Network Documentation
IP Fabric vs Obelinf
Automated network assurance vs. SaaS infrastructure documentation
IP Fabric discovers network infrastructure and analyzes its operational state. Obelinf gives your team a managed SaaS platform to document, organize, search, and audit infrastructure across devices, IP addresses, racks, cables, and connections.
Choose IP Fabric for automated network discovery and assurance. Choose Obelinf when you need a centralized, accessible source of truth without deploying or maintaining the documentation platform yourself.
Obelinf brings IPAM, device inventory, network topology, rack management, cable tracking, VLAN/VRF management, and infrastructure audit history into one SaaS platform. Teams can maintain and search their infrastructure documentation through the interface, REST API, or CSV import.
Managed SaaS or a dedicated network assurance platform?
IP Fabric runs as a virtual appliance that must be sized for your environment and positioned to reach the network devices it discovers. That deployment model supports its network discovery and assurance capabilities, but it also requires infrastructure planning and operational ownership.
Obelinf is delivered as SaaS. There is no application server for your team to provision, patch, or maintain. You can start documenting your infrastructure without deploying a separate platform in your environment.
Discover the live network or document the intended infrastructure.
IP Fabric automatically collects network data, builds a model of the observed environment, and supports path analysis, intent verification, and compliance checks. These capabilities are valuable when teams need to understand what is actually deployed and validate how it behaves.
Obelinf takes a different approach. Teams create and maintain infrastructure records through the interface, REST API, or CSV import. Devices, IP addresses, racks, cables, and other relationships live in a centralized documentation model that the team can search and audit.
Neither approach removes the need to manage data quality. Automated discovery helps reveal the observed state, and maintained documentation helps teams record the infrastructure information they need to reference and manage.
Choose IP Fabric for automated discovery and assurance. Choose Obelinf for managed infrastructure documentation.
Infrastructure information that's easy to find.
IP Fabric provides an interface for exploring collected network data, filtering results, and investigating network behavior.
Obelinf focuses on everyday infrastructure documentation. Its command palette and search help users locate devices, IP addresses, subnets, serial numbers, and asset records, with related infrastructure information available in context.
The goal is to make documented infrastructure useful beyond the person who originally entered it.
Know what changed in your documentation.
IP Fabric's snapshots let teams compare collected network states over time and investigate changes in the discovered environment.
Obelinf records changes to infrastructure documentation, including the user, timestamp, and field-level differences. This makes it easier to review updates, understand who changed a record, and maintain accountability as infrastructure evolves.
Automation and integrations.
IP Fabric is API-first. Its data model is available through a documented API that many teams wire into their own tooling, which is a strength for automation teams.
Obelinf provides a REST API with consistent pagination, filtering, sorting, and search, plus a Model Context Protocol server that lets compatible AI clients query infrastructure data.
Predictable SaaS pricing, without per-device licensing.
IP Fabric uses annual per-device licensing, with pricing based on active network devices. Its published pricing also includes installation, support, training, and onboarding, so the license is not simply a device count in isolation.
Obelinf uses flat monthly subscription pricing, with device limits and features determined by plan. That makes the subscription cost straightforward to understand as your team grows within its plan limits.
- Up to 30 devices
- One user, organization, and site
- Basic IPAM and topology
- Up to 200 devices
- Up to 10 team members
- Multiple sites, circuits, VMs and clusters
- Team management with admin and member roles
- Up to 600 devices
- Up to 50 team members
- SSO/OIDC and custom roles
- Six-month changelog retention
Prices shown are monthly subscription prices. Device limits, user limits, and features vary by plan. See the pricing page for the complete comparison.
Who should choose IP Fabric?
Choose IP Fabric if:
- You need automated discovery across a large, multi-vendor network
- You want path analysis, intent verification, and compliance checks
- You need to validate the observed state of the live network
- Your team can operate and license a dedicated assurance platform
Choose Obelinf if:
- You need a centralized, maintained source of truth
- You want to document devices, IPs, racks, cables, and connections in one place
- You prefer SaaS with no platform to deploy or operate
- You want flat, predictable pricing by plan
Importing infrastructure data into Obelinf
Identify the inventory, IP address, and other records available through your existing tools.
Match exported columns to Obelinf's data model and identify any fields or relationships that need conversion.
Use the REST API or CSV import where supported, then verify record counts and relationships.
Confirm that the imported documentation meets your team's requirements before relying on it as the source of truth.
The amount of migration work depends on the data you need to preserve and how closely the source and destination models align.