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by frellus 864 days ago
Somehow I had no idea that there was a commercial SaaS version of Netbox, as I've been using the OSS version for years hosted internally.

Feedback: the pricing is completely whacked, IMHO. I got excited that I could move to someone else supporting Netbox instead of my team, however due to the number of devices I have, I would have to use the middle license tier -- that's listed as $20,000/yr. This isn't a $20,000/yr problem to me, it would be impossible to justify this to my management, sadly.

Just my feedback on your pricing. Netbox itself, the code and the absolutely stunning dev velocity is inspiring, but unless pricing were drastically lower I couldn't go for it. Would otherwise love to support.

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Thanks for the kind words! I'm specifically attached to NetBox Open Source, and will pass along the compliments to the dev team.

And yeah, the pricing for NetBox Cloud isn't a fit for every use case. That product isn't the only thing we've got cooking; stay tuned :)

That's comparable to Device42 and Sunbird - what you're really paying for is "one throat to choke". In an enterprise environment, that's pennies.

In prior roles I've seen NetBox explicitly vetoed in favor of technically inferior solutions because there was no available support contract at the time. Also, Sunbird has fancy 3D rack renders, and that's management catnip.

Just one datapoint: charging only $20k/yr to take the heat for running a mission critical service for an enterprise customer seems very low to me.