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Splunk
$13,871$241,933per year
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Splunk

Splunk Inc. provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use Splunk to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.

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How much does Splunk cost?

Median buyer pays
$70,127
per year
Based on data from 116 purchases, with buyers saving 13% on average.
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About Splunk

Splunk Overview

Splunk Inc. provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use Splunk to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.

Splunk's 16 Products

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) logo
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Organizations gain end-to-end visibility into application performance, enabling rapid detection, troubleshooting, and optimization of both monolithic and microservices architectures. The solution provides real-time monitoring, AI-guided root cause analysis, distributed tracing, and code profiling to help teams quickly identify and resolve issues impacting user experience and business workflows.

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Attack Analyzer

Automates malware and phishing analysis by executing full attack chains and extracting forensics, speeding response and reducing manual effort with consistent, high-quality threat intelligence.

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Splunk Cloud: Ingest

Organizations can streamline data onboarding by applying transformation, filtering, and routing rules at the point of data ingestion, ensuring only relevant and compliant data is indexed for analysis. This capability enables centralized management of data flows, supports data masking to protect sensitive information, and allows routing to various destinations within Splunk Cloud Platform, all without requiring additional infrastructure.

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Splunk Cloud: Standard Success Plan (per GB)

Organizations seeking to maximize the value and reliability of their Splunk deployment can leverage a support and enablement plan that provides technical assistance, access to OnDemand Services, and educational resources. The Standard Success Plan offers core support, periodic expert guidance, and credits for training and services, helping teams resolve issues efficiently and accelerate user proficiency.

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Splunk Cloud: Standard Success Plan (per SVC)

Organizations seeking to maximize the value and adoption of Splunk products can leverage a structured support and enablement program that provides technical assistance, OnDemand Services credits, and education resources. The Standard Success Plan (per SVC) offers ongoing support, access to Splunk experts for task-based help, and annual education credits, helping teams accelerate deployment and optimize their use of Splunk solutions.

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Splunk Cloud: Workload (SVC)

Organizations can align their Splunk Cloud Platform costs with actual compute resource usage by leveraging workload-based pricing, which uses Splunk Virtual Compute (SVC) units to allocate processing, memory, and I/O resources for indexing and search workloads. This approach enables flexible scaling, clear visibility into resource consumption, and the ability to optimize performance by purchasing additional SVCs as needed.

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Splunk Enterprise: Ingest

Organizations can streamline data management by applying filtering, masking, enrichment, and transformation to data as it is ingested into Splunk Cloud Platform, without the need for additional infrastructure. This capability enables users to control data flows, standardize formats, and route data to supported destinations such as Splunk Cloud Platform, Amazon S3, and Splunk Observability Cloud, optimizing both data quality and monitoring efficiency.

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Splunk Enterprise: Security

Detect, investigate, and respond to threats with real-time monitoring, ML analytics, and threat intel—aggregating data to boost visibility, cut alert fatigue, and streamline security operations.

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Splunk Enterprise: Standard Success Plan

Organizations seeking to maximize the value of their Splunk investment can leverage a support and enablement plan that provides technical assistance, OnDemand Services, and education resources. The Standard Success Plan includes access to Splunk product support, quarterly OnDemand Services credits, and annual education credits to help teams resolve issues, implement best practices, and build product expertise.

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Splunk Enterprise: Workload (SVC)

Organizations can align their Splunk Cloud Platform investment with actual compute resource usage by leveraging workload-based subscriptions, which utilize Splunk Virtual Compute (SVC) units. This approach enables flexible scaling of ingest and search workloads, allowing businesses to optimize performance and control costs by purchasing additional SVCs as needed.

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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring: Standard

Organizations seeking to monitor, analyze, and act on machine-generated data can use Splunk’s Standard plan to gain real-time visibility into their IT and security environments. This offering provides core capabilities such as data ingestion, search, dashboards, and alerting, enabling teams to detect issues, investigate incidents, and generate operational insights.

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Splunk Observability Cloud: App & Infra

Enabling organizations to proactively monitor and analyze the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure, this solution provides real-time visibility across cloud and on-premises environments. Key capabilities include full-stack observability, seamless correlation between infrastructure and application metrics, and rapid root cause analysis through integrated dashboards and 300+ out-of-the-box integrations.

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Splunk Observability Cloud: End-to-End

Organizations seeking comprehensive visibility into their IT operations can leverage Splunk’s solutions for end-to-end service monitoring, predictive management, and full-stack observability across hybrid cloud environments. These capabilities enable proactive detection and resolution of performance issues, support predictive analytics, and provide service-level dashboards for informed decision-making.

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Splunk Observability Cloud: Infrastructure

Delivering real-time visibility into cloud and hybrid infrastructure, this solution enables organizations to monitor performance, detect anomalies, and troubleshoot issues across distributed environments. Key capabilities include streaming analytics, automated discovery, high-resolution dashboards, and integration with over 300 cloud services for rapid, full-stack observability.

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Splunk On-Call

Reduces downtime and streamlines incident response by automating on-call scheduling, alert routing, and escalation processes for IT and DevOps teams. Provides real-time, metadata-rich notifications and enables teams to act on, resolve, and analyze incidents from any device.

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Synthetics Enterprise Edition

Ensure reliable digital experiences by proactively testing web pages, apps, and APIs with synthetic tests, capturing metrics, and alerting on issues across locations and devices.

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Vendr community insights for Splunk

Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Splunk's recent earnings reports show strong cloud revenue growth and a successful transition to a cloud-first model, with total ARR reaching $4.2 billion and cloud ARR reaching $2.186 billion, up 15% and 23% year-over-year, respectively. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"We had an existing contract with Splunk but were consistently outpacing our Storage. We were able to leverage our growth of 200GB/day in both storage capacity and Enterprise Security to secure a ~46% discount on our unit price."
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"We were able to secure a max 5% renewal price cap rather than Splunk's new standard increase table based on term length. This took much back and forth between legal teams and was helped by significant growth to our agreement as well."
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"We added on the Splunk Attack Analyzer and got a 50% discount on the product. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"They imposed a 7% uplift on our renewal for no functionality benefit. We fought back and cited budget restrictions to get it down to a 3.5% uplift. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Splunk has a standard uplift fee of 9%, we were able to counter back and push on competition and got it down to 4% without growth. We leveraged that our team makes us open an RFP when anything is over 3% in uplift. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"When dealing with workload-based pricing, it's essential to negotiate your SVC limits with your Splunk sales representative. Users have reported that their actual usage is significantly lower than the allocated SVCs, leading to potential overpayment. It's important to understand that you are billed based on your SVC limit rather than actual usage, so negotiating a lower limit could result in cost savings"
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"To reduce SVC usage, optimizing search performance is critical. This includes disabling unused scheduled searches, switching to summary indexes, truncating unneeded events before indexing, and staggering the times of scheduled searches. Tools like the Cloud Monitoring Console and the Chargeback App can help identify inefficient searches that consume excessive SVCs. Additionally, ensuring that searches are well-defined and avoiding wildcard searches can significantly reduce SVC consumption"
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Many users find SVC pricing challenging due to its complexity and difficulty in forecasting utilization. The model is more transparent for cloud users as it directly correlates with compute power provisioned. However, for those running numerous searches, the unpredictability of user behavior can lead to unexpected costs"
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Splunk is transitioning from volume-based licensing to workload-based models, especially for those ingesting more than 200 GB per day. This shift means that administration will now focus on managing compute resources rather than data volumes. While this model may simplify billing for small or low-usage environments, it can be detrimental for high-performance applications like Enterprise Security, where search activity is intensive"
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"We looked at ELK, Humio, and Devo as alternatives to Splunk "
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"It's crucial to define your use case clearly before engaging with Splunk or any other SIEM solution. Different solutions may be better suited for different scenarios. For example, some users have found that while Splunk is excellent for certain types of data analysis and security monitoring, other tools like Elastic or DataDog might be more cost-effective depending on the specific requirements. Understanding your organization's needs will help you make a more informed decision and potentially save costs. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Splunk offers the best discounting in Jan at their fiscal year end"
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"When renewing through AWS we were quoted on Splunk's old price book and able to take advantage of renewing without their new increased pricing."
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Splunk is holding firm on their newly implemented YoY price increases but they have some flexibility for early renewals. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to secure pricing of $5,239 which was down from the original $5,886 by purchasing via a different seller, AWS marketplace. We confirmed that the current scope was correct and moved quickly through reviews to secure the discounted offer."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"In our renewal discussion with Splunk we aimed to maintain status quo for Enterprise- Team licenses and renew flat. Splunk communicated that they had a price increase this year and moving forward all renewals will have a ~9% uplift for 12 month commitments, 7% for 24 months and 5% for 36 months We successfully pushed back on the uplift citing lack of notice and budget constraints in order to renew for 12 months with a reduce ~5.8% uplift. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We grew from 30 to 60 seats for Splunk On Call Enterprise upon renewal. We were paying $299 per seat and they automatically dropped us to $285. We made an additional push and got to $270 simply by asking for deeper discounts because of our growth. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We didn't have favorable pricing on our SVCs and Data Storage pricing so we pushed on the per unit pricing so we could best scale with Splunk in the future. We got a really good discount but had to add on the their observability tool to get to where we wanted to get to. This didn't change our total contract value too significantly but it helped with our price per unit economics. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Upon our renewal Splunk had significantly reduced our discounting. We were able to work with them to maintain the same unit costs and implement a 3.5% max uplift. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Cisco acquired Splunk for $28 billion on 9/21 https://investor.cisco.com/news/news-details/2023/Cisco-to-Acquire-Splunk-to-Help-Make-Organizations-More-Secure-and-Resilient-in-an-AI-Powered-World/default.aspx"
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Splunk would not remove 9% price cap language after escalating to a Sales Director, this was the response: "The messaging Splunk provides is that each contract is still negotiated individually and that these caps are only the maximum Splunk can offer as a renewal increase. What I have been able to get approved is to reduce that cap amount. Of course you can also secure pricing through longer term agreements. I wish I could offer you something more. But in reality, even if we remove that language Splunk still can effectively increase your renewal by the same amount (9%) or more as each agreement is negotiable. So by removing this language you're offered even less protection.""
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to secure a 5% renewal cap, Net60 payment terms, and removal of auto renew on a new purchase. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to secure a 40% discount on a new purchase based on firm budget and quick movement, protecting the discount originally offered for a larger scope."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We got Splunk down from 38% to 50% discount at the end of the quarter on a $400K 1 year deal, net new. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Splunk has a per Ingest Model and a newer workload/SVC model. Reps are incentivized to push companies towards the SVC model which is typically only for companies at $250K+ ARR and can be significantly cheaper. A disadvantage of the SVC model is they tell you that you have unlimited compute but they actually throttle this to make it slower during busy periods which was a deal breaker for us. They will use this as a bargaining chip for higher volume accounts at $1M+ ARR (I've seen this at past companies). This is essentially like unlimited phone plans that will diminish service during busy periods. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Splunk has been in the process over the past year of moving higher spend customers from an ingest per day model to a SVC model. The ingest per day model is measured by all data sent to Splunk while the SVC measures specific workloads, with the goal of billing based on the highest value use case, so what we're paying Splunk matches the value better. Splunk reps are incentivized to move customers to the SVC model, so it's important to negotiate heavily when the switch is initially made. We've seen $2,500-$7,750 per SVC. This can usually be done by stalling the upgrade until EOQ or end of Fiscal (1/31) and turning around a quick signature for a last ditch offer. "
Company with 1-200 employeesA while ago
"We got a 14% discount on a 3 year term by agreeing to a quick turnaround on signatures ahead of the end of the year."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Purchasing through reseller like CDW may help with discounting."
Company with 1-200 employeesA while ago
"Splunk suggested they don't support redlines for contracts under $100k, but we pushed back and were able to secure a 5% cap on renewal as well as NET45 payment terms."
Company with 1-200 employeesA while ago
"Since Splunk wasn't particularly flexible with payment terms, we ended up doing a 7 month renewal to better manage our cash."
Company with 1-200 employeesA while ago
"We were able to negotiate a 6 month extension by pointing to the fact that the renewal would be more intricate due to an acquisition."
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