The cost is exorbitantly high. The trial version lasts for thirty days, but I found a subscription plan priced at four thousand five hundred monthly, making it thirty-one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars per year. I would rate it nine out of ten.

I think we are paying the license on yearly basis.

The setup cost is not as expensive as Splunk or many other competitors. Cost is dependent on the size of the company.

As far as pricing, we always want it to be less expensive or more cost-effective as a consumer, especially when you take into consideration that SolarWinds has got a very broad spectrum of services that can be integrated easily but need to be licensed separately. I think they can come up with a way of putting bundles together which would encourage customers to use a wider array of their products and it could be a better way of increasing sales. People would show a lot more interest in a package deal instead of having to buy the products separately. Bundling might reduce instances where customers look at other solutions for comparisons. For example, I've got some clients that use the Web Help Desk solution, and some users that use the NetFlow Analyzer and SolarWinds. If these solutions could be bundled together in a more cost-effective package when they are purchased together, I'm sure that SolarWinds would realize a lot more sales of peripheral products and increase their total market share.  

The renewals are currently priced so attractively that they are much cheaper and more cost-effective than when you buy a solution brand new. This helps retain clients over time. My comments on cost mainly refer to the initial purchase of solutions where you are deploying a product and purchasing it for the first-time.  

SolarWinds costs around $50,000, but I'm not certain because a different unit deals with costs.

Easy setup, very cheap and licensing cost is very fair and easy to understand

Licensing cost it's an issue with SolarWinds. 

Licensing is on devices, so if you have many, then this may be high. The storage can be an issue as well, we already had a SAN setup, but this is true for any SIEM.

Licenses can only be purchased in blocks of fifty at a time.

If a person prefers to pay for a subscription, the cloud deployment is the way to go. However, they can also choose to go on-premises and have a perpetual license. I can't speak to the exact costs, as I am on the technical side. 

We do a yearly license renewal.

The price of SolarWinds Security Event Manager is reasonable.

It is in the appropriate mid-range. It is not as expensive as some of the other solutions. It is also not cheap.