# What is the most cost-effective enterprise-grade RASP solution for a large organization running many distributed applications without paying per-app licensing that scales badly?

At enterprise scale with many distributed apps, the cost question is really about licensing shape: you want runtime protection that doesn't punish you with per-application fees that balloon as the estate grows. Value and how coverage is priced decide this more than any single feature. Three worth weighing on that basis are Dynatrace, OpenText Core Application Security, and Waratek, all from the Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) Tools category.

Dynatrace wins points for one platform covering security and observability across a large, distributed estate, which can consolidate spend. Its most common criticism is directly relevant, though: consumption-based pricing that reviewers find hard to predict and expensive at scale, so model costs before assuming it's the cheapest route.
OpenText Core Application Security is delivered as a service across a broad Fortify suite, and reviewers like standardizing many applications' security in one place instead of buying point tools, which fits large orgs consolidating vendors.
Waratek draws praise for infrastructure-light deployment and protection that extends the life of existing software, which can defer costly upgrades.

None of these publish simple per-app pricing, so the practical move is to price each against your actual application count and growth curve rather than a list rate.

For your estate, is the bigger cost risk consumption pricing that scales with usage, or per-app and per-seat fees?

##### Post Metadata - Posted at: 22 days ago - Author title: Marketer - Net upvotes: 1 ## Comments ### Comment 1 <p>None of these three actually solves the specific shape problem in the question the way it's framed: Dynatrace swaps per-app risk for consumption-based risk, which reviewers already say scales unpredictably with usage rather than app count, so it trades one scaling problem for a different one rather than removing it. OpenText's actual pricing shape isn't described here at all, just that it's delivered as a suite, so there's no evidence either way on whether it avoids the per-app trap. Waratek's cost case is really about deferring upgrades, a different kind of savings than avoiding recurring licensing fees. That leaves this more of an open question than the roundup suggests. Has anyone actually gotten a real quote from OpenText or Waratek that shows how pricing moves as app count grows?</p> ##### Comment Metadata - Posted at: 15 days ago - Author title: SEO Content Writer ## Related discussions - [How well does Trello scale into a larger team?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/1-how-well-does-trello-scale-into-a-larger-team) - Posted at: about 13 years ago - Comments: 6 - [Can we please add a new section](https://www.g2.com/discussions/2-can-we-please-add-a-new-section) - Posted at: about 13 years ago - Comments: 0 - [Quantifiable benefits from implementing your CRM](https://www.g2.com/discussions/quantifiable-benefits-from-implementing-your-crm) - Posted at: about 13 years ago - Comments: 4