Learn about the Prisma™ Cloud licensing options and available
subscriptions.
Prisma Cloud is available as a one-, two-, or three-year
subscription in the following offerings:
Prisma Cloud Compute Edition
—License includes
workload protection for hosts, containers, and serverless deployments.
This offers both an agentless and an agent-based approach to protect
assets across the application lifecycle. Prisma Cloud Compute edition
is a self-operated software solution that you deploy, manage, and
update in your own environments—whether public, private, or hybrid
clouds—including entirely air-gapped environments.
Prisma Cloud Enterprise Edition
—License provides several
choices.
Standard
—An a la carte option where
you can select any combination of Prisma Cloud capabilities with
a standard success plan. The Enterprise edition—delivered as a SaaS
model—combines agentless, API- and agent-based approaches to deliver
comprehensive host, container, serverless, IaaS, PaaS, WAAS, IAM
security, network security, code security, and data security for
supported environments. It is an add-on approach where you can pick
and choose the security capabilities that are most important to
your organizational need. The capabilities protect you from the
most sophisticated threats with advanced machine learning capabilities,
network security monitoring, user entity behavior analysis (UEBA)
for detecting location- and activity-based anomalies, and integration
with host vulnerability management tools.
Prisma Cloud Runtime Security
—Licenses for the runtime
security offerings are available with VM-based metering. You can
choose from the bundles for Runtime Security Foundations and Runtime Security
Advanced, and can avail of the additional capabilities as add-ons.
The
Runtime Security Foundations includes the core capabilities of Visibility,
Compliance and Governance (VC&G), Threat Detection and Agentless
Security at 3 credits per VM.
The Runtime Security Advanced
includes the core capabilities of Visibility, Compliance and Governance
(VC&G), Threat Detection and Agentless Security along with Host
Security, Container Security, and IAM Security at 5 credits per
VM.
With the Enterprise Edition, you can optionally
upgrade to a premium success plan that includes 24x7 access to customer
success experts, custom workshops, implementation assistance, configuration
and planning, and best practices guides.
Each of these offerings has a different capacity
unit and unit price in Prisma Cloud Credits. The number of credits
required to secure your assets can vary based on the offering and
the size of your deployment. Refer to the Prisma Cloud Licensing and Editions
Guide for details. Licensing is sold in increments of 100
credits and you estimate the number of units you need to monitor
and protect.
License and Consumption Details
On the Prisma Cloud administrative console (
Settings
Licensing
,
you can easily view your active license plan, the average credit
consumption trend, and details on how the average credits are being
used by cloud type and each cloud account.
The page is grouped in five sections:
License Information—The complete details on the license
type, the currently active license and support plan. It also includes
information on your Prisma Cloud tenant, such as the serial number
and tenant ID.
Filters—The filters enable you to narrow the information
in the consumption trend graph and the table. You can choose the
time range, cloud type, cloud account and account group.
The
zip file download is available for the standard plan only. It provides
a granular breakdown of assets that are consuming credits within
a module.
Consumption Trend Graph— The graph provides the overall view
of your license consumption trends for the selected time period.
You can review the average usage overlaid against the Prisma Cloud
credits you have purchased and the actual credit usage trends. The
usage trends can help you identify bursts in usage to meet short-term
needs for your business and the steady usage as you accelerate or
scale back in deploying assets in your cloud adoption journey.
The
average usage graph presents a daily average for up to a 6-month
period, and monthly averages for 6 months to last 3-year term.
Consumption Details Table—The tabular format provides you
with the average credit usage for run-time assets and build-time
assets that you are monitoring with Prisma Cloud. The Build Time
view displays usage information only if you have activated the Code
Security subscription.
If you have environments where you
have deployed Prisma Cloud Defenders either on-premises or on private
or public cloud platforms that are not onboarded on Prisma Cloud,
such as on OpenShift or on-prem Kubernetes clusters, these are grouped
as
Other
cloud accounts. The row labeled
Other displays the average credits used towards assets deployed
on cloud environments that are not onboarded on Prisma Cloud.
You
can also download the data that you are viewing in the table in
a CSV file format. For a time period of 180 days, you can download
daily usage information. To hide/show columns and reset the default
view, use the column picker
above the table.
Behavior on License Expiry
If your active Prisma Cloud license expires, you cannot
log in to the Prisma Cloud administrative console until you renew
the license.
If the license is not renewed within the 90-day grace period
after expiry, after 90 days, your Prisma Cloud tenant is deleted.
The data and any history for the monitored accounts cannot be recovered.
above the table.