System and Network Administrator at El Sadat City Language School
Real User
Sep 25, 2023
The cost is exorbitantly high. The trial version lasts for thirty days, but I found a subscription plan priced at four thousand five hundred monthly, making it thirty-one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars per year. I would rate it nine out of ten.
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Director, Technical Architect at Archer Information Technology
Real User
Dec 23, 2019
As far as pricing, we always want it to be less expensive or more cost-effective as a consumer, especially when you take into consideration that SolarWinds has got a very broad spectrum of services that can be integrated easily but need to be licensed separately. I think they can come up with a way of putting bundles together which would encourage customers to use a wider array of their products and it could be a better way of increasing sales. People would show a lot more interest in a package deal instead of having to buy the products separately. Bundling might reduce instances where customers look at other solutions for comparisons. For example, I've got some clients that use the Web Help Desk solution, and some users that use the NetFlow Analyzer and SolarWinds. If these solutions could be bundled together in a more cost-effective package when they are purchased together, I'm sure that SolarWinds would realize a lot more sales of peripheral products and increase their total market share. The renewals are currently priced so attractively that they are much cheaper and more cost-effective than when you buy a solution brand new. This helps retain clients over time. My comments on cost mainly refer to the initial purchase of solutions where you are deploying a product and purchasing it for the first-time.
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The tool is available at a good price for customers compared to other solutions in the market. I rate the product's price as an eight out of ten.
I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
The cost is exorbitantly high. The trial version lasts for thirty days, but I found a subscription plan priced at four thousand five hundred monthly, making it thirty-one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars per year. I would rate it nine out of ten.
I think we are paying the license on yearly basis.
The price of SolarWinds Security Event Manager is reasonable.
SolarWinds costs around $50,000, but I'm not certain because a different unit deals with costs.
Licensing cost it's an issue with SolarWinds.
It is in the appropriate mid-range. It is not as expensive as some of the other solutions. It is also not cheap.
Easy setup, very cheap and licensing cost is very fair and easy to understand
The setup cost is not as expensive as Splunk or many other competitors. Cost is dependent on the size of the company.
Licenses can only be purchased in blocks of fifty at a time.
As far as pricing, we always want it to be less expensive or more cost-effective as a consumer, especially when you take into consideration that SolarWinds has got a very broad spectrum of services that can be integrated easily but need to be licensed separately. I think they can come up with a way of putting bundles together which would encourage customers to use a wider array of their products and it could be a better way of increasing sales. People would show a lot more interest in a package deal instead of having to buy the products separately. Bundling might reduce instances where customers look at other solutions for comparisons. For example, I've got some clients that use the Web Help Desk solution, and some users that use the NetFlow Analyzer and SolarWinds. If these solutions could be bundled together in a more cost-effective package when they are purchased together, I'm sure that SolarWinds would realize a lot more sales of peripheral products and increase their total market share. The renewals are currently priced so attractively that they are much cheaper and more cost-effective than when you buy a solution brand new. This helps retain clients over time. My comments on cost mainly refer to the initial purchase of solutions where you are deploying a product and purchasing it for the first-time.
We do a yearly license renewal.