specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: AppDynamics
providerId: appdynamics
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-05'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - APM
  - Application Performance Monitoring
  - Observability
  - Cisco
  - Splunk
description: AppDynamics (Cisco; sold through Splunk) is priced per vCPU per month, billed annually, across
  three named editions (Infrastructure, Premium, Enterprise) with optional add-ons for Secure Application,
  Real User Monitoring (RUM), Browser Synthetics, and SAP. The APIs (Controller REST, Metric & Snapshot,
  RUM, Mobile RUM, Cisco AppDynamics Cloud Native APM/APM/IM/RUM/Synthetic) are entitlement-gated by the
  edition the customer purchases — there is no separate per-API price.
sources:
  - https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/pricing/observability.html
plans:
  - id: appdynamics-infrastructure
    name: Infrastructure Edition
    type: subscription
    description: Per-vCPU monthly subscription for infrastructure-only monitoring. Annual billing.
    entries:
      - label: Per vCPU per month
        name: vcpu_month
        type: subscription
        metric: vcpu
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: $6 per vCPU/month (annual)
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Server visibility / infrastructure monitoring
      - name: Network visibility
      - name: Annual billing
  - id: appdynamics-premium
    name: Premium Edition
    type: subscription
    description: Mid-tier per-vCPU subscription including APM in addition to infrastructure monitoring.
    entries:
      - label: Per vCPU per month
        name: vcpu_month
        type: subscription
        metric: vcpu
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: $33 per vCPU/month (annual)
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: APM (Application Performance Monitoring)
      - name: Server visibility
      - name: Database visibility (limited)
      - name: Annual billing
  - id: appdynamics-enterprise
    name: Enterprise Edition
    type: subscription
    description: Top tier per-vCPU subscription with full observability stack — APM, infra, business iQ
      analytics, end-user monitoring, transaction analytics.
    entries:
      - label: Per vCPU per month
        name: vcpu_month
        type: subscription
        metric: vcpu
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: $50 per vCPU/month (annual)
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: APM
      - name: Business iQ
      - name: Database visibility
      - name: End-user / browser RUM (entitlement)
      - name: Transaction analytics
      - name: Annual billing
  - id: appdynamics-secure-application
    name: Secure Application (Add-on)
    type: subscription
    description: Runtime application self-protection / security add-on, priced per CPU core per month.
    entries:
      - label: Per CPU core per month
        name: secure_cpu_core_month
        type: subscription
        metric: cpu-core
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: $13.75 per CPU core/month
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Runtime application self-protection (RASP)
      - name: Vulnerability detection
  - id: appdynamics-rum
    name: Real User Monitoring (Add-on)
    type: usage-based
    description: RUM tokens metered per 1,000.
    entries:
      - label: Per 1,000 tokens per month
        name: rum_tokens
        type: metered
        metric: token
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1000
        price: $0.06 per 1,000 tokens/month
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Browser RUM
      - name: Mobile RUM
  - id: appdynamics-browser-synthetics
    name: Browser Synthetics (Add-on)
    type: subscription
    description: Synthetic browser checks priced per test location per month.
    entries:
      - label: Per test location per month
        name: synthetic_location_month
        type: subscription
        metric: location
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: $12 per test location/month
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Synthetic browser checks
  - id: appdynamics-sap-enterprise
    name: SAP Enterprise Edition (Add-on)
    type: subscription
    description: SAP-specific edition priced per CPU core per month.
    entries:
      - label: Per CPU core per month
        name: sap_cpu_core_month
        type: subscription
        metric: cpu-core
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: $95 per CPU core/month
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: SAP NetWeaver / S/4HANA monitoring
      - name: ABAP transaction tracing
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-canonical:
  generated: '2026-10-08'
  vocabulary: all/0-working/economics/plans-canonical.yml
  models:
  - metered
  - subscription
  units:
  - object
  - token
  plans:
  - name: Infrastructure Edition
    access: other
    model: subscription
    model_how: stated
    units:
    - other
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Premium Edition
    access: other
    model: subscription
    model_how: stated
    units:
    - other
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Enterprise Edition
    access: other
    model: subscription
    model_how: stated
    units:
    - other
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Secure Application (Add-on)
    access: other
    model: subscription
    model_how: stated
    units:
    - other
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Real User Monitoring (Add-on)
    access: other
    model: metered
    model_how: stated
    units:
    - token
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Browser Synthetics (Add-on)
    access: other
    model: subscription
    model_how: stated
    units:
    - object
    periods:
    - month
  - name: SAP Enterprise Edition (Add-on)
    access: other
    model: subscription
    model_how: stated
    units:
    - other
    periods:
    - month