Cloud Security Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
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Oct 27, 2025
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Kali Linux has been good. The pricing and the deployment, resource usage are all spot on and clearly defined, making it helpful and useful for me to deploy and calculate costs.
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing for Kali Linux has been positive, as it operates under an open-source model with setup costs primarily related to hardware and virtual machines, eliminating the need for vendor-specific licenses.
Kali Linux offers a perpetual license, meaning you pay for it once and can use it. While free versions of Linux are available, Kali Linux, being an enterprise edition, usually comes with a perpetual license. I rate its pricing a five out of ten.
Kali Linux is widely used by organizations for penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, web application security, network audits, ethical hacking, and open-source intelligence, providing extensive free features.
Organizations run Kali Linux in virtualized environments alongside other operating systems, employing tools for automated scans, malware identification, infrastructure testing, and application development or hosting. These users benefit from lower maintenance requirements and a...
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been good because I am using the free version.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Kali Linux has been good. The pricing and the deployment, resource usage are all spot on and clearly defined, making it helpful and useful for me to deploy and calculate costs.
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing for Kali Linux has been positive, as it operates under an open-source model with setup costs primarily related to hardware and virtual machines, eliminating the need for vendor-specific licenses.
Kali Linux is free software, an operating system that's available to download without any cost or licensing fees.
Kali Linux offers a perpetual license, meaning you pay for it once and can use it. While free versions of Linux are available, Kali Linux, being an enterprise edition, usually comes with a perpetual license. I rate its pricing a five out of ten.
I have used the free version.
The tool is open-source.
It is an open-source tool.
The product is free of cost.
There is no need to make any payments towards the licensing costs since it is a solution that is available for free.
Kali Linux is a free product, and you don't have to pay for a license.