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The competition is not quite so easy going: one our competitor's pricing plan "typically begins in the $50-100,000 range for grids of less than 50 processors and ranges into six or seven figures for larger deployments." Another competitor offers a product at prices starting higher than $100,000. By comparison, we suggest that your grid should have at least ten nodes, which means it would cost at least $1000.
JIVA's low starting price and client license cost means that you can try it out without having to commit hundreds of thousands of dollars to it. If it doesn't work for you (we think it will) you are out only a small investment and can investigate pricier options.