According to this Interview from 2021 costs are ultimately expected to be roughly the same. Also it can be argued that having Support and security patches for the Software is more or less required by law if you intend to use it in (German) public Service.

As someone who had their tech confiscated by german police (not due to hatespeech though but something else I do not wish to talk about) I can tell you, suddenly loosing pretty much all of your hardware is no fun at all. Especially since you won’t be seeing it again for a long time, in my case it took about 2 years and that was with a settlement outside of court.