One price per site.

Run Lantern two ways: as a hosted portal with a collector at each client site, or as an appliance on your own hardware. Self-hosted includes every feature today. The cloud portal is in early access and gains features as each one is released. Prices are in US dollars and exclude applicable taxes.

Cloud
Early access

We host your Lantern portal. A small collector at each client site does the polling and keeps the heavy data on site.

$49

per site / month
billed monthly

or

$468

per site / year
billed yearly, paid up front
about $39 per site a month

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Early access: you get your reserved portal address now. Signing in and connecting collectors open as we finish the portal, and we email you when they do. Billing starts when you subscribe.

Renews automatically every month or every year, depending on the option you choose, at the price then in effect, plus any applicable tax, until you cancel. Cancel any time in your account; cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have paid for. Payments are non-refundable except as the refund policy says. No free trial. Terms of Service · Refund policy

Includes
- Your reserved portal address at yourname.lanternnms.com, from the day you subscribe
- Portal sign-in and collector connection as they are released (we email you)
- A collector for each site, once collector connection opens
- Updates
- Email support
Self-hosted

Run the complete Lantern appliance on your own Windows or Linux machine, inside the network it watches.

$348

per site / year
billed yearly, paid up front
about $29 per site a month

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Renews automatically every year at the price then in effect, plus any applicable tax, until you cancel. Cancel any time in your account; cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have paid for. Payments are non-refundable except as the refund policy says. No free trial. Terms of Service · Refund policy

Includes
- The Lantern appliance on your own hardware, with every feature
- Updates
- Email support

Many sites, or more than 250 network devices at a site? Request a volume discount

What is a site?: One client network, monitored by one collector (cloud) or one appliance (self-hosted). Locations joined by your WAN and watched by one collector count as one site.
How many sites?: Choose 1 to 100 sites when you sign up; more by quote. Change the number later in your account. Changes are invoiced at once: adding sites charges the difference for the rest of the period, and removing sites gives a credit on later invoices, not a refund.
Fair use: Up to 250 network devices (switches, routers, firewalls and access points) per site. Above that we contact you first, and there is no automatic charge for extra devices. We may then ask you to add sites or agree a custom plan.
Billing and renewal: Charged when you subscribe, then at the start of each month or year at the price then in effect, until you cancel. Annual plans are paid for the year up front. Prices exclude applicable taxes. We give 30 days’ notice by email of a price change. Card details go to Stripe, never to us.
Cancelling and refunds: Cancel any time in your account. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have paid for, and you keep the service until then. Payments are non-refundable except as the refund policy says.
When a cloud plan ends: The portal stays read-only for 30 days, and we send you a copy of its data if you ask. Then it is deleted. Data on your collectors stays with you.

Cloud or self-hosted?

Loop detection and backups run on site in both. In the cloud plan, the hosted map and change history are in early access and arrive as they are released. Neither changes a device on its own. The difference is where things run and where data lives.

Question	Cloud Early access	Self-hosted
Who runs it	We host the portal for you.	You run the appliance on your own Windows or Linux machine.
At each site	A small collector polls devices, receives syslog and flows, and runs backups.	The appliance does everything: polling, storage and the web UI.
Where you sign in	One portal at yourname.lanternnms.com for all your clients, once portal sign-in opens.	Each appliance at its own address on your network.
Stays on site	Raw logs, raw flows, configuration backups and their history, and device credentials stay on the collector.	Everything stays on the appliance. Nothing is sent to us.
In the cloud	Planned for the cloud portal: the map, inventory, alerts, log findings, traffic summaries and 24 hours of graphs, with older history fetched from the collector. Configuration changes will appear as who, when and how many lines, never the configuration itself. Built so far: device inventory, which you see once sign-in and collector connection open. Coming later: an encrypted backup of each collector’s settings that only you can open.	Nothing.
Connection	Each collector connects out on port 443 (TLS), once collector connection opens. No port forwarding, VPN or static IP. If the link drops, the collector keeps monitoring on site. TLS inspection must exempt collect.lanternnms.com.	No internet connection needed, apart from the services you connect, such as your identity provider or email.
Sign-in	When portal sign-in opens, the first administrator is set up from an emailed link, then adds local accounts. Single sign-on, starting with Microsoft Entra ID, is planned.	Local accounts, Active Directory or LDAP, Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta or another standard OpenID Connect provider (single sign-on tested so far against a stand-in provider).
Updates	We keep the portal up to date.	Included. You install them when it suits you.

More in the FAQ and how Lantern protects your devices and credentials. Want to see it first? Request a demo.