Comparison
The other platforms here can do most of what we do. The difference is what you pay for it: filtering, CPE management and a hotspot are separately licensed almost everywhere else, and included here. We charge $0.20 per active subscriber a month, or R3.30. Every other figure on this page comes from that vendor’s own published pricing, linked at the bottom, with the date we checked.
The honest number
Not the licence on the front page — the licence plus the modules you will want on day one. Filtering, CPE management and a captive-portal hotspot are not exotic; most WISPs end up with all three.
| 1 000 subscribers, 1 000 CPEs, a hotspot | Wanvane | Splynx | Sonar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per subscriber, per month | $0.20 or R3.30 |
$0.55a | $1.25b |
| Platform licence | $200 R3 300 |
$550a | $1 250b |
| DNS filtering for customers | included | from $80–160c | not published |
| TR-069 CPE management, 1 000 devices | included | $100d | not published |
| Captive-portal hotspot | included | from $100e | not published |
| Network monitoring | included — 200 devices | MikroTik only, included | includedb |
| Setup and support | included | 2 hours, then $70/houra | in the quoteb |
| Roughly, per month | $200 R3 300 |
about $910 ≈ R16 400 |
$1 250 ≈ R22 500 |
Every per-subscriber figure above is a published dollar rate, so that top row needs no exchange rate to read: $0.20 against $0.55 and $1.25. The Rand equivalents of the other two are at R18 to the dollar and will move with it — ours will not, if you choose to be billed in Rand. Our smallest licence is 300 subscribers ($60 or R990 a month), sold in hundreds after that, and paying annually saves 10 per cent. Sonar’s rate is its published Tier 1 price and needs an annual contract; the Whalebone figures are what we have been quoted rather than a published rate, so treat them as indicative and check for yourself.
What is in the box
We will not tell you another product cannot do something. Nearly everything below exists on Splynx too — the column says what it costs. A question mark means we could not confirm it either way, not that it is missing.
| Wanvane | Splynx | Sonar | UISP / UCRM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billing, invoices, quotes, credit notes | included | included | included | included |
| RADIUS, PPPoE, live disconnect | included | included | ? | ? |
| Captive-portal hotspot | included | from $100/moe | ? | ? |
| TR-069 CPE management | included | $100 per 1 000 devicesd | ? | own gear |
| DNS filtering, per customer | included | Whalebone add-onc | ? | ? |
| Monitoring — MikroTik, Ubiquiti UISP, VSOL GPON | all three, included | MikroTik only | includedb | Ubiquiti-firstf |
| WhatsApp, SMS and email to customers | included | integrations | ? | ? |
| Netcash debit orders with DebiCheck mandates | included | yes | ? | no |
| Debit-order results reconciled from the bank statement | included | yes | ? | ? |
| Coverage check you can embed on your own site | included | newer versions | ? | ? |
| Field service — jobs, scheduling, dispatch | included | included | included | included |
| Customer portal on your own domain and branding | included | included | ? | included |
| Accounting hand-off | QuickBooks — Sage, Xero and Zoho Books next | yes | yes | ? |
| Hosted by us, or on your own server | either | either | ? | either |
| Currency you are billed in | Rand or US dollars — R3.30 or $0.20 a subscriber | US dollars | US dollars | — |
| Price published on the website | yes | yes | tiers | free |
included in the base price extra separately licensed, or with a caveat ? not published, we could not confirm no documented as not supported
Where we are honest
A comparison page that finds no fault with its own product is an advert. These are real, and you should weigh them.
Splynx, Powercode and Azotel have served ISPs for well over a decade, with the breadth of edge cases that comes from that. We are newer, and we run a real network of our own — which is why we exist, but it is not the same as twenty years of other people’s networks.
If your books are on Sage, Xero or Zoho, the hand-off is manual for now. All three are next on the list and none of them are hard — but today it is an export, not a sync.
Rand, Netcash, DebiCheck, WhatsApp, local support hours. If you bill in dollars across three continents, a vendor built for that will fit you better than we will.
Migration assistance
Nobody changes billing system because the demo looked nice. They change when moving stops being frightening. So here is exactly what transfers, what does not, and who does the work — before you talk to anyone.
| What comes across | From Splynx | From any other system |
|---|---|---|
| Customers, addresses, company details, VAT and registration numbers, account codes | yes | yes, from a CSV |
| Which package each customer is on | yes | yes, by name |
| Package definitions and prices | yes | rebuilt with you — usually an hour |
| Services with their PPPoE usernames and passwords | yes | CSV, or rebuilt |
| NAS and IP pool wiring | yes | set up with you |
| Invoices, credit notes and balances | yes | opening balances; history stays where it is |
| Tickets, leads, WhatsApp history, documents | yes | no |
| Stock and inventory | yes | no |
| Voice numbers and call records | yes | no |
We import a copy into a workspace only you can see, and you check it against the system you are running today — customer counts, what each one pays, who is overdue. Nothing is live and nothing is billed. If the numbers do not match, we fix the import and run it again.
Your old system keeps billing while Wanvane runs alongside it. You compare one full billing cycle before anything depends on us. RADIUS can be pointed at us for a handful of test accounts first, not the whole network.
We connect to your Splynx over its own API, read-only, and pull customers, services, packages, invoices, tickets, inventory and call records. No export file to produce, and we can re-read it right up to the day you cut over so nothing that changed in between is lost.
Point your NAS at our RADIUS, switch your debit-order run over, and stop invoicing on the old system. Sessions already up stay up. We are on the phone while it happens, not in a ticket queue.
Tell us what you are on now and roughly how many subscribers. We will tell you honestly what will and will not come across before you commit to anything.
Sources
Checked 27 September 2026 against each vendor’s own public pages. Prices and features change, and add-on rates are negotiated; if something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
Splynx, Sonar, Ubiquiti, UISP, UCRM, Whalebone, Powerlynx, Powercode, Azotel and VISP are the trade marks of their respective owners. This page is our reading of their public material, not their statement about themselves.