In terms of pricing, I'm not so happy. First of all, some of it is our fault. We were scanning more than our license allowed for and we had to true up. However, the pricing was a little bit aggressive, and to have something like that come out of the sky, admittedly, was our fault as we went over the number of lines of code we were scanning. That said, pricing could be improved. Honestly, it's a SaaS. I understand they need to make money, however, there's a point beyond which they're taking quite a bite out of my development budget.

Pricing and licensing are comparable to other tools. When we started, it was less than our existing solution. I can't go into specifics, but it isn't cheap. 

I don’t have any information in regards to pricing.

We were one of their biggest customers seven years ago, so we are paying a really good price. Over the last two years, they have tried to add more and more features to their license packages, but the price is a little bit high, comparatively. We are able to do a lot of things with the product, but I can see the price growing and growing and it may be a little bit too expensive now.

I really recommend Mend.io. It's a great company. Rami Sass is the CEO and you can ask him questions. They do everything to make their customers comfortable using their solutions.

When comparing the price of WhiteSource to the competition it is priced well. The cost for 50 users is approximately $18,000 annually.

The pricing is good. One of the differentiators between them and their competitors is how they priced the product. Some companies price per run and some price per developer or per language. One thing that was nice about WhiteSource is that they didn't have that. They have a fixed cost for contributing developers, but the number of languages is irrelevant. The number of runs is irrelevant, and that's great. That way, you've got a fixed cost and you know it's not going to get any bigger if you start doing more work unless you add more developers. The pricing is clear and useful.

Its pricing model is per developer. It depends on the number of developers in the company. The license is for a minimum of 20 developers. So, even if you are a small startup with less than 10 developers, you have to buy a license for 20 developers on a yearly subscription, which makes it quite expensive for startup customers. I provide consultation to startup accelerators. They're small at the beginning, and only once they grow to 20 developers, they can afford this tool. As a result, WhiteSource is missing this target audience. Their licensing is not flexible.

Mend is costly but not overly expensive. The license was quite expensive this year, but we managed to negotiate the price down to the same as last year. At the same time, it's a good value. We're getting what we're paying for and still not using all the features. We could probably get more out of the tool and make it more valuable. At the moment, we don't have the capacity to do that.

It is fairly priced.

We always negotiate for the best price possible, and as far as I know, Mend has done an excellent job with their pricing. Our management is happy with the pricing, which has led to renewals.

It was approximately $2,000 per year or per month, I don't recall exactly.

When compared with Veracode, Veracode was very very expensive. It was approximately $200,000.00 per year for the whole Suite.

WhiteSource is much more affordable than Veracode.

WhiteSource is a free solution to use.

Pricing is competitive.

The version that we are using, WhiteSource Bolt, is a free integration with Azure DevOps.

I cannot comment on billing, as this was handled by other departments in my previous organization. 

As we were using an SaaS-based service, the solution must be scalable, although my understanding is that this is based on the licensing model one is using. 

Pricing / licensing model changed during last year so I don’t have an opinion here yet.

We are paying a lot of money to use WhiteSource. In our company, it is not easy to argue that it is worth the price. 

The solution involves a yearly licensing fee. 

The setup cost is cheap. For our company, we received a good price to manage unlimited products and versions.

This is an expensive solution. 

When setting up this solution, it is important to have clear cut planning and to define the automation rules.