Founder & CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Real User
Feb 26, 2024
We've been a Morpheus customer since the early days. I know what they're trying to sell now, and you'd really need a strong use case to justify the cost.
Manager- Automation Engineering at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Aug 17, 2023
The solution is cheaper if you have less number of servers, but it becomes very expensive for a large number of servers. For example, a customer with more than 50,000 servers recently got excited about what Morpheus does as a solution. However, as soon as they saw the cost, they refused to proceed with the solution.
Morpheus has a very flexible pricing structure. With our X solution, Morpheus cuts down the price of any other cloud by two or three hundred times when compared to VMware Cloud because we can provision the cloud from vCenter without needing vCloud foundation or director, which are expensive licenses. Morpheus licenses can cost from two to ten dollars, depending on various factors like the number of cloud instances. When the number of instances is low, it can be expensive, but when it's high, it becomes very lucrative. It overall cuts millions of dollars out of the equation. So, the license cost is not too much, around two or three dollars a month, or ten dollars a month maximum. For a new user who doesn't want to use more than a hundred licenses, that could be the price. But even with that, Morpheus still cuts down the cost of other licenses that are not needed because of CMP, which is huge. So, I think it's good enough. You can get a license on a monthly basis as well. Basically, they go for a year contract. But when we have worked on separate models with them, we have told them that World Bank is not a very common end-user, and they might need the licenses for that very week or that very day and not ever again. So how would you license or how would you provision them? So they can provide it for a very short time as well. They can provide it for thirty days, and the number of days you can even be less than that. I know because I have worked with the license portal myself as well. However, as a policy, I don't think they go beyond and beyond the minimum threshold of the license time. But Morpheus can do it because it also has a minute's license-providing capability. So they can even provide you with in minutes. I would rate the pricing model a four out of ten, with ten being the most expensive and one being the least expensive.
NFV Cloud Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Feb 15, 2023
We are currently in negotiations with the vendor regarding the pricing model, which is based on the number of inventory nodes, including those that are not running and containers/pods. Initially, the license may seem like a good deal, but as we grow, it becomes costly. For instance, with the cloud, we don't want to include inventory in our license as it would be too expensive. At first, Morpheus was a more cost-efficient option than VMware VRA. However, as we continue to add new hypervisors and virtual machines, the advantages of using VMware VRA have become more pronounced. I am not keen on switching to VRA as I don't want to have to grapple with many of the complexities associated with PowerShell scripting and I feel that we already have too much VMware in our shop. I'm advocating against my organization utilizing VRA, as they are currently in negotiations with Morpheus regarding licensing costs. If they are unable to reach agreeable terms, they may find the expense of using VRA to be too great. Now, as part of the negotiations, we are not utilizing many of the advanced features Morpheus has to offer. As we know, Morpheus works best when there is a large number of workloads to be put into the public cloud. This is what the vendor is hoping for, as their primary objective is to reduce costs by utilizing their guidance feature and cost optimization algorithms. We will not be doing this, however; we will simply use Morpheus as a portal for an on-prem v center based on the on-prem cloud system. For us, it's mainly a portal with some automation, which is part of the talks we're having with potential customers. People who like to buy telcos typically want references, so we have to have a different model than those who are offering managed cloud services.
We had 5,000 virtual machines. It seems that they initially wanted 200K for 5,000 virtual machines, and our procurement team has dropped that down to the 100K level. They license based on the number of virtual machines that Morpheus is managing. So, it is a pay-as-you-grow model.
Chief Nerd Herder at Software Evolution Africa Limited
Reseller
Feb 12, 2021
Licensing is on an annual basis, and it is upfront for the year. There is no extra cost unless you want additional support or specific deployment packs.
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We've been a Morpheus customer since the early days. I know what they're trying to sell now, and you'd really need a strong use case to justify the cost.
The pricing of Morpheus is fair.
The solution is cheaper if you have less number of servers, but it becomes very expensive for a large number of servers. For example, a customer with more than 50,000 servers recently got excited about what Morpheus does as a solution. However, as soon as they saw the cost, they refused to proceed with the solution.
Morpheus has a very flexible pricing structure. With our X solution, Morpheus cuts down the price of any other cloud by two or three hundred times when compared to VMware Cloud because we can provision the cloud from vCenter without needing vCloud foundation or director, which are expensive licenses. Morpheus licenses can cost from two to ten dollars, depending on various factors like the number of cloud instances. When the number of instances is low, it can be expensive, but when it's high, it becomes very lucrative. It overall cuts millions of dollars out of the equation. So, the license cost is not too much, around two or three dollars a month, or ten dollars a month maximum. For a new user who doesn't want to use more than a hundred licenses, that could be the price. But even with that, Morpheus still cuts down the cost of other licenses that are not needed because of CMP, which is huge. So, I think it's good enough. You can get a license on a monthly basis as well. Basically, they go for a year contract. But when we have worked on separate models with them, we have told them that World Bank is not a very common end-user, and they might need the licenses for that very week or that very day and not ever again. So how would you license or how would you provision them? So they can provide it for a very short time as well. They can provide it for thirty days, and the number of days you can even be less than that. I know because I have worked with the license portal myself as well. However, as a policy, I don't think they go beyond and beyond the minimum threshold of the license time. But Morpheus can do it because it also has a minute's license-providing capability. So they can even provide you with in minutes. I would rate the pricing model a four out of ten, with ten being the most expensive and one being the least expensive.
We are currently in negotiations with the vendor regarding the pricing model, which is based on the number of inventory nodes, including those that are not running and containers/pods. Initially, the license may seem like a good deal, but as we grow, it becomes costly. For instance, with the cloud, we don't want to include inventory in our license as it would be too expensive. At first, Morpheus was a more cost-efficient option than VMware VRA. However, as we continue to add new hypervisors and virtual machines, the advantages of using VMware VRA have become more pronounced. I am not keen on switching to VRA as I don't want to have to grapple with many of the complexities associated with PowerShell scripting and I feel that we already have too much VMware in our shop. I'm advocating against my organization utilizing VRA, as they are currently in negotiations with Morpheus regarding licensing costs. If they are unable to reach agreeable terms, they may find the expense of using VRA to be too great. Now, as part of the negotiations, we are not utilizing many of the advanced features Morpheus has to offer. As we know, Morpheus works best when there is a large number of workloads to be put into the public cloud. This is what the vendor is hoping for, as their primary objective is to reduce costs by utilizing their guidance feature and cost optimization algorithms. We will not be doing this, however; we will simply use Morpheus as a portal for an on-prem v center based on the on-prem cloud system. For us, it's mainly a portal with some automation, which is part of the talks we're having with potential customers. People who like to buy telcos typically want references, so we have to have a different model than those who are offering managed cloud services.
We had 5,000 virtual machines. It seems that they initially wanted 200K for 5,000 virtual machines, and our procurement team has dropped that down to the 100K level. They license based on the number of virtual machines that Morpheus is managing. So, it is a pay-as-you-grow model.
Licensing is on an annual basis, and it is upfront for the year. There is no extra cost unless you want additional support or specific deployment packs.