My company needs to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product. The product is expensive. There are some additional costs apart from the standard licensing charges attached to the solution.
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Head Of Information Security Department at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Aug 17, 2023
Price-wise, VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is a highly-priced solution. Regarding the licensing cost of the solution, one needs to opt for an annual subscription.
Senior Director, Information Technology at C.E. Niehoff & Co.
Real User
May 11, 2022
In terms of licensing costs, Carbon Black CB Defense was all associated with CROW and the services my company is using with them, so it came all-inclusive.
Lead IT Security Analyst at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Mar 7, 2022
The licensing cost is on the more expensive side, but I thought it was worth it because they did a good job. It was one of the vendors I truly didn't have to worry about too much until this latest upgrade.
The pricing could always be a bit better. They could work to make it less expensive. Right now, they are far and above more expensive than other similar options on the market. The license costs are paid yearly.
The price for the solution is completely at government level, meaning one which is very high, although it is up to management to consider this criteria.
The licensing costs depend on how many policies you have on the extended module for CB. We pay between $5,000 to $7,000 for a license for the Carbon Black monitoring agents.
Group CIO at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Apr 6, 2020
We have branches, we have different companies, but we cannot buy less than 100 licenses. This does not make sense to me. We do have some big companies within our group. But if I have a small office with 20 users and all my licenses are in use, the next buy cannot be less than 100 licenses. We have to do a lot of implementation and communication to add that many. But we only need 20. They are not flexible in the licensing part. It should be more flexible. I can understand their saying, "Okay, to be a customer you need 100," but to add on to that number it should be something very straightforward. If I need to add five, for example, I shouldn't need to add 100. I'm not happy with the way they are treating existing customers for adding licenses. I sent an angry communication to them, to the management, and said to them: "With 1,000 users, I need only another 50 licenses. Why do you want me to go for 100? It's a stupid policy." Then I got approval from them for fewer. I don't need to buy subscriptions for users I don't have. Also, licenses should not be per endpoint but rather per user. If I am the same user on a mobile device or on a workstation it should be one license for me.
The licensing costs are comparable between the two products. If you're purchasing the product, they're both typically a traditional license model with an annual type fee or multiyear. The fees are the cost of the professional services to get the system up and running. It depends on the size of the environment. The size and complexity are what it really comes down to. It will be relatively consistent with whether it was MSSP versus a direct purchase. Carbon Black might be a touch more expensive. They tend to get a premium for their capabilities. They're sort of an industry leader in a lot of areas with the functionality that they provide. Symantec gets a bit more aggressive with their pricing, and with their discounts as well. They do have a much larger customer base because they've been around so long. As an MSSP, we do provide the entire platform on a monthly fee, which a lot of people do like, because that rolls the licensing and all of the management into the cost of the system on a per endpoint basis, paying for the initial costs to get up and running. Even if it's a three to five year implementation, it will be a fixed monthly cost, assuming the number of endpoints doesn't change. That's one good thing about the Carbon Black MSSP program that we have access to is that flexibility with the monthly billing. With very large implementations, this could be a significant difference in spend over three years versus having to do one extremely large capital purchase.
Senior Security Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 8, 2018
I just told you the price point that's one of the factors, basically because that is what the higher management gave us as an input. But, we didn't play a major role in terms of deciding. That was done by another person from the organization. So, that was just a communication that we received. So, that's how much I know about it.
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The product is quite reasonable.
My company needs to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product. The product is expensive. There are some additional costs apart from the standard licensing charges attached to the solution.
The pricing is very high. There are no discounts, and there is minimal margin.
The product’s price is less expensive than other vendors.
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is an expensive product.
The solution has almost the same price as other different kinds of infrastructures, but it offers a lot of different features.
Price-wise, VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is a highly-priced solution. Regarding the licensing cost of the solution, one needs to opt for an annual subscription.
We use a yearly subscription model. It is not cheap, but it is cheaper than CrowdStrike.
CB Defense is available on a yearly subscription and is priced by the number of endpoints.
The pricing is annually based and operates through another department than mine.
In terms of licensing costs, Carbon Black CB Defense was all associated with CROW and the services my company is using with them, so it came all-inclusive.
The licensing cost is on the more expensive side, but I thought it was worth it because they did a good job. It was one of the vendors I truly didn't have to worry about too much until this latest upgrade.
This is a really expensive product and we pay licensing fees on a yearly basis. The subscription includes technical support.
It is more expensive, but it's worth it. There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee.
Its pricing was very good, which is one of the reasons I went to it as an alternative. It is on a yearly basis. There are no additional fees.
All EVV requires licenses for the appliances as well as the security features.
The pricing could always be a bit better. They could work to make it less expensive. Right now, they are far and above more expensive than other similar options on the market. The license costs are paid yearly.
I'm not dealing with the pricing. I can't speak to the costs involved.
We pay about $15 a node. It's just a standard licensing fee and that's it.
The price for the solution is completely at government level, meaning one which is very high, although it is up to management to consider this criteria.
The licensing costs depend on how many policies you have on the extended module for CB. We pay between $5,000 to $7,000 for a license for the Carbon Black monitoring agents.
It's reasonable in price. We got a good price.
I think it's 28 per employee a year.
Although I'm more on the technical side and not involved in the pricing, it's more or less the same as other similar solutions.
We have branches, we have different companies, but we cannot buy less than 100 licenses. This does not make sense to me. We do have some big companies within our group. But if I have a small office with 20 users and all my licenses are in use, the next buy cannot be less than 100 licenses. We have to do a lot of implementation and communication to add that many. But we only need 20. They are not flexible in the licensing part. It should be more flexible. I can understand their saying, "Okay, to be a customer you need 100," but to add on to that number it should be something very straightforward. If I need to add five, for example, I shouldn't need to add 100. I'm not happy with the way they are treating existing customers for adding licenses. I sent an angry communication to them, to the management, and said to them: "With 1,000 users, I need only another 50 licenses. Why do you want me to go for 100? It's a stupid policy." Then I got approval from them for fewer. I don't need to buy subscriptions for users I don't have. Also, licenses should not be per endpoint but rather per user. If I am the same user on a mobile device or on a workstation it should be one license for me.
The licensing costs are comparable between the two products. If you're purchasing the product, they're both typically a traditional license model with an annual type fee or multiyear. The fees are the cost of the professional services to get the system up and running. It depends on the size of the environment. The size and complexity are what it really comes down to. It will be relatively consistent with whether it was MSSP versus a direct purchase. Carbon Black might be a touch more expensive. They tend to get a premium for their capabilities. They're sort of an industry leader in a lot of areas with the functionality that they provide. Symantec gets a bit more aggressive with their pricing, and with their discounts as well. They do have a much larger customer base because they've been around so long. As an MSSP, we do provide the entire platform on a monthly fee, which a lot of people do like, because that rolls the licensing and all of the management into the cost of the system on a per endpoint basis, paying for the initial costs to get up and running. Even if it's a three to five year implementation, it will be a fixed monthly cost, assuming the number of endpoints doesn't change. That's one good thing about the Carbon Black MSSP program that we have access to is that flexibility with the monthly billing. With very large implementations, this could be a significant difference in spend over three years versus having to do one extremely large capital purchase.
I am not really involved in the pricing of this product. From my understanding, the price is okay for us.
I just told you the price point that's one of the factors, basically because that is what the higher management gave us as an input. But, we didn't play a major role in terms of deciding. That was done by another person from the organization. So, that was just a communication that we received. So, that's how much I know about it.