The pricing is high, but for us, we serve Ekahau products and provide professional services in designing, troubleshooting, and implementing solutions. The investment is paid off.
The product’s pricing is reasonable except for certification and training. The certifications are expensive, hope that they give discounts to instructors and those who are working in the academe. On the other hand, they regularly provide quality webinars to share valuable knowledge to their audience.
The solution provides good reporting and is easy to use but the pricing is a sore point even though you get what you pay for. This is a very expensive solution, more than double AirMagnet. In terms of the South African rand and economy, it's very expensive. Our annual licensing costs amount to the equivalent of around 9000 euros.
Senior Analyst at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2022-09-20T16:12:55Z
Sep 20, 2022
We pay $6,000 yearly for the licensing, but each piece of hardware, the Ekahau Sidekick, is $5,000. We have three of them, but they're one-time purchases. I will say that the warranty on those is kind of garbage. The USB-C port on one of ours went loose, which wasn't covered in the warranty, so we had to replace it within a year. That was very expensive. We paid $10,000 in one year for just one Sidekick because their warranty doesn't cover the ports on the device, which is kind of flaky.
Primary Wireless Project Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-12-24T10:08:30Z
Dec 24, 2021
That's a tricky thing. When it started off, we had one three-year license and one one-year license because we have two devices. Now, from my understanding, we can only renew every year or get a one-year license, and that cost varies. Being a government organization, we get a different cost than commercial. We have deployed it on Surface Pro tablets. So, the only other cost would be the hardware cost.
This solution is not cheap. If you only need an occasional site survey, you are better off contracting a wireless engineering professional that has one. The cost for the device and software runs in excess of $6500 plus $1389 per year in maintenance fees. Add to it the cost of an iPad and you are getting close to $10,000, and you still don't know how to use it!
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It is too expensive.
The pricing is high, but for us, we serve Ekahau products and provide professional services in designing, troubleshooting, and implementing solutions. The investment is paid off.
We pay a licensing fee.
The product’s pricing is reasonable except for certification and training. The certifications are expensive, hope that they give discounts to instructors and those who are working in the academe. On the other hand, they regularly provide quality webinars to share valuable knowledge to their audience.
Ekahau Site Survey is a really expensive solution.
Since we are an academic institute, we get better prices and discounts from Cisco, but not Ekahau.
The product is quite expensive. However, it is worth the money since we want a professional solution for site surveys and Wi-Fi design.
The solution is less costly than iBwave. You need to buy a separate license per user. The additional costs are based on the use cases.
The solution provides good reporting and is easy to use but the pricing is a sore point even though you get what you pay for. This is a very expensive solution, more than double AirMagnet. In terms of the South African rand and economy, it's very expensive. Our annual licensing costs amount to the equivalent of around 9000 euros.
We pay $6,000 yearly for the licensing, but each piece of hardware, the Ekahau Sidekick, is $5,000. We have three of them, but they're one-time purchases. I will say that the warranty on those is kind of garbage. The USB-C port on one of ours went loose, which wasn't covered in the warranty, so we had to replace it within a year. That was very expensive. We paid $10,000 in one year for just one Sidekick because their warranty doesn't cover the ports on the device, which is kind of flaky.
The pricing is quite expensive. Not all companies can afford it
That's a tricky thing. When it started off, we had one three-year license and one one-year license because we have two devices. Now, from my understanding, we can only renew every year or get a one-year license, and that cost varies. Being a government organization, we get a different cost than commercial. We have deployed it on Surface Pro tablets. So, the only other cost would be the hardware cost.
The licenses are a little pricey compared to iBwave, etc.
The solution is priced fairly for the features that you receive.
This solution is not cheap. If you only need an occasional site survey, you are better off contracting a wireless engineering professional that has one. The cost for the device and software runs in excess of $6500 plus $1389 per year in maintenance fees. Add to it the cost of an iPad and you are getting close to $10,000, and you still don't know how to use it!
Pricing and licensing is high. Expect to pay $3000-4000 to just get the software in place... plus hardware needed. It adds up quickly.