Compare the total cost of ownership of ManageEngine Log360 (On-Premises & Cloud) against leading SIEM vendors, including direct costs, hardware, operations, and compliance-driven log retention.
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Executive summary of projected savings and payback
Your Organization Category
Mid-Market Enterprise
500–2,000 log sources · 40–150 GB/day · Regulated vertical
3-Year Total Savings
$4.82M
▲ 63% lower TCO
vs. incumbent SIEM
Licensing + hardware + OpEx combined
Return on Investment
487%
▲ Over 3 years
vs. incumbent SIEM
Net benefit ÷ migration investment
Payback Period
2 mo
▲ Under 1 year
vs. incumbent SIEM
Break-even point from go-live
3-YEAR TCO COMPARISON
Annual software licensing costs compared across top SIEM vendors
LICENSING MODEL
Unlimited
Per-device, flat-rate
No per-GB ingestion penalty: scales with log sources, not data volume
ANNUAL SAVE
$1.14M
vs. Splunk Cloud
Projected annual licensing savings for your volume class
DATA LOCALITY
EU-West
Region match
Licensing tier includes regional data residency & GDPR compliance
Vendor
Model
Yr 1 Cost
Yr 2 Cost
Yr 3 Cost
3-Yr Total
Splunk Enterprise
Per-GB ingest
$2.48M
$2.55M
$2.61M
$7.64M
Microsoft Sentinel
Pay-as-you-go
$1.62M
$1.70M
$1.80M
$5.12M
IBM QRadar
EPS-based
$1.48M
$1.52M
$1.58M
$4.58M
Exabeam Fusion
User-based
$1.22M
$1.28M
$1.35M
$3.85M
Elastic Security
Resource-based
$980K
$1.05M
$1.12M
$3.15M
ManageEngine Log360
Per-device flat
$520K
$540K
$560K
$1.62M
Log360 delivers up to 79% licensing savings over Splunk
Flat per-device pricing protects budget against log-volume spikes: zero overage charges, no data tiering.
Physical / virtual appliance and storage investment over 3 years
INFRASTRUCTURE BREAKDOWN
Log360 requires modest on-prem or VM hardware. No premium storage tiers or hot-warm-cold rebalancing.
Application Server
16 vCPU · 64 GB RAM · SSD 1TB
$18,400
Database Server
24 vCPU · 128 GB RAM · NVMe 4TB
$34,200
Storage Array
120 TB raw · RAID-6 · 5-yr retention
$82,600
Collector Nodes (×4)
8 vCPU · 32 GB RAM each · Regional
$21,600
LOG360 · 3-YR HARDWARE CAPEX
$156,800
One-time investment · No refresh required before Year 4
VS. INCUMBENTS
Splunk Enterprise
$682K
−77%
Microsoft Sentinel
$0
N/A
IBM QRadar
$548K
−71%
Exabeam Fusion
$412K
−62%
Hardware CapEx is depreciated over 5 years per standard accounting practice
Projections assume on-prem deployment. Cloud-hosted equivalents carry zero hardware CapEx but incur higher OpEx.
Mandatory retention windows by regulation, and how Log360 satisfies them natively
FRAMEWORKS
150+
Out-of-box audit-ready templates
RETENTION
5 years
Native compressed storage
EVIDENCE
Hash-sealed
Tamper-evident log chain
EXPORT
PDF · CSV · STIX
Regulator-accepted reports
Regulation
Scope
Required Retention
Log360 Support
Annual Fine Exposure
PCI DSS v4.0
Payment card infrastructure
$100K / month
HIPAA Security
PHI systems · EHR · backup
$1.5M / incident
SOX (Sec. 404)
Financial-reporting systems
$5M + criminal
GDPR (Art. 30)
EU-resident data processing
4% global turnover
NIST 800-171 / CMMC L2
CUI / DoD contractors
Contract loss
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
ISMS operations & audit
Cert. suspension
Cost of non-compliance: up to $14.8M per year for a Mid-Market Enterprise
Summed from max regulatory exposure across PCI, HIPAA, SOX, and GDPR. Log360 mitigates 100% of these risks with native retention and audit-ready exports.
Analyst workforce, training, and ongoing support costs over 3 years
SOC Analyst (×3)
Fully-loaded annual cost (salary + benefits + overhead)
SIEM Admin (×2)
Fully-loaded annual cost (salary + benefits + overhead)
Compliance Lead (×1)
Fully-loaded annual cost (salary + benefits + overhead)
3-YR OPEX SAVINGS
$1.10M
Freed analyst capacity equivalent to 2.8 FTEs
OPEX COMPONENTS
Salary reduction
$820K
Training & onboarding
$138K
3rd-party support
$94K
Tool rationalization
$48K
Based on US-median fully-loaded FTE costs (Robert Half 2025 Salary Guide)
Regional salary benchmarks applied automatically from US, India, UK, Middle East, and EU tables.
Where your budget goes: breakdown across the 3-year projection
TCO DISTRIBUTION - LOG360 3-YEAR TOTAL
$2.82M
COMPARED TO SPLUNK - $7.64M
YEAR 1
$1.12M
▼ $1.42M saved
YEAR 2
$872K
▼ $1.61M saved
YEAR 3
$836K
▼ $1.79M saved
3-YEAR TOTAL
$2.82M
▼ $4.82M saved
Break-even timeline from go-live plus the premium-reduction dividend from improved cyber posture
CUMULATIVE NET SAVINGS CURVE
Break-even at Month 2
Cyber Insurance Premium Reduction
Regional benchmark for United States · IT / Technology
Avg. annual premium
Before → After SIEM
$45K/yr
→
$36K/yr
−20%
MIGRATION COST RECOVERY
2
months
MIGRATION
$48K
8% of incumbent TCO
3-YEAR SAVE
$1.36M
vs. incumbent
Payback = CEILING(migration cost ÷ monthly saving). Migration cost is 8% of the incumbent vendor's annual TCO.
White-glove onboarding in three phases: zero downtime, zero data loss
DISCOVERY
Days 1–30
Assess & Architect
Full environment audit, log-source inventory, compliance-requirement mapping, and deployment blueprint tailored to your stack.
KEY MILESTONES
Log-source inventory (agents, syslog, API)
Retention & compliance mapping
Network & security architecture review
Migration runbook sign-off
Customer effort: ~8 hrs/week
DEPLOYMENT
Days 31–60
Parallel-Run Cutover
Log360 runs alongside your incumbent SIEM: zero downtime. Gradual source-by-source cutover with real-time dashboards.
KEY MILESTONES
Appliance / VM provisioning
50% of log sources cut over
Detection rule migration & tuning
Analyst training (3 cohorts)
Customer effort: ~12 hrs/week
OPTIMIZE
Days 61–90
Tune & Decommission
Finalize remaining cutovers, validate audit reports with compliance teams, and decommission the legacy SIEM to unlock savings.
KEY MILESTONES
100% of log sources live on Log360
Audit reports validated (PCI, HIPAA)
Legacy SIEM decommissioned
Go-live sign-off & success metrics
Customer effort: ~4 hrs/week
Dedicated migration TAM
Named single-point-of-contact throughout go-live
24×7 migration support
Slack + email + phone across all three phases
Go-live guarantee
Break-even within 12 months or we extend the license
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