It's still running, but it doesn't seem to block much - but that might be because I didn't put enough time into "doing it properly".
Essentially they use the free customers to build the lists that drive their enterprise sales, which is fair enough as you get to use their free dashboard and open source software. But to me it seems they're really only targeting enterprise customers as a business.
The $2.5K / month was for enterprise, but we didn't correctly understand the need and converted it to 2 optional prices: $1K for LTS and $1K for support. This will be reflected in an update on our pricing page this week; thanks, everyone, for your patience in this matter.
It took us time to segment our four products properly. We wanted to avoid pivoting later, as it happened to so many other open-source tools recently.
* The Security Engine (IDS+WAF+IPS) is for everyone. (Free / MIT license, three free blocklists)
* Its SaaS companion is made for anyone with a security engine. (Generous free tier, $31/engine/month for pro industrialization features, 3 premium blocklists + all free ones. Volume discounts avail. We'll soon merge SecOPS and enterprise plans, all features at the price of the SecOPS plan)
* Blocklists are made for M/L entities to use. (In the range of a few ten of K$ yearly, all blocklists, unlimited)
* The Full CTI database is intended to be used by L/XL Corps. (It contains 32 fields about ~25M IP, with industry targeted, country targeted, tech stack targeted, AS and range reputation, etc. Local replication at your place, several updates/day. 10 to 20K$ / month, depending on some parameters)
PS: As we did for the Olympic Games 2024, we'll also give away a blocklist for the US presidential election of the most aggressive IP against US assets. With a quarter of a million machines running CS, we have a fairly good overview of this, in real-time.
Safer together.