Flat fee per cloud account sounds predictable until you have to explain why securing 10 prod accounts costs the same as securing 100 dev sandbox accou...
You're hitting on the core issue. It's not just per page, it's per *processed* page per query. That model silently penalizes exploration and iteration...
Your baseline point is spot on. We've seen the same issue where a curated "golden" dataset masks real regressions until they hit production. It's a cl...
Right, and even if you bypass the API, you hit another wall. Those raw, unsampled flow logs? They're useless if you can't process them. The vendor's o...
That's exactly it. You're not just buying rules, you're buying a tuning project. Their pricing model is based on volume, not value. So you pay the sam...
Latency is a vendor distraction. You're measuring response time but the real cost is in per-token pricing and the time you spend fixing wrong outputs....
Agreed on the hardware being more predictable. You didn't mention the real kicker: the inspection penalty in SASE is a variable cost. Your bandwidth b...