2019-12-16T08:14:00Z

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Prism?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
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Real User
Top 20
2023-12-20T09:22:10Z
Dec 20, 2023

It is an expensive software. One of the challenges I have seen is that the subscription-based licensing model comes across as a recurring cost, which makes it an area of concern for our company's customers. There are some SKUs for which, depending on the requirements of our customers, we propose ideas. I rate the product's price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap.

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GK
Real User
Top 10
2023-07-27T20:27:00Z
Jul 27, 2023

Nutanix Prism is affordable. It depends on the license category you select. They have multiple options, and we selected the one that was suitable for our infrastructure and requirements. The licensing model worked for us.

DP
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-07-21T16:51:00Z
Jul 21, 2023

Like everyone else, I would prefer Nutanix Prism's licensing to be more affordable. However, I believe in the principle of "you get what you pay for." Currently, I don't think there's a better alternative available for hyperconverged infrastructure. We might be able to find a lower-priced option, but they are positioned in a higher echelon, and the price, I believe, reflects that. Nevertheless, I consider it a worthwhile investment.

TN
Real User
Top 20
2023-05-17T10:38:00Z
May 17, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is free, whereas Nutanix isn't. Nutanix isn't so expensive. VMware is more expensive than Nutanix, but with VMware, there aren't many licenses, whereas, in the case of Nutanix, we need to upgrade the license periodically. It could be every three years or five years. It depends on your license. There are no costs in addition to the licensing fee.

KK
Real User
Top 10
2022-12-13T23:45:00Z
Dec 13, 2022

The pricing is one factor that could be better. The cluster licensing and how it works is another.

JS
Real User
Top 10
2022-12-13T21:38:00Z
Dec 13, 2022

The licensing aspect is painful. We are told, "This is when you have to renew. This is the serial number and the part number," et cetera. But it's difficult to know where something belongs unless you dive into the portal and search in multiple areas for a particular serial number. The experience over the years hasn't been great with renewing, and knowing what you're renewing. Also, there seems to be a year-on-year increase of about 5 percent. It doesn't seem like they really reward loyal customers. New customers don't get that penalty, but as you're renewing each year, you get a cost increase, which we're not happy about. The network visibility and microsegmentation of Nutanix Prism is a feature we don't use. It's an additional feature that you have to pay for.

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JK
Real User
Top 20
2022-12-13T21:26:00Z
Dec 13, 2022

The pricing is comparable to other software initiatives. I don't know if it's that much less. We bought it with the certified Nutanix hardware, which they don't build. It's an outsourced box that they sell you. Price-wise, AHV is free if you have Nutanix.

DK
Real User
Top 20
2022-12-13T04:06:00Z
Dec 13, 2022

The pricing was decent, average. It wasn't a Black Friday sale, but it was good.

YS
Real User
Top 20
2022-12-12T07:50:00Z
Dec 12, 2022

The good thing about Nutanix Prism is that we don't have to pay for a hypervisor, but their licensing cost is a little bit on the high side. We tried to implement files and other things in our environment, but the cost of the licensing was a little bit high for us so we did not implement those things. Still, we are using Nutanix as a file server, but we have built a VM on it and use it as a file server for use across the Nutanix cluster.

TB
Real User
Top 20
2022-12-12T07:50:00Z
Dec 12, 2022

The licensing is fairly high in price. If someone can get over the fact that the licensing is fairly expensive, I would say Nutanix is the way to go. It is expensive, but to me, it's worth it.

RS
Real User
Top 10
2022-12-09T21:30:00Z
Dec 9, 2022

Pricing is not something I'm involved with, but it is easy to apply the licenses that we acquire. I've used Prism Central, which is their paid, upgraded version of Prism, and I found it quite helpful. But, ultimately, the price they wanted for the features that we got wasn't worth it for us. But I can see where it would be helpful for some organizations.

DP
Real User
Top 20
2022-12-06T00:05:00Z
Dec 6, 2022

The licensing is a little confusing. They just changed it within the last year and we haven't had to renew the licensing yet, so I'm hoping it will be less confusing. As far as pricing goes, it's competitive for what you get. There are probably less expensive hyper-converged solutions, but I don't think they're as mature or have the feature set that we get with Nutanix.

Shahriyar Atayev - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-12-05T20:52:00Z
Dec 5, 2022

The price and licensing policies are advantageous. The pricing is better than our previous product. Management uses the portal to track the licenses and for cost management and it is better than our previous product.

LB
Real User
Top 5
2022-12-04T18:18:00Z
Dec 4, 2022

Costs are increasing a lot globally now, in general. We are in Ethiopia, East Africa, so we are far from America and there are transportation problems. That means that everything is costly. The cost for the licenses was a bit expensive.

Ozgur_Ekinci - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-10-07T14:48:24Z
Oct 7, 2022

The pricing is based on a licensing model and is around $10,000 for a two-year license. As we buy more servers, we receive license discounts. Two years ago, the solution was costly because Turkey was in a financial crisis and Lira exchange rates were high so the two-year license was $15,000.

SK
MSP
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-09-16T21:52:26Z
Sep 16, 2022

Prism is cheaper compared to competitors like Cisco HyperFlex or HP vSAN.

Mizanur-Rahman - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-09-08T09:12:32Z
Sep 8, 2022

Nutanix have bundles for pricing. On a single bundle, we get everything including vSAN or VMware and there are no additional costs. It is just a single license that is needed.

Infraprojman677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-08-10T12:54:00Z
Aug 10, 2022

We have a license with the core product. If the cluster is on SSD, the number of SSD disks will impact the license fee.

HH
Real User
Top 5
2022-07-25T14:39:22Z
Jul 25, 2022

We have spent a lot of money on the Nutanix solution with Prism. Yet, for this amount of money we could be buying high-end storage with a lot of IOPS and bandwidth, even more than with Nutanix.

Siddhesh Sawant - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-05-13T15:34:42Z
May 13, 2022

The license for Prism is costlier than other VMs.

YL
Real User
Top 5
2022-05-03T17:06:00Z
May 3, 2022

The license we bought for Nutanix Prism is perpetual, so once you have it, you can keep on using it. It's a three-year license that you pay once for. The license we have covers the three-node cluster, but then you need to have the basic networking gear for the infrastructure to work in the type of environment we're in. For example, the only additional thing we need to do apart from getting the license is to plan the network connectivity.

LO
Real User
2022-02-17T17:32:00Z
Feb 17, 2022

The pricing of the product seems to be reasonable.

SL
Real User
2021-10-14T09:21:00Z
Oct 14, 2021

We are also working with competing products - VMware VxRail and Sangfor which is a Chinese product, which is much cheaper because of its poor market share. It was a product with less experience and less functionality, but it was much cheaper. So Nutanix costs a lot, but it has ease of use, ease due to having a lot of the market share, has a lot of features, and has continuous improvement, but the cost is a negative aspect.

AL
Reseller
Top 20
2020-11-14T09:51:45Z
Nov 14, 2020

When compared with VMware, it is an overpriced solution for basic features, but for a highly complex project, its price very adequate.

SB
Real User
2020-10-06T06:57:47Z
Oct 6, 2020

This product is cheaper than using VMware.

MA
Real User
2020-09-27T04:10:03Z
Sep 27, 2020

Nutanix Prism is priced better than some of the competing solutions.

MA
Real User
2020-08-23T08:17:28Z
Aug 23, 2020

Compared to competitors in the space, it's less expensive. The pricing is pretty decent.

YN
Real User
2020-08-16T08:00:20Z
Aug 16, 2020

In addition to the standard licensing fees there are extra costs for some functionalities such as capacity planning using Prism Pro.

MS
Real User
2020-06-01T05:06:30Z
Jun 1, 2020

Compared to VMware, the price of this solution is great.

NK
Consultant
2020-03-04T08:49:00Z
Mar 4, 2020

Nutanix Prism pricing is higher than other products. They sell hyper-convergence as a bundled product. That's why I bought Nutanix. If I'm going with another hypervisor apart from ASV, the price goes higher. That's where the problem is.

DM
Real User
2019-12-16T08:14:00Z
Dec 16, 2019

A lot of my customers complain about the price of renewals, so I think that this can be improved.

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