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Intrusion Prevention System

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Snort - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Snort overview

What is Snort?

Snort is a Cisco product for network security - an IPS to detect malicious network activity using rules and packets matched against eachother. Snort uses deployable inline, and can be used as a packet sniffer, packet logger (e.g for network traffic debugging) or as a network IPS. Users can download snort, and can use it for either business or personal use.

Starting price

29.99per user

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Snort’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Snort reviews

Overall rating

4.4

/5

10

Positive reviews

90

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.25/10
Rating distribution

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Pros
“I really enjoy the time that I've using Snort because the support and the purpose of It was accomplished. This is a great tool for every people that need to keep their network protected.”
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Gustavo A.

Networking engineer

“Cisco's firepower services based off Snort are all the best things about Snort backed by a best in business solution provider like Cisco.”

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“This implementation works pretty good providing signatures updates (using Talos) and some great logging capabilities (using Syslog).”
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Gilad E.

Certification Engineer

Cons
“The worst thing of Snort is the usage of the data bases. This DB is susceptible to a corruption, and when this happens you need to reimage the device.”
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Luisa F.

Ingeniero de control

“When you re-image one device you will lost all configuration and if you don't have a buckup you'll be done.”
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Luisa F.

Ingeniero de control

“Even if installation and basic set up is easy, things become difficult when we go depth. To include threats specific to our environment is little difficult.”

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Who uses Snort?

Based on 10 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Enterprises

Top industries

Computer Software
Computer Games
Computer Networking
Hospital & Health Care
Others

Use cases

- Not enough reviews
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Snort's features

Features rating:

Access controls/permissions
Activity monitoring
Alerts/Notifications
Anti spam
Anti virus
Data visualization
Intrusion prevention system
Reporting/Analytics
Risk alerts
Secure login
Threat response

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Snort pricing

Value for money rating:

Starting from

29.99

/user

Pricing details
Subscription
Free trial
Free plan
Pricing range

User opinions about Snort price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Snort's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“I really enjoy the time that I've using Snort because the support and the purpose of It was accomplished. This is a great tool for every people that need to keep their network protected.”
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Gustavo A.

Networking engineer

“Cisco's firepower services based off Snort are all the best things about Snort backed by a best in business solution provider like Cisco.”

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Snort integrations (2)

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Snort support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
Chat

Training options

Documentation
Videos

Snort FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Snort offer?

Snort has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $29.99

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Q. Who are the typical users of Snort?

Snort has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business


Q. What languages does Snort support?

Snort supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does Snort offer an API?

No, Snort does not have an API available.


Q. What level of support does Snort offer?

Snort offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Chat

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