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What does PAM actually cost you?
PAM vendors bill three different things: your admins, your servers, or your actual privileged sessions. Put your numbers in and see what each model costs per year.
Your environment
Typically 10–20% of your admin count
Price assumptions (illustrative — replace with your quotes)
Per-admin licensing
50 admins × $55/mo
$33,000
per year
$99,000
3-year TCO
Per-asset licensing
200 assets × $8/mo
$19,200
per year
$57,600
3-year TCO
Per-concurrent-session licensing
the Monopam model
8 concurrent sessions × $120/mo
$11,520
per year
$34,560
3-year TCO
~40% below the cheapest per-admin/per-asset option with these assumptions
Costs no license model shows you
- Professional services — legacy PAM deployments routinely require paid implementation engagements.
- Support tiers — ask whether support is included or a separate contract. (With Monofor it is included.)
- Module add-ons — session recording, JIT, or reporting sold separately add up at renewal.
- Agent rollout — endpoint agents mean deployment projects; browser-based access means none.
All figures are estimates based on your inputs and editable assumptions; they are not vendor quotes. Actual pricing varies by volume, term, and negotiation.
FAQ
About the math.
- How do I estimate peak concurrent sessions?
- Look at how many privileged sessions actually run at the same time during your busiest window — most teams find it is 10–20% of their administrator count. Session-recording or VPN logs give you a real number in minutes; when in doubt, start at 15% of admins.
- Are the price assumptions real vendor prices?
- No — enterprise PAM pricing is quote-based and varies widely, so the calculator ships with editable, illustrative defaults. Replace them with the numbers from your own quotes to compare your actual options.
- What costs does this calculator NOT include?
- Professional-services fees, tiered support contracts, per-module add-ons, and infrastructure. These frequently add 30–100% to first-year PAM spend on per-user and per-asset models — ask every vendor to quote them explicitly.
- Why does per-concurrent-session licensing usually cost less?
- Because concurrency is a small fraction of headcount: 50 admins rarely run more than a dozen privileged sessions at once. Per-admin and per-asset models bill your org chart and server inventory; a session model bills actual privileged activity.
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