Lacework Pricing: Plans & Cost Guide 2026
Custom enterprise plans are tailored to your cloud footprint, with pricing sitting well above the $25/month category average.
Lacework plans and pricing
Enterprise
Provides CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, and vulnerability management
Lacework pricing: the quick answer
Lacework's own site is quote-only, but its AWS Marketplace listing publishes a real floor as of July 8, 2026: three 12-month starter packs all priced at $25,000, differing only by vCPU cap. Standard covers up to 500 vCPUs, Pro up to 334, and Enterprise up to 250. Read that carefully, because the price stays flat while the vCPU allotment shrinks as the tier climbs, so higher tiers cost more per vCPU. Anything past those caps routes through a custom Private Offer. For most buyers this is a $25k-a-year starting point, not a per-seat SaaS bill.
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Lacework Hidden Costs & Pitfalls
Lacework bills by cloud footprint, not by seat, and the marketplace starter packs make the mechanics visible. The trap is the inverse relationship between tier and capacity.
Lacework pricing, read against its live plans and category
Positioning
Lacework's direct site is quote-only, but the AWS Marketplace listing exposes a real floor: three 12-month starter packs at $25,000 each, separated only by vCPU cap. The odd part is that the cap runs backwards. Standard covers up to 500 vCPUs, Pro up to 334, and Enterprise up to 250, all for the same $25,000. Higher tiers pack more capability into each vCPU, so the price per protected vCPU climbs as you move up. The platform bundles CSPM, CWPP, and its Polygraph behavioral anomaly detection into that single enterprise tier. The technology is well regarded, especially the sensor, but the entry price is hard to justify for a startup or a small fleet.
Cost drivers
- 1The $25k does not stretch as far on the higher tiers. Buy the Enterprise pack for its feature depth on a 500-vCPU fleet and you are covering only 250 vCPUs per pack, so the same hardware that fit one Standard pack now needs two Enterprise packs, doubling the annual line.
- 2Fleets past the published caps drop off the fixed marketplace price and route through a Private Offer, quoted with no list rate.
Watch-outs
Smaller teams routinely price themselves out before a proof of concept even starts, and the sales motion is known for a soft entry that hardens at renewal.
Strengths
- Polygraph behavioral analytics cuts down on false-positive fatigue in noisy cloud environments.
- Strong anomaly detection for infrastructure that changes hour to hour.
- Now distributed through Fortinet's enterprise channel as FortiCNAPP.
Editor’s take
Lacework fits large enterprises that can absorb a $25k-plus floor and staff the behavioral alerts it generates. Startups and small fleets should walk, because the vCPU caps punish exactly the mid-size growth they are trying to fund. If you want the market leader with agentless deployment and a comparable enterprise footprint, price Wiz alongside it before committing.
Oleh KemFounder & Lead AnalystLacework price history
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| Source | What was checked | Last checked |
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| Official Website | Official vendor website | — |
| G2 | G2 verified user reviews · 4.4/5 · 386 reviews | — |
| Capterra | Capterra verified user reviews | — |
| TrustRadius | TrustRadius verified reviews | — |
| PeerSpot | PeerSpot enterprise peer reviews | — |
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