I'd advise others to seek a specialized consultancy and request references. This will greatly change your perception of this tool.

Microsoft System Center is quite expensive. They offer yearly basis licenses. Our customers have to purchase only the licenses, whereas our company needs to get an extra support contract.

I rate System Center seven out of 10 for affordability. 

I know that sometimes there is some reduction in the prices of Microsoft System Center because of the costs of Microsoft SQL Server, which can be advantageous.

It's rolled into our enterprise subscription. The entire subscription is around $25,000 a year, however, that covers all the products that we use.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten.

Evaluate tools for the best fit for your environment. In terms of setup cost and pricing of SCOM, evaluate and spec your infrastructure environment sufficiently to ensure the environment will handle the load from the number of endpoints being monitored.