SolarWinds supercharges Advanced plan with AI runbooks, ESM, and data masking
What happened
Between the Apr 27, 2026 and May 4, 2026 captures of SolarWinds's pricing page, Pulse recorded 3 changes: Advanced plan significantly expanded: Runbooks, AI-Generated Resolution Summaries, Enterprise Service Management (ESM), Change Templates & Workflows, Response Templates, Audit History, and Data Masking added; Essentials plan gained CMDB as an explicit feature (replacing duplicate Knowledge Base entry) and new Light & Dark Mode UI theme support; Premier plan restructured: AI suite expanded (AI Incident Summaries, AI-Guided Solutions, AI Runbook Drafting), Sandbox and Onboarding Services added; SolarWinds AI Premier and Advanced Support removed. Pulse files it as a product change (feature added, feature change) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Jun 30, 2026) lists Essentials at $39, Advanced at $99 and Premier at $124.
This is the first pricing-page change Pulse has recorded for SolarWinds. SolarWinds has been tracked since 2026-03-19.
In the same window Microsoft, IBM, New Relic and Dynatrace also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Advanced · FeatureFeature added
Advanced plan significantly expanded: Runbooks, AI-Generated Resolution Summaries, Enterprise Service Management (ESM), Change Templates & Workflows, Response Templates, Audit History, and Data Masking added.
- Essentials · FeatureAddedNo CMDBCMDB
- Premier, Advanced · FeatureRemoved
BeforeSolarWinds AI Premier and Advanced Support
AfterNot listed
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced | Feature | Advanced plan significantly expanded: Runbooks, AI-Generated Resolution Summaries, Enterprise Service Management (ESM), Change Templates & Workflows, Response Templates, Audit History, and Data Masking added. | Feature added | |
| Essentials | Feature | No CMDB | CMDB | Added |
| Premier, Advanced | Feature | SolarWinds AI Premier and Advanced Support | Not listed | Removed |
Values as written on SolarWinds's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of SolarWinds's pricing page (www.solarwinds.com) from Apr 27, 2026 and May 4, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where CMDB now appears.
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SolarWinds, pricing history
Full history- Jul 4, 2026increaseSolarWinds: Advanced/Premier price hikes (+25%) + feature reshuffle
- Jun 9, 2026increaseSolarWinds raises technician plans 25%, now $99–$124/mo
- May 4, 2026improvedSolarWinds supercharges Advanced plan with AI runbooks, ESM, and data masking · this change
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
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- IBMApr 22IBM Maas360 ends 30% promo, restores full device prices from $4.24 to $9.54
- New RelicApr 16New Relic expands platform integrations from 750+ to 780+ on pricing page
- DynatraceApr 3Dynatrace rebrands Davis AI as Dynatrace Intelligence, overhauls pricing page
Questions about this change
Did SolarWinds raise prices in May 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Apr 27, 2026 and May 4, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a product change: feature added, feature change.
What changed on SolarWinds's pricing page between Apr 27, 2026 and May 4, 2026?
Advanced plan significantly expanded: Runbooks, AI-Generated Resolution Summaries, Enterprise Service Management (ESM), Change Templates & Workflows, Response Templates, Audit History, and Data Masking added; Essentials feature: No CMDB → CMDB, added; Premier, Advanced feature: SolarWinds AI Premier and Advanced Support → Not listed, removed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Apr 27, 2026 and May 4, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does SolarWinds change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for SolarWinds in the 90 days before this one; SolarWinds has been tracked since 2026-03-19.