AppDynamics Pricing

Venus Yaker Dalton - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Specialist at 3M

Before investing in AppDynamics, evaluate your needs, compare prices, consider long-term value, and make sure you understand the details of the licensing and support offered.

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PM
Senior consultant specialist-ITID at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Price-wise, AppDynamics is a cheap product compared to other tools in the market, like Splunk and Datadog.

Yearly payments have to be made toward the licensing costs of the solution. The solution has no additional costs apart from the licensing costs.

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AJ
Officer IT data processing at Stanbic Bank Ghana, Ltd.

There were no added costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.

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Siva Jp - PeerSpot reviewer
Principle Architecture at LTIMINDTREE

The pricing of AppDynamics is a nine, with one being low and ten being high. It is high.

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Mahesh Deshpande - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technology Architect at Infosys

The AppDynamics license is divided. It isn't one all-inclusive license. Dynatrace has one agent, but AppDynamics has different sets of licenses. You need to define your use case and what you want to monitor. That is something you need to be clear about. Once you know your use case clearly, take time to figure out your target state metric, and go for AppDynamics. 

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OA
Operation Manager at Totalplay

There is a license for the solution and we paid approximately $2,000. There is also an additional cost above the standard license which cost us approximately $3,000.

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Yacin  HATTAB - PeerSpot reviewer
Responsable Commercial at Zen Networks

The licensing is paid yearly. It depends on the size of the environment, and the number of apps or IT infrastructure that is monitored. It can cost from $30,000 to $500,000. Larger companies, like, for example, Facebook or Amazon, would likely one million dollars. It really depends on the size of the company.

There are some add-ons to put back robots that make tests on the website on something, to see if there is some risk, bugs, or whatever could damage the website.

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Sylvain Germe - PeerSpot reviewer
Application and Network Performance Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The pricing model for AppDynamics isn't good. You have to subscribe to a yearly or a three-year licensing, which isn't very handy.

You buy a license for five hundred containers for a very large application, and you only need the containers for a limited time in that domain. For example, you only need five hundred containers once in that specific year, but you must buy five hundred licenses.

The current AppDynamics pricing model isn't fair. It's one out of ten pricing-wise. The solution is one of the most expensive in the market today.

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MM
Senior Performance Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

There is a license needed to use the solution and it is expensive. The licensing model needs to improve.

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CK
Associate Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The pricing is a mixed bag. In some areas they are reasonably priced, however, in others, it's a bit expensive. 

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Muhammad Zeeshan Siddiqui - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Technology and Services at Arwen Technologies

I rate AppDynamics seven out of 10 for affordability. AppDynamics is an expensive solution. The price depends on the size of your environment. It's about $500,000 for a large enterprise. 

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DG
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

There is a license required for each system that we use the solution on.

This solution is not the cheapest but it works well. You will end up doing more work with a cheaper solution than if you just spent the extra money on a better solution like this one. 

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it_user858033 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manger Sr, IT Program Mgmt. at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Cost and licensing will constantly go up, so there are some cost opportunities there. 

The way it is structured in terms of price could be better. You pay for individual modules and that adds on to the cost, which detracts you from implementing those modules and slows you down. It would be better if there were more solutions incorporated into the base price. 

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Paolo Sala - PeerSpot reviewer
Application performance and System monitoring at Agos

AppDynamics is an expensive solution.

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Kachi Nnamdi - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Converge G. C. T.

AppDynamics is what I would consider an enterprise-level solution. This means that it's a solution that is intended for use by larger organizations, while small or medium-sized businesses may find it difficult to afford. The number of agents required will also impact the pricing, and smaller companies may only be able to afford a limited number of agents. Essentially, the cost of the solution is not within the reach of every organization, and only some may be able to afford it.

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SR
Consultant at a financial services firm with self employed

I don't know the details about the pricing.

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JG
Senior Director : Database Infrastructure and Site Reliability at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I can't speak to the exact cost of the solution. It's not a part of the product I handle.

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it_user118995 - PeerSpot reviewer
User Experience Solution Director at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Day to day costs- vm's we pay for to run it and license costs. A little bit of administrative overhead but once it gets set up it's good to go. View full review »
Indu Sri Jasti - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The product is more expensive than Datadog but lower than Dynatrace. View full review »
CD
Software Engineer at Apmosys Technology Pvt. Ltd.

It is an expensive solution. It's on a yearly basis. We need to pay for it annually.

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SS
Monitoring Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The solution is costly. There is no standard license instead, the license is adapted to the organization's requirements.

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MM
Senior Performance Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

You are required to purchase licenses whether you use it or not. It is not pay-as-you-use.

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WS
IT Operations Executive at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The cost for AppDynamics is becoming a challenge, as well as the apparent AppDynamics move from a Magic Quadrant point of view. We're looking at Dynatrace, which we need to understand. The product is cheaper, however, we are trying to determine if the functionality is the same.

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SM
Performance Test Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The tool is expensive.

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Wathek Belhaj Amor - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Perform IT

AppDynamics is one of the most expensive solutions on the market. The typical licensing fee for a small customer would be $500k plus, with additional fees for professional services. The price also varies depending on whether the customer goes for the on-prem or SaaS solution, with the on-prem version potentially extremely expensive because of the hardware requirements.

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Subhajit Nag - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Process Associate at Tata Consultancy Services

This solution is expensive.

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GR
Manager- Projects at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

There is a license to use this solution. However, the clients pay for the licenses we are the service provider.

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AS
Associate Director, Application Performance Management Solution Design & Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We do not have any issues with the price.

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it_user560487 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Enterprise Network Planner at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It could be cheaper. It's a little cost prohibitive. There are so many features that also show a lot of value, but it’s not always easy to justify the cost.

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it_user420570 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Get bulk pricing. The volume will be higher than you think.

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Mehmet Arpa - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Destel Bilişim Çözümleri A.Ş.

AppDynamics' licensing scheme is confusing because all of its domains require different licenses. AppDynamics is priced on the higher side. 

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MN
Manager, Enterprise Service at Hang Seng Bank

I was not involved with the procurement of AppDynamic, but I believe it's expensive.

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UA
Head Of Information Technology at a mining and metals company with 11-50 employees

There are other options that are open source that wouldn't cost the company any money.

There are many other open-source tools available. When it comes to price comparison, maybe it falls into different categories. It seems to be an expensive product overall, and with other cheaper options on the market, such as DataDog, companies may prefer to pay less or nothing at all.

At some point, we had decided to look for an alternate. Unfortunately, our hands were full and continue to be. We have so many other projects on that, we don't have time to do anything as time-consuming as switching to something else. If I had three months of free time, I would probably go and pick up an alternate, an open-source solution, and maybe implement that due to the fact that the AppDynamics cost is very, very high.

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TS
CEO at Rufusforyou

When deciding whether or not to go with AppDynamics, first take a look at what you need to monitor and what the value of the monitoring is. There are a lot of things that an organization may need to monitor, like, for example, if I have the power system on, I may need to monitor the microcode and the window system. However, AppDynanics doesn't monitor these kinds of things. There still need to be a lot of patches implemented in order to improve performance. Also, these tools give a false positive that the performance is wrong, but then only adjust one parameter in the microcode.

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it_user129477 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Tester/QA at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

This solution is worth the price, which is based on the number of servers you want to monitor. So if you want a good and complete monitoring solution, the cost is worth it.

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OM
Sr. Devops Engineer at a media company with 201-500 employees

As compared to other applications, its price is moderate. Its price is neither very high nor very low.

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BS
Engineer at Sirius XM Radio Inc.

Our purchasing experience through the AWS Marketplace has been pretty painless.

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it_user584115 - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability/Dev Ops Strategist Digital Transformation at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

If you can go SaaS, that might be your best option. I was not able to do so in my environment.

Architecture of the platform and license management need improvement. They’re working on both per my understanding. We have many lines of business and licensing for on-premise has been difficult to meet our needs (segregation of costs), but we’ve could work through it.

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SK
Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Pricing is handled by another team.

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it_user201555 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager in web analysis and performace at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is not a cheap tool, but you also save in manpower to setup because it is easy and fast. At the end of the day, I think the revenue is much better.

BUT, they have an awful co-term mode of licensing.

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SP
Consultant at Sepas Holding | هلدینگ سپاس

AppDynamics is really pricey as it requires licenses for every feature.

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LM
Technical Team Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

There is an annual cost to use this solution. The licensing model could be improved by making it more cost-effective.

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it_user560493 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Systems at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Price can get really expensive sometimes, depending on the type of setup you have. Sometimes you have smaller JVMs instead of larger ones, for some reasons, such as architectural reasons. Because it is priced per JVM, the price can increase pretty fast, into the millions. We have had challenges because we had to justify the price to our clients, as well, when we are putting in certain tools.

It gets a little pricey.

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JL
IT Manager at PRIVALIA

It is expensive. However, our time to recover has been reduced, and this product has helped recuperate costs and provided us with ROI.

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it_user528264 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

AppDynamics is a premium tool. You’ll soon realise this expense would’ve been greater without AppDynamics.

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YS
IT Specialist​ at IT Specialist LLC

The price of AppDynamics could be reduced in my region.

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it_user560490 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Platform Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

They have to look into the money aspect. It becomes difficult on the people who are advocating for the tool in their organization. I have to go and literally convince my upper management to give me more funds because it's beyond my budget capacity. It becomes so difficult for me and my upper management to get convinced that, yes, this is the right tool.

As a technical person, and as an application development team, they all understand that this is the right tool for us. But when it comes to budget and financial matters, it takes days and weeks to convince upper management to buy this tool. So they should do something more on licensing costs.

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it_user269436 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance Expert at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

If you go in this field, consider that you will build a long-term solution, which will include a large part of your infrastructure. The tool is then very helpful, but you have to plan the long-term cost in your budget.

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it_user112605 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer with 51-200 employees
Setup cost was about 2-3 days of a developers time to install / configure. Day to day cost is we have an extra server that needs to be on to run AppDynamics. View full review »
ES
Regional Director (CEER) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

For those who appreciate the value and had issues with the visibility of the performance of their applications, then the pricing is good. For somebody who does not need it, it can be pricey, but overall, it is worth the money which it costs.

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RY
DevOps Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Purchasing the product through the AWS Marketplace was good.

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SS
Principal Engineer at Wyndham Hotel Group

We are looking forward to purchasing the solution on the AWS Marketplace.

We are comfortable with the pricing.

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VK
Associate QA Manager at Xcel Serv Solution

AppDynamics is a bit costly for an APM tool. The cheapest is New Relic. 
AppDynamics and Dynatrace are about the same. 

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it_user257253 - PeerSpot reviewer
Spanish Language Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I truly appreciated the SaaS license mode that provides the AppDynamics controller on the cloud. There are bits and pieces of licenses that need to be procured in order to have a complete APM. This includes application, server health, browser-level monitoring, UEM, and DB monitoring.

When you add this all up, the price is not appealing. The procurement of AppDynamics licenses is a bit tricky. You need to be careful with it.

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GH
Solutions Architect and Community Leader at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I cannot discuss our customers’ ROI. I would advise to get as many APM agents as you have application servers, to start easy with EUM, and grow the EUM as your website/app grows. Don't do analytics at first, if you don't have a clear business case for it.

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it_user532590 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Performance Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Get the full scope of the price including analytics, real-user monitoring (RUM) and anything that might be relevant from the start. You might get a worse price when adding licenses in the middle of a licensing period since you are already locked in.

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it_user324879 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect-Product Development with 5,001-10,000 employees

The pricing is way too high, especially with the analytics feature and end-user monitoring.

They have separate licensing offerings for development and production.

The best option is to get into an engagement for a few months before procuring this tool.

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it_user509022 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Performance Engineer Consultant with 501-1,000 employees

The product’s licencing policy is competitive. However, properly identify and size your needs to get the best rate.

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it_user112602 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer with 51-200 employees
What I can say is that we didn't have any surprises with regards to cost. Everything was clear from the beginning. View full review »
Buyer's Guide
AppDynamics
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about AppDynamics. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.