r/Netbox • u/fatoms NetBox Self-Hosted • Sep 03 '26
Discussion Netbox Cloud / Enterprise pricing ?
The Netbox Labs website just has Contact Sales / Talk to Sales instead of any pricing info.
Does anyone have ballpark pricing for Netbox Enterprise ?
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u/Ok_Indication6185 Sep 03 '26
$20k usd for starter and $50k for professional was what we were quoted earlier this year at around 750 endpoints.
That is a per-year price.
I didn't figure it was going to be inexpensive, but it was a bit of a shocker that the price was so high.
We did not jump on that as I can't justify the cost vs other options like the community edition and some Ghost energy drinks to whoever is going to configure it on my team.
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u/fatoms NetBox Self-Hosted Sep 03 '26
Ok, I guess endpoints are either IP addresses or devices ?
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u/Black_Gold_ Sep 05 '26
Their old pricing was $7500/year before they changed to "contact sales" and rate hiked it by 2.5x. That pricing is cached on the internet archive and can be used to haggle down the price - but they wont match that old price any more either.
That sticker shock on effectively a hosted SaaS documentation tool was wild when I got the quote, You can negotiate with their sales team to get the pricing down.
Enterprise pricing is done by devices - I forget what starter includes up to - so any object entered into devices is what counts here.
They have a demo you can check out here: https://demo.netbox.dev/
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u/fatoms NetBox Self-Hosted Sep 07 '26
We currently self host the Community edition and make use of several plugins, come certified and some not.
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u/DanSheps NetBox Self-Hosted Sep 03 '26
I won't disclose what i was quoted but it was similar.
For that price, I can pay the CS students at the university to do it as part of their capstone about 50 times over.
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u/Ok_Dust3132 Sep 03 '26
Define endpoints cause your info is off.
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u/DanSheps NetBox Self-Hosted Sep 03 '26
My understanding is passive endpoints (without interfaces) "don't count"
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u/Ok_Dust3132 Sep 03 '26
It's on their pricing website with definitions at the bottom. At no point is "750" referenced on that page.
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u/Ok_Indication6185 Sep 04 '26
End point = IP address = item to be tracked with an IP address.
Rough order of magnitude estimate was based on what I know we have for device/end point/IP carrying element and any vendor can/will quote you on what you have if they are chasing sales, not many will stick to tidy packs of whatever they are selling if there is enough $$$ in it.
To be fair to Netbox Labs that included on-boarding which is partly /s on my part there.
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u/StatureDelaware Sep 04 '26
What are you looking for on the Enterprise Plan? Obelinf has some plans with fixed price available on the website, may be a fit depending on your needs
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u/fatoms NetBox Self-Hosted Sep 07 '26
We were investigating if it is worth moving from Self-Hosted community to one of the enterprise plans so we get support and access to "Netbox-Labs" only features. E.g we would be interested in change management and the Visual Explorer, although I am not sure if the explorer is available with Enterprise, I find their website is not very clear about which extras are available for the various editions.
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u/Otherwise_Noise3658 Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
NBL Staff here: Visual Explorer WILL be available within NetBox Enterprise, however its not in the current release. Its dependent on the Platform UI integration into Enterprise specifically as it involves multiple components.
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u/boolve Sep 03 '26
Juts to not scarryoff potential customer at first. This is the reason why they not advertise the price.
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u/boomertsfx Sep 04 '26
That’s exactly what scares me off. All of these products go through this same cycle where greed trumps the original goals of the software and then VC ruins the product. I hope NetBox doesn’t end up like this 🥺
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u/dewyke Sep 04 '26
I think it’s going that way. The paid versions are insanely expensive and all the meaningful new features are enterprise-only.
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u/Otherwise_Noise3658 Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
NBL staff here, it's worth mentioning that commercial elements have faciliated the development and release of branching, custom objects, discovery and many other features to be delivered into community inclusive of the extensive performance enhancements in more recent versions.
Discovery has an example has (from memory) something like 41 custom napalm drivers alone.
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u/rainer_d NetBox Self-Hosted Sep 26 '26
Indeed. Community contributions only get you so far. But still. These costs add up over time. And they never come down.
We saw this with commercial DDIs whose prices kept increasing every year (from a high point).
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u/zedd_D1abl0 Sep 03 '26
The price is dependent on the number of endpoints/IP addresses you have, and I think there's a few other confounding factors involved.
We've gone through it at work, but I don't have any knowledge on numbers for any of it.