CrowdStrike vs SentinelOne (2026): Which Is Better for Security Teams?

Buy CrowdStrike Falcon Enterprise at $184.99 per device per year when your analysts will hunt on OverWatch and the fleet may pass 100 devices. Buy SentinelOne Singularity Complete at $179.99 per endpoint per year when the fleet stays inside a 5 to 100 workstation sticker, 14 days of retention is enough, and a partner may change the price. Singularity Commercial, at $229.99, adds identity detection and a 90-day window on that same order.

Those rates were verified on 24 September 2026. CrowdStrike's US pricing page labels the Falcon bundles in US dollars, so a security lead can budget the device rate before a sales call. SentinelOne's package page says the same, and it limits the displayed rate to that workstation band, so a larger fleet cannot multiply the sticker and call the result a quote. Toolradar data: Toolradar, the software directory we run, evaluated 816 security tools for its September 2026 security ranking. The profiles are CrowdStrike and SentinelOne.

At a glance

Plan	Best for a security team	Annual USD price, September 2026	What that price leaves out
Falcon Go	Prevention on a fleet at or under the device cap	$59.99/device/yr ($7.99/device/mo)	Host firewall, EDR, hunting, and one more device
Falcon Pro	Go, plus host firewall policy	$99.99/device/yr ($14.99/device/mo)	Insight XDR and Adversary OverWatch
Falcon Enterprise	A SOC that will detect and hunt on Falcon	$184.99/device/yr ($19.99/device/mo)	Identity, Next-Gen SIEM, cloud hours, and a managed SOC
Falcon Complete	CrowdStrike's analysts on the same sensor	Not published in USD	Express Support, an add-on on this tier
Singularity Core	NGAV with on-agent rollback, in the small-fleet band	$69.99/endpoint/yr	Firewall, device control, and the EDR column
Singularity Control	Core, plus firewall and device control	$79.99/endpoint/yr	Identity and the longer retention window
Singularity Complete	EDR, cloud workloads, and an AI assistant	$179.99/endpoint/yr	Identity, included managed hunting, and MDR
Singularity Commercial	Complete, plus identity and managed hunting	$229.99/endpoint/yr	The agentic SOC analyst and MDR, both add-ons
Singularity Enterprise	Forensics, network discovery, and that analyst	Not published in USD	MDR, which the table still marks as an add-on

An endpoint platform, for this audience, is the sensor that stops malware on the laptop, shows the process tree when the alert is real, and still has that tree when the analyst opens the case weeks later. If the plan cannot keep telemetry for the incident window, you bought prevention with a short memory. Compare the wider set in the endpoint protection guide. This page prices the control gap between these two.

The cheap cards are not EDR

Falcon Go is prevention, and purchases stop at 100 devices. The chart includes next-gen antivirus, device control, Falcon for Mobile on Android and iOS, and Express Support, while firewall management, endpoint detection and response, and threat hunting stay blank. A team that will investigate in this console, or a fleet that will cross the cap this year, should not start here: an upgrade is a note to [email protected], not a slider on the same order.

Falcon Pro adds host firewall management for a team whose gap is host policy and whose detections already live elsewhere. The Pro page describes that policy for Windows and macOS, and it does not describe a Linux host firewall, even though the pricing FAQ says the platform supports Windows, macOS, and Linux. A Linux estate should not treat this card as firewall coverage for those hosts.

You can reopen detection details, process tree included, for up to 90 days, and that lookback is not the detection bundle. Insight XDR and Adversary OverWatch are named on Enterprise, not on Pro, so a SOC that will hunt inside Falcon has already outgrown this price.

Singularity Core is the NGAV and EPP tier at the rate in the table, for a small fleet that wants rollback without staffing a hunt. The Core page describes on-agent static and behavioral AI, Storyline context, and patented one-click rollback, and always-on protection that does not need the cloud.

Control is Core plus suite controls such as firewall and device control, which is the split Complete's own FAQ draws. Neither lower sticker carries extended detection and response, so an investigation queue does not belong on either one.

What 100 endpoints cost before the quote

These totals are our multiplication of the September 2026 annual list rates, for 100 units, before tax. They are not a CrowdStrike order and not a SentinelOne partner quote. The displayed SentinelOne price covers 5 to 100 workstations, taxes may be extra, and the partner's price controls when the two differ. Past that band, the sticker is no longer a number you can multiply.

What 100 licenses cost	Unit being counted	Our year total
Falcon Go, annual	Devices, at the purchase cap	$5,999
Falcon Pro, annual	Devices	$9,999
Falcon Enterprise, annual	Devices	$18,499
Falcon Enterprise, twelve monthly payments	Devices	$23,988
Singularity Core, displayed annual rate	Workstations in the 5 to 100 band	$6,999
Singularity Control, displayed annual rate	Workstations in that band	$7,999
Singularity Complete, displayed annual rate	Workstations in that band	$17,999
Singularity Commercial, displayed annual rate	Workstations in that band	$22,999

At this headcount, annual Enterprise is $500 more for the year than the displayed Complete rate. That gap is the wrong pair to lean on when identity and a longer retention window are required, because the cards do not do the same job. Commercial is $45 more per endpoint per year than Enterprise, which is $4,500 across the same count: the price of identity plus the longer window.

Monthly Falcon billing is a different, more expensive year: twelve months of the Enterprise monthly rate come to $239.88 per device, a premium of $54.89 per device over the annual card if the sensor stays in. The sensor-license FAQ requires at least a year, so those monthly prices are not a trial you can exit, and the annual card is the one to buy when the agent will stay installed.

Modules these cards never print are priced in the Falcon pricing breakdown. The product verdict, separate from this bill, is the CrowdStrike review, and a general-buyer writeup is Dupple's CrowdStrike review.

Detection, hunting, and how long the case survives

Falcon Enterprise wins the included hunt for a SOC that will staff its own queue. The Enterprise page names Insight XDR and Adversary OverWatch, described as 24/7 hunting, and it includes Express Support. Identity, IT hygiene, and Next-Gen SIEM are off that card, so those three bills arrive as a second quote.

A night shift nobody will staff belongs on Falcon Complete: 24/7 managed detection and response, a Breach Prevention Warranty, and no USD list price. Express Support is included on the three priced bundles and is an add-on on Complete and on Falcon Elite. For a managed SOC with a rate you can read first, start at the MDR services list and keep cases on the incident response list.

SentinelOne checks extended detection and response, cloud workload protection, and the AI Security Assistant on Complete, Commercial, and Enterprise, so waiting for the unpriced column does not buy those three. Managed threat hunting is an add-on on Complete and included on Commercial and Enterprise, so a team that will not hunt should skip Complete. Managed detection and response is missing on Complete and an unpriced add-on after that, so a printed SentinelOne rate is not a managed SOC. Network discovery, forensic collection, guided onboarding, and training are Enterprise-only, and forensics waits on a quote.

14 days of data retention on Complete is what decides whether the case still exists. Commercial and Enterprise extend that window to 90 days. The Complete product page calls the short span standard historical EDR data, keeps malware and fileless incidents for 365 days, and sells an unpriced upgrade to that same span. A malware verdict can outlast two weeks, while an intrusion that never became malware can vanish before the retainer call.

CrowdStrike prints no matching day count on the Enterprise card, so the public hunt price is not a retention promise. The only day count it prints is the Pro lookback. If the playbook assumes a month of process history, put retention on the order.

The MITRE lines are not a score you can use to break the tie. The Pro page says "100% detection. 100% protection. Zero false positives" and gives no year. SentinelOne's package page cites the MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluation 2024 and the line "100% Detection. Zero Delays." Score false positives from the pilot in your tenant.

Identity, cloud, and the assistant

Commercial wins identity on a printed endpoint rate, so Complete is the wrong SentinelOne column once identity detection is required. The package table leaves Identity Threat Detection and Response off Complete and includes it on Commercial and Enterprise. Falcon's three priced bundles leave Identity Protection off as well.

The licensing FAQ bills identity per active account: human and service accounts that authenticated in the last 90 days, with no average, and a hybrid on-prem plus cloud account is counted a single time. You cannot license a subset of accounts, the page prints no USD price, and Commercial should be priced against a Falcon identity quote rather than against the Enterprise device card alone.

Cloud workload protection is checked on every SentinelOne column from Complete up, so that sticker is not a laptop-only buy. CrowdStrike cloud sensors are hourly, and the licensing FAQ prints no hourly USD rate. Keep the posture product you already pay for on the cloud security list until an hourly rate is on the order.

Next-Gen SIEM is a separate ingest bill with no USD rate per gigabyte. Platform customers receive up to 10 GB of CrowdStream data a day at no additional cost, a courtesy pipe rather than a log program you can retire. Price the real ingest on what a SIEM costs and the SIEM tools list. On the Complete page, Cloud Funnel can copy EDR data to a customer SIEM, Amazon S3, or Google Cloud Storage, and no separate USD price is printed for that export.

Charlotte AI is a credit module on the licensing FAQ, not a line in the Enterprise device rate, so the hunt card does not include the assistant. Licensees get 40 credits at 1 to 149 endpoints each month, unused credits expire, and more credits come in packs of 350 with no public USD price. Purple AI, on the Complete page, is natural-language hunting, while the package table's AI Security Assistant on Complete, Commercial, and Enterprise has no published credit cap. The agentic SOC analyst stays an add-on until the unpriced Enterprise column, so it is not Purple AI.

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Rollback, the agent, and the tenant

SentinelOne rollback starts on Core, not on the EDR tier, so a shop that reimages laptops can buy the cheap card and still get the control. The Core page describes patented one-click remediation of unauthorized changes, and Complete includes every Core and Control feature, so the move up keeps rollback. Falcon's priced pages cover prevention, device control, firewall policy, detection, and hunting, and a one-click file rollback is not among them. Confirm remediation in the pilot, or the runbook will name a button the order lacks.

Remote shell is checked on Complete, Commercial, and Enterprise, so an MSSP does not need the top column for a shell alone. A phone on Falcon for Mobile can count as its own endpoint. Enroll handsets from the MDM list and recount before signature, or the cost table undercounts the fleet. CrowdStrike counts an endpoint once the sensor has an agent ID and has contacted the platform, then bills a four-week average of the weekly counts, prepaid for at least a year. A handset that checks in stays in the weeks it was seen.

The Core page names Windows 11, Windows Server through 2019, macOS through Ventura, and Linux builds including Ubuntu 22.04, and it does not name Windows Server 2022, so match that release in the pilot. Data can be stored in North America, Europe, or Asia: pick the region before the first production sensor. CrowdStrike's pricing FAQ supports Windows, macOS, and Linux without that build list, and the licensing FAQ puts Gov Cloud on Falcon Plus bundles rather than on the three public cards. Name the region, or the cloud the CID will use, before the image ships.

Multi-tenant management is checked on Complete, Commercial, and Enterprise, enough to separate clients, and it is not a per-client price. Falcon Complete stays unpriced, so the managed tier still has no number to show a client.

Who should pick which

Pick Falcon Enterprise when the case record lives in Falcon, OverWatch has to be in the bundle, and the fleet may leave the band where SentinelOne still prints a rate. The device price is public and does not go through a partner. Budget a separate quote for identity, SIEM ingest, and cloud hours, or renewal will not match the card. If nobody will open a detection, use the antivirus list.

Pick Singularity Complete for EDR, cloud workload protection, Purple AI, and one-click rollback near the Enterprise rate, inside the printed band, when the short history is acceptable. Identity and an included hunt sit on Commercial, so either requirement makes this the wrong column.

Pick Singularity Commercial when identity detection, managed threat hunting, and the longer retention figure must share one order. You pay more per endpoint than Falcon Enterprise, and MDR and the agentic analyst stay add-ons. Choose Singularity Enterprise only after a quote includes network discovery, forensic collection, and that analyst.

Pick Falcon Go for prevention under the device cap, with no investigation planned in Falcon, because a later case here is a new subscription note. Pick Core for on-agent rollback at the NGAV rate when the job is restoring a laptop.

Pick Pro when the gap is a Windows or macOS host firewall and detection lives elsewhere. Pick Control when that firewall has to undercut Pro. Control is $2,000 less for the year than Pro at the headcount above, and it is still not Insight XDR.

Take the managed SOC from the MDR list when neither Falcon Complete nor SentinelOne's MDR add-on shows a USD rate. Keep a scanner you already pay for on the vulnerability scanner list, including the Tenable review, and compare assistants on the AI threat detection list after the sensor choice.

How we compared

We read CrowdStrike's US pricing page, the Pro and Enterprise pages, and the sensor licensing FAQ, plus SentinelOne's package page, the Core page, and the Complete page, on 24 September 2026. Package-table calls follow that package page, with Singularity Complete in the first column. The 100-unit totals multiply those published annual rates and are not vendor quotes. Falcon Complete, SentinelOne Enterprise, Falcon identity, cloud hours, Next-Gen SIEM, the retention upgrade, and Charlotte credit packs have no public USD price, so they stay unpriced. Louis Corneloup, founder of Toolradar and Dupple, edited the verdict. Re-check both order forms before a signature.

Both vendors say they are a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms. CrowdStrike's Enterprise page cites the 2025 report, for the sixth consecutive time. SentinelOne's package page cites the 2026 report, for the sixth consecutive year. Those badges cite different report years, so they are not one score for a single slide.

FAQ

Which is better for a security team in 2026, CrowdStrike or SentinelOne?

Falcon Enterprise is the better fit when analysts will hunt on included OverWatch and the order stays on a direct USD device rate past the small-fleet band, at $184.99 per device per year. Singularity Complete is the better fit for EDR, cloud workload protection, and one-click rollback at $179.99 per endpoint per year, inside the printed workstation band, when 14 days of retention is enough. Choose Commercial when identity and the longer retention window have to be on the SentinelOne order. Go, Pro, Core, and Control stop at prevention and host controls, so they are the wrong default once someone must investigate.

How much does Falcon Enterprise cost versus Singularity Complete?

Falcon Enterprise is $184.99 per device per year, or $19.99 per device billed monthly, in US dollars as of September 2026. Prefer the annual rate when the sensor will stay, because the monthly path costs more across the required term. Singularity Complete displays at $179.99 per endpoint per year, also in US dollars, for 5 to 100 workstations, and a partner price replaces the sticker when the two differ. One hundred units is $18,499 on annual Enterprise and $17,999 on the displayed Complete rate, before tax. Twelve monthly Enterprise payments on that count are $23,988. Falcon Complete and Singularity Enterprise are not published in USD.

Does Falcon Go or Falcon Pro include EDR?

No. Go names next-gen antivirus, device control, mobile protection, and Express Support, and purchases stop at the device cap, so an investigation or a growing fleet both miss it. Pro adds a Windows and macOS host firewall and a detection-detail lookback, without Insight XDR or Adversary OverWatch, which are named on Enterprise. On SentinelOne, Core is the NGAV tier, Control adds firewall and device control, and extended detection and response starts on Complete, Commercial, and Enterprise.

How long does each platform keep endpoint data?

Singularity Complete's package card says 14 days of data retention, enough for a fresh alert and short once an intrusion never becomes malware. Commercial and Enterprise say 90 days, so the longer memory is a tier change. The Complete product page also keeps malware and fileless incidents for 365 days and sells an upgrade to that span with no USD price. CrowdStrike's Enterprise card prints no matching day count, and the Pro page lets you open detection details for up to 90 days on a bundle that does not name Insight XDR, so the lookback is not evidence the hunt tier keeps the same window.

Does either endpoint price include identity protection?

Singularity Commercial and Enterprise include Identity Threat Detection and Response, and Complete does not, so identity on SentinelOne is a column change with a printed rate. Falcon Go, Pro, and Enterprise leave Identity Protection off the pricing chart. Falcon identity is licensed by active human and service accounts from the last 90 days, a subset of accounts cannot be licensed, and the licensing FAQ prints no USD price. Price that line on its own, or as the step from Complete to Commercial, instead of burying it in the device comparison.

Is there a free plan, and can you buy SentinelOne direct?

CrowdStrike publishes no ongoing free tier, and the pricing FAQ offers a 15-day trial covering Falcon Prevent, Device Control, and Express Support, with access promised within 24 hours and a full refund if an annual term is cancelled inside 30 days of the start. SentinelOne's package page publishes no free plan or trial length, and every buy goes through an authorized partner whose price controls if it conflicts with the sticker. Go, Pro, and Enterprise show a buyable USD rate on CrowdStrike's own page, the direct path SentinelOne does not offer.

What should an MSSP ask before signing either order?

Ask which SentinelOne column you are buying, because the resale package changes with it. Multi-tenant management is checked on Complete, Commercial, and Enterprise, while MDR is an unpriced add-on on Commercial and Enterprise and absent on Complete, so a multi-tenant checkbox is not a priced SOC. Ask whether the CrowdStrike order is a sensor subscription, a four-week average with a one-year minimum, or an hourly cloud license the FAQ does not price in USD. CrowdStrike bills the annual amount up front and prices add-ons separately, so a later invoice can add lines the first one never showed. A managed service with no list price is not a budget to promise a client.

Cite this: Cyberpresso, "CrowdStrike vs SentinelOne (2026): Which Is Better for Security Teams?", September 2026.

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