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Sysdig Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026

Sysdig bypasses flat $36/month rates for custom enterprise pricing, scaling costs based on your cloud security footprint.

Cloud Security (CNAPP/CSPM)Usage-BasedPrice verified yesterdayFrom $36/mo

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Sysdig plans and pricing

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Monitor Enterprise

from $36/host/mo

Best for: Cloud & container monitoring

✓$36/host/month (minimum 20 units)
✓Cloud & container monitoring
✓Time-series metrics + Cost Advisor
✓Overage: $0.06/host-hr, $7.00/time-series metric

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CNAPP Enterprise

from $72/host/mo

Best for: Full cloud-native security (CNAPP)

✓$72/host/month (minimum 20 units)
✓Full cloud-native security: runtime + posture + detection & response
✓Real-time threat detection; prioritize in-use vulnerabilities (reduce noise up to 95%)
✓Overage: $0.13/host-hr, $2.50/cloud-log event

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Sysdig pricing: the quick answer

Quick answerLast verified: July 6, 2026High

Sysdig's own pricing page is quote-only, but its AWS Marketplace listing publishes the real per-host rates as of July 7, 2026: CNAPP Enterprise runs $72 per host per month and Monitor Enterprise Host runs $36 per host per month, both with a 20-host minimum purchase. There is no free tier. On top of the committed host rate, usage overages stack separately, including $0.13 per host-hour on CNAPP Enterprise, $2.50 per Cloud Logs event, and $7.00 per Monitor time-series metric. So the sticker is two layers: a committed per-host base plus metered usage. Larger deals route through a Private Offer.

Monitor Enterprise$36/mo
CNAPP Enterprise$72/mo

Use the interactive Sysdig pricing calculator to estimate your exact monthly cost at your team size, with annual-billing savings and the hidden costs counted in.

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Billing model

Usage-Based

Cheapest paid

$36/mo

Annual discount

Not offered

At $36/mo to start, Sysdig sits 99% below the $7000/mo median across 2 cloud security (cnapp/cspm) tools we track.

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What Sysdig really costs

What sits on top of the plan fee

Sysdig bills in two stacked layers, and the marketplace rate card exposes both. The committed host rate is only the floor; overages meter on top of it.

20-host minimum sets the real floor

Both public dimensions require buying at least 20 hosts. At $72 per host per month, the smallest CNAPP Enterprise commitment is 20 x $72, so the entry point is $1,440 a month before any usage; Monitor Enterprise Host at $36 puts its floor at $720 a month. A team with only a handful of nodes still pays for 20.

$72 (CNAPP) / $36 (Monitor) per host/mo, 20 min

Usage overages stack on the committed base

Past your committed hosts, the meter runs: CNAPP Enterprise adds $0.13 per host-hour and serverless CaaS at $0.03 per host-hour, Monitor adds $0.06 per host-hour, Cloud Logs events cost $2.50 each, and Monitor time-series metrics cost $7.00 apiece. A noisy logging pipeline or a metric-heavy dashboard can add a four-figure line on its own, so track event and metric volume as closely as your node count.

$0.02 to $7.00 per unit

Big deals leave the rate card

The published per-host rates cover self-serve marketplace purchases; larger commitments move to a Private Offer negotiated with no list price. Expect a sales cycle once you scale past a straightforward host count.

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Value Analysis

$36/mo99% below median

Category median: $7000/moBased on 2 products in this category

Sysdig's own site sends you to sales, but the AWS Marketplace listing exposes the actual rate card. CNAPP Enterprise is $72 per host per month and Monitor Enterprise Host is $36 per host per month, each with a 20-host minimum. That minimum matters more than the unit rate: it sets a real floor of $1,440/mo for CNAPP and $720/mo for Monitor before a single overage. The platform is valued highly by teams running complex Kubernetes environments, and it is the natural home for Falco-based runtime detection. It is a specialist tool, worth the per-host premium for dedicated security operations and wasteful if you hand it to general developers.

Hidden Costs

The committed host rate is layer one. Layer two is metered overage: $0.13 per host-hour on CNAPP, $2.50 per Cloud Logs event, and $7.00 per Monitor time-series metric, among others. High log or metric volume can inflate the bill well past the host math.
Self-hosting instead of the SaaS version trades the subscription for real infrastructure and maintenance overhead you carry yourself.
Scaling cluster size can trip step-up thresholds even though the model is meant to be steadier than a Datadog-style bill.

Red Flags

The common failure is the gap between a clean demo and a messy real deployment.

"I've had some great demos that fall apart on first contact with our environment"
Reddit

"the mistake we made is putting the tool in developer hands."
Reddit

Based on analysis of recent Reddit and G2 discussions.

Green Wins

Creator and primary sponsor of CNCF Falco, which buys real community trust.
Best-in-class runtime container security.
A genuinely Kubernetes-native architecture rather than a bolted-on scanner.

"approaches pricing by giving a predictable cost with batteries included."
Reddit

Verdict

Teams running complex multi-cloud Kubernetes should consolidate on the full Sysdig Platform and keep an eye on the overage meters alongside the host count. If you only need threat detection and compliance without deep observability, Sysdig Secure alone is enough. For an agentless, side-scanning alternative with a different take on risk prioritization, weigh Wiz against it.

ComparEdge EditorialUpdated: July 6, 2026