Lepide quote-gates pricing; its Classification Engine scans file content for DLP. gtools.pro Watchtower: public EUR 7/user/yr, zero-knowledge M365 audit.
Capabilities
Public pricing
How sensitive data is found
How you buy it
Data-handling architecture claims
Product scope & module pricing
Pricing range
From 0 EUR up to 2490 EUR across 6 plans.
Frequently asked questions
Does Lepide publish its pricing?
Not on lepide.com. Buying starts with a 'Request a Quote' form that collects user count and modules but shows no price (verified 2026-07-24, lepide.com/quoterequest.html). A 'SMB Core $5.00 per user, per year' figure exists, but only on the third-party site SoftwareAdvice — not as a first-party number from Lepide. gtools.pro's comparable SKU, Watchtower, is priced publicly at EUR 7/user/year on gtools.pro itself.
Does Lepide's Data Classification Engine scan the contents of my files?
Yes. Lepide's own Microsoft 365 auditing page states its data discovery and classification feature identifies, classifies, tags and scores data 'based on the content' it finds in SharePoint, OneDrive and file servers (verified 2026-07-24). That is a deliberate design choice for DLP use cases, not a flaw — but it means Lepide's platform is built to read plaintext file content.
What does gtools.pro see when it audits my Microsoft 365 tenant?
Metadata only. gtools.pro's security-audit tools (Watchtower) call the Microsoft Graph API to read permissions, sharing links, and configuration state — file content is never opened, scanned, or transmitted. The platform is zero-knowledge end-to-end (Argon2id, XChaCha20-Poly1305, X25519, Ed25519), so the server itself only ever sees ciphertext.
How much does gtools.pro's security-audit tool cost?
Watchtower is EUR 7 per user per year, billed annually, listed publicly on gtools.pro with no quote form and no sales call needed to see the price.
Can I actually buy gtools.pro's security-audit tool today, or is it 'coming soon' like some other gtools.pro SKUs?
Watchtower is a live, purchasable SKU — this is distinct from gtools.pro's Move (migration) SKU, which is genuinely coming-soon/waitlist-only with checkout not yet enabled. Watchtower checkout runs on PayPal today; Stripe card payments are planned but not yet live.
Wedge claim
gtools.pro audits Microsoft 365 permissions and sharing metadata via read-only Graph API calls and never reads file content, at a published EUR 7/user/year price — Lepide's Data Classification Engine scans file content for DLP/classification and its per-user pricing is quote-gated, surfacing a number only via third-party listings, not lepide.com itself.
Comparison rows
Public pricing. Lepide: No numeric price appears anywhere on lepide.com — the quote-request page collects user count and modules but lists no price (verified as of 2026-07-24, lepide.com/quoterequest.html). A per-user/year figure ('SMB Core $5.00 per user, per year') surfaces only on the third-party listing site SoftwareAdvice, never on lepide.com itself (verified as of 2026-07-24). GTools.pro: Watchtower (gtools.pro's security-audit SKU) is listed publicly at EUR 7 / user / year, annual subscription, directly on gtools.pro — no quote form, no sales call, no third party required to see the price.
How sensitive data is found. Lepide: Lepide's data classification module ('Lepide Identify') identifies, classifies, tags and scores sensitive data 'based on the content' it finds inside files in SharePoint, OneDrive and file servers, per Lepide's own Microsoft 365 auditing page and FAQ (verified as of 2026-07-24). GTools.pro: gtools.pro's security-audit tools read Microsoft Graph API metadata only — permissions, sharing links, configuration state. File content is never opened, scanned, or transmitted to run an audit.
How you buy it. Lepide: Purchasing starts with a 'Request a Quote' form (lepide.com/quoterequest.html) — there is no self-serve checkout or listed price to act on without contacting sales (verified as of 2026-07-24). GTools.pro: Buy Watchtower directly on gtools.pro at the published EUR 7/user/year rate via PayPal checkout today (Stripe card payments planned); no sales call required.
Data-handling architecture claims. Lepide: No zero-knowledge, end-to-end-encryption, or ciphertext-only claim appears anywhere across lepide.com's homepage, its Microsoft 365 product page, its Netwrix-alternative post, or its llms.txt (checked directly, verified as of 2026-07-24) — consistent with a platform whose classification engine is designed to read file content. GTools.pro: gtools.pro is zero-knowledge end-to-end: Argon2id, XChaCha20-Poly1305, X25519 and Ed25519 mean the server sees ciphertext only. The Desktop edition keeps data on the operator's own machine.
Product scope & module pricing. Lepide: Lepide markets a unified 'Data Security Platform' spanning Active Directory, Windows file servers, Microsoft 365/Entra ID and more, with capabilities and pricing broken out per platform/module (per lepide.com/llms.txt 'Core capabilities' list, verified as of 2026-07-24) rather than one flat SKU. GTools.pro: Watchtower is one flat-rate M365 security-audit SKU at EUR 7/user/year, annual — no separate per-module add-ons to price out before you know your total cost.
GTools.pro limitations vs Lepide — where Lepide wins and what GTools.pro is not for
Lepide integrates into the broader Microsoft security stack (Defender XDR, Sentinel, Purview) and ships preview-and-respond UI primitives. GTools.pro is a point-in-time exporter / auditor — it stops at producing evidence, then hands remediation back to the operator inside the Entra and Defender consoles.