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ThousandEyes pricing
ThousandEyes publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the networking tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, ThousandEyes pricing is on request. 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
- On request
- Model
- Quote, unit-based consumption on annual or prepaid contracts
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Not on record
ThousandEyes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ThousandEyes | On request | 3 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full ThousandEyes 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
- Path visualisation
- Cloud, enterprise and endpoint agents
- Internet Insights
- Cisco ecosystem integration
- Unit-based consumption billing
People bring ThousandEyes in for a network operations team at a large enterprise needing to diagnose whether a performance problem sits inside their network, with an isp, or at the destination, an organisation already standardised on cisco networking wanting internet path monitoring that integrates with existing cisco tooling, a company needing endpoint agent testing from real employee devices to reproduce user-reported performance issues, an sre team wanting aggregated internet outage and bgp visibility across a wide customer base rather than building that dataset themselves. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to ThousandEyes are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Networking
Too few networking 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ThousandEyes (this page) | On request | quote, unit-based consumption on annual or prepaid contracts | - | |
| MikroTik RouterOS | On request | One-time purchase, per licence level | - | vs ThousandEyes |
| Cisco Meraki | On request | quote, hardware plus mandatory recurring licence | - | vs ThousandEyes |
| PRTG Network Monitor | On request | Per sensor tier, billed monthly on an annual contract | - | vs ThousandEyes |
| OpenVPN | Free | Open source core is free; Access Server billed per simultaneous connection | - | vs ThousandEyes |
| Icinga | Free | Open source core, with paid repository, module and support subscriptions sold separately | - | vs ThousandEyes |
| pfSense | Free | Open source Community Edition, free; commercial Plus edition sold separately by Netgate | - | vs ThousandEyes |
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 ThousandEyes badges page.
Before you pay for ThousandEyes
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 On request. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare ThousandEyes against the tools that do have one before committing.
ThousandEyes runs on web, api, and is published by Cisco Systems (ThousandEyes) of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the ThousandEyes review, and the rest of the category is under best networking tools.
ThousandEyes pricing questions
- How much does ThousandEyes cost?
- ThousandEyes publishes a single tier, ThousandEyes, at On request.
- Does ThousandEyes have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: ThousandEyes is listed as quote, unit-based consumption on annual or prepaid contracts. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- Which networking tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside ThousandEyes have a free tier: OpenVPN, Icinga, pfSense.
- What am I actually paying for with ThousandEyes?
- The record lists 5 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a network operations team at a large enterprise needing to diagnose whether a performance problem sits inside their network, with an isp, or at the destination, an organisation already standardised on cisco networking wanting internet path monitoring that integrates with existing cisco tooling, a company needing endpoint agent testing from real employee devices to reproduce user-reported performance issues.
- Does ThousandEyes 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 ThousandEyes 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 ThousandEyes against before paying?
- The closest networking tools in this directory are MikroTik RouterOS, Cisco Meraki, PRTG Network Monitor, OpenVPN. Each has a side-by-side comparison with ThousandEyes covering price, platforms and features.