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Falco pricing
Falco publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the cybersecurity tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, Falco pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Falco plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falco (open source) | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where Falco stops being free
Falco (open source), Free
- Apache 2.0 licence, CNCF graduated project
- eBPF and kernel module drivers
- Full rules engine and default rule set
- Falcosidekick and Talon
- Community support only; you provide storage, routing, tuning and staff
No paid tier on record
Falco lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Falco feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- eBPF kernel instrumentation
- System call rules engine
- Container and Kubernetes context
- Default rule set
- Falcosidekick
- Falco Talon
- Plugins framework
- DaemonSet deployment
- Apache 2.0 licence
People bring Falco in for a platform team that needs to know when a shell is opened inside a production container, which image scanning cannot detect because it happens at runtime, a regulated business required to evidence host and container intrusion detection on kubernetes nodes for an audit, a security team wanting a vendor-neutral detection layer whose rules they can read and modify rather than a black-box agent, a cluster where a compromised dependency might write to sensitive paths or open unexpected outbound connections, and only kernel-level visibility will catch it. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Falco are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cybersecurity
Too few cybersecurity tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falco (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Hanwha Vision | On request | One-time purchase | - | vs Falco |
| BeyondTrust | On request | quote | - | vs Falco |
| Feedzai | On request | quote | - | vs Falco |
| IDnow | On request | quote | - | vs Falco |
| Eagle Eye Networks | On request | Per camera per month | - | vs Falco |
| iDenfy | On request | Per verification | - | vs Falco |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Falco badges page.
Before you pay for Falco
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Falco runs on linux, kubernetes, self-hosted, and is published by Cloud Native Computing Foundation, project created by Sysdig of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Falco review, and the rest of the category is under best cybersecurity tools.
Falco pricing questions
- How much does Falco cost?
- Falco publishes a single tier, Falco (open source), at Free.
- Does Falco have a free plan?
- Yes. The Falco (open source) tier costs nothing and covers apache 2.0 licence, cncf graduated project, ebpf and kernel module drivers, full rules engine and default rule set.
- Which cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 cybersecurity tools listed alongside Falco have a free tier: Google Authenticator.
- What am I actually paying for with Falco?
- The record lists 9 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a platform team that needs to know when a shell is opened inside a production container, which image scanning cannot detect because it happens at runtime, a regulated business required to evidence host and container intrusion detection on kubernetes nodes for an audit, a security team wanting a vendor-neutral detection layer whose rules they can read and modify rather than a black-box agent.
- Does Falco charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Falco prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Falco against before paying?
- The closest cybersecurity tools in this directory are Hanwha Vision, BeyondTrust, Feedzai, IDnow. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Falco covering price, platforms and features.