We sell Flowtriq, which includes a dashboard with unlimited users, so we have a clear position on this. The pricing data below comes from published vendor pricing pages.
The current state of DDoS dashboard pricing
The web dashboard, the visual interface that shows you what is happening on your network during an attack, has different pricing treatment across vendors:
| Vendor | Dashboard | Per-User Cost |
|---|---|---|
| FastNetMon Advanced | LiveView (paid add-on, launched Apr 2026) | $70/user/month |
| Andrisoft Wanguard | Web console included | No per-user fee |
| Flowtriq | SaaS dashboard included | Unlimited users, no fee |
| Open source (FastNetMon CE) | None (CLI only) | N/A (build your own) |
FastNetMon LiveView, launched in April 2026, is priced at $70/user/month or $720/user/year according to their pricing page. This is on top of the FastNetMon Advanced detection license, which starts at $115/month. All three roles (Owner, Admin, Read-only) cost the same $70/month.
Wanguard deserves recognition here: their web console has been included with the product at no per-user surcharge. The per-component licensing model ($595/year per Sensor, $995/year per Filter) has its own cost scaling, but dashboard access is not part of that equation.
Why per-user dashboard pricing is backwards for security
It limits incident visibility
When every dashboard seat costs $70/month, teams naturally limit who gets access. The senior engineer gets a seat. The NOC manager gets a seat. The junior on-call engineer? Maybe not, to keep costs down. The CTO who wants to check status during a major incident? Probably not at $70/month for something they look at twice a year.
During a DDoS attack, visibility should expand, not contract. More people need to see what is happening: the engineer managing mitigation, the manager coordinating communication, the account manager updating the customer, the executive making business decisions about the response. Per-user pricing creates economic pressure to restrict this visibility.
Read-only users cost the same as admins
FastNetMon LiveView charges the same $70/month whether you have full admin access or read-only view access. A NOC analyst who only needs to see the attack dashboard during incidents, someone who might look at it 10 times a month for 30 seconds each time, pays the same as the engineer who configures thresholds daily.
This pricing does not reflect the value or resource cost of different user types. A read-only viewer generates minimal server load and requires no write-path infrastructure. Charging the same rate for both creates a disincentive to share visibility.
It punishes team growth
When you hire a new NOC engineer, their DDoS dashboard access adds $70/month to the bill. When your operations team grows from 3 to 5 people, your dashboard cost grows from $210/month to $350/month, a $140/month increase that has nothing to do with your network or threat profile changing.
For comparison, growing from 3 to 5 team members adds $0 to your Flowtriq or Wanguard dashboard cost. The dashboard is a shared resource, like a Grafana instance, that more users should be able to access without incremental cost.
The cost impact at scale
| Team Size | FastNetMon LiveView Annual | Flowtriq Dashboard Annual | Wanguard Console Annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 user | $840 | $0 (included) | $0 (included) |
| 3 users | $2,520 | $0 | $0 |
| 5 users | $4,200 | $0 | $0 |
| 10 users | $8,400 | $0 | $0 |
At 10 users, FastNetMon LiveView costs $8,400/year just for dashboard access. This is separate from the detection license, activation fee, and infrastructure costs. For the full cost breakdown, see our LiveView pricing analysis.
What a DDoS dashboard should include
A dashboard is not a premium feature. It is the minimum viable interface for operating a detection system with more than one person. At a minimum, it should provide:
- Real-time attack status: Active attacks, vectors, volumes, and target IPs
- Historical event timeline: Past attacks for trend analysis and compliance
- Traffic visualization: Inbound/outbound PPS and BPS over time
- Mitigation status: Active FlowSpec rules, RTBH announcements, firewall filters
- Configuration management: Threshold and rule management without CLI access
- Role-based access: Admin, operator, and read-only roles
- Unlimited seats: No per-user cost increment
Dashboard included. Unlimited users. $9.99/node/month.
Flowtriq includes real-time attack visualization, traffic charts, PCAP forensics, team RBAC with unlimited seats, and automated mitigation management in every plan.
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The bottom line
A web dashboard is not a luxury for a security product your team relies on during active incidents. Charging per-user fees for dashboard access creates a cost structure where visibility decreases as team size grows, which is the opposite of what you want for incident response. Whether you choose Flowtriq or Wanguard or any other vendor, make sure the dashboard is part of the product, not a line item on top of it.