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EDR / XDR Tools Compared

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) tools monitor user workstations, servers, and cloud workloads for malicious activity. Side-by-side comparison across 6 tools — descriptive only, no recommendations.

8 min read Data verified: May 2026 6 tools compared
CrowdStrike Falcon
EDR / XDR
Paid
$59.99-$184.99/endpoint/yr across 4 tiers
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SentinelOne Singularity
EDR / XDR
Paid
From ~$6/endpoint/mo, custom enterprise pricing
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Microsoft Defender
EDR / XDR
Freemium
Free (built-in Windows AV) or included in Microsoft 365 E5 (~$57/user/mo for full E5)
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Wazuh
EDR / SIEM
Free / OSS
Free (open source, GPL-2.0) paid support and managed cloud available
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ClamAV
Antivirus
Free / OSS
Free (open source, GPL-2.0)
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Bitdefender GravityZone
EDR / Antivirus
Paid
From ~$3/endpoint/mo tiered with Business Security through GravityZone XDR
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CrowdStrike Falcon
EDR / XDR
SentinelOne Singularity
EDR / XDR
Microsoft Defender
EDR / XDR
Wazuh
EDR / SIEM
ClamAV
Antivirus
Bitdefender GravityZone
EDR / Antivirus
$ Pricing & plans
5 dimensions
Pricing model
Falcon Go ($59.99/endpoint/yr), Pro (~$110), Enterprise ($184.99), Elite &…
Complete MDR (custom enterprise quote)
Singularity Core (~$6/endpoint/mo), Control, Complete, and Commercial tiers
volume and term-based negotiation common
Defender Antivirus is free with Windows
Defender for Endpoint P1 and P2 sold standalone (~$3-$5.20/user/mo) or included in M365 E5
Software is free under GPL-2.0
Wazuh Cloud SaaS is per-agent custom pricing; paid 24/7 support contracts available (typically ~$16K/yr median based on practitioner reports)
Free (GPL-2.0)
Business Security (~$3/endpoint/mo), Business Security Premium, GravityZone XDR…
(custom enterprise); per-endpoint, term-based
Pricing tier
Paid
Paid
Freemium
Free / OSS
Free / OSS
Paid
Free tier / trial
Trial only
15-day trial of Falcon Prevent with Device Control and Express Support
Trial only
30-day evaluation available; no free tier
Free tier
Built-in Windows AV is free; 90-day trial available for Defender for Endpoint and full M365 E5
Free tier
Software permanently free; 14-day Wazuh Cloud trial available
Free tier
Permanently free; no paid tiers
Trial only
30-day free trial of all paid tiers
Volume discounts
Tiered pricing breaks at 500, 1000, and 5000 endpoints (typical 10-20% off list…
at enterprise scale)
Breaks at 500, 1000, 2500 endpoints
multi-year contracts reduce per-endpoint cost
Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and CSP volume tiers
typical 10-30% discount at enterprise scale
Not applicable for software (free)
managed support pricing scales with agent count
Not applicable (free)
Volume breaks at 25, 100, 500, 1000 endpoints
MSP licensing model also available
Hidden costs
Identity Protection, NG-SIEM, and Cloud Security are separate modules
extended data retention is an add-on; Elite support is a premium tier
Extended data retention, threat intelligence feeds (Singularity Threat…
Intelligence), and Vigilance MDR are priced separately
Full EDR/XDR/Sentinel integration value depends on M365 E5 licensing
cross-platform support and some Sentinel ingestion may incur additional cost
Infrastructure (servers, storage for OpenSearch indexer), specialized labor,…
training time, no built-in SOAR (typically integrated with TheHive/Cortex)
Operational labor for signature update management, false positive tuning, and integration
no commercial support
Premium support tier, advanced threat intelligence add-on, MDR service if elected
↗ Deployment & integrations
3 dimensions
Deployment
Cloud-native SaaS only
agent installs in minutes per endpoint
SaaS is standard; on-premises deployment available
uncommon among major EDR vendors
Cloud-managed via Microsoft 365 Defender portal
agent deployment via Intune, Group Policy, or System Center
Self-hosted (all-in-one server, single-node, or multi-node cluster) or Wazuh Cloud SaaS
Self-hosted; runs as a daemon (clamd) or command-line scanner; commonly…
integrated into Postfix/Sendmail mail flow
Cloud-managed SaaS console or on-premises GravityZone Control Center for self-hosted
Typical deployment time
Minutes per endpoint
enterprise-wide rollout typically days to weeks
Same-day for small deployments
multi-week phased rollouts for thousands of endpoints
Hours for Windows-centric M365-licensed organizations
longer when consolidating multiple endpoint vendors
All-in-one PoC
hours; production multi-node cluster: days to weeks (DevOps/security engineering required)
Minutes to hours for basic setup
production integration depends on the host system (mail gateway, file scanner, etc.)
Hours for SMB deployments
days to weeks for distributed enterprise rollouts
Key integrations
Splunk, IBM QRadar, ServiceNow, Jira, Palo Alto XSOAR, AWS Security Hub,…
Microsoft Sentinel, Okta, Zscaler
Splunk, IBM QRadar, ServiceNow, Cortex XSOAR, Okta, Microsoft Sentinel, AWS, Azure, Slack
Microsoft Sentinel, Entra ID, Intune, Purview, Defender for Cloud, Office 365
third-party connectors via Microsoft Graph Security API
VirusTotal, MISP, TheHive, Cortex, Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Splunk…
forwarder, Elastic, Suricata; OSSEC-compatible rules
Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, ProFTPD, Squid, Amavis, ClamWin (Windows GUI)
third-party signature feeds available (e.g., SecuriteInfo)
Microsoft 365, Active Directory, Azure AD, AWS, Splunk, ServiceNow, Microsoft…
Sentinel, MISP
🛡 EDR / XDR-specific evaluation
7 dimensions
Detection technology
Cloud-delivered machine learning, behavioral analytics, indicator-of-attack…
patterns, integrated threat intelligence
Static and behavioral AI models running on the agent (works offline)
Storyline correlation engine reconstructs attack chains
Cloud-delivered ML, behavioral analytics, integrated Microsoft threat…
intelligence (signals from 78+ trillion daily events)
Signature-based rules, log analysis, file integrity monitoring, vulnerability…
detection, MITRE ATT&CK-mapped detections
Signature-based scanning
signature updates via freshclam from Cisco-maintained feeds; bytecode signatures support more complex detection
Machine learning, behavioral monitoring (Process Inspector), HyperDetect…
tunable ML, signature-based engine, network attack defense
MITRE ATT&CK eval (2024)
Consistently strong performance across MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations
Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection 2025
Strong detection coverage and analytic visibility in MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations
Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection 2025
Strong participation in MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations with high detection coverage
Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection 2025
Detection rules natively mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
not currently a participant in MITRE Engenuity vendor evaluations
Not a participant in MITRE Engenuity vendor evaluations (positioned as a…
scanning engine rather than full EDR)
Strong detection coverage in MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations
consistent Top Product ratings in AV-TEST/AV-Comparatives
Threat hunting
OverWatch human-led threat hunting included in Enterprise tier
Falcon Insight provides query-based hunting via CQL
Singularity Hunt with PowerQuery
deep visibility module for forensic queries
Advanced Hunting with Kusto Query Language (KQL) across all Microsoft 365 Defender signals
pre-built hunting queries and Jupyter notebook integration
Query-based hunting via Wazuh Dashboard (OpenSearch)
custom rule writing; performance typically linear up to ~500 EPS per node
Not applicable in the EDR sense
logs from scans can feed into SIEM for analysis
Threat hunting UI with custom queries
ATT&CK-mapped detections; visualization of attack progression
Managed detection (MDR)
Falcon Complete is a 24/7 managed SOC service (~$125/endpoint/yr at 500 endpoints)
OverWatch managed threat hunting included with Enterprise tier
Vigilance MDR available as add-on (24/7 SOC analysts on the Singularity platform)
Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR is a paid managed service
widely supported by Microsoft partner MSSP ecosystem
Not offered directly by Wazuh
partner ecosystem provides MDR services on top of the platform
Not offered (open-source project
commercial managed AV products typically use ClamAV alongside other engines)
GravityZone MDR (24/7 SOC) and MDR Plus tiers available
Automated response
Host containment, process termination, USB blocking
no native file rollback to pre-infection state
Native rollback to pre-infection state on Windows (a differentiator among EDRs)
auto-quarantine and host isolation
Automated investigation and response (AIR) for self-healing, quarantine, file…
removal, account containment
Active Response framework runs custom scripts (block IP, kill process, quarantine file)
not auto-rollback like some commercial EDRs
Quarantine via daemon configuration
primarily detection and removal, not behavioral response
Process termination, file quarantine, network isolation, rollback for…
ransomware-encrypted files (Ransomware Mitigation)
Platforms supported
Windows, macOS, Linux, AWS/Azure/GCP workloads, containers, iOS, Android
Windows, macOS, Linux, Kubernetes, containers, virtual machines
Windows (deepest integration), macOS, Linux, iOS, Android
broad Microsoft 365 and Azure coverage
Agents for Windows, Linux, macOS, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris
cloud integrations for AWS, Azure, GCP, M365, GitHub via API
Linux, Windows, macOS, BSD, Solaris
broad packaging across Linux distributions
Windows, macOS, Linux, mobile (iOS, Android), virtual environments (VMware,…
Citrix, Microsoft, Nutanix)
Offline operation
Cloud-architected
reduced detection capability when fully offline, though local prevention policies still apply
On-agent AI continues making detection and prevention decisions when…
disconnected from cloud
Windows-native AV provides offline protection
cloud-delivered features (EDR sensor analytics) require connectivity
Agents work offline, queue events locally, sync with manager on reconnect
Fully offline-capable
signature updates require periodic connectivity
Local detection engines provide offline protection
cloud-based threat intelligence updates require connectivity
✓ Compliance & certifications
1 dimension
Compliance certifications
SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP High, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR
SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP Moderate, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS
FedRAMP High, SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001/27018, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, IRAP, C5, HITRUST
Wazuh Cloud: SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS Level 1, GDPR-ready
built-in compliance mappings for PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, GDPR, TSC, GPG13
Software has no specific certifications
users deploy in their own compliant environments
ISO 27001, SOC 2, Common Criteria EAL2+
HIPAA-aligned configurations available
◧ Positioning
3 dimensions
Target deployment
Mid-market to Enterprise (500+ endpoints)
SMB to Enterprise wanting autonomous response
Organizations standardized on Microsoft 365 / Windows
Technical teams, budget-conscious organizations, MSSPs, compliance-driven workloads
Linux servers, email gateway scanning, file scanning pipelines, embedded…
scanning use cases
SMBs and mid-market wanting strong AV/EDR at competitive pricing
Strengths cited
Strong detection performance in MITRE evaluations, lightweight single agent,…
mature threat intelligence integration, 24/7 OverWatch managed threat hunting included at Enterprise tier
On-agent AI for real-time detection without cloud roundtrip, native rollback to…
pre-infection state on Windows, optional on-premises deployment, strong autonomous response automation
Native Windows integration with no separate agent, bundled into Microsoft 365…
E5, broad XDR coverage across endpoint/identity/email/cloud, no additional vendor relationship for M365 customers
Unified XDR + SIEM in one open-source platform, no licensing cost, built-in PCI…
DSS/HIPAA/NIST 800-53/GDPR compliance mappings, scales horizontally with cluster architecture
Free and open source, widely used as a scanning engine in mail gateways and…
file pipelines, cross-platform (Linux/Windows/macOS/BSD), Cisco-stewarded
Consistently strong AV-TEST and AV-Comparatives detection scores, competitive…
pricing for SMB tier, low system resource footprint, on-prem console available for regulated environments
Where it fits less well
Enterprise-tier pricing, modular licensing where advanced capabilities are…
add-ons, requires security expertise to operationalize fully
Higher tiers add data ingestion and feature depth
some advanced XDR features behind premium SKUs
Full EDR/XDR value tied to Microsoft 365 E5 licensing
cross-platform parity (macOS/Linux) is closer to Windows feature set than in previous years but still maturing on some advanced telemetry
Requires in-house security engineering and DevOps capacity for production scale
no commercial SLA without paid support contract
Signature-based scanning rather than modern EDR/behavioral detection
not designed as a primary user endpoint protection platform
MDR services are less broadly adopted than CrowdStrike/SentinelOne
XDR tier is newer and ecosystem narrower than market leaders
Head-to-head comparisons
4 pairs
CrowdStrike Falcon vs SentinelOne Singularity→ CrowdStrike Falcon vs Microsoft Defender→ SentinelOne Singularity vs Microsoft Defender→ Bitdefender GravityZone vs SentinelOne Singularity→
Methodology Comparison data synthesized from publicly available vendor documentation, MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations, AV-TEST results, Gartner Peer Insights, G2/Capterra/TrustRadius reviews, anonymized transaction data (Vendr, CostBench, CheckThat.ai), and publicly reported pricing as of May 2026. defend.network is independent and has no commercial relationship with the vendors compared.