The pricing of StorageGRID falls within the typical range for enterprise-grade solutions and is comparable to other vendors such as Dell, NetApp, and Pure Storage. There's no significant difference in price point among these vendors, as they all offer solutions at similar levels.

The pricing is quite flexible and depends on the specific customer requirements. The initial cost is primarily based on the desired capacity, so it's not a fixed price.

It's important to consider the customer's role. Are they a service provider or a telecom company needing large storage to serve their customers? In such cases, they might require 10TB or even more, not just 1TB.

However, if the customer is a central authority or organization looking for an archiving solution for massive data storage (e.g., government institutions), then scaling with StorageGRID might not be ideal.

So, StorageGRID is best suited for customers who need a large-scale, cloud-enabled, and S3 protocol-enabled storage system, possibly for public or private cloud storage. They'll likely require a dedicated namespace, meaning they need a large object storage such as StorageGRID.

We pay for a license annually.

With respect to pricing, it is okay. This product is mid-range. We buy our licensing according to our needs.

We are planning to go to the cloud. Due to the expenses of the cloud, especially when you are downloading your data off the cloud from AWS or Microsoft Azure, that is where they get you. Creating your own data stores, backups, or storage grids, helps eliminate all these costs of downloading all the data back after you upload to the cloud.

Buying the solution is expensive, but it saves you money down the line when you factor in the logistics of not having to buy tapes.

NetApp is not known for being the cheapest storage option on the market. Almost all of the other storage options we looked at were less expensive than StorageGRID. The price is one thing to criticize, which is what we hear internally and from customers as well. They find the cost of the terabytes in this class of storage a little bit higher than expected.