The pricing depends on the quality of the product we are buying and the support. WatchGuard Firebox has good quality, but it is expensive. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven or eight out of ten.
WatchGuard is better when compared to other firewalls. It is affordable for a midsized company. WatchGuard is affordable, with features for individual customers, end-users, and midsized companies. However, big businesses with growth and an increasing workload have to migrate. I rate the solution’s pricing a four on a scale of ten, one being lowest and ten being highest.
Currently, we use an internal lead to sell WatchGuard to our clients. So, the price varies. However, it's worth mentioning that our internal use of WatchGuard includes Panda Security as well. We do pay for a license. It's a three-year license. It is an expensive solution. The price could be lower.
Despite the fact that there is always room for improvement, the current pricing of the solution is still lower compared to its competitors. I rate the price of the WatchGuard Firebox an eight out of ten.
Information Systems Administrator at a logistics company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 20
2022-09-01T21:52:09Z
Sep 1, 2022
We license the WatchGuard Firebox annually. There are different types of subscriptions available. We are paying approximately $15,000 annually. The cost can increase if you purchase different subscriptions.
Technical Support at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Real User
2021-12-24T10:21:00Z
Dec 24, 2021
The box costs 180,000. One third of the price of the box goes to the yearly renewal fee, around 50 or 60, for the basic. There is the advanced feature which is half of the box, but the basic is quite enough for most of our brand, which is why we have not used the TDR yet. And the response comes free for the advanced features and advanced licensing.
ICT Manager at a maritime company with 11-50 employees
Real User
2021-12-22T19:12:00Z
Dec 22, 2021
The licensing contract we have is on a three-year basis. There aren't any costs in addition to the standard licensing fees—usually, every three years, we just purchase or renew the same license and we are okay. Every six years, we completely change the firewall, but that's the usual schema. So after three years, we just renew the licenses for another three years, and then after that particular period of time, we just purchase another firewall equivalent to the ones that we currently use.
Global Head ICT (CITP & MIE) at The Aga Khan Academies
Real User
2021-06-02T14:21:41Z
Jun 2, 2021
They have an annual subscription license. Initially, we had opted for three years. After that, we went for another three years, and after that, we have been doing it yearly. They also have a license for five years.
Owner at a construction company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2020-12-17T09:13:00Z
Dec 17, 2020
I spent $600 or $800 on this product and I'm paying a couple of hundred dollars a year in a subscription service to keep the lights on, on it. I imagine there's some aspect of it that I won't be able to utilize if it goes off of support. For what it is—for example, for a doctors' office building or a situation with remote offices and no tech guy on staff—it's perfect. It has antivirus subscription services, IPS, web blocker, file exception, spam blocker, application control, reputation defense, botnet detection. It works out to $100 or $200 a year if you buy several years at once. It's fair. But when you get into the intrusion detection and gateway stuff, it can be fairly expensive and you're going to need more expensive hardware.
President and Owner at Peak Communication Systems, Inc.
Reseller
2020-08-02T08:16:00Z
Aug 2, 2020
They license it. When we buy it, we buy it with a three-year license. That's the most cost-effective way to do it. So, if you're going to buy it, then buy it with the three-year licensing. Only the person buying it can determine which level of licenses they have. That's something to truly consider. There are no additional costs unless you choose their advanced licenses or different levels that they have for security. You can add on more security licenses with what you have in Microsoft today, but we have not been adding those on.
We needed a firewall to control our internal network and the external access and we needed to implement load balancing and failover as well. Going with WatchGuard "increased" our budget. WatchGuard had a very competitive price. It was only 10 to 20 percent more than a single instance device but with that extra cost it provided a second load balancing device and the licensing scheme didn't charge double. They only charge for one license, unlike other brands whose method of hardware and software licensing would have doubled our cost. That was a major consideration.
Owner / CEO at Midwest Technology Specialists LLC.
Consultant
2020-07-08T09:01:00Z
Jul 8, 2020
Generally speaking, I find the three years of live and total security to be the best option. By going with their total security, you do get the endpoint protection component of the threat detection and response. Typically the trade-in options, depending on your prior firewall, are options that they should request or pursue when dealing with their provider. Those programs are usually available, but they're not always offered by a provider unless you ask.
Network Administrator at Niedersächsischer Turner-Bund e.V.
Real User
2020-06-25T10:53:00Z
Jun 25, 2020
I think the larger firewall packages are much better because a normal firewall is not enough for these times. You need IPS, APT, and all the security features of a firewall that you can buy.
IT Director at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2020-04-08T06:36:00Z
Apr 8, 2020
The pricing of WatchGuard is probably a little higher than the SonicWall, but it makes up for it in dependability. It's worth it to me, especially since it's not much higher. For just a little bit higher price you get the dependability of the firewall with the WatchGuard brand. And with this appliance you also get a certain number of VPN tunnels. With this one, it's something like 500, not that we would even use that many. Whereas with SonicWall, at the time we were using it, it came with 10 and then anything over that had to be purchased. Money-wise, it's a one-and-done with the WatchGuard. With SonicWall, there were a few things that you had to pay extra for to get. The subscription services with the WatchGuard are pretty nice.
The pricing of WatchGuard was pretty comparable to Cisco, but I actually haven't looked at a new Cisco box in quite some time, so I can't say how they compare now.
Manager IT at a hospitality company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2020-03-30T07:58:00Z
Mar 30, 2020
Getting a WatchGuard for the first three years pays for the hardware. I think it's cheaper to keep doing hardware upgrades at every software renewal, rather than just pay for maintenance to keep a piece of hardware going. I usually tell people that it's really affordable as well, particularly compared to Cisco. In addition to the standard cost, we usually get the Total Security Suite. We go top-shelf on all of the subscription services.
We have had two-year deals in the past, but recently we decided to go with annual. The cost was somewhere in the vicinity of $2,000 to $3,000 for each one, depending on if they had a special at that time or if they were doing an in-place upgrade or with the same router.
I buy a three-year renewal on the main device, which is usually around $3,000 to $4,000. They usually upgrade the device when I do it. You get a big discount when you do three years. If I were to renew my other devices — we haven't renewed them — it would probably be around a couple of thousand dollars for the little edge devices. In addition to the standard licensing fees, we pay for the filtering software. There's a web blocker, Gateway antivirus, intrusion prevention. Those sorts of things are extra. They call it LiveSecurity. I do the LiveSecurity update and that includes a lot of those features. It's a type of a-la-carte scenario. You pick what you want, and that then includes maintenance and support.
IT Manager at a engineering company with 11-50 employees
Real User
2019-07-28T07:35:00Z
Jul 28, 2019
We had a trade-in offer at the end of our first three-year term. As a result, we pretty much got a free device by buying the three-year subscription. It was around $3,000 for the three-years.
When we bought them we got a three-year license for each device. The two larger devices are about $1,000 each and the smaller ones are about $500 or $600 each. There are some additional software features that you can add on and pay for, but we don't use them.
We only license our corporate one and the one we have at our DR site, we don't worry about the branches. It doesn't pay for us to license the ones at the branches. What they charge for what they call basic maintenance is extremely high for those little fireboxes. So we don't bother with them.
I.T. Manager at a construction company with 201-500 employees
Real User
2019-05-26T06:53:00Z
May 26, 2019
We bought ours bundled with two or three years at the time we bought them. I haven't seen the pricing since 2017, but it was competitive. SonicWall, Barracuda, and WatchGuard were all about the same price when we did our last pricing.
The cheapest configuration, for maybe five people, is approximately $500. There are several other license steps that vary based on the number of security services that are included in the subscription.
Technical Support at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Real User
2019-05-16T16:17:00Z
May 16, 2019
The subscription that was purchased is for three years but it is usually for one year at a time. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.
The price is so small that I don't pay attention to it anymore. I think we pay a few thousand dollars for two to three years, so about $100 per month. That's for all of our users. There is an additional cost if we want to go with a deeper licensing model, but we just pay for antivirus, IPS, and main product support.
The setup cost is extremely low for what you get with the Firebox M470. The cost of the Firebox M470 was a third of the cost of a Barracuda and a high-end SonicWall. I loved that I could add an SFP module to the firewall and use both Ethernet and fiber connections. You will need licensing for the security features like Total Security Suite, etc.
COO/CTO at a pharma/biotech company with 11-50 employees
Real User
2018-10-04T17:27:00Z
Oct 4, 2018
If you are experienced, I can recommend the T70 set-up with minimal support and reference. Since I am relatively new as a systems engineer/IT design, I have had to reference a lot of online sources and hire an expert familiar with the WatchGuard line of products to help shorten my learning curve and get the system up and running quickly.
WatchGuard Firebox is a versatile security solution primarily used for security purposes such as firewalling, VPN, and protecting networks from outside and inside threats. It is also used for routing, multi-factor authentication, vulnerability management, and segregating industrial networks from corporate networks.
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The pricing depends on the quality of the product we are buying and the support. WatchGuard Firebox has good quality, but it is expensive. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven or eight out of ten.
WatchGuard offers competitive pricing with attractive margins, benefiting both the company and its partners.
WatchGuard Firebox is a cheap solution.
WatchGuard is better when compared to other firewalls. It is affordable for a midsized company. WatchGuard is affordable, with features for individual customers, end-users, and midsized companies. However, big businesses with growth and an increasing workload have to migrate. I rate the solution’s pricing a four on a scale of ten, one being lowest and ten being highest.
Currently, we use an internal lead to sell WatchGuard to our clients. So, the price varies. However, it's worth mentioning that our internal use of WatchGuard includes Panda Security as well. We do pay for a license. It's a three-year license. It is an expensive solution. The price could be lower.
I rate the solution's pricing as an eight.
We are utilizing an MSP licensing model and are content with the minimal amount spent on the devices rather than committing to long-term licensing.
Despite the fact that there is always room for improvement, the current pricing of the solution is still lower compared to its competitors. I rate the price of the WatchGuard Firebox an eight out of ten.
I have no information on WatchGuard Firebox costs.
I would rate their pricing plan a four, which means it's definitely on the cheaper scale.
The licensing can be a one-time purchase unless you need the extra services for example twenty-four seven support.
It's in the medium range. Its price is pretty good considering the functions and add-ons that are used.
We license the WatchGuard Firebox annually. There are different types of subscriptions available. We are paying approximately $15,000 annually. The cost can increase if you purchase different subscriptions.
Firebox is priced reasonably.
Licensing costs are very reasonable and paid annually. If you need additional options they can be bought separately.
It is an entry-level product, so the price is cheap.
The price of the WatchGuard Firebox is reasonable.
The box costs 180,000. One third of the price of the box goes to the yearly renewal fee, around 50 or 60, for the basic. There is the advanced feature which is half of the box, but the basic is quite enough for most of our brand, which is why we have not used the TDR yet. And the response comes free for the advanced features and advanced licensing.
The licensing contract we have is on a three-year basis. There aren't any costs in addition to the standard licensing fees—usually, every three years, we just purchase or renew the same license and we are okay. Every six years, we completely change the firewall, but that's the usual schema. So after three years, we just renew the licenses for another three years, and then after that particular period of time, we just purchase another firewall equivalent to the ones that we currently use.
They have an annual subscription license. Initially, we had opted for three years. After that, we went for another three years, and after that, we have been doing it yearly. They also have a license for five years.
The pricing of the product is pretty good. I would describe it as fair. It's not overly expensive.
I find the solution to be very affordable.
I spent $600 or $800 on this product and I'm paying a couple of hundred dollars a year in a subscription service to keep the lights on, on it. I imagine there's some aspect of it that I won't be able to utilize if it goes off of support. For what it is—for example, for a doctors' office building or a situation with remote offices and no tech guy on staff—it's perfect. It has antivirus subscription services, IPS, web blocker, file exception, spam blocker, application control, reputation defense, botnet detection. It works out to $100 or $200 a year if you buy several years at once. It's fair. But when you get into the intrusion detection and gateway stuff, it can be fairly expensive and you're going to need more expensive hardware.
The price of the solution corresponds to the quality and the feature set offered. There are no additional costs to the standard licensing fees.
They license it. When we buy it, we buy it with a three-year license. That's the most cost-effective way to do it. So, if you're going to buy it, then buy it with the three-year licensing. Only the person buying it can determine which level of licenses they have. That's something to truly consider. There are no additional costs unless you choose their advanced licenses or different levels that they have for security. You can add on more security licenses with what you have in Microsoft today, but we have not been adding those on.
We needed a firewall to control our internal network and the external access and we needed to implement load balancing and failover as well. Going with WatchGuard "increased" our budget. WatchGuard had a very competitive price. It was only 10 to 20 percent more than a single instance device but with that extra cost it provided a second load balancing device and the licensing scheme didn't charge double. They only charge for one license, unlike other brands whose method of hardware and software licensing would have doubled our cost. That was a major consideration.
Generally speaking, I find the three years of live and total security to be the best option. By going with their total security, you do get the endpoint protection component of the threat detection and response. Typically the trade-in options, depending on your prior firewall, are options that they should request or pursue when dealing with their provider. Those programs are usually available, but they're not always offered by a provider unless you ask.
I think the larger firewall packages are much better because a normal firewall is not enough for these times. You need IPS, APT, and all the security features of a firewall that you can buy.
I've had no problems with the licensing.
I'd love it to be cheaper, but as long as long as they're being fair with me, it's a good value.
The pricing was in line with everyone else; maybe slightly higher. That's why it's not a 10 out of 10.
The pricing of WatchGuard is probably a little higher than the SonicWall, but it makes up for it in dependability. It's worth it to me, especially since it's not much higher. For just a little bit higher price you get the dependability of the firewall with the WatchGuard brand. And with this appliance you also get a certain number of VPN tunnels. With this one, it's something like 500, not that we would even use that many. Whereas with SonicWall, at the time we were using it, it came with 10 and then anything over that had to be purchased. Money-wise, it's a one-and-done with the WatchGuard. With SonicWall, there were a few things that you had to pay extra for to get. The subscription services with the WatchGuard are pretty nice.
The pricing of WatchGuard was pretty comparable to Cisco, but I actually haven't looked at a new Cisco box in quite some time, so I can't say how they compare now.
I feel that the pricing is fair for all of the security you get. That's one of the reasons we went with, and continue to go with, WatchGuard.
Getting a WatchGuard for the first three years pays for the hardware. I think it's cheaper to keep doing hardware upgrades at every software renewal, rather than just pay for maintenance to keep a piece of hardware going. I usually tell people that it's really affordable as well, particularly compared to Cisco. In addition to the standard cost, we usually get the Total Security Suite. We go top-shelf on all of the subscription services.
We don't have any other costs other than the licensing stuff.
We have had two-year deals in the past, but recently we decided to go with annual. The cost was somewhere in the vicinity of $2,000 to $3,000 for each one, depending on if they had a special at that time or if they were doing an in-place upgrade or with the same router.
We pay yearly.
It costs me about $800 a year. There any no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.
I buy a three-year renewal on the main device, which is usually around $3,000 to $4,000. They usually upgrade the device when I do it. You get a big discount when you do three years. If I were to renew my other devices — we haven't renewed them — it would probably be around a couple of thousand dollars for the little edge devices. In addition to the standard licensing fees, we pay for the filtering software. There's a web blocker, Gateway antivirus, intrusion prevention. Those sorts of things are extra. They call it LiveSecurity. I do the LiveSecurity update and that includes a lot of those features. It's a type of a-la-carte scenario. You pick what you want, and that then includes maintenance and support.
We pay about $3,500 every three years. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.
I think we might be subscribed to one or two of the premium features.
We had a trade-in offer at the end of our first three-year term. As a result, we pretty much got a free device by buying the three-year subscription. It was around $3,000 for the three-years.
There is an additional cost for support on top of licensing. When I bought my new unit, I received additional time added to my support.
The cost three years ago was about $800. There were no additional costs beyond the initial purchase.
When we bought them we got a three-year license for each device. The two larger devices are about $1,000 each and the smaller ones are about $500 or $600 each. There are some additional software features that you can add on and pay for, but we don't use them.
There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees. It was pretty much, "Get the license and you're good to go for the year."
We only license our corporate one and the one we have at our DR site, we don't worry about the branches. It doesn't pay for us to license the ones at the branches. What they charge for what they call basic maintenance is extremely high for those little fireboxes. So we don't bother with them.
They are well priced for the market and offer discounts for competitor trades and model upgrades which are definitely worth taking advantage of.
We bought ours bundled with two or three years at the time we bought them. I haven't seen the pricing since 2017, but it was competitive. SonicWall, Barracuda, and WatchGuard were all about the same price when we did our last pricing.
The cheapest configuration, for maybe five people, is approximately $500. There are several other license steps that vary based on the number of security services that are included in the subscription.
The subscription that was purchased is for three years but it is usually for one year at a time. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.
The price is so small that I don't pay attention to it anymore. I think we pay a few thousand dollars for two to three years, so about $100 per month. That's for all of our users. There is an additional cost if we want to go with a deeper licensing model, but we just pay for antivirus, IPS, and main product support.
The setup cost is extremely low for what you get with the Firebox M470. The cost of the Firebox M470 was a third of the cost of a Barracuda and a high-end SonicWall. I loved that I could add an SFP module to the firewall and use both Ethernet and fiber connections. You will need licensing for the security features like Total Security Suite, etc.
If you are experienced, I can recommend the T70 set-up with minimal support and reference. Since I am relatively new as a systems engineer/IT design, I have had to reference a lot of online sources and hire an expert familiar with the WatchGuard line of products to help shorten my learning curve and get the system up and running quickly.