How Much Does WhatsUp Gold Cost in 2026?

Short answer. Progress does publish starting prices for WhatsUp Gold, despite what most pricing guides tell you. On its own pricing page the subscription editions start at 1,229 USD a year for 50 devices, rising to 2,049 and 3,469 at the higher tiers. Perpetual licences start at 5,089 USD for 50 devices on Premium and 14,439 USD for 50 points on Total Plus. Every figure is marked as a starting point and sits beside a contact button. The one thing with no price attached is the Configuration Management module.

Everything below is sourced and dated. Where a figure could not be verified at the original source, it is left out rather than repeated.

What Progress publishes

This is worth stating plainly because almost every third party guide says the opposite. Progress renders real figures on its pricing page, each marked as a starting point and each tied to a device or point count.

Checked 15 September 2026. Every one of those figures sits next to a Contact Sales or Get a Quote button, so treat them as floors for a 50 unit deployment rather than as what you will actually pay.

If you have read elsewhere that Progress publishes nothing, that was true once. Several widely cited guides, including one dated May 2024, describe a quote-only page. The page has changed since.

The two licensing models

On top of the model, you choose a licence type. A perpetual licence is a one-time payment that includes the first year of updates and support, after which you need an annual support contract to keep receiving patches. A subscription is a smaller recurring annual fee with support and updates included for as long as you pay.

The gap between those two is large. Premium perpetual starts at 5,089 USD for the same 50 devices that cost 1,229 USD a year on Business, so the perpetual route takes roughly four years to break even before you add the support contract that follows year one.

The add-on modules are where the cost moves

This is the part that catches people out. On the Premium edition, a set of capabilities are separate paid purchases rather than included features:

• Network Traffic Analysis
• Application Monitoring
• Log Management
• Virtualization Monitoring
• Configuration Management
• Failover Manager

Total Plus bundles all of these except Failover Manager, which remains an extra on any edition. Progress also sells two middle options: a Network Admin Bundle of Premium plus Network Traffic Analysis and Configuration Management, and a System Admin Bundle of Premium plus Application Monitoring and Virtualization.

None of the add-ons carries a published price. The edition figures above are a floor, not a total, and every module you enable moves the number by an amount you can only discover by asking.

What the Configuration Management module costs

Nothing published, anywhere.

Configuration Management, formerly called WhatsConfigured, is an add-on to the Premium, MSP and Distributed editions and is included only in Total Plus. Progress runs a dedicated upgrade page for it, and that page describes an affordable programme to add the module on without naming a figure, asking the reader to make contact for current pricing instead.

That matters if configuration backup and compliance is the reason you are looking at WhatsUp Gold at all. The platform now has a published starting point. The capability you actually want does not, and it sits on top of that platform cost.

What third parties report, and why the numbers differ

Directory listings are useful for sanity checking, but they drift. Capterra currently shows 1,169, 1,949 and 3,299 USD a year across its three named plans, which is below what Progress itself now shows for tiers of similar name. Capterra also attaches monitoring ceilings to those plans, phrased as monitoring up to 1,000 devices, up to 50k devices and 25,000 devices per instance, which is a different measure from the 50 device count Progress ties its starting prices to. The two are not directly comparable and should not be read as the same thing.

A CDW reseller listing, reported by Faddom in May 2024, put a Premium tier perpetual licence covering 500 devices at 3,238 USD. That is below Progress's current 50 device perpetual starting figure, which is a good illustration of how far reseller and directory pricing can sit from the vendor's own page.

A note on the tier names. Capterra uses Business, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus, while Progress documentation and most technical reviewers use Premium, Distributed, MSP and Total Plus. Progress's own pricing page mixes both. Do not assume a tier of similar name is the same product.

One recurring theme in customer reporting is banded licensing. A network engineer reviewing WhatsUp Gold on Capterra in May 2022 described the frustration of running barely over a hundred devices while having to buy a licence sized for three hundred. That is customer reporting rather than a vendor statement, but banded licensing is the same trap that catches SolarWinds NCM buyers, and it is worth modelling the band you land in rather than your exact device count.

What rConfig costs, for comparison

Different model, so compare carefully rather than line by line.

• rConfig Core is free and open source, self-hosted on Linux. No licence fee and no device limit imposed by billing.
• Commercial editions are a flat annual price by device band, with the current figures published on the pricing page. The figure you see is the figure, with no separate module to add for configuration management, because configuration management is the product.

One honest caveat. rConfig is a dedicated network configuration management platform. It does config backup, change tracking, compliance and multi-vendor automation. It does not replace WhatsUp Gold's network monitoring, SNMP polling and alerting, network mapping, traffic analysis or application monitoring. If you are licensing WhatsUp Gold for those, replacing the Configuration Management module alone will not remove the platform cost. We set out exactly where the line falls on the WhatsUp Gold alternative page.

The short version

• Progress does publish starting prices, contrary to most guides. Subscriptions from 1,229 USD a year for 50 devices, perpetual from 5,089 USD for 50 devices.
• Total Plus perpetual starts at 14,439 USD for 50 points.
• Premium, Distributed and MSP are priced per device. Total Plus is priced in points.
• Every published figure is a starting point beside a contact button. Enterprise Scale is quote only.
• No add-on module has a published price, Configuration Management included.
• Directory listings sit below the vendor's own current figures. Check the source page, not the summary.
• Licensing is banded. Model the band, not your device count.

Sources checked 15 September 2026: the Progress WhatsUp Gold pricing page, the WhatsUp Gold Configuration Management data sheet and network configuration manager upgrade page, Capterra, and Faddom, dated May 2024, for the CDW reseller listing. Pricing is taken from those sources on that date and may change. WhatsUp Gold and Progress are trademarks of Progress Software Corporation. Last verified: 15 September 2026.