Huntress vs CrowdStrike 2026: Per-Endpoint Price and Minimums for SMBs

For a small business with no security analyst, Huntress is the better buy from about 30 endpoints up: Managed EDR lists at $8.99 per endpoint a month and includes a 24/7 human SOC. CrowdStrike's closest self-serve match, Falcon Enterprise, costs $184.99 per device a year and leaves the alerts to you. Under 30 endpoints bought direct, CrowdStrike is cheaper, because Huntress bills a 50-seat minimum.

Our view: the sticker prices hide a staffing question. CrowdStrike sells three self-run bundles online and keeps its managed service, Falcon Complete, behind a sales call. Huntress sells only the managed version and prints its price. So the honest comparison is Huntress against Falcon Enterprise plus the person who reads its alerts at 2 a.m.

Prices were read on 28 October 2026 on Huntress's pricing page and CrowdStrike's bundles page, both in US dollars.

Toolradar data: Huntress holds an aggregated rating of 4.9 out of 5 across 922 reviews on Toolradar, the software directory we run, joint second among 308 security tools with 20 or more reviews. CrowdStrike sits at 4.1 across 839 reviews, 263rd of the same 308, as of October 2026. Both scores pool G2, Capterra and other review platforms; they are not our own testing.

Huntress vs CrowdStrike at a glance

Question	Huntress	CrowdStrike	Edge
Entry price with EDR	Managed EDR, $8.99 per endpoint a month (MSRP)	Falcon Enterprise, $184.99 per device a year	Huntress above 29 endpoints
Cheapest product	Managed EDR is the entry product	Falcon Go, $59.99 per device a year, antivirus only	CrowdStrike, if antivirus is enough
Who answers the alerts	Huntress's 24/7 SOC, included	Your team on Go, Pro and Enterprise; Falcon Complete MDR is quote-only	Huntress
Minimum or cap	50 seats per product direct or via a reseller; none via an MSP	Falcon Go capped at 100 devices; no minimum printed	CrowdStrike for tiny fleets
Billing	12-month term, monthly on deployed usage or annual up front	Monthly or annual; annual is cheaper	Even
Identity protection	Managed ITDR, $4.80 per identity a month	Not in the three self-serve bundles; sold as an add-on	Huntress, on price clarity
Free trial	Full product with the SOC	15 days, no credit card	Even

The two vendors quote in different units, so this page converts them. Huntress prints a monthly rate per endpoint; CrowdStrike prints both a monthly and an annual rate per device. Every yearly Huntress figure below is our arithmetic, the monthly MSRP times 12, which comes to $107.88 per endpoint a year.

What does each CrowdStrike bundle include?

Only Falcon Enterprise includes endpoint detection and response. That single fact decides most small-business comparisons, because Huntress's entry product is EDR with analysts attached. CrowdStrike's bundles page lists four tiers:

CrowdStrike bundle	Annual price per device	Monthly price per device	What it adds
Falcon Go	$59.99	$7.99	Next-gen antivirus, device control, mobile device protection, Express Support
Falcon Pro	$99.99	$14.99	Everything in Go plus host firewall management
Falcon Enterprise	$184.99	$19.99	Everything in Pro plus EDR and threat intelligence and hunting
Falcon Complete	Contact sales	Contact sales	24/7 expert-led managed detection and response, Breach Prevention Warranty

Falcon Go and Pro are prevention products. They stop known and unknown malware on the device, but neither carries the EDR telemetry a responder needs to trace how an attacker got in. A team that buys Go to save money and then suffers a hands-on-keyboard intrusion has no investigation trail to work from.

Falcon Enterprise adds EDR plus a threat hunting service, which CrowdStrike describes as experts hunting continuously in the Falcon platform for signs of intrusion. Hunting is not the same as response: a hunter flags the intrusion, and someone on your side still has to isolate the host and clean it up. Full 24/7 response is Falcon Complete, and CrowdStrike prints no price for it.

Billing term changes the CrowdStrike number more than most buyers expect. By our arithmetic, 12 monthly payments on Falcon Enterprise come to $239.88 a device, $54.89 more than paying for the year up front. On Falcon Go the monthly route costs $95.88 a year against $59.99. CrowdStrike's FAQ says the annual subscription carries no other fees and can be cancelled within 30 days for a full refund.

What does Huntress Managed EDR include?

Huntress Managed EDR bundles the agent, a 24/7 human SOC, active remediation, custom incident reports and free managed antivirus in one per-endpoint price. Huntress's page says every product is fully managed by that SOC, with no add-ons or service tiers, and that there are no separate setup or onboarding fees.

What it leaves to you is the work around the agent. The pricing page notes that its rates do not cover deployment, integration or daily portal management, which a Huntress partner can provide. A direct customer deploys the agent, acts on the remediation steps the SOC sends and wires Huntress into the ticketing system.

The other Huntress products follow the same per-unit model at MSRP:

Huntress product	MSRP	Unit
Managed EDR	$8.99 a month	Per endpoint
Managed ITDR	$4.80 a month	Per licensed identity
Managed SIEM	$4.00 a month	Per data source
Managed SAT	$2.08 a month	Per learner
Managed ISPM	$4.00 a month	Per licensed identity

Huntress says the per-unit rate falls as volume rises, but it prints no volume ladder, so this page uses MSRP throughout. A real quote at 100 or more endpoints should come in at or below these figures.

How much does each cost for 25, 50 and 100 endpoints?

The scenario is one year of endpoint protection, no identity or log add-ons, at list price. Huntress is bought direct, where its 50-seat minimum applies and the annual option bills the committed minimum. CrowdStrike is billed annually, its cheaper term. All totals are our arithmetic on the printed rates.

Fleet	Huntress Managed EDR (direct, MSRP)	Falcon Go	Falcon Pro	Falcon Enterprise
25 endpoints	$5,394 (billed on 50 seats)	$1,499.75	$2,499.75	$4,624.75
50 endpoints	$5,394	$2,999.50	$4,999.50	$9,249.50
100 endpoints	$10,788	$5,999	$9,999	$18,499

The break-even is 30 endpoints. At 29 devices, Falcon Enterprise costs $5,364.71 a year, just under Huntress's $5,394 floor; at 30 devices it costs $5,549.70 and Huntress becomes cheaper. A 25-person office buying direct pays Huntress for 25 seats it does not use, which is the main reason to buy through an MSP instead.

Above the floor the gap grows by $77.11 per endpoint a year, the difference between the two per-endpoint yearly rates. At 50 endpoints Huntress costs $3,855.50 less than Falcon Enterprise; at 100 it costs $7,711 less. Those savings are before CrowdStrike's managed service, which Huntress already includes.

Falcon Go looks cheapest in every row, and for a business that wants only antivirus it is. But Go buys prevention without EDR or analysts, and CrowdStrike caps online purchases of Go at 100 devices. A 120-device company cannot buy Go off the page at all.

Who answers the alert at 2 a.m.?

This is the line that should drive the decision. Huntress's SOC investigates every detection, stages the remediation and sends a written report, on every plan, around the clock. On Falcon Go, Pro and Enterprise, the console raises the alert and your staff answers it.

For a company with one IT generalist, that difference is the product. An EDR alert raised on a Friday night and read on Monday morning has done its job on paper and failed in practice. A security lead pricing Falcon Enterprise should add the cost of on-call coverage, or a quote for Falcon Complete, before comparing it with Huntress.

The reverse case is real too, and it favors CrowdStrike. A team with a SOC analyst or an MSSP already watching the network may not want another vendor's analysts in the loop. For them, Falcon Enterprise buys CrowdStrike's sensor, EDR depth and hunting service without paying for a second SOC. Our best MDR services ranking covers the managed options on both sides.

Minimums, caps and how you buy

Huntress requires 50 seats per product when you buy direct or through a reseller, and no minimum through an MSP. The 12-month term is standard on every route. Direct customers choose monthly billing on deployed endpoints or one annual payment for the committed minimum, with overages billed monthly. Huntress offers no multi-year price protection by default, and its overages are processed manually rather than auto-billed.

Huntress calls itself channel-first and recommends buying through a partner. Through an MSP the price and packaging come from the MSP, not from the MSRP above, so the 25-endpoint scenario can land well under $5,394 or above it. Ask for the per-endpoint rate in writing.

CrowdStrike sells Go, Pro and Enterprise straight from a shopping cart, one bundle per cart, with no printed minimum. The constraints run the other way: Go stops at 100 devices, upgrades between bundles go through a subscriptions email address, and add-ons vary by bundle. Falcon Flex, CrowdStrike's portfolio licensing, and Falcon Complete both start with a sales conversation.

Identity and the rest of the stack

An endpoint agent does not see a stolen Microsoft 365 session, so price identity coverage alongside EDR. Huntress Managed ITDR costs $4.80 per identity a month and watches Microsoft 365 and Google identities for privilege escalation, suspicious login events and mail flow manipulation, with the same SOC on the alert. A 50-person company buying EDR and ITDR direct pays $8,274 a year at MSRP by our arithmetic, still below 50 devices of Falcon Enterprise alone.

CrowdStrike lists Identity Protection, IT Hygiene and Next-Gen SIEM outside all three self-serve bundles; its page sells them as add-on modules without printing a price. A buyer who needs identity coverage from CrowdStrike is back in a sales call. Teams weighing a Microsoft-native route can compare CrowdStrike vs Microsoft Defender, where Defender for Business folds EDR into a per-user license.

Huntress strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: 24/7 human SOC and remediation included in the $107.88 per endpoint yearly MSRP, with no service tiers.
• Strength: Printed per-unit prices for EDR, ITDR, SIEM, awareness training and posture management, so a full stack can be budgeted before a call.
• Weakness: 50-seat minimum per product direct or via a reseller, which overcharges any fleet under 30 endpoints.
• Weakness: No volume ladder printed; the discount above MSRP is negotiated.

CrowdStrike strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Self-serve checkout with monthly or annual billing and a 15-day trial without a credit card.
• Strength: Falcon Go at $59.99 a device a year is the cheapest licensed agent here for a fleet that only needs prevention.
• Weakness: EDR starts at Falcon Enterprise, more than three times the Go price per device.
• Weakness: Managed response (Falcon Complete) and identity protection publish no price.

Which should you pick?

• Under 30 endpoints, no security staff. Huntress through an MSP, which removes the 50-seat minimum and adds someone to deploy it.
• Under 30 endpoints, a capable IT lead. Falcon Enterprise on annual billing, the cheapest EDR at list price at that size, provided someone on staff owns the alerts.
• 30 to 100 endpoints, no SOC. Huntress direct: it costs less than Falcon Enterprise and the analysts come with it.
• Antivirus only, under 100 devices. Falcon Go, with the clear understanding that it is not EDR.
• A team with its own SOC or MSSP. Falcon Enterprise, or a Falcon Complete quote if you want CrowdStrike's own analysts.

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Read next

Each vendor in depth: the Huntress review, Huntress pricing, the CrowdStrike review and CrowdStrike Falcon pricing. Huntress against another self-run platform is in Huntress vs SentinelOne, and CrowdStrike against the same rival in CrowdStrike vs SentinelOne. For the wider market, see the best EDR for small business ranking, CrowdStrike alternatives and the rate card in how much does EDR cost.

Methodology

We read Huntress's pricing page, including its contract and fee FAQ, and CrowdStrike's bundles page, including its feature lists, footnotes and FAQ, on 28 October 2026. Yearly figures are our arithmetic on printed list prices, not quotes; they leave out taxes, partner pricing and anything a vendor does not print, including Falcon Complete and CrowdStrike's add-on modules. Rating figures come from Toolradar's tool profiles, which pool third-party reviews. Louis Corneloup, founder of Toolradar and Dupple, is the author.

FAQ

Is Huntress or CrowdStrike better for a small business?

Huntress, for most small businesses without security staff: Managed EDR costs $8.99 per endpoint a month at MSRP with a 24/7 human SOC included. CrowdStrike Falcon Enterprise suits a team with someone to work the console, or a fleet under 30 endpoints buying direct.

Is Huntress cheaper than CrowdStrike?

From 30 endpoints up, yes, against Falcon Enterprise. By our arithmetic, 50 endpoints cost $5,394 a year on Huntress at MSRP and $9,249.50 on Falcon Enterprise billed annually. Falcon Go is cheaper at every size, but it is antivirus without EDR.

How much does CrowdStrike cost per device?

Billed annually, Falcon Go costs $59.99 per device, Falcon Pro $99.99 and Falcon Enterprise $184.99. Billed monthly, they cost $7.99, $14.99 and $19.99 a month. Falcon Complete, the managed tier, is priced by sales.

Does CrowdStrike include a SOC like Huntress?

Not on the self-serve bundles. Falcon Enterprise adds a threat hunting service, but 24/7 managed detection and response is Falcon Complete, which has no published price. Huntress includes its SOC in every product.

Does Huntress have a minimum purchase?

Yes when bought direct or through a reseller: 50 seats per product on a 12-month term. Through an MSP, Huntress sets no minimum seat count, and the MSP sets the price.

Is there a limit on Falcon Go?

Yes. CrowdStrike caps purchases of Falcon Go at 100 devices. Larger fleets move to Falcon Pro or Enterprise, which have no printed cap.

Cite this: Cyberpresso, "Huntress vs CrowdStrike 2026: Per-Endpoint Price and Minimums for SMBs", November 2026.

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