The vendors that publish nothing

There is a clean split in this market. The self-serve end publishes per-user prices on a public page. The enterprise end publishes nothing and expects a conversation. The line falls almost exactly where the buyer stops being a small business.

The seven

Why the enterprise end does this

Not to hide anything from you specifically. Above a certain size these products are sold in a deal: the price depends on modules, term, region, seat count and what the customer is moving away from, and a published list price would be discounted in every transaction anyway.

That is a coherent commercial position. It has one consequence worth stating: if you are a ten-person company, a vendor that will not publish is telling you something useful about who it is built for. You can still buy it, and the sales call will be pleasant, and you will not find out whether it was affordable until the call is over.

The group we could not read, now empty

Perimeter 81 and Surfshark Business sat here from 2026-09-07. Their pages gave us no figure when we retrieved them, so we printed none.

That was our limitation, not theirs. Their pages on this site said exactly that, and no number was invented to fill the gap. If a reader had treated a blank there as "this vendor hides its prices", we would have quietly libeled two companies that were behaving perfectly normally.

On 2026-10-02 both were read again, and they left the group in opposite directions. Surfshark's readable team page turned out to be /for-teams, which prints "From" prices; the row now carries them and keeps them out of rankings, as with every from-price (article-54). Perimeter 81's old pricing URL now lands on the Check Point SASE home page, which reads in full and prints no figure, so the row joined the seven above (article-42). The same day Cloudflare left the seven: its Access product page prints $0 and $7 (article-44).

The group was larger before that. Proton VPN Business and ExpressVPN for Teams sat here until 2026-09-07, when both pages were read in a browser and gave up their figures; both now carry published per-user prices on this site, and the entries are in what changed. Being unable to read a page is a fact about one retrieval on one date, not a property of the vendor, which is why these rows are dated and read again.

The distinction is the only reason this page exists. Collapsing both into one gray "n/a" column would have been less work and would have been a false claim about a third of the list.

The awkward part, stated plainly

The single largest published referral fee we found in this market — "Earn Between $400 to $1,000 for Each New Customer" — belongs to Perimeter 81, a vendor that publishes no price and therefore appears in no ranking on this site.

An affiliate-funded site has an obvious incentive to find a way to feature that vendor prominently. The structural answer is the one on the method page: every ordering is a computed cost per user, so a vendor with no computable price cannot be ordered anywhere, whatever it pays. The disclosure page names the program and the figure.

What to ask a vendor that publishes nothing

Three numbers, in writing, before any demo:

1. The per-user price at your team size, on monthly billing and on annual billing.
2. The minimum number of users billed.
3. Any fixed charge — a dedicated gateway, a dedicated IP, a platform fee — and whether it is required on that plan.

Those three make a quote comparable with the published prices in the vendor list. Without them you are comparing a negotiated number against list prices, which flatters the negotiated one.

Will the blanks fill in?

Only some of them. If a vendor starts publishing, the row is re-read and the figure appears. If a page we cannot read turns up again, it goes into the separate "could not read" group, and filling it in later would be a change in this site, not in that vendor.

Every row carries the date it was last read, and any figure older than 90 days is automatically labeled as not re-checked wherever it appears, so nothing here quietly ages into looking current.

Who this is not for

This is not a list of vendors to avoid. Several of them are among the largest security companies in the world and many customers are happy with them. Nothing here is a claim about their products, only about what appears on a web page on one date.

It is also not useful if you already have a quote. At that point the published prices are context for a negotiation rather than a shortlist.

Questions people ask

Is a published price always cheaper? No. It is the only price you can check before spending an hour, which is a different and more useful property when you are choosing what to shortlist. At scale, a negotiated price will usually beat a list price.

Why not take the figures from a review site for the ones you could not read? Because a number without a first-party source and a date is not a fact. Every figure here has a URL and a date; the ones that could not get one stay empty. That rule is the site.

Does the split map onto quality? Not as far as this dataset can tell. It maps onto the sales model. The self-serve vendors publish because they sell without a salesperson; the enterprise vendors do not because they do not.

Sources

• Zscaler, https://www.zscaler.com/pricing; Cato Networks, https://www.catonetworks.com/; Cisco Secure Access, https://www.cisco.com/; Appgate, https://www.appgate.com/; SonicWall Cloud Secure Edge, https://www.sonicwall.com/; Todyl, https://www.todyl.com/pricing. All checked 2026-08-21. Perimeter 81, https://www.perimeter81.com/pricing (redirects to https://sase.checkpoint.com/), checked 2026-10-02.
• Perimeter 81 affiliate program, "Earn Between $400 to $1,000 for Each New Customer", checked 2026-08-21; recorded in full on the disclosure page.
• The status of every vendor is recorded in data.json under price_visibility, with the source URL and check date. The method page defines the three values.

Related on this site

• Seven VPN vendors that sell on a quote: nine questions to ask before the call, each one taken from a page that does publish
• Perimeter 81 is now Check Point SASE: what you find when you open the old pricing page
• Cloudflare Zero Trust pricing: $0 under 50 users, $7 per user paid annually above that, and a plans page that prints neither

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Written by Kaz (pen name). Figures are copied from providers' published pricing pages on the dates shown. We have not used these products. Corrections: contact form.