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Kentik alternatives
3 tools to consider instead of Kentik, shown against it.
| Kentik | ntopng | Cisco ThousandEyes | SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor | |||||||||
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| Vendor | Kentik, Inc. | ntop | Cisco Systems | SolarWinds | ||||||||
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Free tier + paid plans | Quote only | Quote only | ||||||||
| Free tier | No | Yes | No | No | ||||||||
| Deployment | Cloud | Self-hosted | Cloud | Self-hosted, Cloud | ||||||||
| Open source | No | Yes (GPL-3.0) | No | No | ||||||||
| Best for | Network engineering teams who need traffic-flow visibility and peering/capacity analytics inside their own network. | Network admins who want free, self-hosted real-time traffic visibility with an optional paid upgrade path. | Network and SRE teams who need outside-in visibility into internet, ISP and SaaS dependency performance. | IT infrastructure teams who need SNMP-based visibility into the health of owned network devices and links. | ||||||||
| Pricing | Annual-contract subscription scaled by flow volume and features; Pro tier has a published starting price, Premier is negotiated.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Community edition is free and open source; Pro and Enterprise M/L/XL/XXL editions are paid, priced per instance.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Priced on consumption of monitoring units by cloud/enterprise agent tests plus per-seat endpoint agent fees; sold through a Cisco sales contract, no public price list. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Licensed by number of monitored elements/nodes; no public price list, quote requested through SolarWinds sales. Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted. | ||||||||
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