Director Market Growth and Development at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 10
Oct 21, 2024
Forcepoint is competitively priced compared to McAfee. For a similar setup, Forcepoint might take fewer days to install, which means lower service fees.
Forcepoint's pricing is moderate. However, transitioning to solutions like Palo Alto or FortiGate, despite potentially higher initial costs, could offer better long-term value due to their advanced features and performance.
Compared to the other products in the market, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway can be a cost-effective tool. My company does not want to look at a tool that offers fewer capabilities at a low cost compared to the other products in the market.
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I would rate the affordability of Forcepoint SWG as a two out of ten. It is relatively expensive. While some other products, such as firewalls and application firewalls, offer similar functionalities, they might be more cost-effective. However, the specific web security features provided by Forcepoint contribute to its high price.
The pricing depends upon the number of users. If an organization has 800 users, they can use 800 licenses. It's user-based licensing. The solution is cheaper than Zscaler.
Senior Manager IT at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Dec 28, 2022
The pricing for Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is expensive. You pay per user and functionality. I'd rate it a four on a scale of one to ten. Compared to the competition, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is one of the most expensive products.
In terms of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway pricing, I'm not part of the sales team. I'm on the technical team, so I don't have information on the price.
Ict Help Desk Administrator Individual Contributor at a transportation company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Apr 3, 2021
Overall, I am not aware of the option to pay for one time use of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway. We sometimes take out a monthly subscription to the product but prefer to do so on an annual basis.
Licensing cost is also dependent on the number of licenses. When users increase from 100 to 500 or from 1,000 or even 20,000, that licensing cost automatically decreases. And if there is a limited license, you can say there is a fixed price, for use of the licensing. Licensing is flexible. License pricing information is based on the customer, their environment, and on the future approach. For example, are they're going to move forward with this environment? Will they be increasing their system to more users? There are additional costs for URL filtering, Web isolation, and CASB integration. For the normal scenarios, if I am talking about URL filtering, there is no additional component for that. There's a single license, the standard license for the URL filtering and if you want to add web isolation, that is definitely something you need to pay more for. Even if you want to increase your storage limit for the log, you definitely need to pay for the storage as well. To start with, the retention period is 90 days.
The pricing on Forcepoint Web Security is fair. Fair pricing at current market rates, if you are comparing with the competition. Forcepoint Web Security is better than Fortinet because Fortinet is free. They still come under the enterprise level of security implementation though.
Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is a secure web gateway (SWG) tool that provides multiple forms of protection against malware, including blocking categories of websites, inline scanning of downloaded files, and zero trust-based advanced threat protection. The solution monitors and controls any interaction with any website, including blocking access to websites based on category and risk score, blocking download of malware, blocking upload of sensitive data to personal file sharing accounts,...
I would rate pricing for Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway a two out of ten. It's really expensive.
The price for Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is normal, rated around five to six out of ten.
Forcepoint is competitively priced compared to McAfee. For a similar setup, Forcepoint might take fewer days to install, which means lower service fees.
The product has average pricing. I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
Forcepoint's pricing is moderate. However, transitioning to solutions like Palo Alto or FortiGate, despite potentially higher initial costs, could offer better long-term value due to their advanced features and performance.
Compared to the other products in the market, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway can be a cost-effective tool. My company does not want to look at a tool that offers fewer capabilities at a low cost compared to the other products in the market.
I would rate the affordability of Forcepoint SWG as a two out of ten. It is relatively expensive. While some other products, such as firewalls and application firewalls, offer similar functionalities, they might be more cost-effective. However, the specific web security features provided by Forcepoint contribute to its high price.
The pricing depends upon the number of users. If an organization has 800 users, they can use 800 licenses. It's user-based licensing. The solution is cheaper than Zscaler.
The solution's price is good.
The cost for Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is lower than that for Zscaler and Netskope. It could be around $4 per user annually.
The pricing for Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is expensive. You pay per user and functionality. I'd rate it a four on a scale of one to ten. Compared to the competition, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is one of the most expensive products.
While I'm not directly handling the licensing and payments, my understanding is the solution is competitively priced.
I rate licensing costs an eight out of ten.
In terms of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway pricing, I'm not part of the sales team. I'm on the technical team, so I don't have information on the price.
I don’t deal with any aspects surrounding the costs or licensing. I don’t know what the exact price is.
I cannot speak to the exact pricing of the solution.
I think Forcepoint's price is average.
The price of this solution is reasonable.
The solution is priced a little high compare to similar solutions.
Overall, I am not aware of the option to pay for one time use of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway. We sometimes take out a monthly subscription to the product but prefer to do so on an annual basis.
Licensing cost is also dependent on the number of licenses. When users increase from 100 to 500 or from 1,000 or even 20,000, that licensing cost automatically decreases. And if there is a limited license, you can say there is a fixed price, for use of the licensing. Licensing is flexible. License pricing information is based on the customer, their environment, and on the future approach. For example, are they're going to move forward with this environment? Will they be increasing their system to more users? There are additional costs for URL filtering, Web isolation, and CASB integration. For the normal scenarios, if I am talking about URL filtering, there is no additional component for that. There's a single license, the standard license for the URL filtering and if you want to add web isolation, that is definitely something you need to pay more for. Even if you want to increase your storage limit for the log, you definitely need to pay for the storage as well. To start with, the retention period is 90 days.
The price of this product should be reduced to make it more competitive.
The pricing of the solution is okay. We pay licensing fees but the cost depends on the package that we take. There are no other hidden costs.
The Prices are fair and you are assured of getting the value for your money.
The pricing on Forcepoint Web Security is fair. Fair pricing at current market rates, if you are comparing with the competition. Forcepoint Web Security is better than Fortinet because Fortinet is free. They still come under the enterprise level of security implementation though.