live Chat: Standard (M-F 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. CT) / Premier (M-S 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. CT) / Signature (24×7)
  2. Email operating hours and response times: Monday through Friday (8 a.m. – 6 p.m. CT), Standard < 12 hours / Premier < 8 hours / Signature < 2 hours

CASE STUDY

Shady Maple Transforms Their Productivity With Internet Filtering and Monitoring Software

Being able to identify negative browsing trends and put a stop to them within a couple of hours has meant that our employees are focused on the job almost all of the time. We have become an extremely efficient workforce.

"When we first saw the employee tracking reports we were totally surprised by some of the behaviors that had gone under the radar" - Kevin Porsche, IT Admin, Shady Maple

Why Choose CurrentWare’s ActivTrak and Teramind Alternatives?

money-saving

Fair Pricing

At a starting price of $5 USD PUPM, CurrentWare provides user activity monitoring at a fraction of the cost of ActivTrak and Teramind

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Control Your Data

Our flexible deployment options give you full control over data retention, security, access, and residency. 

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Windows 7 Support

Neither ActivTrak nor Teramind support Windows 7, leaving a blind spot on all of your PCs that cannot have their OS upgraded

Compare CurrentWare vs ActivTrak vs Teramind Pricing

Last Updated September 2024

Teramind vs. ActivTrak pricing comparison (10 users, annual contract, before discounts, USD)

At a price range of $14-32 USD user/month, Teramind is by far the most expensive of the three employee monitoring solutions.

Even ActivTrak’s most basic paid plan starts at a staggering $10 user/month.

To unlock the full capabilities of ActivTrak’s platform you’re forced to spend $19 user/month and purchase several add-ons ranging from an additional $1-3 user/month!

For only $12 user/month you can access the entire CurrentWare Suite with all of its user activity monitoring, web filtering, USB device control, and PC power management capabilities.

If you only need to monitor web browsing, app usage, employee productivity, and bandwidth use you can get CurrentWare’s BrowseReporter as a standalone module starting at only $5 user/month.

CurrentWare Pricing

CurrentWare’s ActivTrak and Teramind alternatives are a cost effective solution for tracking the computer usage of your team members. CurrentWare offers fair prices and honest value to keep their products accessible to companies of all sizes.

CurrentWare’s solutions can be purchased individually for the greatest flexibility or as a full suite for the best value.

When purchased individually, the cost of BrowseReporter, BrowseControl, and AccessPatrol starts at $5 USD per user per month (paid annually). The full CurrentWare Suite includes all 4 modules starting at $12 USD.

Discounts Available:

  • Pricing breaks are available for businesses that sign up for multi-year plans or have future growth planned and can commit to bulk orders.
  • Volume license discounts are available starting for as low as 100 users, with discounts increasing depending on the number of licenses, and the length of the contract term.
  • Educational organizations and nonprofits may qualify for a 10% license discount.
  • Not satisfied with a competing vendor? Make the switch to CurrentWare today and you may save up to 25% on your first year!

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ActivTrak Pricing

ActivTrak offers four pricing plans for its employee monitoring and time-tracking software. Each plan requires an annual contract commitment.

In addition to these plans, ActivTrak offers annual subscription add-ons for priority support, extended data history, additional monitoring capabilities, and the ability to use the data ActivTrak collects with other tools.

ActivTrak Free Plan ($0)

Their free plan is best for time tracking and visibility across very small teams or for companies that want to test out ActivTrak over an extended period of time with a small sample size. It is limited to 3 users and 30 days of data history.

ActivTrak Essentials Plan ($10 USD PUPM)

Their Essentials plan (formerly called “Advanced”) is best for basic employee monitoring for small companies. It includes unlimited users, 6 months of data storage, USB device and file transfer detection, and basic employee productivity tracking.

For this tier, full URL & title bar visibility is not available without also purchasing their Screen Details add-on, which is an additional $2 PUPM and must be purchased for every license you have.

ActivTrak Essentials Plus Plan ($15 USD PUPM)

Their Essentials Plus plan is best for enhanced monitoring for mid-to-large organizations. It adds activity trend analysis by user and team, full URL and title bar visibility, automated work hour policy violation alerts (“exception reporting”), and productivity goal-setting and tracking.

ActivTrak Professional Plan ($19 USD PUPM)

Their Professional plan (formerly called “Premium”) is best for productivity management and workforce planning. It provides 12 months of data history and adds additional features such as location policy adherence, a variety of productivity dashboards, personal insights for employees, capacity planning, and technology usage tracking.

ActivTrak Add-Ons

ActivConnect—$3 USD per user/month

  • Export & query data
  • App integrations
  • BI starter templates for Power BI, Google Data Studio, Tableau

Screen Details—$2 USD per user/month

  • Screenshots & Screen Views
  • Alarms: App terminations, pop-ups, screenshots
  • Web activity detailed title bars, URLs and subpages
  • Website Blocking

Data History—$1 USD per user/month

  • Extends ActivTrak’s data retention
  • 1-year increments (max 3 years)

      Teramind Pricing*

      Teramind has three pricing tiers for their employee computer tracking software.

      • Starter – Starting price of $14 USD per user per month
      • UAM – Starting price of $28 USD per user per month
      • DLP – Starting price of $32 USD per user per month
      • Enterprise – Custom pricing

      Their Starter tier includes includes limited user activity monitoring and behavior rules. It’s designed to focus on screen recording and live view, website and apps tracking.

      Their User Activity Monitoring (UAM) tier focuses on auditing and forensics with additional computer monitoring features such as email monitoring, online meeting tracking, SIEM integration, file transfers tracking, keystroke monitoring, print monitoring, regular expression support, anomaly detection, and OCR.

      Their Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tier is designed with content-based data exfiltration prevention  in mind. It further builds on the UAM tier with the addition of clipboard monitoring and a series of data protection features such as content based rules, malicious activity blocking, data exfiltration prevention, and data fingerprinting.

      Teramind also provides an Enterprise plan that is designed for the most demanding enterprises and government organizations. It includes premium support, an SLA, professional services, and customizations.

      Teramind is available as a cloud based solution or as an on-premises solution.

      *Pricing last updated September 2024

      ActivTrak Add-Ons

      ActivConnect—$3 USD per user/month

      • Export & query data
      • App integrations
      • BI starter templates for Power BI, Google Data Studio, Tableau

      Screen Details—$2 USD per user/month

      • Screenshots & Screen Views
      • Alarms: App terminations, pop-ups, screenshots
      • Web activity detailed title bars, URLs and subpages
      • Website Blocking

      Data History—$1 USD per user/month

      • Extends ActivTrak’s data retention
      • 1-year increments (max 3 years)

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      We’re Here to Help

      The CurrentWare team prides itself on its high-quality customer support. We will support you every step of the way—whether you’re just starting your free trial or actively using CurrentWare in your network.

      At CurrentWare, customer success is our priority at every stage of your journey. We take pride in providing high-quality and reliable pre and post-sale support to make your experience exceptional.

      We offer the same level of high-quality support to all of our customers—no extra fees or packages necessary!

      Mike Noseworthy
      Customer Support Lead

      Product Training

      CurrentWare provides the documentation, training, and other resources you need to take full advantage of the capabilities of our products.

      Technical Support

      Our expert support team is here to help you. Reach out to us over email, live chat, or phone from 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM ET, Monday to Friday.

      Check Out Our Great Reviews

      The reports are very easy to understand and the fact that they can be emailed to you on a schedule is amazing, and have made finding productivity killers VERY easy. Customer support has been fantastic every time I’ve had to reach out to them; I highly recommend them!

      Kristen S, Associate IT Director
      The Coding Network, 700+ Employees

      We have experienced data leaks by dishonest employees in the past and AccessPatrol has helped us avoid them and work with greater security and peace of mind for us and our customers.

      Julio V, Head of Information Technology
      Financial Services Industry, 10,001+ employees

      As a ‘novice’ I was able to set up with help from support in about an hour. Previous software took forever and didn’t work as advertised. This software worked right out of the box.

      Dr. Gerard B, Office Manager
      Medical Practice, 2-10 Employees

      In my nearly 40 years in the IT business I’ve worked with a lot of support teams. I really appreciate CurrentWare going the extra mile to help me get the most out of the product. They’ve definitely outweighed any of the other competitors that I’ve looked at.

      J.S, Managed Services Provider
      Vehicle Dealership, 150-200 Employees

      CurrentWare

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      Monitor Employee Computer Activity
      to Measure Employee Productivity & Security

      Make Informed Decisions with User Activity Monitoring

      BrowseReporter’s multiple reports provide managers with the activity data they need to better understand how in-house and remote team members are spending their time at work.

      • Boost productivity and efficiency by identifying employees that are wasting work time on social media, games, and other distractions
      • Track productivity and efficiency for your entire workforce, a specific team, and individual employees
      • Find out the time slots that remote workers and other employees with flexible schedules are the most active
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      Enforcing Acceptable Use Policies Has Never Been Easier

      Our employee computer monitoring software gives you detailed evidence of web activity, making it the perfect Teramind and ActivTrak alternative for enforcing internet use policies.

      • Empower anti-harassment initiatives with evidence of employees that are visiting inappropriate websites during work time
      • Identify suspicious activity and insider threats with alerts when your employees transfer files to USB devices or visit high-risk websites including porn, torrents, and file sharing websites
      • Monitor employees to collect evidence of unwanted computer usage, then use BrowseControl to block unwanted websites and applications

      Automatically Capture Screenshots of Employee Desktops

      With CurrentWare’s Teramind and ActivTrak alternative you can see exactly what your employees are doing on their computers. With BrowseReporter you can easily capture screenshots when specific websites or applications are used.

      • Capture high-resolution and compressed screenshots of your employee’s desktops
      • Monitor desktops in real-time to watch for unsafe data handling and inappropriate behavior
      • Screenshots are tagged with the website or application that was being used, the time, and the name of the computer that was captured
      Employee desktop screenshots
      CurrentWare

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      Fully functional. Easy to use. Install in minutes.

      BrowseReporter productivity dashboard - individual user

      Real-Time Employee Computer Activity Dashboards & Reports

      Improve business intelligence with advanced insights into web browsing, app usage, bandwidth consumption, productivity, and more!

      • Identify productivity leaks
      • Enforce company policies
      • Detect software waste

      CASE STUDY

      Boston Centerless Scales Production & Adapts to Remote Work With the CurrentWare Suite

      CurrentWare has been nothing but supportive of us since we started. This is probably one of the best systems that we’ve ever invested in.

      Once we got CurrentWare installed it opened the door for remote work for us; we could control the equipment and make sure our people were being productive and safe.

      It’s easy to overlook the threat that can arise from within the company, especially when devices are being taken off site. The damage that data breaches can cause is enormous!

      CurrentWare’s Key Features

      Internet Off

      User Activity Monitoring

      Track web browsing, software use, search queries, and more

      Remote Screen Capture

      Screenshot Monitoring

      Take automatic screenshots or remotely view desktops

      Application Blocker

      Track Software Usage

      Get insights into software usage trends in your organization

      Stealth

      Transparent & Stealth Modes

      Run silently in the background or provide notice of monitoring

      Block USB

      Block USB & Other Devices

      Set full access, read only or no access on storage devices

      Allowed List

      Device Whitelist

      Allow only authorized storage devices to be used

      Block Files

      Block File Transfers

      Prevent files from being transferred to portable storage

      Reports

      DLP Activity Reports

      Track file transfers, storage device use, file operations, and more

      Internet Off

      Block Websites

      Block websites based on
      URLs & content categories

      Download Filter
      Block Downloads/Uploads

      Prevent uploading and downloading based on file type

      Application Blocker
      Application Blacklisting

      Block specific Windows
      applications from launching

      Internet Off

      PC Power Management

      Remotely track and control PC power states

      Internet Off

      Centralized Console

      Manage all your users from the
      centralized console with Active
      Directory import or syncing

      Internet Off

      Platform Security

      Protect your CurrentWare console
      with 2FA, passwords, privilege
      management, and more

      Internet Off

      Offsite Management

      Extend onsite security policies to computers running outside the corporate network

      Internet Off

      SQL Server Supported

      Database scaled for enterprise and
      large business operations using
      Microsoft SQL Server

      CurrentWare

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