Compare CertKit and guardsix on pricing, features, platforms, and ratings — both Security tools, Freemium tiered subscription (Community, Professional,…
Guardsix does not publish specific pricing tiers or numbers on its website. It markets 'predictable pricing' as an alternative to competitors' ingestion-based (data-volume) SIEM pricing, but exact costs require contacting sales.
Starting price
Free (Community plan); paid plans start at $99/month (Professional)
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Pricing Compared
Starting price reflects the lowest paid tier, not the full cost for every team size or usage level.
CertKit
Community — Free n/a
Professional — $99/month monthly
Business — $399/month monthly
Enterprise — Custom quote annual or custom
guardsix
No individual plan breakdown documented yet.
Pros & Cons
CertKit
Pros
Free Community tier makes it easy to evaluate the platform's core discovery and monitoring capabilities without cost.
Deployment via a single agent to a wide range of servers and network appliances, without needing ACME configured everywhere, simplifies rollout across heterogeneous infrastructure.
Certificate Transparency-based discovery surfaces forgotten or unauthorized certificates that manual tracking would likely miss.
Generous 90-day free trial on paid tiers with no credit card required lowers the barrier to a full evaluation.
Purpose-built and narrowly focused on certificate lifecycle management rather than being a small feature bolted onto a broader security suite.
Cons
A relatively new product, launched in 2024, with less of a long-term track record than established certificate lifecycle management vendors.
Small company (TrackJS LLC) behind the product means less scale of support and resources compared to larger enterprise security vendors.
Free and entry-level paid tiers cap certificate and agent counts fairly low (2 and 10 respectively), meaning larger organizations will need Business or Enterprise pricing quickly.
Enterprise pricing is custom and not published, requiring a sales conversation for large-scale or multi-tenant deployments.
As with any tool crawling Certificate Transparency logs, discovery is limited to publicly logged certificates and won't surface internal-only or private CA-issued certificates not logged publicly.
guardsix
Pros
Consolidates SIEM, NDR, SOAR, Fleet, and Governance into one platform instead of stitching together point tools
Strong focus on EU data sovereignty with on-premises/local deployment options
Integrates with widely used security and cloud vendors (Palo Alto, Cisco, CyberArk, Rapid7, Qualys, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle) without requiring customers to replace existing tooling
Deep cybersecurity pedigree via its Logpoint heritage, including acquired SOAR/XDR (SecBI) and AI-driven NDR (Muninn) technology
Markets predictable, non-ingestion-based pricing, addressing a common pain point with traditional SIEM cost models
Cons
No public pricing is disclosed, making it hard to evaluate cost without contacting sales
Recent rebrand (March 2026) from Logpoint may cause brand-recognition confusion during the transition period
Enterprise-grade SIEM/NDR/SOAR platform is likely overkill and cost-prohibitive for small businesses without dedicated security staff
Marketing is squarely aimed at Europe/critical infrastructure, so fit for non-European or non-regulated organizations is less clear
Use Cases
CertKit
Preventing certificate-expiration outages — IT teams use CertKit's monitoring and automated renewal to eliminate the risk of a forgotten certificate expiring and taking down a production service unexpectedly.
Auditing an organization's full certificate footprint — Security teams use CertKit's Certificate Transparency-based discovery to build a complete inventory of every certificate issued for their domains, including ones issued outside official processes.
Managing certificates across multiple client environments — Managed service providers use CertKit's multi-tenant Enterprise tier to centrally track and automate certificate lifecycle management across many separate client infrastructures.