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FastNetMon Advanced vs Flowtriq
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FastNetMon Advanced prices by bandwidth tier. Flowtriq prices per node. Enter your environment to see the real total cost of ownership — including the server FastNetMon requires you to run it on.
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Feature Comparison
| Feature | Flowtriq | FastNetMon Advanced |
|---|---|---|
| Detection & Visibility | ||
| Detection latency | ~1 second | 5–30 seconds — attacks saturate uplinks in under 10s |
| Detection method | ML + behavioral baseline | Threshold-only — misses novel attacks until you manually retune |
| Attack classification | ✓ SYN, UDP, HTTP, amplification & more | ✗ None — you know something happened, not what or why |
| Per-server visibility | ✓ Per-node metrics & alerts | ✗ Aggregate bandwidth only — no idea which server is targeted |
| Packet capture (PCAP) | ✓ Full PCAP with pre-attack buffer | ✗ Not available — no evidence, ever |
| PCAP for upstreams / null-route requests | ✓ Built-in evidence export | ✗ Cannot generate — your upstream null-routes you with no proof to offer |
| Setup & Operational Cost | ||
| SaaS / cloud-managed | ✓ Fully managed SaaS | ✗ Self-hosted — you provision, patch, and maintain it |
| Network infrastructure required | ✓ None — agent runs on any Linux server you already have | ✗ Your own AS + NetFlow/sFlow-capable routers or switches (enterprise hardware — Cisco, Juniper, etc. Not a $30 VPS) |
| Setup prerequisites | ✓ None — one-line agent install | ✗ Own AS + managed network hardware + dedicated server + BGP peering infrastructure |
| Time to first alert | Under 5 minutes | 1–3 days — unprotected the entire time you’re setting up |
| Threshold calibration | ✓ Auto-learns per host — zero tuning required | ✗ Manual — too tight = false positives, too loose = missed attacks |
| Ongoing maintenance | ✓ None — zero-ops SaaS | ✗ Ongoing — server patches, version upgrades, threshold drift over time |
| Pricing & Scale | ||
| Pricing model | Per node — pay only for what you monitor | Per bandwidth tier — pays for the pipe, not the visibility |
| Activation fee | ✓ None — ever | ✗ $85 billed on day 1, before protection even starts |
| Cost beyond the license | ✓ None — all-in price, no surprises | ✗ ~$30+/mo server + router infrastructure + engineer setup time |
| Monitoring instances / locations | ✓ Unlimited | ✗ 1–3 per plan — more PoPs means a forced plan upgrade |
| Support during an active attack | ✓ Unlimited tickets, anytime | ✗ 1 ticket/month on base plan — used it already this month? Wait till it resets |
| Mitigation & Alerting | ||
| Automated BGP blackhole / RTBH | ✓ Supported | ✓ Supported |
| BGP FlowSpec rule injection | ✓ Supported | ✓ Supported |
| Alert integrations | Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, email, webhook | Email, Slack, webhook only |
| Open-source agent | ✓ ftagent-lite (open source) | ✓ Community edition |
Why FastNetMon Advanced Costs More Than the Sticker Price
FastNetMon Advanced's published pricing starts at $115/month for the 10G plan. That number omits two mandatory costs: a dedicated Linux server (typically $20–$50/month for a VPS or bare metal instance) to host the FastNetMon process, plus an $85 activation fee charged upfront on the first invoice of any monthly plan. On top of that, the base plan includes just one support ticket per month. If you hit an incident on day 28 and already used your ticket, you are on your own until the counter resets.
The 10G plan covers one FastNetMon instance. The 40G plan provides two instances. If your network spans multiple geographically distributed sites, each one needs its own instance and you may need to upgrade to a higher plan just to unlock additional monitoring locations.
What FastNetMon Advanced Cannot Do
FastNetMon ingests flow records from your routers, which gives aggregate bandwidth visibility across the network but no awareness of what is happening on individual servers. There is no packet capture. When FastNetMon triggers a BGP blackhole, there is no PCAP file you can provide to your upstream provider to justify the block or request surgical scrubbing instead of a full null-route. Detection relies on threshold rules you configure manually — no behavioral baseline, no machine learning. New attack patterns or slow-build floods that stay under threshold go undetected until thresholds are tuned, which is your job.
When the Cost Equation Flips
At very high node counts and modest bandwidth (e.g., 150 servers all behind a single 8 Gbps aggregate), FastNetMon's flat bandwidth-tier pricing will be cheaper than Flowtriq's per-node model. That is a legitimate trade-off — and the calculator above shows it transparently. But cheaper is not the same as better: you still get no PCAP, 5–30 second detection latency, no per-server visibility, and a self-hosted system you maintain yourself. If your fleet is large enough that the per-node cost becomes a concern, contact us about volume pricing — Flowtriq works out custom quotes for unique environments and larger deployments.
When to Choose Flowtriq
Flowtriq installs as an agent directly on each monitored server — no extra server, no router configuration, no infrastructure prerequisites, no upfront fees. You get per-server traffic telemetry, behavioral anomaly detection that builds a baseline per host automatically, full PCAP for every detected attack, and one-second detection latency. The entire system is SaaS-managed. Setup is under five minutes per server. Support is unlimited regardless of what tier you are on.