Pricing scheme

You must purchase as many Wanguard Sensor licenses (or the more affordable Wansight Sensor licenses if DDoS detection is not needed) as the number of Packet Sensors and Flow Sensors configured and activated in the web interface.

• Each Flow Sensor can monitor a single flow exporter — usually a border or edge router. Flow Sensor has no licensing limitation on the number of interfaces it can monitor, or any limitation involving the network’s traffic volume.
• Multiple Packet Sensors listening to the same interface (e.g. a multi-queue NIC) consume a single Sensor license. Packet Sensor can monitor multiple interfaces when used with PF_RING or DPDK, and has no limitations involving the network’s traffic volume.
• Sensor Cluster does not require a license to operate, since it works by aggregating the data collected by other Sensors.

You must also purchase as many Wanguard Filter licenses as the number of Packet Filters and Flow Filters configured and activated in the web interface. A Wanguard Filter license does not include a Wanguard Sensor license.

• Each Packet Filter can monitor and apply filtering rules on a single network interface, except when using DPDK (which requires a dedicated license).
• Flow Filter accepts traffic data from multiple Flow Sensors, so in most cases a single Flow Filter is enough even for very large networks. When using BGP Flowspec, a single Flow Filter can work with multiple routers.
• Filter Cluster does not require a license to operate, since it works by aggregating the data collected by other Filters.

If you are using DPDK with Packet Sensor or Packet Filter, you will have to purchase a separate DPDK license for it.

The Console is free and does not require a license.

You can distribute the licensed Sensors and Filters across multiple servers. Each server that runs our software must be registered, but there is no cost per server.

The minimum software licensing period is 12 months, and you can purchase licenses for up to 4 years in advance. We sell perpetual licenses only in special cases (e.g. OEM deals). The subscription-based licensing model offers several advantages over the perpetual model:

• It lowers the initial cost — and over the long term it is also more cost-effective than a perpetual license plus the annual technical support costs.
• It includes standard support for the whole period of the subscription.
• It is an incentive for us to keep adding the features that you need.
• It is an incentive for us to provide you with the best support.

The software does not support separate expiration dates for multiple licenses. To avoid losing licensing days, we merge the expiration dates of components not purchased on the same date by calculating the average date, weighted by the number of licenses, in a completely fair manner.

For example: if you have a Sensor license expiring in 6 months and you buy another Sensor license for 12 months, you will not have different expiration dates for the two Sensors. Instead, you will have a single license key for 2 Sensors valid for 9 months — and you only have to renew the subscription once per year.