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IBM QRadar pricing
IBM QRadar publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Not on record
IBM QRadar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QRadar SIEM | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| QRadar Cloud | Free | 4 | +$0/month, 3 more features |
| QRadar Suite | Free | 4 | +$0/month, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
QRadar SIEM
FreeThe entry tier. It covers event and flow processing, offense management, threat intelligence, contact sales.
QRadar Cloud
FreeOver QRadar SIEM, this tier adds:
- Cloud-native deployment
- Elastic scaling
- Managed infrastructure
QRadar Suite
FreeOver QRadar Cloud, this tier adds:
- SIEM + SOAR + XDR
- Unified analyst experience
- Federated search
Where IBM QRadar stops being free
QRadar SIEM, Free
- Event and flow processing
- Offense management
- Threat intelligence
- Contact sales
No paid tier on record
IBM QRadar lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full IBM QRadar 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.
Core
- AI-powered detection
- User behavior analytics
- Network insights
- Offense management
- IBM X-Force threat intelligence
- Federated search
- Case management
- Compliance templates
Integrations
- AWS
- Azure
- Splunk
- CrowdStrike
- ServiceNow
- Carbon Black
- Palo Alto
- Cisco
- 500+ integrations
Security
- SOC2
- ISO 27001
- FedRAMP
- HIPAA
- PCI-DSS
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
- On-premise deployment
- Hybrid deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
Localization
- English language support
- Japanese language support
- German language support
- French language support
- Spanish language support
- Portuguese language support
- Chinese language support
People bring IBM QRadar in for siem, security analytics, threat intelligence. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to IBM QRadar are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Security & Cybersecurity
Too few security & 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM QRadar (this page) | Free | subscription | - | |
| Keygen | On request | subscription | - | vs IBM QRadar |
| Authy | Free | free | - | vs IBM QRadar |
| Cisco Duo | Free | freemium | - | vs IBM QRadar |
| Bitdefender VPN | On request | subscription | - | vs IBM QRadar |
| Burp Suite | Free, then $449/year | subscription | - | vs IBM QRadar |
| Bitdefender Total Security | $19.99/year | - | - | vs IBM QRadar |
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 IBM QRadar badges page.
Before you pay for IBM QRadar
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: 3 tiers between Free and Free, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare IBM QRadar against the tools that do have one before committing.
IBM QRadar runs on web, api, and is published by IBM Corporation of Armonk, New York, USA. The full record is on the IBM QRadar review, and the rest of the category is under best security & cybersecurity tools.
IBM QRadar pricing questions
- How much does IBM QRadar cost?
- IBM QRadar publishes 3 tiers, from Free for QRadar SIEM up to Free for QRadar Suite. The cheapest paid tier is Free.
- Does IBM QRadar have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: IBM QRadar is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between QRadar SIEM and QRadar Cloud on IBM QRadar?
- QRadar Cloud costs Free against Free, and adds cloud-native deployment, elastic scaling, managed infrastructure.
- Which security & cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 security & cybersecurity tools listed alongside IBM QRadar have a free tier: Authy, Cisco Duo, Burp Suite, Avast One.
- What am I actually paying for with IBM QRadar?
- The record lists 34 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for siem, security analytics, threat intelligence.
- Does IBM QRadar charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 IBM QRadar 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 IBM QRadar against before paying?
- The closest security & cybersecurity tools in this directory are Keygen, Authy, Cisco Duo, Bitdefender VPN. Each has a side-by-side comparison with IBM QRadar covering price, platforms and features.