Check Point NGFW Pricing and License Cost

It can be expensive, but it's value for money. What you pay for is what you get. You can go down in price and buy some cheap firewalls, but you're not going to get great support and you're not going to get the level of protection you need. With Check Point you get all of that. View full review »

Make sure you get the correct license. For instance, I did an audit for one of our clients recently and I saw that they always were buying the most expensive license and not using the features that were included in it. That's one thing to look at: If you're not going to use some features, don't buy the license related to those and go for a cheaper license. Also, negotiate. There's always room for discounts. You get licensing bundles, so depending on which features you want to activate, your license is going to be more expensive. Some things, like Threat Extraction and Threat Emulation, require subscriptions. They don't come with a standard firewall. I'm not a licensing expert, but as far as I know there's the standard firewall, the Next Generation Firewall, and then the Next Generation Threat Prevention license. The price goes up in those bundles. View full review »

Strongly consider augmenting standard support with Check Point's premium option or by purchasing ATAM/professional services time blocks, especially during deployment. Standard support is decent, though occasionally frustrating from a turnaround perspective. While we sometimes wait a while for resolution on some cases, the information we receive is usually quality; that's been our experience. View full review »

There are three types of licensing: Threat Prevention, NGTP, and Next Generation Threat Extraction. Before, it used to be you would just enable the license of whatever blade you wanted to buy. Nowadays, Threat Prevention would be sufficient for most clients, so I would think people would go for the NGTP, license which includes all the blades. View full review »

Check Point offers good solutions, but it won't kill your budget. Going into Next-Generation firewalls, you should know what the different blades are for, and when you want to buy a solution, know what you want to use that solution for. If it's for your normal IP rule set, for identity awareness, content awareness, for VPN, or for NAT, know the blades you want. Every solution or every feature of the firewall has license blades. If you want to activate a feature to see how that feature handles the kind of work you give, and it handles it pretty well, you can then move to other features. View full review »

Pricing is fine. We had to get separate licenses for the different blades. It would be nice to have a feature where we can get the multiple licenses all-in-one instead. The licensing feature is good for the Check Point. It attaches to the management IP address of the central management server. So, you can remove that particular IP and then use that license on another device on some other firewall, if you want. View full review »

In the past, when Fortinet was a young company, the price point of Fortinet was very low compared to Check Point. But at this stage, our experience is that the pricing is almost the same. The pricing of Check Point is fair when compared to others. The only additional cost we have with Check Point is when we need to do a big migration. Sometimes we need a third-party company, but this is not usual. It's only for big migrations that we sometimes have support from an external company. The last time we needed something like that was two years ago. View full review »

One of the main reasons that we went with Check Point is that they provide a good solution for a firewall but at an affordable price. As a state agency, we can't afford a Cisco FirePOWER. It's just out of our budget to be able to pay for something where licensing and hardware are so expensive. Check Point has really met our needs for a budget-friendly solution. We pay a yearly support fee in addition to the standard licensing fees with Check Point. View full review »

Use the basic sizing tool to do the correct sizing so you don't waste too much money, because it's not a very cheap solution when compared to other vendors. There are other vendors that are more affordable. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees, except maintenance. View full review »

The pricing and licensing are expensive. If you compare it with Fortinet, then it is cheaper on a yearly basis. However, Check Point is the most expensive firewall right now in terms of licenses and its appliance. My recommendation is if you want a long-term investment, then you should use an open server. If you use an open server, then the latency is really low. If you pay for a full appliance, it's more expensive. View full review »

The pricing in this category is a jungle, but Check Point was very competitive. They were very forthcoming and agile for our budget needs. View full review »

The pricing and licensing are pretty steep. They know that they are good, so they are pricey. View full review »

The pricing and licensing are the worst part of Check Point. I usually don't know what I really am buying. When I have to do an inventory of the license, I don't know what it is being used for. Sometimes I feel I am being cheated, and the others times, I feel it is a bargain. Nobody knows! Even the Check Point representatives, they aren't clear on somethings, such as, what is the right license for what I need. There is a possibility to have diamond support. You can have a technical engineer who is there just for you. When you have that type of feature, it's more expensive. View full review »

The price could be decreased, because the competitors of Check Point Firewall are giving lower prices in comparison. The licensing part is something that is very easy to do in Check Point Firewall. We just need to purchase the license, then we have to write the keys in while installing it. The good thing is that it is an easy process to update the license. View full review »

For the firewall, there is a limitation on the license. We are facing some problems with mobile access. We have a license for 450 licenses of VPN users. We would like Check Point to have more than that, e.g., if the organization gets bigger and there are more users, then that will be a problem. I have done licensing and contracts for multiple firewalls. The license and contract configuration is completely fine, but if it is possible to make them cost a bit less, then this would be better. View full review »

The pricing is good. It is less than Palo Alto's firewalls. Check Point has the same features as Palo Alto, but the licensing and cost of these firewalls are not too expensive. It is one of the best firewalls in the market in this range. View full review »

Comparatively, Check Point pricing is a little high. However, if you have that budget, I would recommend anybody to go with Check Point. View full review »

The pricing is good. It's not so expensive. You can deploy it and it will do a lot of jobs in one package. It's a good choice compared to the other firewalls. View full review »

We have had some vulnerabilities when we upgraded the R80.30 Management Server. We have some gateways right now in our R77.30 version, and this means if we go without license in R80.30, then it will prompt a bad connection and terminate. We have had some license difficulties with the connection going from R70 to R80. However, these don't largely impact performance. View full review »

We have to consider things, cost-wise, when we are expanding into other locations. We don't have the budget to use it in other platforms. We have some servers that we deploy in AWS and other locations. But instead of going with Check Point, we go with other vendors to fit into the budget. Check Point is really costly. When it comes to the Indian market, where we are located, we always consider budget solutions. So this is an area where Check Point could use some improvement. In addition to the standard fees, support is an added expense. View full review »

Check Point Firewall costs more compared to the other firewalls in the markets, as pricing is little high. However, it is easy to take the license and use it in the firewall. View full review »

Cisco pushes clients to purchase their hardware, and this is not the case with Check Point. This helps to easily manage costs. View full review »

The licensing part is easy for Check Point firewalls. You just purchase the license and install it on the firewall. The pricing is a bit high, but obviously it gives you advanced features. If you want to buy the best thing on the market, you have to pay extra money. View full review »

Use the Check Point Performance Sizing Utility to measure and estimate the hardware needed to purchase for your environment. View full review »

Pricing is a little high compared to competitive firewalls, but it is easy to go through the licensing steps. View full review »

They should first understand their organization's needs and accordingly choose the product. In case if someone is not sure especially about sizing then they should use the Check Point maestro platform as it gives you the flexibility to augment the capacity on the fly without disrupting the existing running operation. View full review »

The pricing and licensing part is something that could be improved. Check Point license and pricing are a bit higher compared to competing firewalls. I think they can work on that. View full review »

If you use the features then it's cost-effective. Otherwise, it's expensive. View full review »

Cost is on the higher side, but we cannot ignore that Check Point is one of the leaders in the firewall category. View full review »

The prices are good for its features. The benefit of its license is we get timely security prevention updates. The price is good for the technology that we get. View full review »

NGTP is easy and strong. If you need the best security - use SanbBlast in addition. View full review »

Maybe the pricing is a bit high but you get the durability and the duration. View full review »

This solution is way too expensive for what it is worth, especially when it doesn't work. It's just pointless. It's time wasted. View full review »

In terms of quality versus price, Check Point is very balanced. View full review »

The pricing for Check Point depends on your environment. View full review »

Setup is easy, in my short tenure I have done multiple migrations and have set up our new organization. For cost and pricing, I don't have an idea. View full review »

We pay a license fee on a three year basis. We have a three-year license. We pay $5,000-$6,000 a year. View full review »

Licensing issues may be confusing at times. View full review »

The pricing is really negotiable based on other competitor solutions. View full review »

The pricing of Check Point's firewalls is good. It is not that expensive. View full review »

This product is not cheap and there are additional costs that depend on what model or package that you buy. If you need more features then you may have to buy additional modules. In our case, we knew what we wanted in advance so there were no additional costs. View full review »

Cost is negotiable always & matches the expectations and licences are flexible and are added advantage. View full review »

It is quite an expensive product, although security is a top priority. For people who want security, the price is not a problem, and everything is included in the price of the license. View full review »

Licensing costs for this solution are on a yearly basis. View full review »

I think that the pricing is different for every organization. View full review »