Cyber Security Specialist at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Nov 17, 2025
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is limited because I do not work with pricing, but I have experience with support, setup, and some licensing.
The licensing model is dependent on negotiation skills, but there is room for improvement. The costs can be high since additional features require separate licenses.
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Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
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Top 10
May 12, 2022
There are some options for licensing. I think usually the licenses are valid for three years, but in my country we only have the option of a one-year license. The license is gauged on the requirements and the controller. There is a basic license and an advanced license, which offers more protection for antiviruses, like web category filtering.
This is an expensive product compared to Fortinet, however, it is cheaper than Palo Alto. That said, I can't speak to exact pricing. A different team manages the sales and licensing aspects.
The pricing should be more competitive against other vendors in the market. We are looking at putting firewalls across all of our locations and want to get a better price so that we can do so. This would be great because we would like to have the same firewall at all of our locations.
Everything in Forcepoint comes with an individual license, which is kind of a problem. In our last meeting, they said that it may change at the beginning of 2021, and they will try to merge some licenses together. Customers will get more features than what they got previously. We will wait and see.
Security Pre-Sales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Oct 27, 2019
I believe the licensing fee is for one year, three years, and five years, or something like that. If you want to increase the support level from a simpler level to platinum, I think that there's a cost. There are differences between every kind of support, but I don't know the numbers.
Security Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Oct 6, 2019
This is not a very expensive solution. The big advantage of this solution is that we can select the right model for our requirements, which is not too expensive. There are many hardware models and different appliances. We have a license for an unlimited number of users because it is necessary for our solution. If it were not unlimited then we would have a problem. This is probably dependent on the appliance model.
Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a versatile and comprehensive solution for perimeter security, offering features such as SD-WAN, IPS, VPN, and cloud or on-premises subscription keys. It is preferred by many clients over Cisco and is used for obligation redundancy, VPN access, and as the main point of security in infrastructure.
The product is praised for its simplicity, flexibility, complete feature set, scalability, and central management capabilities. Other valuable features...
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is limited because I do not work with pricing, but I have experience with support, setup, and some licensing.
The licensing model is dependent on negotiation skills, but there is room for improvement. The costs can be high since additional features require separate licenses.
In terms of pricing, I would place Forcepoint in the middle when compared to other firewalls like Fortinet and Palo Alto.
There is a need to make payments towards the licensing charges attached to the product. The product is not expensive.
It is an affordable product. We purchase its yearly license.
The product is expensive but cheaper than Cisco.
The product is not expensive.
The solution is expensive.
The pricing is okay. I'd rate it five or six out of ten in terms of affordability.
Licensing costs are paid annually. You pay standard licensing costs. There are no extra costs involved.
Next Generation Firewall is moderately priced.
There are some options for licensing. I think usually the licenses are valid for three years, but in my country we only have the option of a one-year license. The license is gauged on the requirements and the controller. There is a basic license and an advanced license, which offers more protection for antiviruses, like web category filtering.
It requires a yearly subscription.
Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is reasonable, it is priced the same as other firewalls.
The license is based on the number of clients behind the web gateway. If you increase the number of agents, the license will cost more.
We have just a subscription for the cloud, and this license is great. The license is so good.
Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has a good price.
It could be cheaper like Fortinet.
The licensing is perpetual. The cost is fair, but it could be improved.
This is an expensive product compared to Fortinet, however, it is cheaper than Palo Alto. That said, I can't speak to exact pricing. A different team manages the sales and licensing aspects.
The pricing should be more competitive against other vendors in the market. We are looking at putting firewalls across all of our locations and want to get a better price so that we can do so. This would be great because we would like to have the same firewall at all of our locations.
The pricing of the solution is normally competitive with other products.
We have found the price could be reduced. It is a little expensive.
Everything in Forcepoint comes with an individual license, which is kind of a problem. In our last meeting, they said that it may change at the beginning of 2021, and they will try to merge some licenses together. Customers will get more features than what they got previously. We will wait and see.
We paid for a subscription license, vendor support, and the training.
It is expensive.
Forcepoint is very expensive but it's really secure.
I believe the licensing fee is for one year, three years, and five years, or something like that. If you want to increase the support level from a simpler level to platinum, I think that there's a cost. There are differences between every kind of support, but I don't know the numbers.
This is not a very expensive solution. The big advantage of this solution is that we can select the right model for our requirements, which is not too expensive. There are many hardware models and different appliances. We have a license for an unlimited number of users because it is necessary for our solution. If it were not unlimited then we would have a problem. This is probably dependent on the appliance model.