CIOnomics · Pricing Transparency · October 2026
Do enterprise software vendors publish their prices?
We checked the websites of 1,039 enterprise software companies. 33% show a price.
Findings
- 33% of the 1,039 companies show a price on their own website.
- 564 have a pricing page. 60% of those show a price. The rest ask you to contact sales.
- 21% name a free plan or a $0 tier.
- In observability and data tools, most pricing pages show a price. In security and cloud infrastructure, fewer than half do.
By category
| Category | Companies | Show a price | Have a pricing page | Of those, show a price | Name a free plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Applications | 40 | 53% | 28 | 75% | 23% |
| Observability & Monitoring | 128 | 45% | 79 | 73% | 30% |
| Data & Analytics | 187 | 43% | 120 | 67% | 27% |
| AI & ML Platforms | 121 | 43% | 76 | 68% | 31% |
| IT Service Management | 71 | 41% | 47 | 62% | 11% |
| DevOps & Platform Engineering | 93 | 35% | 48 | 69% | 29% |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 211 | 18% | 87 | 44% | 12% |
| Cybersecurity | 161 | 18% | 68 | 43% | 12% |
By subcategory
| Subcategory | Companies | Show a price | Have a pricing page | Of those, show a price | Name a free plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIOps & Incident Management | 15 | 73% | 11 | 100% | 27% |
| Database Platforms | 22 | 68% | 17 | 88% | 50% |
| LLM Infrastructure & APIs | 27 | 67% | 21 | 86% | 41% |
| Log Management & Analytics | 18 | 50% | 12 | 75% | 17% |
| Endpoint & Device Management | 16 | 50% | 15 | 53% | 0% |
| Data Warehouse & Lakehouse | 59 | 47% | 35 | 80% | 31% |
| APM & Distributed Tracing | 26 | 46% | 19 | 63% | 54% |
| Data Integration & ETL | 25 | 44% | 20 | 55% | 20% |
| Enterprise AI Applications | 35 | 40% | 19 | 74% | 20% |
| Identity & Access Management | 20 | 40% | 10 | 80% | 25% |
| Streaming & Real-Time Analytics | 23 | 39% | 12 | 75% | 30% |
| Infrastructure Monitoring | 21 | 38% | 11 | 73% | 29% |
| CMDB & Asset Management | 20 | 35% | 12 | 58% | 15% |
| BI & Data Visualization | 17 | 35% | 13 | 46% | 18% |
| Internal Developer Platforms | 15 | 33% | 9 | 56% | 33% |
| ML Platforms & MLOps | 16 | 31% | 8 | 63% | 31% |
| Cloud Networking & CDN | 40 | 28% | 21 | 52% | 18% |
| AI Governance & Safety | 21 | 24% | 10 | 50% | 29% |
| Cloud Security & CSPM | 56 | 21% | 21 | 57% | 13% |
| Containers & Kubernetes | 69 | 20% | 27 | 52% | 16% |
| Infrastructure as Code | 33 | 18% | 10 | 60% | 15% |
| Cloud Storage & Backup | 35 | 17% | 17 | 35% | 6% |
| Data Governance & Catalog | 28 | 7% | 14 | 14% | 7% |
| Cloud Cost Management | 16 | 6% | 10 | 10% | 6% |
| Network Security & Firewall | 22 | 0% | 7 | 0% | 5% |
| SIEM & SOAR | 17 | 0% | 5 | 0% | 6% |
Groups with fewer than 15 companies are not shown.
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The figures above, by category and subcategory, with the method and its limits.
Method
- Every commercial company in the CIOPages Directory, counted once by website. Open-source projects are excluded.
- A browser loaded each homepage and looked for a pricing page: from its links, at /pricing and /plans, in the sitemap, and in a search for the domain and “pricing”.
- A company shows a price when a line on its pricing page ties an amount above zero to a billing unit, such as “per user / month”, “per host” or “/GB”. Trial credits, discounts and savings claims do not count.
- A free plan is a free plan, free tier or $0 tier named on the pricing page. A free trial does not count.
- Companies that publish prices on each product’s page rather than one central page were checked by hand.
Limits
- 163 of 1,202 companies could not be read or were excluded. They are left out of every percentage.
- A price shown only after a form, a login or a region selector is not counted.
- Checked on one day, October 14, 2026. Prices and pages change.
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