Best Security Tools for MSPs in 2026

An MSP that cannot name the unit price loses the margin conversation to the client who already looked it up. Huntress is the line you can budget before the partner form, because the SOC sits inside the published example rather than a second contract.

Toolradar data: Toolradar, the software directory we run, has evaluated 865 security tools as of 17 October 2026, on its security ranking. This page keeps eight an MSP can run across client tenants. Profiles for the priced endpoint and patch lines are on Huntress, SentinelOne, and NinjaOne.

Managed detection as a category is in best MDR services, and the agent comparison is in best EDR and endpoint protection. If you are the only IT person at one company, read security tools for an IT team of one, because that bill is a different problem.

A security tool for an MSP is software the provider deploys across many client tenants from one console, then bills back by endpoint, user, or technician. The test is whether you can see every client, price the unit, and avoid paying twice for the same laptop.

Huntress is the SOC line: one contract, client organizations under it, and managed endpoint detection in the rate. That suits a provider that wants overnight coverage without a second vendor. Defender for Business is the Microsoft seat, read across tenants in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, for shops whose technicians will work the alerts.

SentinelOne is the endpoint agent an authorized partner invoices, so the printed rate is a starting point the partner can replace. DNSFilter is the DNS layer, added after the endpoint choice, with its own MSP console. NinjaOne patches from one cloud agent, and it does not replace a SOC.

ThreatLocker is deny-by-default allowlisting, which means the MSP owns an approval queue after go-live. Blackpoint is a partner-sold SOC that publishes no rate, so you cannot budget it from the site. Acronis is backup plus anti-malware, and the missing workstation dollar keeps it out of a 100-endpoint total until a quote arrives. DNS filtering in more depth is in best web filtering software.

The same 100 people produce four different endpoint bills, and only one includes someone awake at 2 a.m. Huntress at the published 100-endpoint example is $799 a month. Defender for Business for 100 users is $3,600 for the year, because the seat is paid yearly, so the cash leaves in one invoice.

SentinelOne Core for 100 workstations is $6,999 for the year, and Complete is $17,999, both inside the printed 5 to 100 band. A partner can still replace either total, so do not treat the page as the signed quote.

Do not put either package on the same laptop as Huntress. That rate already manages Microsoft Defender Antivirus on Windows, and a second prevention agent is another invoice, not extra coverage.

Add DNS after the endpoint choice, because a small book hits a floor. One hundred Core licenses at the monthly retail rate are $115, under the MSP minimum, so a one-client book pays the partner floor.

Patching uses a different meter, and a 100-device book falls in a gap the page does not price. NinjaOne prints $3.75 per device a month at 50 or fewer endpoints, which is $187.50 for a 50-device book, and $1.50 at 10,000 endpoints.

The rate you can show depends on which end of that range the book resembles. Device management beside the patch agent is in best MDM software, and backup that can restore what an agent cannot is in best ransomware protection.

Prices were read on 17 October 2026 on each vendor's own page. Monthly figures below are list or retail rates times the count shown. Taxes, partner discounts, and reseller quotes are not included. Where a page prints no dollar, the row says so, and that line stays out of the total.

For 100 endpoints, Huntress at the published example is $799 a month, the total here that includes a staffed SOC. The same 100 users on Defender for Business are $3,600 for the year, and the alerts stay with your technicians. SentinelOne Core is $6,999 for the year and Complete is $17,999, both inside the 5 to 100 workstation band, and the partner can still replace them. Putting Huntress and either package on the same machines double-counts the endpoint.

DNSFilter Core at the monthly retail rate is $115 for 100 licenses, under the $150 MSP minimum, so a book that small pays the floor. Huntress at the example plus that DNS floor is $949 a month. Defender's yearly seat plus the same floor is a $450 monthly equivalent, and that pair has no SOC.

Fifty NinjaOne devices at the top of the published range are $187.50 a month, which buys patching rather than an endpoint SOC. Fifty Huntress hosts at the published MSRP are $449.50 a month. That is list math for the 50-host MSP contract floor, not a 50-unit tier the pricing page prints on its own.

Methodology: we started from Toolradar's security ranking and kept products an MSP can run as a multi-tenant service, then priced a 100-endpoint client from the vendor pages. Dupple has no test lab, so nothing here is a hands-on result. Sources, checked 17 October 2026: Huntress pricing, Huntress resale terms, Huntress for MSPs, Defender for Business, SentinelOne packages, Singularity Core, DNSFilter pricing, DNSFilter for MSPs, NinjaOne pricing, NinjaOne patching, ThreatLocker pricing, ThreatLocker platform, Blackpoint pricing, Blackpoint, and Acronis buying options.