I have not seen specific prices, like $10,000 or $20,000. A frustrating aspect is the lack of demo versions. The vendor insists on commercial licenses despite requests for demo licenses. The global price list is not accessible, making it difficult to work.
Security IT at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Real User
May 10, 2023
The solution's price is one of the coolest things about the product. We may need to pay fifty percent more if we purchase other solutions. For the payments made to A10 Thunder TPS, we have received three-year support.
Director of Technology at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Real User
Jan 18, 2023
Thunder TPS costs about the same as most other DDoS protection, but it isn't a cheap solution. We had a 100-gig production license on each appliance and two devices. You pay annually for a license and support.
The A10 aGalaxy management system provides centralized management of Thunder TPS systems and policies, orchestrates detection and mitigation of DDoS attacks, and delivers a single-pane-of-glass view of the generated reports across all managed Thunder TPS appliances. No need to license each feature to activate it, it got a perpetual licensing and everything is there, you just have to configure and enable the feature when you need it.
SOC Manager at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Sep 5, 2019
We are doing multiyear licensing. We signed up for three years to get a discount. We're doing that for most of our vendors at this point in time. As far as I'm aware, there aren't any additional costs to the standard licensing fees. For aGalaxy there is a limitation on how many zones and how many devices we can deploy, but that's the only limitation there is. Currently, we're at 500 zones and about 50 devices. Everything else is not on a gigabyte or a license model where you can only have so much traffic through these devices. There are no such limitations. It's a software license for being able to upgrade to newer versions. We are always looking to do multi-year deals, especially with devices that we plan on keeping. Being able to do multi-year is a pretty standard thing now. It just works for us and it gives us the ability to grow as we need.
The financials are always a challenge with this type of technology. That's not really a product-functionality thing but it's the area where we were pushing A10 the most. But compared to the alternatives that we evaluated in 2015, the price-performance of the A10 solution was definitely superior to the other solutions which we evaluated at the time. The way we did the deal was a combination of the equipment, the license, and a five-year support contract, for all sites. At the time it was a pretty good deal.
The Thunder TPS is a family of high-performance DDoS defense solutions that detect and mitigate multi-vector DDoS attacks. Unlike traditional DDoS defenses that leave a wake of collateral damage against users, Thunder TPS applies a source-based defense-in-depth mitigation pipeline. This multimodal defense that includes actionable DDoS weapons intelligence, operator definable adaptive policies, and machine learning-powered Zero-Day Automated Protection (ZAP) blocks attackers while protecting...
I have not seen specific prices, like $10,000 or $20,000. A frustrating aspect is the lack of demo versions. The vendor insists on commercial licenses despite requests for demo licenses. The global price list is not accessible, making it difficult to work.
The tool is expensive. If one is low price and ten is expensive, I rate the tool's price as a ten.
We did a price survey, and compared to other solutions, A10 Thunder TPS wasn't cheap.
The solution's price is one of the coolest things about the product. We may need to pay fifty percent more if we purchase other solutions. For the payments made to A10 Thunder TPS, we have received three-year support.
Thunder TPS costs about the same as most other DDoS protection, but it isn't a cheap solution. We had a 100-gig production license on each appliance and two devices. You pay annually for a license and support.
The A10 aGalaxy management system provides centralized management of Thunder TPS systems and policies, orchestrates detection and mitigation of DDoS attacks, and delivers a single-pane-of-glass view of the generated reports across all managed Thunder TPS appliances. No need to license each feature to activate it, it got a perpetual licensing and everything is there, you just have to configure and enable the feature when you need it.
Pricing is very reasonable.
We are doing multiyear licensing. We signed up for three years to get a discount. We're doing that for most of our vendors at this point in time. As far as I'm aware, there aren't any additional costs to the standard licensing fees. For aGalaxy there is a limitation on how many zones and how many devices we can deploy, but that's the only limitation there is. Currently, we're at 500 zones and about 50 devices. Everything else is not on a gigabyte or a license model where you can only have so much traffic through these devices. There are no such limitations. It's a software license for being able to upgrade to newer versions. We are always looking to do multi-year deals, especially with devices that we plan on keeping. Being able to do multi-year is a pretty standard thing now. It just works for us and it gives us the ability to grow as we need.
We are waiting for our subscription model on our next four boxes.
The financials are always a challenge with this type of technology. That's not really a product-functionality thing but it's the area where we were pushing A10 the most. But compared to the alternatives that we evaluated in 2015, the price-performance of the A10 solution was definitely superior to the other solutions which we evaluated at the time. The way we did the deal was a combination of the equipment, the license, and a five-year support contract, for all sites. At the time it was a pretty good deal.