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 cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?

1 of the 8 cybersecurity tools listed alongside IBM QRadar have a free tier: Google Authenticator.

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 cybersecurity tools in this directory are Hanwha Vision, BeyondTrust, Feedzai, IDnow. Each has a side-by-side comparison with IBM QRadar covering price, platforms and features.

Cybersecurity · pricing

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.

As of 30 August 2026, IBM QRadar pricing is free across 3 published tiers. 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: 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.

IBM QRadar pricing tiers
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

Free

The entry tier. It covers event and flow processing, offense management, threat intelligence, contact sales.

QRadar Cloud

Free

Over QRadar SIEM, this tier adds:

Cloud-native deployment
Elastic scaling
Managed infrastructure

QRadar Suite

Free

Over 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.

Other

Offence model
Network flow analysis
Device Support Modules
Ariel query language
Rules and building blocks
Deployment topology
App Exchange
Use Case Manager
QRadar SOAR integration
Compliance content

People bring IBM QRadar in for a regulated enterprise that must keep log data on premises or in a specific jurisdiction and cannot use a shared saas siem, a soc that wants log correlation and network flow analysis in one platform rather than buying an ndr product separately, an existing qradar estate deciding whether to stay on premises or accept the migration path to a different vendor's platform, compliance-driven log retention and reporting where the audit requirement is specific about collection, retention and reporting. 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 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.

IBM QRadar entry price against other Cybersecurity tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
IBM QRadar (this page)	Free	subscription	-
Hanwha Vision	On request	One-time purchase	-	vs IBM QRadar
BeyondTrust	On request	quote	-	vs IBM QRadar
Feedzai	On request	quote	-	vs IBM QRadar
IDnow	On request	quote	-	vs IBM QRadar
Eagle Eye Networks	On request	Per camera per month	-	vs IBM QRadar
iDenfy	On request	Per verification	-	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 cybersecurity tools.

IBM QRadar pricing on the vendor's own site