I am not overall satisfied with the license and cost for IBM NS1 Connect because my pre-sales team interacts on that part regarding pricing. My role is just to integrate and design solutions, so I am not looking into the commercial part. I would rate IBM NS1 Connect in general at six to seven because all of the features are there, but the cost is quite high. Other competitors have offered a very low price compared to IBM, and that aspect is very tough for us to convince clients. It is beneficial when I already implement the product, but that is after the fact. Before convincing a client, before implementation, or at the initial POC stage, it becomes a challenge because every time a cost factor comes into the picture. The customer or client always figures out that another OEM is providing this competitive cost and questions why not IBM.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the cost can be more transparent, especially for organizations working on a tight budget.
From a cost standpoint, it's certainly not the most expensive out there, and it's also not the cheapest, but it does well to balance cost and functionality/reliability. There are additional costs for different modules if you need them. Otherwise, they can give you very specific pricing for what you need. To someone who says that they don't need to spend money on a solution like this because they have a free cloud provider or basic DNS, from our specific history, I would say that you get what you pay for. More specifically, NS1 does very well to balance cost and functionality.
Chief Technology Officer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Feb 15, 2022
We promised NS1 that we would do the migration in a very short period of time and that we were open to being on their homepage for marketing purposes, and they gave us a good price at the time. We pay about $30,000 a month. We used to pay about $20,000 with Dyn every month, for lower volume than we're doing right now, but it had none of the features that we have available with NS1, so it was worth it for us. It seems competitive for us, given that we're doing 4.5 billion requests. And when you do load balancing like that for downtime, all of your TTLs are very low. A lot of our TTLs are in the five-minute space. It generates a ton of extra load on the DNS when you do five-minute TTLs. If we wanted to decrease our bill we could just increase our TTLs, but we don't feel like risking that.
VP of Technical Operations and Devops at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Jul 29, 2021
The cost of this product is one of the reasons that we chose it. There may be overage costs in addition to the standard licensing fees, although I haven't experienced them.
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The licensing cost is reasonable. When I compare it to other products, it is reasonable.
I am not overall satisfied with the license and cost for IBM NS1 Connect because my pre-sales team interacts on that part regarding pricing. My role is just to integrate and design solutions, so I am not looking into the commercial part. I would rate IBM NS1 Connect in general at six to seven because all of the features are there, but the cost is quite high. Other competitors have offered a very low price compared to IBM, and that aspect is very tough for us to convince clients. It is beneficial when I already implement the product, but that is after the fact. Before convincing a client, before implementation, or at the initial POC stage, it becomes a challenge because every time a cost factor comes into the picture. The customer or client always figures out that another OEM is providing this competitive cost and questions why not IBM.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the cost can be more transparent, especially for organizations working on a tight budget.
From a cost standpoint, it's certainly not the most expensive out there, and it's also not the cheapest, but it does well to balance cost and functionality/reliability. There are additional costs for different modules if you need them. Otherwise, they can give you very specific pricing for what you need. To someone who says that they don't need to spend money on a solution like this because they have a free cloud provider or basic DNS, from our specific history, I would say that you get what you pay for. More specifically, NS1 does very well to balance cost and functionality.
We have been very happy with the licensing and pricing. They were able to give us a really good deal on that front, one that matched our expectations.
We promised NS1 that we would do the migration in a very short period of time and that we were open to being on their homepage for marketing purposes, and they gave us a good price at the time. We pay about $30,000 a month. We used to pay about $20,000 with Dyn every month, for lower volume than we're doing right now, but it had none of the features that we have available with NS1, so it was worth it for us. It seems competitive for us, given that we're doing 4.5 billion requests. And when you do load balancing like that for downtime, all of your TTLs are very low. A lot of our TTLs are in the five-minute space. It generates a ton of extra load on the DNS when you do five-minute TTLs. If we wanted to decrease our bill we could just increase our TTLs, but we don't feel like risking that.
NS1's pricing is much more aggressive than its competitors in the market and you get more value out of what you pay for it.
The cost of this product is one of the reasons that we chose it. There may be overage costs in addition to the standard licensing fees, although I haven't experienced them.