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Threat Intelligence And Digital Forensicsenterprise stack.

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Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP)

Pricing & free-tier limitsMISP Free OSS + ~$20/mo VM (2 vCPU/4GB); OpenCTI CE Free + ~$40/mo VM+OpenSearch; ThreatConnect $40k/yr (~$3333/mo) 5 users; Anomali $50k/yr (~$4166/mo) 10 users/1M IOCs/mo; Recorded Future $100k/yr (~$8333/mo) unlimited users/API 5M req/mo

Malware Analysis Sandbox

Pricing & free-tier limitsAny.Run Free: 5 tasks/day public, 10min analysis; Pro $299/mo 100 private tasks + $0.10/task overage; CAPE Free + ~$50/mo VM; Joe Sandbox Cloud Pro $25k/yr (~$2083/mo) 5k tasks/mo; Ultimate $50k/yr (~$4166/mo) 10k tasks/mo; Any.Run Private Cloud from $10k/mo

Digital Forensics Tool (Disk & Memory)

Pricing & free-tier limitsAutopsy Free OSS; Volatility Free OSS; FTK Imager Free; FTK Toolkit $4000/yr/license (~$333/mo); FTK Lab $8000/yr (~$666/mo); EnCase Forensic $4000/yr/license or $7500 one-time; Magnet AXIOM $4500/yr (~$375/mo) per examiner, AXIOM Cyber $6500/yr (~$541/mo)

Evidence Collection & WORM Storage

Pricing & free-tier limitsS3 Object Lock Free feature + Storage: $0.023/GB-mo Standard, $0.0125/GB-mo IA, $0.004/GB-mo Glacier Instant, $0.00099/GB-mo Deep Archive; PUT $0.005/1k; Backblaze B2 $0.006/GB-mo storage + $0.01/GB download; Wasabi $6.99/TB-mo ($0.00699/GB) no egress/API, 90-day min

Threat Feed / IOC Aggregation

Pricing & free-tier limitsOTX Free unlimited pulses/OTX API; Abuse.ch Free unlimited; Shodan Membership $59 one-time + Free 100 query/mo; Shodan Pro $59/mo 10k results; GreyNoise Free 100 req/day, Pro $500/mo 50k req, Enterprise $1800/mo; VirusTotal Free 4 req/min 500/day 15k/mo; Enterprise $30k/yr (~$2500/mo) 750k req/mo $0.004/req overage; VT Hunting add-on $10k/yr (~$833/mo)

SIEM for Threat Intel Correlation

Pricing & free-tier limitsWazuh Free OSS + ~$50/mo VM 4vCPU; Panther Free 500GB ingested/mo then $0.10/GB after; Elastic Cloud $95/mo 2GB RAM/50GB storage $0.10/GB over; Splunk Cloud $150/GB/mo ingested (approx $1800/TB/yr) min $2000/yr + Enterprise license; Sentinel $2.46/GB ingested + $0.10/GB 90d retention; Chronicle $5/GB ingested

Secrets Management for Intel API Keys

Pricing & free-tier limitsVault OSS Free + ~$30/mo VM; Infisical OSS Free; Doppler Free 50 secrets 1000 API calls/day then $18/mo Starter; Vault Cloud $0.03/hr dev (~$22/mo) Standard $0.10/hr (~$73/mo) + $0.03/10k req; AWS Secrets Manager: first 30 days free then $0.40/secret/mo + $0.05/10k API; Azure KV $0.03/10k ops + HSM $1.45/HSM-mo

IOC / Artifact Repository (Object Storage)

Pricing & free-tier limitsMinIO Free AGPL + ~$15/mo 1TB VM disk; Backblaze B2 $0.006/GB-mo storage $0.01/GB egress; Wasabi $6.99/TB-mo $0.00699/GB no egress/API fees 90-day min; AWS S3 $0.023/GB-mo Standard, Intelligent-Tiering $0.023-$0.0125 auto, $0.00099 Deep Archive; S3 Inventory $0.0025/M objects listed

Reverse Engineering Environment

Pricing & free-tier limitsGhidra Free OSS; REMnux Free OVA; x64dbg Free; IDA Free Free non-commercial; IDA Pro $2999/yr per seat (~$250/mo) + Hex-Rays $3299/yr; Binary Ninja Personal $299 one-time (perpetual), Commercial $1199/yr (~$99/mo), Cloud $50/mo per user; radare2 Free

Network Traffic Analysis / PCAP Storage

Pricing & free-tier limitsZeek Free + ~$40/mo VM; Suricata Free OSS; Security Onion Free + ~$100/mo 500GB infra; Arkime Free + ~$100/mo infra; Corelight Virtual Sensor $75k/yr per sensor (~$6250/mo) includes support+cloud; Physical AP 200 $125k one-time + $25k/yr support; CloudShark Teams $399/mo 50GB, Enterprise $999/mo 250GB

Endpoint Timeline / Memory Forensics Compute

Pricing & free-tier limitsVolatility Free; KAPE Community Free LE version; Velociraptor Free + ~$50/mo t3.medium; Timesketch Free + ~$40/mo VM; Binalyze AIR Free 25 assets then Enterprise $35k/yr (~$2916/mo) 1000 endpoints $5/endpoint/mo over; Magnet AXIOM $4500/yr (~$375/mo) Cyber $6500/yr (~$541/mo); CrowdStrike Falcon Insight $59.99/endpoint/yr + Forensics add-on $12k/yr (~$1000/mo)

Vulnerability Intelligence / CVE DB Hosting

Pricing & free-tier limitsNVD API Free 50 req/30s no key, 300 req/30s with key unlimited; cve-search OSS Free + ~$20/mo 40GB VM + Mongo; Vulners Free 100/day, Startup $200/mo 10k req/day, Business $500/mo 100k/day; VulnDB Commercial $30k/yr (~$2500/mo) 5 users; Recorded Future Vuln Module included $100k/yr Enterprise or +$20k/yr add-on

Dark Web Monitoring / OSINT Crawler Infra

Pricing & free-tier limitsTor Free; SpiderFoot OSS Free + ~$30/mo VM; Hunchly $129.99/yr (~$11/mo); IntelX.io Free 100 searches/mo then $60/mo Pro 1000; SpyCloud $40k/yr (~$3333/mo) base 3 users API 100k queries/mo $0.03 over; SearchLight $50k/yr (~$4166/mo) 5k dark web queries; ZeroFox $50k/yr (~$4166/mo) min

DNS / Passive DNS Logging

Pricing & free-tier limitsPi-hole Free; SecurityTrails Free 50 queries/mo, Pro $299/mo 10k queries $0.02 over; Farsight DNSDB Flex $199/mo 5000 queries, Standard $1995/mo unlimited user 500k queries/mo; RiskIQ PassiveTotal $15k/yr (~$1250/mo) base; VirusTotal Passive DNS included Enterprise $30k/yr (~$2500/mo)

Certificate Transparency Monitoring

Pricing & free-tier limitscrt.sh Free unlimited web/API; CertStream Free firehose + ~$15/mo consumer VM; Censys Free 250 queries/mo, Search Team $999/mo 10k queries/day $0.10/overage 100k/mo, Enterprise $5000/mo; Shodan Monitor Free 1 network + Pro $129/mo 2M scan credits, Enterprise $999/mo; SecurityTrails CT included Pro $299/mo

Honeypot / Deception Infrastructure

Pricing & free-tier limitsT-Pot Free OSS + ~$30/mo VPS 4GB; OpenCanary Free; CanaryTokens.org Free unlimited tokens; Thinkst Canary Free 1 Canary, Starter $7500/yr 5 canaries (~$625/mo) + $15/canary/mo over; Scale $15k/yr 20 birds; Enterprise $50k/yr (~$4166/mo) 100 birds; Attivo/SentinelOne Deception $30k/yr (~$2500/mo) base 50 deceptions

Threat Actor Attribution Graph DB

Pricing & free-tier limitsNeo4j Community Free + ~$40/mo VM 200k nodes; Aura Free 200k nodes 0.5GB then Professional $0.18/hr DB (~$130/mo) + $0.21/GB-hr storage; ArangoDB Free community; TigerGraph Cloud Free 100GB then $0.20/hr instance (~$146/mo) + storage $0.023/GB; AWS Neptune Serverless $0.15/NCU-hr (~$108/mo min) + $0.20/GB-mo

Case Management / Incident Response Platform

Pricing & free-tier limitsTheHive 5 Free OSS + ~$30/mo VM; Cortex Free OSS; IRIS Free OSS; Jira Cloud Free 10 users then Standard $8.15/user/mo (~$815/mo 100 users) Premium $16/user/mo; ServiceNow SecOps $40k/yr (~$3333/mo) base 5 users Standard; PagerDuty Free 5 users + Team $29/user/mo (~$290/mo 10 users) Business $49/user/mo

Automated IOC Enrichment / SOAR Trigger

Pricing & free-tier limitsShuffle Free self-hosted unlimited + Cloud Free 10k exec/mo then Pro $500/mo 100k exec; n8n OSS Free self-hosted + Cloud Starter $20/mo 2.5k execs 5 workflows $0.01/exec over; Tines Community Free 10k tasks $0.02/task over, Pro $500/mo 50k tasks, Enterprise $2500/mo; Cortex XSOAR $75k/yr (~$6250/mo) 1000 actions/day; Splunk SOAR $30k/yr (~$2500/mo) 10k actions/mo $0.05/action over; Swimlane $60k/yr (~$5000/mo)

Scalable Malware Cluster (K8s for CAPE/Cuckoo)

Pricing & free-tier limitsCAPE Free OSS + ~$100/mo 3x spot c6i.large ($0.05/hr each) + EKS $0.10/hr control plane (~$73/mo) + 500GB EBS $40/mo; Karpenter Free; Any.Run Private Cloud from $10k/mo single region; Joe Sandbox On-Prem Cluster $50k/yr (~$4166/mo) node + $25k/yr HA; VMRay Private Cloud $80k/yr (~$6666/mo) entry

File Reputation & Hash Lookup Cache (Redis)

Pricing & free-tier limitsRedis OSS Free + ~$15/mo 1GB VM; Upstash Free 10k cmds/day 256MB then Pay-as-you-go $0.20/100k cmds; Redis Cloud Free 30MB then Essentials $5/mo 100MB $0.15/GB over, Pro from $400/mo 10GB $0.15/GB over; ElastiCache Serverless $0.125/GB-hr (~$90/mo for 1GB constant) + $0.20/M ETCP requests + storage $0.023/GB; Momento Free 50GB transfer then $0.20/GB

Threat Intel Sharing (TAXII 2.1 Server)

Pricing & free-tier limitsOpenTAXII Free OSS + ~$20/mo VM 2 vCPU; MISP TAXII Free module; Anomali TAXII included with ThreatStream $50k/yr (~$4166/mo) unlimited collections; ThreatConnect TAXII included $40k/yr (~$3333/mo) 10 collections; EclecticIQ Platform $60k/yr (~$5000/mo) + TAXII server $200/mo hosting if external

YARA Rule Management & Scanning Engine

Pricing & free-tier limitsYARA Free OSS + ~$20/mo VM scanner; Valhalla OSS Free (1.5k rules) + Pro $1000/yr (~$83/mo) 10k rules; ClamAV Free; InQuest Free 1k files/day (public), Pro $500/mo 50k files/day private $0.01/file over; ReversingLabs A1000 $60k/yr (~$5000/mo) 1M file lookups/mo $0.005 over; VT YARA RetroHunt $20k/yr (~$1666/mo) add-on; Nextron THOR Cloud $3000/yr (~$250/mo) one scanner

OSINT Search & Crawling Cluster (Elasticsearch)

Pricing & free-tier limitsOpenSearch Free + ~$50/mo 100GB VM; IntelOwl OSS Free + ~$40/mo VM; Typesense Cloud Free 500k docs then $29/mo 2M docs; Meilisearch Free self-hosted; Elastic Cloud $95/mo 2GB RAM 50GB storage, $0.15/GB over + $0.12/hr ML; Algolia Free 10k records/10k searches then Starter $250/mo 100k records; GreyNoise Search embedded $1800/mo Enterprise

Document / Office Malware Extraction

Pricing & free-tier limitsoletools Free OSS; CyberChef Free browser + self-hosted; Hybrid-Analysis Free 100 API/day public, Pro $200/mo 500/day private $0.02/scan over; Any.Run Doc Pro $299/mo 300 docs/mo; Joe Sandbox Doc included $50k/yr Ultra bundle; VMRay $80k/yr (~$6666/mo) 5k files/day $0.15 each over limit

Blockchain Analysis / Crypto Tracing Node

Pricing & free-tier limitsBitcoin Core Free + ~$100/mo 1TB NVMe; Geth Erigon Archive Free + ~$200/mo NVMe 2TB node (m6i.xlarge spot $0.12/hr); Etherscan Free 5 calls/sec 100k/day, Pro $199/mo 3M calls/mo 10/sec $0.001 over; Alchemy Free 300M CU/mo then Growth $49/mo 1.5B CU; Chainalysis $60k/yr (~$5000/mo) 3 seats API 100k/yr $0.20 over; Elliptic $60k/yr (~$5000/mo) 10k queries/mo $0.25 over; TRM Labs $75k/yr (~$6250/mo)

Email Threat Analysis Gateway

Pricing & free-tier limitsurlscan.io Free 100/day public, Free Community API rate-limited, Pro $29/mo 5000 private scans API, Team $199/mo 20k scans $0.004 over; PhishTank Free unlimited; Proofpoint TAP Enterprise $60k/yr (~$5000/mo) for 1k users ($5/user/mo) + $0.30/GB over; Mimecast Email Security $3.50/user/mo min 100 users (~$350/mo) + $2/user/mo URL Protection add-on; Abnormal Security $40k/yr (~$3333/mo) 500 users ($6.66/user/mo)

Log Pipeline for Forensics (Kafka + S3 / Kinesis)

Pricing & free-tier limitsKafka OSS Free + ~$100/mo 500GB 3 brokers spot; Vector Free; Redpanda Cloud Free tier 2 vCPU 2GB then Starter $0.20/hr + $0.10/GB storage; Upstash Kafka Free 10GB ingress/mo then $0.10/GB ingested + $0.20/GB egress; Confluent Standard $75/mo + $0.18/GB ingress + $0.12/GB egress + $1.50/hr CKU; Kinesis On-demand $0.15/MB-hr ingress $0.023/shard hr provisioned + S3 $0.023/GB; WarpStream Free 1GB then $0.05/GB ingested

Chain of Custody & Audit Logging

Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudTrail Mgmt Events: First copy of mgmt events Free per region 90 days UI, additional $2/100k events; Lake $2.50/GB ingested, storage included 7yr $0.023/GB-mo after first 7yr? $1.99/GB scanned query; SigNoz OSS Free, Cloud Free 30-day retention 100GB then $0.30/GB, Teams $199/mo 500GB; Axiom Free 500GB then $0.15/GB ingested + $0.02/GB scanned query; Chronicle $5/GB ingested + $1/GB scanned

Secure Evidence Transfer (SFTP / S3 Replication)

Pricing & free-tier limitsOpenSSH SFTP Free; SFTPGo Community Free; FileZilla Server Free; AWS Transfer Family SFTP $0.30/hr endpoint (~$216/mo always-on) + $0.04/GB data up/down + S3 $0.023/GB; S3 CRR $0.023/GB + replication $0.005/1k req + S3 RTC $0.015/M metrics; Globus Standard Free for non-profit, Enterprise $10k/yr (~$833/mo) 50 endpoints $15/endpoint/mo over

Private Threat Intel LLM / RAG for Reports

Pricing & free-tier limitsOllama Free + ~$200/mo A10 GPU (24GB) on-demand $0.75/hr spot $0.35/hr ~$180/mo 50% util; Qdrant OSS Free + ~$30/mo VM, Cloud Free 1GB 5M vectors, Standard $70/mo 10GB, Dedicated $0.40/hr; Together AI Free $25 then $0.20/M tokens input $0.20/M output Llama 70B; OpenAI Team $25/seat/mo (2 seats min) then Enterprise $60/seat/mo min 100 seats ~$6000/mo + GPT-4o $2.50/M input $10/M output; Claude Team $40/user/mo min 5, Enterprise $75/user/mo min 50; Pinecone Starter Free 100k vectors then Starter $70/mo 2GB, p2 Dedicated $0.40/hr (~$288/mo) + storage $0.16/GB + $0.20/M reads

Global Sensor Network / IDS Telemetry Fleet

Pricing & free-tier limitsZeek/Suricata Free + ~$500/mo infra 10 sensors c6g.large $0.05/hr each + storage $0.023/GB; Security Onion Grid Free + ~$300/mo infra 10 sensors; Wazuh Free; Corelight Virtual Sensor $75k/yr each (~$6250/mo) or Physical $125k + $25k/yr support, Fleet discount $50k/yr per sensor at 20+; CrowdStrike Falcon Insight $59.99/endpoint/yr (~$4999/mo 1k endpoints); Velociraptor Enterprise $25k/yr (~$2083/mo) 5k endpoints; Emerging Threats Pro Ruleset $500/yr per sensor (~$42/mo)

High-Scale PCAP / S3 Glacier Archive (Evidence Lake)

Pricing & free-tier limitsStenographer Free OSS + ~$200/mo 10TB NVMe ring buffer; Arkime Free + $100/mo 4 vCPU viewer + storage $0.023/GB hot, $0.004/GB Glacier Instant; S3 Glacier Instant $0.004/GB-mo + retrieval $0.03/GB; Flexible $0.0036/GB-mo + expedited retrieval $10/1k req; Deep Archive $0.00099/GB-mo retrieval $0.025/GB bulk + $0.0025/1k req restore; Example 100TB Deep = $99/mo storage + $2500 bulk restore; CloudShark Archive $999/mo 1TB+

Dedicated Forensics Bare Metal / Nitro Enclave

Pricing & free-tier limitsQubes OS Free; KVM Free; Nitro Enclaves Free feature (no surcharge) + EC2 cost: c6a.4xlarge $0.50/hr on-demand $0.22/hr spot (~$120/mo at 50% duty), enclave 2-8 vCPU free; i3en.metal $6.02/hr (~$4334/mo on-demand) 60TB NVMe, i3en.metal-2tb $3.01/hr; Firecracker Free; Magnet AXIOM Cyber $6500/yr (~$541/mo) + FIPS workstation $10k one-time

Pricing & free-tier limitsS3 Object Lock Compliance Free feature + $0.023/GB-mo Standard indefinite legal hold (no auto delete); S3 Object Lock Legal Hold $0 + storage; Wasabi Vault Compliance $6.99/TB-mo $0.00699/GB no egress/API min 90d; Backblaze Legal Hold Free; Proofpoint Enterprise Archive $6/user/mo min 100 users (~$600/mo) + eDiscovery $3/user/mo; Smarsh $10k/yr (~$833/mo) base + $5/user/mo; Microsoft Purview eDiscovery Hold included E5 $35/user/mo or add-on $12/user/mo

Threat Hunting Data Lake (Snowflake / BigQuery 10TB+ logs)

Pricing & free-tier limitsDuckDB Free + S3 $0.023/GB ~$50/mo 2TB; ClickHouse OSS Free + ~$100/mo 1TB VM; ClickHouse Cloud Free 15GB storage 100GB scanned, Growth $0.20/GB storage mo + $0.15/GB scanned query, min $150/mo; BigQuery On-demand $7.50/TB scanned Free 1TB/mo query + $0.023/GB storage active $0.0125 long-term; Flat rate Enterprise $2500/mo 100 slots; Snowflake $4/credit Standard (~$400/mo 100 credits) + storage $40/TB compressed/mo ($0.04/GB); Databricks SQL Pro $0.70/DBU-hr (~$500/mo 1 cluster); Panther Data Lake $500/mo 1TB ingested then $0.15/GB; AWS Security Lake Free but Glue + S3 costs ~$200/mo 2TB

Cross-Cloud Forensic Acquisition (Velociraptor Fleet)

Pricing & free-tier limitsVelociraptor Free OSS + ~$100/mo infra (t3.xlarge + 500GB S3) for 1k agents; KAPE Free; AWS Lambda $0.20/1M requests + $0.00001667/GB-sec + S3 $0.023/GB; CrowdStrike Forensics Add-on $12k/yr (~$1000/mo) per team; Binalyze AIR Enterprise $35k/yr (~$2916/mo) 1000 endpoints $5/endpoint/mo overage; Cado Response Platform $50k/yr (~$4166/mo) 10TB auto-acquisition $0.10/GB over; Magnet AXIOM Cyber Cloud $7500/yr (~$625/mo)

Zero-Trust Access for IR Team (ZTA / Bastion)

Pricing & free-tier limitsTeleport Community Free + ~$30/mo VM for auth/proxy 5k sessions; WireGuard Free; Pomerium OSS Free; Tailscale Free 3 users 100 devices, Personal Pro $6/user/mo (~$18/mo 3 users) + $18/mo extra users, Teams $6/user/mo min 5 seats; Cloudflare Zero Trust Free 50 users then $7/user/mo standard Enterprise minimum $2000/yr; Teleport Enterprise $12k/yr (~$1000/mo) Starter 25 users $5/user/mo over, Pro $30k/yr (~$2500/mo) 100 users; Zscaler ZPA $25k/yr (~$2083/mo) 100 users $21/user/mo; StrongDM $85/user/mo

Options and prices come straight from our research sheets for a enterprise threat intelligence and digital forensics project. Prices are estimates and change often — always confirm on the provider's page before committing.

How this enterprise threat intelligence and digital forensics checklist works.

Each requirement below is something a enterprise threat intelligence and digital forensics build typically needs. Pick one of the four researched options — recommended, free, cheaper or paid — add your own with "Other", or skip the requirement if your project doesn't need it. Nothing is mandatory; the plan on the right tracks what you've decided so nothing gets forgotten.

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