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Esper Deploy
Your tills, kiosks and scanners do one job each. An update shouldn’t take every store down at once — Esper Deploy runs POS terminals, kiosks, signage and rugged Android — with or without Google services — plus iPads, Apple TVs, Linux and Windows, from Blueprints and staged Pipelines, at $2, $4 or $6 a device a month.
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The Esper platform family
This page covers Esper Deploy — the Genesis, Bridge, Architect and Enterprise plans, with Seamless Provisioning and Edgebox as add-ons. The rest:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Device management for dedicated, company-owned fleets; plans Genesis, Bridge, Architect, Enterprise
- Maker
- Esper.io Inc., Bellevue, Washington; founded 2018; co-founder and CEO Yadhu Gopalan
- Status
- Linux management added in 2025; Windows left beta in release DevRel 195 on 30 July 2026
- Price
- Genesis $2, Bridge $4, Architect $6 per device a month; Enterprise custom; 25-device contract floor
- Licence
- Per device; billing term unpublished; 30-day trial; plan changes prorated mid-commitment
- Platforms
- Android 5–16 (GMS and AOSP), iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, Windows, Linux; no macOS, watchOS or visionOS
- Add-ons
- Seamless Provisioning below Architect, Edgebox, Titanium, a dedicated stack and static IP cost extra
- Assurance
- SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and PCI DSS v4.0 SAQ-D; 0 CVEs on an NVD keyword search
- India
- A Bengaluru office, but hosting is AWS in North America with no India region; USD pricing only
- In India via
- TechBag — plan fit by device type, Zero-Touch or ABM set-up, quote in INR with GST
Understand dedicated-device management before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is dedicated-device management?
It runs single-purpose hardware — a till, a kiosk, a scanner — that no one person owns, locked to the apps it exists for.
Flashing tills at the depot vs Esper Deploy — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Staging each device at the depot | Esper Deploy |
|---|---|---|
| Setting up a new terminal | A technician flashes it at the depot | Zero-Touch, Knox or serial-number provisioning |
| Pushing a new app build | Every store at once, then firefighting | A Pipeline wave first, then the rest |
| A device that drifts | Found when a cashier complains | Flagged by drift monitoring and converged back |
| A frozen kiosk on site | A field visit or a phone walkthrough | Remote Viewer and Control, from Bridge up |
| Non-GMS Android hardware | A separate vendor tool per board | AOSP and GMS units in the same console |
| What it is NOT | — | Mac or BYOD management, or India-hosted |
The cheapest test is the free trial: enrol one site's tills and tablets, apply a kiosk Blueprint, and push one app update through a staged wave.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Cloud
Multi-tenant SaaS on AWS in North America; a single-tenant stack on AWS, or Azure or GCP for enterprise customers, is a paid add-on. No self-hosted server exists.
Blueprints
A Blueprint declares the apps, settings and kiosk layout a device group should have; Esper detects drift and pulls each unit back. iOS runs only on Blueprints 2.0.
Enrolment
Android joins by QR, Zero-Touch, Knox or an EMM token; Apple through APNS, DEP and VPP tokens; Windows by a PPKG or Deep Link agent; Linux by a shell command.
Edgebox
A paid gateway, on your Linux server or Esper hardware, serves app, OTA and content files over the site LAN. Orchestration still runs in Esper Cloud, not on site.
Desired-state Blueprints in Esper’s AWS cloud — devices join by Zero-Touch, ABM, PPKG or shell, and Edgebox caches on site.
Nine capabilities. Provision, control, release.
Esper Deploy manages company-owned single-purpose devices from one desired state, and releases changes to them in waves.
Managed before the box opens
Devices from participating OEMs register by serial number and pick up their Blueprint at first boot; included on Architect only.
Six ways onto Android
QR, 6-tap QR, afw#esper token, Google Zero-Touch, Knox Mobile Enrollment and a desktop provisioner for camera-less AOSP units.
iPhone, iPad and Apple TV
Apple Business Manager devices enrol supervised; Direct Profile with Apple Configurator brings in hardware bought outside ABM.
Fleets that heal to spec
Blueprints define the target state and drift monitoring flags any device that strays, then converges it back, on every plan.
Lockdown on four OS types
Single or multi-app kiosk on Android, Single App Mode on iOS, Assigned Access or Shell Launcher on Windows, and tvOS lockdown.
See and drive the screen
Remote Viewer runs 15-minute sessions on Bridge and 30 on Architect, with Remote Control; Genesis has neither of them.
Rollouts in stages
Software Pipelines push an app or OS build to a first wave, then progress automatically to the rest; an Architect feature.
Stores, uploads and MSIs
Managed Google Play and Apple VPP titles, plus 2, 5 or 25 custom app uploads by plan; Windows takes MSI, EXE and MSIX.
Fleet changes from code
A REST API from Bridge up, with a Python SDK, CLI and Android Studio plugin; the on-device SDK needs the Architect plan.
Esper Deploy on video
Seamless Provisioning at first boot, Android kiosk mode, iOS Lost Mode, and the Linux agent — all from Esper’s official channel.
Seamless Provisioning | Esper
How a device from a participating OEM arrives already enrolled, registered by serial number.
Android Kiosk Mode
Locking an Android device to one app or a short list, the core of most dedicated fleets.
iOS Lost Mode in Esper Device Management
Putting a supervised iPhone or iPad into Lost Mode from the Esper console.
Meet Esper Device Management for Linux
The Linux agent that brought Ubuntu, Debian, Yocto and Pi OS boxes into the same console.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough for your environment?
Book a guided demo →Single-purpose devices fail one store at a time. Esper Deploy holds them to one spec and stages every change.
Here’s what genuinely sets it apart — and exactly where it stops.
Dedicated Android, GMS or not
Esper manages Android 5.0 through 16 with Google services or without them, so AOSP boards, payment terminals and signage players sit beside Play-certified handhelds in one console. Zero-Touch, Knox, QR and a desktop provisioner enrol them, and Esper claims over 15,000 supported device types.
Changes shipped like software releases
Blueprints describe what each device group should run, and drift monitoring pulls stray units back. On Architect, Pipelines stage an app or OS update to a first wave before the rest, and the API, SDK and CLI let a platform team script the fleet. Esper cites 70,000 devices configured by one command at a restaurant chain.
Mixed hardware, one console
Windows joined Android, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS and Linux in 2026, leaving beta on 30 July. A retailer can run Android POS, iPad menu boards, Apple TV screens and a Linux signage box from one tenant, each locked down with its own kiosk method.
Where it stops
No macOS, no Android work profile and no Apple User Enrollment, so staff laptops and personal phones need another tool. Windows enrols through an agent, with no documented Autopilot or Entra join. Genesis lacks remote control, API, RBAC and SSO. Data is hosted in North America, and no uptime SLA is published.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Esper Deploy rollout looks like
Map devices to plans
List each device type, its OS and whether it has Google services, then decide which sites need Remote Control or Pipelines.
Wire the enrolment rails
Link Zero-Touch, Knox Mobile Enrollment or Apple Business Manager to the tenant, and request Windows Deep Link if needed.
Pilot one store or depot
Enrol a site’s mix on the 30-day trial, apply a kiosk Blueprint, then break a device on purpose and watch drift repair it.
Stage a real release
Push the next POS or scanner build through a Pipeline to the pilot wave, check it, and let it progress to more sites.
Sign for the right plan
Contract at least 25 devices on the plan the pilot proved, add Edgebox only for sites on thin links, and roll out the rest.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Half our payment terminals have no Google services. Esper enrols them in the same console as the Play-certified handhelds.”
“A bad POS build used to reach 400 stores at once. Pipelines now send it to six stores first, and we stop it there if needed.”
“Our scanners drop out of kiosk after a reboot less often, and drift alerts tell us which depot to call before a shift starts.”
“We started on Genesis and found no remote control. Bridge at $4 was the plan we needed for field support from day one.”
“The Windows agent runs our LTSC kiosks well, but our office laptops stayed in Intune because there is no Autopilot path here.”
“Legal asked where device data sits. North America only, so we documented the transfer before signing for the clinic tablets.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the UEM and MDM market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag UEM & MDM Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
$2, $4 or $6 a device a month; 25-device contract minimum.
Platform Breadth × Dedicated-Device Depth
The grid nobody publishes — how many operating systems a product manages vs how deep it goes on kiosks, non-GMS Android and staged rollouts.
Five OS families; AOSP, staged Pipelines, kiosk on four.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Esper Deploy vs the UEM & MDM field
Against 42Gears SureMDM, Scalefusion UEM, Hexnode UEM, Microsoft Intune and SOTI MobiControl — on platforms, kiosk depth, price, minimums, rollouts, assurance, support and India data.
| Dimension | Esper Deploy | 42Gears SureMDM | Scalefusion UEM | Hexnode UEM | Microsoft Intune | SOTI MobiControl |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Dedicated-device MDM | Frontline UEM, 2009 | Pune-built UEM | Mitsogo’s single UEM | Microsoft’s cloud UEM | Rugged veteran, 1995 |
| Deployment | SaaS only, AWS | Cloud or on-premise | Cloud service | SaaS, three regions | Microsoft cloud | Single-tenant or on-prem |
| Platforms covered | Five, no macOS | Nine families | Six, Linux and Chrome | Six, Fire OS included | Five OS families | Android to Linux |
| Kiosk and dedicated mode | Kiosk on four OS types | SureLock bundled | Kiosk that self-heals | Deep lockdown toolkit | Kiosk, more set-up | Lockdown with Snap |
| Pricing model | Per device, 3 plans | Per device, 2 plans | Per device, 4 tiers | Per device, 4 tiers | Per user | Quote per device |
| Published entry price | $2/device/mo | $3.99/device/mo | $2/device/mo | $2.20/device/mo | $8/user/mo | Not published |
| Included vs add-on | Key tools on Architect | Sure suite included | Identity, security extra | Tiers unlock features | Suite for Remote Help | SOTI ONE modules |
| Scale and minimums | 25-device floor | No floor published | 10-device minimum | 15-device minimum | Per-user seats | 100,000 per admin |
| Rollouts and API | Pipelines, API, SDK | Composite jobs | Developer API | REST JSON API | Update rings, Graph | REST API, Zebra FOTA |
| Governance and assurance | RBAC, SSO from Bridge | Not on its page | ISO 27001, SOC 2 | Rules, lock and wipe | Entra Conditional Access | ISO 27001 cloud |
| India data region | North America only | India region or on-prem | India region | US, EU or UAE only | India geography | On-prem in India |
| Support | Tiers to 24x7, 30 min | India time zone | 14-day trial | Trial, reviewer praise | Via your agreement | Terms not published |
| Lock-in and exit | Blueprints to rebuild | Kiosk layouts to redo | Trio on one agent | Monthly terms offered | Bundled in M365 | Own servers possible |
| Best fit | Dedicated fleets as code | Rugged volume fleets | Indian data, frontline | Mixed fleets on a budget | Microsoft 365 estates | Global rugged estates |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Esper Deploy if…
- ✓Your fleet is company-owned dedicated hardware — POS, kiosks, signage or payment terminals — and some of it runs AOSP without Google services
- ✓You want app and OS updates to reach a pilot wave before the whole estate, driven from Pipelines or your own code
- ✓Android, iPads, Apple TVs, Linux boxes and LTSC kiosks share the estate and you want one console for them
Compare alternatives if…
- ✓Device records must stay in India — Scalefusion and 42Gears offer an Indian region, and Intune treats India as a local geography
- ✓Macs, staff laptops or personal phones are in scope — Intune, Hexnode and Scalefusion manage macOS and BYOD
- ✓You need an on-premises or air-gapped server — 42Gears and SOTI both sell one; Esper is cloud only
Do not expect…
- ✓macOS, Android work profile or Apple User Enrollment, or Windows Autopilot enrolment
- ✓Remote control, the API or SSO on the $2 Genesis plan, or Pipelines below Architect
- ✓An Indian hosting region, a rupee price list or a Gartner Magic Quadrant placement
Esper Deploy is one of 28 UEM & MDM products TechBag carries. The UEM & MDM guide narrows them to a shortlist and shows the reasoning. →
What does hand-run device staging cost you?
Drag the sliders (dedicated devices in the fleet; IT staff-hour cost). Estimates model the staff time spent staging devices by hand, pushing app builds and travelling to fix frozen kiosks, at an assumed 1.5 hours per device a year, with 70% of it removed by zero-touch provisioning, drift repair and remote control. Both figures are assumptions. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Published: Esper Deploy is priced per device per month in USD — Genesis $2, Bridge $4, Architect $6 — with Enterprise on a custom quote. Every contract carries a 25-device minimum, a 30-day free trial comes first, and plan changes are prorated; Esper does not publish the billing term. Seamless Provisioning (below Architect), Edgebox, Titanium, a dedicated stack and a static IP are add-ons with no published price. TechBag maps each device type to a plan, then quotes in INR with GST.
Genesis or Bridge
Best for kiosk and POS fleets without a platform team
- $2 (Genesis) or $4 (Bridge) per device a month
- Remote Control, API, RBAC and SSO start at Bridge
- 25-device contract minimum; 30-day trial
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
Architect or Enterprise
Best for fleets released like software
- $6 per device a month; Enterprise custom
- Pipelines, device SDK, Seamless Provisioning
- 100 console users; white-glove on Enterprise
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
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The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Is every device company-owned and dedicated? Macs, staff laptops and personal phones need a different tool.
Do field teams need Remote Control, the API or SSO? None of them is on Genesis; Bridge at $4 is the floor.
Will you stage app and OS updates by wave? Pipelines and the device SDK are Architect features at $6.
Which units lack Google services? List AOSP boards and confirm each provisioning route before the pilot starts.
Are your Windows kiosks Enterprise or IoT LTSC? Enrolment is by PPKG or Deep Link agent, not Autopilot.
On iOS 27, have you asked Esper to switch devices to its declarative update controls, one device at a time?
Can your DPDP review accept device data held on AWS in North America, with no Indian region offered?
Does the quote state the billing term, the 25-device floor and add-on prices? None is printed for add-ons.
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate Esper Deploy?
Map your device types against Genesis, Bridge and Architect first, or let a TechBag advisor wire Zero-Touch or Apple Business Manager and pilot one store on the 30-day trial.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.