ManageEngine OpManager is priced per device pack. The annual subscription runs from $95 for 10 devices to $4,095 for 1,000 on Standard, $145 to $5,995 on Professional, and from $4,595 for 250 devices on Enterprise. A perpetual license costs about 2.5 times the yearly subscription plus 20% a year in maintenance. Every pack includes two users, and add-ons such as configuration management, NetFlow and failover are priced separately.
Every price below was read from ManageEngine's own store price list and the OpManager editions page. Prices are US dollars and exclude tax. The arithmetic is ours and each step is shown, so you can swap in your own device count before you ask for a quote.
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OpManager pricing by edition and device pack
OpManager comes in three editions. Standard and Professional run on a single server and stop at 1,000 devices. Enterprise starts at 250 devices and is the edition for distributed sites, scaling to 50,000 devices. All three are sold as fixed packs, billed yearly.
| Device pack | Standard, per year | Professional, per year | Enterprise, per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 devices | $95 | $145 | Not sold |
| 25 devices | $245 | $345 | Not sold |
| 50 devices | $445 | $645 | Not sold |
| 100 devices | $795 | $1,145 | Not sold |
| 250 devices | $1,845 | $2,645 | $4,595 |
| 500 devices | $2,895 | $3,845 | $6,695 |
| 1,000 devices | $4,095 | $5,995 | $10,495 |
| 2,500 devices | Not sold | Not sold | $14,745 |
| 5,000 devices | Not sold | Not sold | $20,995 |
| 10,000 devices | Not sold | Not sold | $33,345 |
A device license covers every interface, disk and sensor on that device. A 48-port switch is one license, where a sensor-based product counts each port. That is the strongest thing about OpManager pricing, and it is why the base numbers look low next to PRTG or SolarWinds.
The edition matters more than the table suggests. On ManageEngine's comparison grid, Standard does not include VMware, Hyper-V or Nutanix monitoring, Layer 2 discovery, network path analysis, REST API access, adaptive thresholds or forecasting, and it keeps raw data for 7 days. Professional includes all of those and keeps 60 days. If you run hypervisors, price Professional.
How much does OpManager cost per device?
Between $4.10 and $9.80 per device per year on Standard, and $6.00 to $14.50 on Professional, when a pack is full. The rate falls as packs get bigger, with one oddity: the 25-device Standard pack costs $9.80 a device, more than the 10-device pack at $9.50.
| Pack | Standard per device | Professional per device | Enterprise per device |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | $9.50 | $14.50 | |
| 25 | $9.80 | $13.80 | |
| 50 | $8.90 | $12.90 | |
| 100 | $7.95 | $11.45 | |
| 250 | $7.38 | $10.58 | $18.38 |
| 500 | $5.79 | $7.69 | $13.39 |
| 1,000 | $4.10 | $6.00 | $10.50 |
Those rates only hold at the top of a pack. Device 101 on Standard moves you from the $795 pack to the $1,845 pack, which is $1,050 more a year and $18.27 for each device you actually monitor. Device 11 costs $150 more a year, device 26 costs $200 more and device 51 costs $350 more. Count devices before you buy, and decide which low-value ones can be left out to stay under a step.
Enterprise is 1.74 times the Professional price at 250 and 500 devices. What that buys is distributed monitoring across sites, 180 days of raw data and room to grow past 1,000 devices. A single-site network under 1,000 devices has no reason to pay it.
OpManager perpetual license pricing
ManageEngine still sells a license you own. The store prices it as a one-time license fee plus an Annual Maintenance and Support fee, and the maintenance fee is exactly 20% of the license at every pack size.
| Pack and edition | Perpetual license | Maintenance per year | Subscription per year | Perpetual breaks even after |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard, 50 devices | $1,095 | $219 | $445 | 4.8 years |
| Standard, 100 devices | $1,995 | $399 | $795 | 5.0 years |
| Professional, 100 devices | $2,845 | $569 | $1,145 | 4.9 years |
| Professional, 250 devices | $6,595 | $1,319 | $2,645 | 5.0 years |
| Enterprise, 250 devices | $11,545 | $2,309 | $4,595 | 5.0 years |
| Enterprise, 1,000 devices | $26,245 | $5,249 | $10,495 | 5.0 years |
The break-even column divides the license fee by what you save each year, the subscription minus the maintenance fee. For Standard at 100 devices that is $1,995 divided by $396, or 5.04 years. The pattern is the same at every size: perpetual and subscription cost the same over five years, and perpetual only pulls ahead after that. Over five years Standard for 100 devices is $3,975 on subscription and $3,990 as a license with five years of maintenance.
So the choice is about accounting, not price. Buy perpetual if you need a capital purchase or expect to run OpManager for six years or more. Either way you sign a license or subscription with a yearly renewal date, and it belongs in contract management software that tracks renewal dates rather than in one administrator's calendar.
OpManager add-on pricing
This is where most quotes grow. The prices below are the yearly subscription add-ons for Standard and Professional. Enterprise add-ons are listed separately in the store and cost more, for example $85 instead of $50 for each IP SLA monitor and $3,345 instead of $1,915 for failover. If IP SLA is the reason you are buying, our IP SLA monitoring tool comparison prices it against PRTG and SolarWinds for 10 to 50 branches.
| Add-on | Smallest pack | Mid pack | Large pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Additional users | 1 user, $98 | 10 users, $378 | Unlimited, $958 |
| Lite Devices, availability only | 50, $225 | 100, $395 | 1,000, $2,045 |
| Network configuration management | 10 devices, $190 | 100 devices, $1,054 | 1,000 devices, $3,086 |
| NetFlow traffic analysis | 10 interfaces, $198 | 100 interfaces, $1,318 | 500 interfaces, $4,398 |
| Firewall log analysis | 1 firewall, $495 | 5 firewalls, $2,145 | 50 firewalls, $8,395 |
| Storage monitoring | 10 disks, $318 | 100 disks, $1,650 | 1,000 disks, $7,750 |
| Applications Manager plug-in | 10 monitors, $316 | 100 monitors, $2,556 | 500 monitors, $8,796 |
| IP SLA monitor | $50 each | ||
| Failover, hot standby engine | $1,915 |
Two lines deserve attention. Users first: two are included, and an unlimited user pack at $958 a year costs more than the 100-device Standard license it sits on. Then failover: the monitor is a single server, so a standby engine is the only way to keep alerting through a reboot, and at $1,915 a year it is more than the Professional license for 100 devices.
Lite Devices are worth knowing about. They are endpoints that only need an availability check, such as URLs, IP addresses, access points and WAN links, and they do not use up a full device license. At 100 they cost $3.95 each per year.
OpManager Plus and OpManager Nexus pricing
The bundle that used to be sold as OpManager Plus is listed in the store as OpManager Nexus. It combines network monitoring with bandwidth analysis, firewall analysis, configuration management and IP address and switch port management, and ManageEngine says it saves up to 40% against buying the add-ons separately.
| Nexus pack | Per year | Per device | Nexus Enterprise, per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 devices, 2 users, 1 firewall | $1,233 | $24.66 | Not sold |
| 100 devices, 2 users, 1 firewall | $2,267 | $22.67 | Not sold |
| 250 devices, 3 users, 2 firewalls | $5,250 | $21.00 | $9,195 |
| 500 devices, 5 users, 3 firewalls | $7,667 | $15.33 | $13,445 |
| 1,000 devices, 10 users, 5 firewalls | $12,000 | $12.00 | $19,995 |
Nexus is roughly twice the Professional price at the same device count. It is the better buy once you want three or more of the bundled modules, and the worse one if you only need configuration backup. Service providers have their own product, OpManager MSP, from $795 a year for 50 devices to $9,395 for 1,000.
Is OpManager free?
There is a Free Edition, limited to 3 devices and 2 users with basic monitoring. That is a lab, not a network. The first paid step is Standard for 10 devices at $95 a year, or $245 as a perpetual license plus $49 a year in maintenance.
Three worked OpManager bills
A 50-device office with hypervisors and five admins. Professional for 50 devices is $645. A 5-user pack adds $238, configuration management for 50 devices $766 and NetFlow on 25 interfaces $438. Total $2,087 a year, 3.2 times the base license.
A 250-device network that cannot lose monitoring. Professional for 250 devices is $2,645. Unlimited users add $958, failover $1,915, configuration management for 250 devices $1,534, NetFlow on 100 interfaces $1,318 and firewall analysis for two firewalls $895. Total $9,265 a year, 3.5 times the base license. The Nexus pack for 250 devices is $5,250 and already includes most of those modules, so price it before buying add-ons one by one.
A small team that mostly watches websites and public IPs. Standard for 10 devices at $95 plus 50 Lite Devices at $225 comes to $320 a year. That is a low price for 60 checks. What it leaves out is covered in the next section.
What OpManager pricing does not include
The server. OpManager is on-premises software that you install on your own Windows or Linux machine, so the hardware or virtual machine, the operating system, backups and patching are yours. Add a second one if you buy failover.
Onboarding is separate too. The store lists online training at $995 for two days of three hours each, onsite training and onboarding at $3,995 for two days, and one-time migration or upgrade assistance at $295.
It also does not include a view from outside your network. An OpManager server polls from the inside. If the office uplink fails, customers cannot reach your website and the monitor has lost its own route to send the alert. A standby engine in the same building does not change that.
When you do not need OpManager at all
If what you need to know is whether your website, customer portal, API or VPN gateway is reachable, a network monitor is the roundabout way to find out. You would be running a server to ask a question that is better asked from somewhere else.
AlertPing does that one job from outside. It checks websites, APIs, TCP ports, SSL certificates and cron heartbeats from two regions, confirms a failure from a second location before alerting, and sends SMS, email, Slack or webhook alerts on every plan. Starter is $49 a month for 20 monitors at 60-second checks, or $288 a year billed yearly. Team is $59 a month, or $348 a year, for 100 monitors at 30-second checks with 15 team members, escalation chains and 5 status pages. There is nothing to install. Keep OpManager for switches and servers, and see our outside-in server monitoring for the part of the network that faces the public.
If you are weighing a full switch, our OpManager alternative page prices the main OpManager competitors for the same 50-device network, and the PRTG pricing and WhatsUp Gold pricing breakdowns do the same math for the two closest rivals. The direct OpManager vs PRTG pricing comparison lines the two up at 50 to 1,000 devices, with and without add-ons. If you would rather not run the server at all, Site24x7 vs OpManager pricing shows what the hosted sister product costs at the same sizes, and OpManager vs WhatsUp Gold pricing lines it up against Progress's per-device license. If the other quote on your desk is from SolarWinds, OpManager vs SolarWinds pricing sets the OpManager ladder against SolarWinds' $8 per node list rate.
OpManager pricing FAQ
How much does OpManager cost?
OpManager Standard costs $95 a year for 10 devices, $445 for 50, $795 for 100 and $4,095 for 1,000. Professional costs $145, $645, $1,145 and $5,995 for the same packs. Enterprise starts at $4,595 a year for 250 devices and reaches $33,345 for 10,000. Add-ons and extra users are priced on top.
How is OpManager licensed?
Per device, in fixed packs of 10 to 10,000. A device license covers every interface, disk and sensor on that device. You choose a yearly subscription or a perpetual license with a maintenance fee of 20% a year. Each pack includes two users, and modules such as NetFlow and configuration management are separate add-ons.
What is the difference between OpManager Standard and Professional?
Professional costs 33% to 53% more and adds VMware, Hyper-V and Nutanix monitoring, Layer 2 discovery, network path analysis, REST API access, adaptive thresholds, forecasting and event correlation. It keeps raw data for 60 days against 7 on Standard. Both run on one server and stop at 1,000 devices.
How much does OpManager Enterprise cost?
OpManager Enterprise costs $4,595 a year for 250 devices, $6,695 for 500, $10,495 for 1,000, $14,745 for 2,500, $20,995 for 5,000 and $33,345 for 10,000. The perpetual license for 250 devices is $11,545 plus $2,309 a year in maintenance. It is the only edition with distributed, multi-site monitoring.
Is OpManager cheaper than PRTG?
On list price, yes. OpManager Professional for 100 devices is $1,145 a year, while Paessler lists PRTG at $4,296 a year for 1,000 sensors, which it maps to about 100 devices. The gap narrows once you add OpManager users, failover and modules, which PRTG includes in the sensor license.