Best MDR Services in 2026
Huntress Managed EDR lists at $8.99 per endpoint a month in US dollars, and the SOC is in that rate. Falcon Complete, Arctic Wolf, and Sophos do not print a dollar, so the budget meeting starts with Huntress.
Huntress is the best MDR service to price in 2026. With US dollars selected, the pricing card lists Managed EDR at an MSRP of $8.99 per endpoint per month, and that rate includes a 24/7 SOC.
Choose CrowdStrike Falcon Complete when you want that vendor's analysts to contain threats on Falcon. Choose Arctic Wolf when the bill should follow users, servers, and egress points. Choose Sophos MDR when the agent and the SOC have to share one per-user subscription.
Microsoft Defender Experts MDR fits a Defender queue, so skip it when alerts sit elsewhere. Wayfinder fits a Singularity fleet whose published endpoint license is not the SOC.
Expel and Red Canary add a SOC on top of tools you already pay for, and Bitdefender MDR is a GravityZone quote for MSPs.
Key facts9 tools compared: Huntress, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, Arctic Wolf, Sophos MDR, Microsoft…
- 9 tools compared: Huntress, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, Arctic Wolf, Sophos MDR, Microsoft Defender Experts MDR, SentinelOne Wayfinder, Expel, Red Canary, Bitdefender MDR
- CrowdStrike Falcon Complete (best for: Falcon customers who want that vendor's SOC to remediate): No public USD price, a breach warranty up to $2,000,000, and Express Support as an add-on.
- Arctic Wolf (best for: Teams that want log retention inside the MDR subscription): Quote only, billed on users, servers, and internet egress points, with no USD list price.
- Sophos MDR (best for: Buyers who want the endpoint agent and the SOC on one quote): Quote only, per user and per server, with no USD list price on the quote page.
Buy Huntress when finance wants a number this week and nobody is awake at 2 a.m., since the night shift is already in the rate. Buy Falcon Complete when the sensor is already CrowdStrike and you want that company's analysts to finish the containment.
Buy Arctic Wolf when log volume has burned you before and you want retention inside the subscription. Most of the names a board expects do not print a USD rate, and Huntress is the one that does.
Toolradar data: the September 2026 security ranking evaluated 816 tools. Profiles worth opening before a proof of concept include Huntress, CrowdStrike, Arctic Wolf, and Sophos. The agent decision, which is a different buy, is our EDR and endpoint protection guide.
How we ranked: nine services, read on each vendor's own US page or docs on 23 September 2026. The order follows whether a USD rate is public, what the license meters, and whether response is inside that rate.
The CrowdStrike review covers the sensor, and this page is the managed service.
Top Picks
Based on features, real-world fit, and value for money.
The default when the budget must be a number this week: agent, managed antivirus, and a 24/7 SOC on one endpoint rate.
$8.99/endpoint/mo MSRP (USD); the per-endpoint rate falls as volume rises, quoted on request.
Teams that need a SOC price before the sales call
The MDR row on the Falcon bundles page, with 24/7 remediation and a breach warranty, and no checkout price beside it.
No public USD price, a breach warranty up to $2,000,000, and Express Support as an add-on.
Falcon customers who want that vendor's SOC to remediate
A concierge SOC that prices the attack surface, and includes endpoint agents, unlimited log search, and external scanning in the core offer.
Quote only, billed on users, servers, and internet egress points, with no USD list price.
Teams that want log retention inside the MDR subscription
| Tool | Pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Huntress | $8.99/endpoint/mo MSRP (USD); the per-endpoint rate falls as volume rises, quoted on request. | Teams that need a SOC price before the sales call |
| CrowdStrike Falcon Complete | No public USD price, a breach warranty up to $2,000,000, and Express Support as an add-on. | Falcon customers who want that vendor's SOC to remediate |
| Arctic Wolf | Quote only, billed on users, servers, and internet egress points, with no USD list price. | Teams that want log retention inside the MDR subscription |
| Sophos MDR | Quote only, per user and per server, with no USD list price on the quote page. | Buyers who want the endpoint agent and the SOC on one quote |
| Microsoft Defender Experts MDR | No USD list price, and Plan 2 requires 1,500 seats and Microsoft Sentinel. | Defender shops that want Microsoft analysts in the incident queue |
| SentinelOne Wayfinder | No Wayfinder USD price; endpoint license from $179.99/endpoint/yr, and MDR is an add-on there. | Singularity customers who want SentinelOne's SOC on the fleet |
| Expel | Quote only, on Starter, Select, and Premium, with no public USD rate. | Teams that will keep their tools and add a separate SOC |
| Red Canary | Quote only, per endpoint, with usage trued up every three months and no USD list price. | Teams that already pay for EDR and want another SOC on it |
| Bitdefender MDR | Quote only: MSP Secure Plus is monthly usage via distributors, with no minimum commitment. | MSPs already on GravityZone who want a 24/7 SOC |
Pricing read from each vendor's own pricing page, checked Nov 2026. 5 of 9 sell by quote only and publish no price; those entries say so rather than estimating. 1 of 9 has no standalone price (bundled, usage-based or free to self-host) and is described as charged, not guessed. 1 of 9 publishes prices for some plans and quotes the rest.
Huntress
The default when the budget must be a number this week: agent, managed antivirus, and a 24/7 SOC on one endpoint rate.
- Pricing
- $8.99/endpoint/mo MSRP (USD); the per-endpoint rate falls as volume rises, quoted on request.
Best for: Teams that need a SOC price before the sales call
Pros
- At the $8.99 US dollar MSRP, 50 endpoints are $449.50 a month, and Huntress quotes a lower rate as volume rises.
- Managed EDR includes 24/7 detection and response, remediation, incident reporting, and managed Microsoft Defender Antivirus at no extra line, so antivirus is not a second seat.
- A direct or reseller purchase has a 50-seat minimum per product and a 12-month term. An MSP purchase has no Huntress-required minimum, so a smaller team buys through a partner.
Cons
- The card is the MSRP, volume rates are quoted on request, and partner pricing is a separate program, so an MSP invoice should not be copied into a client quote.
- Direct buyers deploy the agent and act on what the SOC sends, because the rate does not include day-to-day portal management.
CrowdStrike Falcon Complete
The MDR row on the Falcon bundles page, with 24/7 remediation and a breach warranty, and no checkout price beside it.
- Pricing
- No public USD price, a breach warranty up to $2,000,000, and Express Support as an add-on.
Best for: Falcon customers who want that vendor's SOC to remediate
Pros
- Falcon Complete is the 24/7 managed detection row on the bundles page, separate from Go, Pro, and Enterprise, so those prices are not this SOC.
- CrowdStrike states a one-minute median time to contain on the endpoint, and backs the service with a warranty up to $2,000,000.
- The service is built to remediate, not only to file a ticket, which is the gap a self-run Falcon console still leaves at night.
Cons
- There is no USD list price, and Falcon Go at $59.99 per device per year, capped at 100 devices, is prevention rather than this SOC.
- Falcon Enterprise at $184.99 per device per year includes OverWatch hunting and detection, yet it is still not the managed remediation contract.
Arctic Wolf
A concierge SOC that prices the attack surface, and includes endpoint agents, unlimited log search, and external scanning in the core offer.
- Pricing
- Quote only, billed on users, servers, and internet egress points, with no USD list price.
Best for: Teams that want log retention inside the MDR subscription
Pros
- Arctic Wolf prices MDR on users, servers, and internet egress points, not on gigabytes of log volume, so noise does not move this bill.
- Endpoint agents, unlimited log retention and search, and external network scanning are in the core offer, so a separate SIEM for those logs is a second bill.
- The Concierge Security Team is standard on every MDR deployment, and critical incidents go through a Managed Containment workflow you take part in.
Cons
- Arctic Wolf publishes no USD rate, and the ROI calculator is labeled in dollars without printing a subscription price, so the site cannot close a budget.
- You deploy Arctic Wolf sensors and agents, so this is not a thin overlay on a CrowdStrike or Defender license you already own.
Sophos MDR
Sophos MDR Essentials and Complete each include an Intercept X Advanced with XDR license, metered per user, with servers on their own SKU.
- Pricing
- Quote only, per user and per server, with no USD list price on the quote page.
Best for: Buyers who want the endpoint agent and the SOC on one quote
Pros
- The license policy meters MDR Essentials and MDR Complete per user, and each user subscription includes one Central Intercept X Advanced with XDR license, so the seat carries the agent.
- Server coverage is its own subscription per server, including the server XDR license, so a file server is not a free rider on a user seat.
- The quote page describes per-user and per-server pricing with no infrastructure fee, and it offers three response modes you have to pin down before comparing quotes.
Cons
- Sophos publishes no USD list price, so you cannot put a 100-user bill next to the Huntress list rate until a salesperson replies.
- The three response modes are a scope choice, and a mode that only notifies you leaves your team on the hook at night.
Microsoft Defender Experts MDR
Microsoft's own MDR for Defender telemetry, with a second plan that reaches selected non-Microsoft sources only through Sentinel.
- Pricing
- No USD list price, and Plan 2 requires 1,500 seats and Microsoft Sentinel.
Best for: Defender shops that want Microsoft analysts in the incident queue
Pros
- Plan 1, formerly Defender Experts for XDR, is managed detection and response for Microsoft Defender workloads, including hunting and Ask Defender Experts.
- Plan 2 adds supported third-party sources in Microsoft Sentinel, including Okta, Proofpoint TAP, AWS CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Palo Alto, Cisco, Zscaler, and Fortinet.
- Microsoft is explicit that the service augments your SOC: analysts act or guide you on Defender workloads, and they only guide you on third-party products.
Cons
- Microsoft publishes no USD price for Defender Experts MDR, and it is sold separately from Defender products or inside the Defender Experts Suite via sales.
- Plan 2 requires at least 1,500 licensed seats and a Sentinel workspace. It is not an incident response engagement, and it does not cover Defender for Cloud workloads.
SentinelOne Wayfinder
Wayfinder MDR Essentials and Elite, with a breach warranty, sold apart from the endpoint prices on the Singularity page.
- Pricing
- No Wayfinder USD price; endpoint license from $179.99/endpoint/yr, and MDR is an add-on there.
Best for: Singularity customers who want SentinelOne's SOC on the fleet
Pros
- Wayfinder MDR includes a breach response warranty up to $1,000,000 for Windows, Linux, macOS, and cloud workloads, which is the warranty to set beside Falcon Complete.
- SentinelOne states a 3.3-minute average mean time to detect, and Elite, not Essentials, adds a dedicated Threat Advisor and incident readiness support.
- Singularity Commercial at $229.99 per endpoint per year lists managed threat hunting in the package, and that is still not the Wayfinder rate.
Cons
- The pricing page marks managed detection and response as an add-on on Complete and Commercial, and Wayfinder's own dollar is not on that page.
- Complete is $179.99 per endpoint per year for 5 to 100 workstations, in US dollars, and the authorized partner's price controls if the two differ.
Expel
A vendor-agnostic SOC on the stack you already run, with three packages and no endpoint agent of its own to deploy.
- Pricing
- Quote only, on Starter, Select, and Premium, with no public USD rate.
Best for: Teams that will keep their tools and add a separate SOC
Pros
- Expel states more than 160 integrations, including CrowdStrike, Microsoft, SentinelOne, Okta, Palo Alto, Splunk, and Wiz, so the current agent can stay.
- Every package includes 24/7 SOC coverage, Expel Workbench, and auto-remediation, and Expel says analyst time and incident escalations are not extra fees.
- Expel states a 14-minute mean time to respond on critical and high incidents, but only when auto-remediation is turned on.
Cons
- Expel publishes no USD price, and the quote form's seat bands start at 100 to 999 and run through 5,000 to 9,999, so smaller firms fall outside it.
- Phishing response and threat hunting are add-ons, and you still pay for the EDR underneath, because Expel does not replace that license.
Red Canary
MDR across endpoints, identities, and cloud, licensed per endpoint, with the licensing docs now using the Zscaler MDR name.
- Pricing
- Quote only, per endpoint, with usage trued up every three months and no USD list price.
Best for: Teams that already pay for EDR and want another SOC on it
Pros
- Red Canary's product page covers endpoints, identities, and cloud, and it sits on telemetry you already collect, including Microsoft investments, so the agent you already have can stay.
- The licensing documentation, updated 9 September 2026, meters the platform per endpoint and trues usage up every three months, so growth shows up on that cadence.
- Workstations are counted when data is processed that month, so an idle month should not bill. Matching hostname and IP on virtual machines collapse to one license, so those hosts are counted once.
Cons
- There is no public USD rate, and the pricing page is a contact form, so a 200-endpoint bill is a conversation rather than a number for finance.
- New customers since September 2024 have servers averaged from four samples a day, and an overage is a one-time charge or a higher license count, with no overage dollar in the docs.
Bitdefender MDR
GravityZone's managed tier for MSPs: Secure Plus adds a 24/7 SOC on top of Secure, and the direct service is an inquiry.
- Pricing
- Quote only: MSP Secure Plus is monthly usage via distributors, with no minimum commitment.
Best for: MSPs already on GravityZone who want a 24/7 SOC
Pros
- MSP Secure Plus includes everything in Secure, plus 24/7 monitoring, remediation by Bitdefender's analysts, threat hunting, and a monthly service report, which is the overnight tier.
- MSP licensing is monthly and usage-based through distributors, with no minimum commitment, and usage can be pooled across customers for volume pricing.
- Secure, without the SOC, is the EPP and EDR package, and Secure Extra is the MXDR step above Secure Plus. The MDR tier on this page is Secure Plus, unless you need that wider scope.
Cons
- Bitdefender publishes no USD price for MDR, and the direct service starts on an inquiry form rather than a checkout you can finish this week.
- The MSP bill comes through a distributor, and Secure, the tier below Secure Plus, has no overnight analysts, so that tier is not this SOC.
What it is
Managed detection and response is a service in which a vendor's analysts watch your telemetry, investigate alerts, hunt, and respond around the clock, so your team is not the night shift.
The software still has to collect the telemetry, and MDR is the contract on top: a human decision, and a response that is either taken for you or handed back as instructions.
Huntress, Sophos, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Bitdefender sell the agent with the analysts, so both land on one contract. Expel and Red Canary connect to tools you already run, which fits when replacing the agent would cost more than the SOC.
Arctic Wolf brings its own sensors and includes log retention, so a second log store duplicates this subscription. Microsoft works the Defender queue and, on the higher plan, selected data already in Sentinel, so a shop on other consoles should look elsewhere.
Why it matters
The unit on the contract sets the bill, and the logo on the slide does not. One hundred Huntress endpoints at the published list rate are $899 a month before you add identities or log sources, by our arithmetic, which is the ceiling finance can use at that fleet size.
One hundred Falcon Enterprise devices at the annual device rate are $18,499 for the year, and that bundle is hunting plus detection, not Falcon Complete. Matching the headcount does not match the product, so that total is still not an MDR quote.
Cyberpresso data: the newsletter reaches 29,000+ security readers at a 31% open rate, from the audience file updated November 8, 2026.
Pair the service with a SIEM only when the provider does not already keep the logs, and add an incident response platform only when the contract stops at guidance.
Key features to look for
Pricing
USD figures below were checked on 23 September 2026, and the Huntress card was re-read in US dollars on 2 November 2026. CrowdStrike and SentinelOne state that the prices on their pages are in US dollars, and everyone else here publishes no MDR dollar.
Huntress Managed EDR at 50 endpoints is $449.50 a month, or $5,394 across the standard 12-month term, at the $8.99 MSRP. One hundred endpoints at that rate are $899 a month, or $10,788 over that term, our arithmetic; Huntress says the per-unit rate goes down as volume goes up but prints no volume rate, so those totals are ceilings.
ITDR at 50 identities is $240 a month, and that meter is separate from endpoints. SIEM at 50 sources is $200 a month, and SAT at 50 learners is $104 a month, so logs and training are extra lines.
ISPM at 50 identities matches that SIEM monthly total, and the 100-unit totals at list for these meters are in the table.
Managed antivirus is included with EDR, there is no separate setup fee, and overages are handled manually, so a spike has no printed rate.
Falcon Go annual is $59.99 per device and stops at 100 devices, and Falcon Pro monthly is $14.99 per device, and neither price is an MDR contract.
Falcon Enterprise is $19.99 per device billed monthly or $184.99 billed annually, and one hundred devices on the annual rate are $18,499, which is still not Falcon Complete.
One hundred Singularity Complete endpoints are $17,999 for the year, and MDR is still an add-on, so that total is not Wayfinder. Commercial is $229.99 per endpoint per year and is still not the Wayfinder rate, and the other services stay on a quote.
| Plan | Price | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Huntress Managed EDR, 50 endpoints | $449.50/mo | USD, $8.99 MSRP per endpoint, our arithmetic |
| Huntress Managed EDR, 100 endpoints | $899/mo | USD, $8.99 MSRP; volume rate on request, not printed |
| Huntress Managed EDR, 50 endpoints, 12 months | $5,394 | The 50-endpoint monthly line across the standard term |
| Huntress Managed EDR, 100 endpoints, 12 months | $10,788 | The 100-endpoint list total across 12 months, a ceiling |
| Huntress Managed ITDR, 50 identities | $240/mo | USD, $4.80 per identity |
| Huntress Managed ITDR, 100 identities | $480/mo | USD, $4.80 MSRP. Separate meter from endpoints |
| Huntress Managed SIEM, 50 sources | $200/mo | USD, $4 per source |
| Huntress Managed SIEM, 100 sources | $400/mo | USD, $4 MSRP. Pooled storage. Extended retention is a separate control |
| Huntress Managed SAT, 50 learners | $104/mo | USD, $2.08 per learner |
| Huntress Managed SAT, 100 learners | $208/mo | USD, $2.08 MSRP. Training meter, not an endpoint |
| Huntress Managed ISPM, 50 identities | $4/identity | USD MSRP; $200/mo at 50 identities |
| Huntress Managed ISPM, 100 identities | $400/mo | USD, $4 MSRP. Microsoft 365 hardening, separate from ITDR |
| CrowdStrike Falcon Go, annual | $59.99/device/yr | USD. Not MDR. Purchases capped at 100 devices |
| CrowdStrike Falcon Pro, monthly | $14.99/device/mo | USD. Firewall management. Not MDR |
| CrowdStrike Falcon Enterprise, monthly | $19.99/device/mo | USD. Detection and OverWatch hunting. Not Falcon Complete |
| CrowdStrike Falcon Enterprise, annual | $184.99/device/yr | 100 devices are $18,499 for the year. Still not Complete |
| CrowdStrike Falcon Complete | No USD list price | Warranty up to $2,000,000. Express Support is an add-on |
| SentinelOne Singularity Complete | $179.99/endpoint/yr | USD, 5 to 100 workstations. MDR marked as an add-on |
| SentinelOne Singularity Commercial | $229.99/endpoint/yr | Includes managed threat hunting. Wayfinder is still separate |
| SentinelOne Wayfinder MDR | No USD list price | Warranty up to $1,000,000. Partner price controls the endpoint SKUs |
| Arctic Wolf MDR | Quote only | Users, servers, and egress points. Logs included. No USD rate |
| Sophos MDR Essentials or Complete | Quote only | Per user, XDR license included. Servers are per server |
| Microsoft Defender Experts MDR Plan 1 | No USD list price | Defender workloads. Sold separately from Defender licenses |
| Microsoft Defender Experts MDR Plan 2 | No USD list price | Minimum 1,500 seats, plus Microsoft Sentinel |
| Expel MDR | Quote only | Starter, Select, Premium. Form starts at 100 to 999 seats |
| Red Canary | Quote only | Per endpoint. True-up every three months. Docs say Zscaler MDR |
| Bitdefender MSP Secure Plus | Quote only | Monthly usage via distributors. No minimum commitment |
The bottom line
Huntress is the buy when you need a USD rate and a 24/7 SOC in the same sentence. Budget at the list rate, ask for the volume rate near 100 endpoints, and use the 50-endpoint total at the direct minimum.
Choose Falcon Complete when the warranty and that vendor's remediation matter more than a checkout button, if the fleet is already on Falcon. Choose Arctic Wolf when log retention has to be inside the MDR fee, so you are not also buying a log store.
Choose Sophos MDR when the XDR license and the SOC should be one per-user quote, with servers counted apart. Choose Defender Experts when the queue is already Microsoft, and stop at Plan 1 unless you have 1,500 seats and Sentinel.
Choose Wayfinder when the endpoint invoice is separate from the SOC. Choose Expel or Red Canary when replacing the current EDR is the expensive part. Choose Bitdefender Secure Plus when the console is already GravityZone, and the Bitdefender review covers the agent underneath that SOC.
Manage the device through MDM, cover unpatched flaws with a vulnerability scanner, and keep the SOC admin login in a password manager. That admin session belongs on a business VPN. The Cyberpresso brief is where the next renewal term shows up.
Cite this: Cyberpresso, "Best MDR Services in 2026", September 2026.
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