Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.
Real User
Top 5
Jun 25, 2025
The pricing of Pure Storage FlashBlade is expensive compared to other products I used from other companies in the past, but one benefit is that they have built-in ransomware protection. Approximately 40% to 50% of my time is saved using Pure Storage FlashBlade compared to different products. To run Pure Storage FlashBlade smoothly, you might have to spend about 8 to 9 hours a week on maintenance if you set it up correctly.
Storage Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 5
Oct 10, 2024
The pricing for FlashBlade is between cheap and moderate. FlashBlade is worth the money due to the experience and performance it delivers, including quick response times.
The product is very expensive. I rate the solution’s pricing a ten out of ten. The customers have to buy the solution if they have a requirement. It is a costly solution. However, the functionality is worth the money. The price is fixed.
Technical Operations Manager at Mideast Data Systems
Real User
Oct 6, 2022
Pure Storage FlashBlade is a hardware appliance, and it's very expensive if you compare its price with other solutions. You can get the same features and benefits from its competitor, VAST Data, but for half the price of Pure Storage FlashBlade.
Business Development Manager of Storage Systems at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Dec 24, 2021
They don't have a license at all. They have some software products like Portworx, and they sell the license for those. however, the FlashBlade and X FlashArray don't have a license at all. It's included in the system; you don't need to buy it separately.
Technical Consultant Storage at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
Nov 17, 2020
The price is a little high, but I'm not the guy who is selling it to the customer — I only design the solution. Price-wise, somebody else's has to make a decision about it.
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
MSP
Sep 3, 2019
In the licensing model, everything is included. You don't buy a separate license for Active Plus. Support is a separate line item. Support is a different cost, but whatever your support is now, that's what you're going to pay forever. If your support's $100 today, six years from now it's $100. It doesn't fluctuate unless you upgrade it, or change it, etc.
FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.
Regarding pricing, it is okay; we needed exactly this in size, and the price was a lot lower than competitors, making it good for us.
The pricing of Pure Storage FlashBlade is expensive compared to other products I used from other companies in the past, but one benefit is that they have built-in ransomware protection. Approximately 40% to 50% of my time is saved using Pure Storage FlashBlade compared to different products. To run Pure Storage FlashBlade smoothly, you might have to spend about 8 to 9 hours a week on maintenance if you set it up correctly.
The pricing for FlashBlade is between cheap and moderate. FlashBlade is worth the money due to the experience and performance it delivers, including quick response times.
I rate the tool's pricing a seven to eight out of ten.
The product is very expensive. I rate the solution’s pricing a ten out of ten. The customers have to buy the solution if they have a requirement. It is a costly solution. However, the functionality is worth the money. The price is fixed.
The price could be cheaper.
It's a costly solution, but Pure Storage FlashBlade doesn't require additional licenses. All of the software is combined into one bundle.
Pure Storage FlashBlade is a hardware appliance, and it's very expensive if you compare its price with other solutions. You can get the same features and benefits from its competitor, VAST Data, but for half the price of Pure Storage FlashBlade.
I feel that the price could always be lowered. It would be nice.
They don't have a license at all. They have some software products like Portworx, and they sell the license for those. however, the FlashBlade and X FlashArray don't have a license at all. It's included in the system; you don't need to buy it separately.
It's a premium technology. The solution does not come cheap. It's pretty expensive.
It's expensive. The price should be reduced. Licensing fees are paid yearly.
The price of this solution could be made more affordable.
In my opinion, we have paid the right price for the product. I don't think that it is too much or too little.
The price is a little high, but I'm not the guy who is selling it to the customer — I only design the solution. Price-wise, somebody else's has to make a decision about it.
The pricing of the solution is reasonable. It's not too expensive. We've found it to be pretty fair and we haven't been surprised by any costs.
This solution is on the more expensive side but it's usual for niche products with a lot of compatibility and features, so the price is right.
In the licensing model, everything is included. You don't buy a separate license for Active Plus. Support is a separate line item. Support is a different cost, but whatever your support is now, that's what you're going to pay forever. If your support's $100 today, six years from now it's $100. It doesn't fluctuate unless you upgrade it, or change it, etc.
Our licensing is renewed annually.
We used a reseller for the purchase.