--- description: Review of Thales Sentinel Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice New Zealand. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Thales Sentinel | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [SaaS Management Software](/directory/4346/saas-management/software) > [Thales Sentinel](/software/155881/thales-sentinel) # Thales Sentinel Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/155881/thales-sentinel Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/155881/thales-sentinel?page=2) > Software vendors across industries are transforming their business models to ensure sales growth and operational efficiency across business lines and distribution types. Yet protecting intellectual property, controlling access, and avoiding data leakage remain challenges. Thales Sentinel, the world's leading software monetization, licensing and entitlements platform, backed by Thales secrity, enables organizations to protect, grow, and maximize revenue from their software. The platform helps organizations grow at scale by implementing recurring revenue with agile pricing and packaging for diverse targets, across direct and partner distributions. Using an entitlement management system, companies can diversify revenue streams, set up customer-centric product bundles, and configure pricing and packaging tailored to target markets. Key benefits of Thales Sentinel include: Providing copy protection and IP protection to stop piracy and safeguard intellectual property. Enforcing licensing terms and conditions to control access and revenue leakage. Deploying licenses via the cloud, on-prem, or on hardware keys for hardware-embedded software, on-prem, or SaaS. Harnessing usage data insights to proactively upsell packages, renew subscriptions, bolster sales, and increase customer satisfaction. Thales Sentinel supports organizations seeking to transform business models, diversify revenue streams, and maximize revenue from their software through secure, scalable software monetization. > > Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 6 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 6 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Thales Group - **Founded**: 1983 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Usage Based (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Flexible Packaging for Every Software Business Model Every software company has unique products, customers, and commercialization strategies. That's why Thales Software Monetization is packaged around your business requirements—not rigid pricing tiers. Whether you're licensing on-premises software, SaaS applications, embedded systems, cloud services, or AI solutions, our platform enables you to adopt the monetization model that best fits your business today while giving you the flexibility to evolve over time. Licensing \& Monetization Models Choose from a wide range of monetization strategies—all managed through a single platform. Subscription Licensing: Offer monthly or annual subscriptions with automated renewals, entitlement lifecycle management, and seamless customer experiences. Usage-Based Monetization: Meter and monetize software based on API calls, transactions, compute hours, storage, feature consumption, AI inference, or virtually any measurable usage metric. Feature-Based Licensing: Create differentiated product editions and premium feature bundles that allow customers to upgrade as their needs grow. Perpetual Licensing: Support traditional perpetual software licenses with maintenance renewals, version entitlements, and upgrade paths. Capacity-Based Licensing: License according to CPUs, cores, virtual machines, containers, devices, users, or other infrastructure metrics. Token \& Credit Models: Enable flexible consumption through token pools, credits, or shared enterprise entitlements. Deployment Options: Deploy the platform the way your organization prefers. • Fully managed SaaS • Customer-managed deployment • Hybrid cloud • On-premises • Private cloud • Multi-cloud Platform Capabilities: Every deployment can include capabilities such as: • Centralized licensing management • Entitlement management • Customer self-service portal • Software activation • Product catalog management • License generation • REST APIs • Usage telemetry • Analytics \& reporting • ERP/CRM integrations • Audit logging • Role-based administration • High availability • Offline licensing support Optional Platform Add-ons: Extend the platform with specialized capabilities designed for modern software businesses. Contact our team to discuss the right deployment, packaging, and licensing approach for your organization Ideal For: • Enterprise software vendors • Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) • SaaS providers • AI software companies • Industrial automation providers • Medical device software manufacturers • Semiconductor and EDA vendors • Engineering and CAD software vendors • Cybersecurity software companies • Embedded software developers Talk to an Expert Whether you're modernizing legacy licensing, launching a SaaS offering, introducing usage-based monetization, or commercializing AI-powered products, our specialists can help design a licensing and monetization strategy tailored to your business. - **Target Audience**: 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise) - **Supported Languages**: Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese - **Available Countries**: Albania, American Samoa, Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria and 122 more ## Features - AI Copilot - API - Access Control - Access Controls/Permissions - Access Management - Active Directory Integration - Activity Dashboard - Activity Tracking - Ad hoc Reporting - Adaptive & Contextual Access Control - Administration Console - Administrative Reporting - Alerts/Notifications - Application Integrations - Application Management - Audit Management - Audit Trail - Auditing - Authentication - Authentication User experience ## Integrations (38 total) - Adobe Commerce - BigCommerce - Boomi - Chargebee - Conga CPQ - DealHub - Freshdesk - GitLab - GitLab - HubSpot CRM Integration for Jira - Jenkins - Maxio - Microsoft Dynamics CRM Adapter for SAP CPI - Microsoft Dynamics CRM Adapter for SAP SDI - MuleSoft Anypoint Platform ... and 23 more integrations ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [SaaS Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4346/saas-management/software) ## Related Categories - [SaaS Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4346/saas-management/software) - [License Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4637/license-management/software) - [Access Governance Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4665/access-governance/software) - [Single Sign On Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4347/single-sign-on/software) - [Multi-Factor Authentication Software (MFA)](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4459/multi-factor-authentication/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Used Gemalto for 10+years. ----- ### "EMS for Enterprise" — 4.0/5 > **Carl** | *11 July 2019* | Oil & Energy | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: The Sentinel EMS provides the features needed to support an increasing number of SaaS solutions marketed by my organization. > > **Cons**: It would be nice if the Enhanced Partner Portal used with the Sentinel EMS based more in the Cloud to ease maintenance tasks. > > My organization uses all of these Sentinel solutions and we are happy with the features and support from Thales. ----- ### "Thales - Not the easiest to use, but does the job" — 5.0/5 > **Warren** | *12 June 2023* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: In order to get a list of licensing and numbers up to date, is not always easy. Thales helps with this process and gives reliable numbers when required. > > **Cons**: We did struggle to start with to get to grips with the software. This has proven to be the case each time a new user has started to use it. It isn't the easiest to pickup and start using. > > We identified Thales as a good option to list our software licensing, as some of our customers relied on 24/7 access to this data in order to meet their ISO requirements. ----- ### "HASP keys still very much in demand\!" — 5.0/5 > **Jon** | *4 October 2021* | Mining & Metals | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Thales has done a great job keeping up with the latest operating system challenges > > **Cons**: Unable to remotely cancel stolen assets. > > Still hopeful that we will get remote admin capabilities ----- ### "Does the job" — 4.0/5 > **Bobby** | *20 April 2021* | Banking | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: We use sentinel to input our Loans for clients at the bank. It is easy to input information, once you figure out how sentinel works. > > **Cons**: It can be confusing to use at times. It is slow sometimes. Sometimes it goes down for some time when you are in the middle of using it. > > Overall, it does the job and allows us to input our loans to work on for clients. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/155881/thales-sentinel?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/155881/thales-sentinel) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data