Customer Service Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Feb 7, 2025
The cost is high, and the license payment is not easy in Africa due to numerous intermediaries between users and solution providers. The payment process is complex and lengthy, sometimes taking many months to finalize.
It is an expensive software. One of the challenges I have seen is that the subscription-based licensing model comes across as a recurring cost, which makes it an area of concern for our company's customers. There are some SKUs for which, depending on the requirements of our customers, we propose ideas. I rate the product's price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap.
Cloud Operations at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jul 27, 2023
Nutanix Prism is affordable. It depends on the license category you select. They have multiple options, and we selected the one that was suitable for our infrastructure and requirements. The licensing model worked for us.
Like everyone else, I would prefer Nutanix Prism's licensing to be more affordable. However, I believe in the principle of "you get what you pay for." Currently, I don't think there's a better alternative available for hyperconverged infrastructure. We might be able to find a lower-priced option, but they are positioned in a higher echelon, and the price, I believe, reflects that. Nevertheless, I consider it a worthwhile investment.
System Administrator at a government with 11-50 employees
Real User
May 17, 2023
Microsoft Hyper-V is free, whereas Nutanix isn't. Nutanix isn't so expensive. VMware is more expensive than Nutanix, but with VMware, there aren't many licenses, whereas, in the case of Nutanix, we need to upgrade the license periodically. It could be every three years or five years. It depends on your license. There are no costs in addition to the licensing fee.
Infrastructure Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Dec 13, 2022
The licensing aspect is painful. We are told, "This is when you have to renew. This is the serial number and the part number," et cetera. But it's difficult to know where something belongs unless you dive into the portal and search in multiple areas for a particular serial number. The experience over the years hasn't been great with renewing, and knowing what you're renewing. Also, there seems to be a year-on-year increase of about 5 percent. It doesn't seem like they really reward loyal customers. New customers don't get that penalty, but as you're renewing each year, you get a cost increase, which we're not happy about. The network visibility and microsegmentation of Nutanix Prism is a feature we don't use. It's an additional feature that you have to pay for.
The pricing is comparable to other software initiatives. I don't know if it's that much less. We bought it with the certified Nutanix hardware, which they don't build. It's an outsourced box that they sell you. Price-wise, AHV is free if you have Nutanix.
Data Center Admin at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Dec 12, 2022
The good thing about Nutanix Prism is that we don't have to pay for a hypervisor, but their licensing cost is a little bit on the high side. We tried to implement files and other things in our environment, but the cost of the licensing was a little bit high for us so we did not implement those things. Still, we are using Nutanix as a file server, but we have built a VM on it and use it as a file server for use across the Nutanix cluster.
The licensing is fairly high in price. If someone can get over the fact that the licensing is fairly expensive, I would say Nutanix is the way to go. It is expensive, but to me, it's worth it.
IT Support Supervisor at a local government with 201-500 employees
Real User
Dec 9, 2022
Pricing is not something I'm involved with, but it is easy to apply the licenses that we acquire. I've used Prism Central, which is their paid, upgraded version of Prism, and I found it quite helpful. But, ultimately, the price they wanted for the features that we got wasn't worth it for us. But I can see where it would be helpful for some organizations.
The licensing is a little confusing. They just changed it within the last year and we haven't had to renew the licensing yet, so I'm hoping it will be less confusing. As far as pricing goes, it's competitive for what you get. There are probably less expensive hyper-converged solutions, but I don't think they're as mature or have the feature set that we get with Nutanix.
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Dec 5, 2022
The price and licensing policies are advantageous. The pricing is better than our previous product. Management uses the portal to track the licenses and for cost management and it is better than our previous product.
Customer Service Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Dec 4, 2022
Costs are increasing a lot globally now, in general. We are in Ethiopia, East Africa, so we are far from America and there are transportation problems. That means that everything is costly. The cost for the licenses was a bit expensive.
The pricing is based on a licensing model and is around $10,000 for a two-year license. As we buy more servers, we receive license discounts. Two years ago, the solution was costly because Turkey was in a financial crisis and Lira exchange rates were high so the two-year license was $15,000.
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
Sep 8, 2022
Nutanix have bundles for pricing. On a single bundle, we get everything including vSAN or VMware and there are no additional costs. It is just a single license that is needed.
We have spent a lot of money on the Nutanix solution with Prism. Yet, for this amount of money we could be buying high-end storage with a lot of IOPS and bandwidth, even more than with Nutanix.
The license we bought for Nutanix Prism is perpetual, so once you have it, you can keep on using it. It's a three-year license that you pay once for. The license we have covers the three-node cluster, but then you need to have the basic networking gear for the infrastructure to work in the type of environment we're in. For example, the only additional thing we need to do apart from getting the license is to plan the network connectivity.
We are also working with competing products - VMware VxRail and Sangfor which is a Chinese product, which is much cheaper because of its poor market share. It was a product with less experience and less functionality, but it was much cheaper. So Nutanix costs a lot, but it has ease of use, ease due to having a lot of the market share, has a lot of features, and has continuous improvement, but the cost is a negative aspect.
Nutanix Prism pricing is higher than other products. They sell hyper-convergence as a bundled product. That's why I bought Nutanix. If I'm going with another hypervisor apart from ASV, the price goes higher. That's where the problem is.
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I hear that Nutanix Prism is more expensive than others, but as a technical person, I don't know the details about the pricing aspect.
At first, the cost seemed heavy, but over time, its cost-effectiveness became evident.
The cost is high, and the license payment is not easy in Africa due to numerous intermediaries between users and solution providers. The payment process is complex and lengthy, sometimes taking many months to finalize.
The pricing is reasonable, approximately $400 to $500 per core.
I rate the product price as an eight out of ten. It is a premium solution that can be a bit expensive. Sometimes, additional features are needed.
The pricing is okay. Sangfor is cheaper than Nutanix. We do not know what the renewal percentage will be after three years.
It is an expensive software. One of the challenges I have seen is that the subscription-based licensing model comes across as a recurring cost, which makes it an area of concern for our company's customers. There are some SKUs for which, depending on the requirements of our customers, we propose ideas. I rate the product's price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap.
Nutanix Prism is affordable. It depends on the license category you select. They have multiple options, and we selected the one that was suitable for our infrastructure and requirements. The licensing model worked for us.
Like everyone else, I would prefer Nutanix Prism's licensing to be more affordable. However, I believe in the principle of "you get what you pay for." Currently, I don't think there's a better alternative available for hyperconverged infrastructure. We might be able to find a lower-priced option, but they are positioned in a higher echelon, and the price, I believe, reflects that. Nevertheless, I consider it a worthwhile investment.
Microsoft Hyper-V is free, whereas Nutanix isn't. Nutanix isn't so expensive. VMware is more expensive than Nutanix, but with VMware, there aren't many licenses, whereas, in the case of Nutanix, we need to upgrade the license periodically. It could be every three years or five years. It depends on your license. There are no costs in addition to the licensing fee.
The pricing is one factor that could be better. The cluster licensing and how it works is another.
The licensing aspect is painful. We are told, "This is when you have to renew. This is the serial number and the part number," et cetera. But it's difficult to know where something belongs unless you dive into the portal and search in multiple areas for a particular serial number. The experience over the years hasn't been great with renewing, and knowing what you're renewing. Also, there seems to be a year-on-year increase of about 5 percent. It doesn't seem like they really reward loyal customers. New customers don't get that penalty, but as you're renewing each year, you get a cost increase, which we're not happy about. The network visibility and microsegmentation of Nutanix Prism is a feature we don't use. It's an additional feature that you have to pay for.
The pricing is comparable to other software initiatives. I don't know if it's that much less. We bought it with the certified Nutanix hardware, which they don't build. It's an outsourced box that they sell you. Price-wise, AHV is free if you have Nutanix.
The pricing was decent, average. It wasn't a Black Friday sale, but it was good.
The good thing about Nutanix Prism is that we don't have to pay for a hypervisor, but their licensing cost is a little bit on the high side. We tried to implement files and other things in our environment, but the cost of the licensing was a little bit high for us so we did not implement those things. Still, we are using Nutanix as a file server, but we have built a VM on it and use it as a file server for use across the Nutanix cluster.
The licensing is fairly high in price. If someone can get over the fact that the licensing is fairly expensive, I would say Nutanix is the way to go. It is expensive, but to me, it's worth it.
Pricing is not something I'm involved with, but it is easy to apply the licenses that we acquire. I've used Prism Central, which is their paid, upgraded version of Prism, and I found it quite helpful. But, ultimately, the price they wanted for the features that we got wasn't worth it for us. But I can see where it would be helpful for some organizations.
The licensing is a little confusing. They just changed it within the last year and we haven't had to renew the licensing yet, so I'm hoping it will be less confusing. As far as pricing goes, it's competitive for what you get. There are probably less expensive hyper-converged solutions, but I don't think they're as mature or have the feature set that we get with Nutanix.
The price and licensing policies are advantageous. The pricing is better than our previous product. Management uses the portal to track the licenses and for cost management and it is better than our previous product.
Costs are increasing a lot globally now, in general. We are in Ethiopia, East Africa, so we are far from America and there are transportation problems. That means that everything is costly. The cost for the licenses was a bit expensive.
The pricing is based on a licensing model and is around $10,000 for a two-year license. As we buy more servers, we receive license discounts. Two years ago, the solution was costly because Turkey was in a financial crisis and Lira exchange rates were high so the two-year license was $15,000.
Prism is cheaper compared to competitors like Cisco HyperFlex or HP vSAN.
Nutanix have bundles for pricing. On a single bundle, we get everything including vSAN or VMware and there are no additional costs. It is just a single license that is needed.
We have a license with the core product. If the cluster is on SSD, the number of SSD disks will impact the license fee.
We have spent a lot of money on the Nutanix solution with Prism. Yet, for this amount of money we could be buying high-end storage with a lot of IOPS and bandwidth, even more than with Nutanix.
The license for Prism is costlier than other VMs.
The license we bought for Nutanix Prism is perpetual, so once you have it, you can keep on using it. It's a three-year license that you pay once for. The license we have covers the three-node cluster, but then you need to have the basic networking gear for the infrastructure to work in the type of environment we're in. For example, the only additional thing we need to do apart from getting the license is to plan the network connectivity.
The pricing of the product seems to be reasonable.
We are also working with competing products - VMware VxRail and Sangfor which is a Chinese product, which is much cheaper because of its poor market share. It was a product with less experience and less functionality, but it was much cheaper. So Nutanix costs a lot, but it has ease of use, ease due to having a lot of the market share, has a lot of features, and has continuous improvement, but the cost is a negative aspect.
When compared with VMware, it is an overpriced solution for basic features, but for a highly complex project, its price very adequate.
This product is cheaper than using VMware.
Nutanix Prism is priced better than some of the competing solutions.
Compared to competitors in the space, it's less expensive. The pricing is pretty decent.
In addition to the standard licensing fees there are extra costs for some functionalities such as capacity planning using Prism Pro.
Compared to VMware, the price of this solution is great.
Nutanix Prism pricing is higher than other products. They sell hyper-convergence as a bundled product. That's why I bought Nutanix. If I'm going with another hypervisor apart from ASV, the price goes higher. That's where the problem is.
A lot of my customers complain about the price of renewals, so I think that this can be improved.