The solution was previously well-regarded, but after being acquired by Accedian, the prices have significantly increased. This has made it challenging to sell the product due to its high cost. It is an expensive solution.

I rate the price of Accedian Skylight a seven out of ten.

We have found this to be a very valuable toolset, and has paid for itself several times over.

It provides value and the cost is not huge. 

If you don't look into licensing, Riverbed and SolarWinds are pretty comparable. But if you look into licensing it would not be smart to go for either of them. On the pure, bare-metal basis, it's the same. But when you get the bare metal and a few basic licenses, then you need all those other licenses just to be sure that there's no issue.

They're going to tell you, "Yeah, but you only need to buy those that you need." How do I know I need them? You're going to have to know you have a particular issue. How do I know I have that issue? Or you can just wait until your users start complaining that you really have a VoIP issue. Then you should really buy the license for that issue, because there must be a voice issue.

The pricing of Accedian Skylight is really good. The sensors are low cost. Their model to analytics for sensors is by license, endpoint, or session. With the probes for their analytics, if they get deployed virtually, they are free. The licensing is only based on flows. So, you can effectively deploy probes everywhere in your network. Then, if you want to look at a specific type of traffic, you can enter into it with a very low cost license. You can just use things like spam ports, mirrors, TAPs, and aggregators to optimize what sort of traffic you send to these analysis tools. Then, if you want to start looking at more, you can up your licensed as you go. You are not getting forced into expensive appliances or subscription models.

It is a really good pricing model. That is one of the things that we really like about offering it to out clients is that they can start small and grow as they need, but they're not left out getting the right sort of information straightaway.

The pricing is cheaper than other competing products, which is better for our budgets.

We understand there's a significant cost difference, but have yet to investigate fully.

The price is competitive overall, depending on the type of customer.

Pricing is a little bit expensive.

It's not for free, clearly. But on the other hand, it offers very interesting functionality. We pay around €100,000.

Maybe they should have a price for public sector organizations. I don't know if they differentiate between public and private sector organizations.

I don't deal with the financial side, so I have no information on Accedian Skylight pricing.

I do not know the cost of installation as it was installed on my arrival. The cost using it is difficult to determine as the product mainly saves time. You do need to keep up to date with the product, approximately half an hour per month.

21,671 Euros.

Good value for money paid.

The product is a little expensive but does work well.