Blumira Review 2026: SIEM Pricing per Employee, Pros and Cons

Most SIEM bills grow with the volume of logs you send, which is the opposite of what a small IT team can budget for. Blumira's whole pitch is to remove that variable: it prices by headcount, ingests unlimited data, and keeps a year of logs on every edition.

That makes it easy to quote, so the real decision is which edition you need and what the first year costs once the onboarding fee and the annual contract are counted.

This review prices Detect, Respond and Automate for a 50-person company, explains what each step up buys, and lines Blumira up against Huntress, Wazuh, Rapid7 and Microsoft Sentinel.

Every Blumira figure comes from Blumira's pricing page, checked on November 4, 2026, and every rival price from that vendor's own page the same day.

Toolradar data: only 19% of the 27 security monitoring tools tracked on Toolradar, the software directory we run, offer a free tier (5 of 27), as of November 4, 2026, so a paid SIEM with a trial is the norm rather than the exception.

For the full field, see our best SIEM tools ranking.

Blumira is a cloud SIEM with built-in detection and response, sold to small and mid-sized organizations that have no dedicated security operations center.

It collects logs from cloud services and on-premises systems through cloud connectors and on-premises sensors, runs detections written and tuned by its own engineers, and sends each finding with plain-language guidance on what to do next. The pricing page groups that into three editions: Detect, Respond and Automate.

In 2026 Blumira's product menu also lists Hearth, an AI security analyst, Kindling for case alerts with evidence and a next action, identity threat detection, honeypots for spotting lateral movement and HTTP ingest for webhook-capable log sources.

Respond and Automate add the Blumira Agent for Windows, macOS and Linux endpoints, which turns the SIEM into something closer to an XDR tool. Blumira has no listing on Toolradar yet; for the closest rivals there, see the Huntress profile and the Wazuh profile.

Setup starts with connecting log sources: Microsoft 365, firewalls, Windows Server, identity providers and cloud accounts. Blumira's solution architects work with you from day one under a white-glove onboarding package, which is required and billed once on the two lower editions.

Once logs flow, the pre-built detections run without a tuning project, and detection filters let you silence noise from systems you know are safe.

When something fires, the finding arrives by email, text or voice call with the evidence and the recommended step. On Detect, response is manual: you read the guidance and act in your own tools. Respond adds the endpoint agent, in-dashboard host isolation, domain blocklisting and 24/7 support during critical incidents.

Automate adds SOC Auto-Focus, an AI summary of each finding, plus automated host isolation and dynamic blocklists, so a threat can be contained before anyone opens the alert.

The trade-off is who does the work at 3 a.m. Blumira detects and guides, and on Automate it blocks automatically, but it is not a fully staffed MDR service watching your endpoints. If you want people on the other end doing the response, compare it with a managed service in our best MDR services guide.

Blumira lists three editions on Blumira's pricing page, in US dollars, checked on November 4, 2026. Detect costs $12 per employee a month, Respond $16 and Automate $21.

Blumira counts knowledge workers with a corporate email address and a device, not Blumira admin accounts, so factory staff or students may fall outside the count. Contracts are annual on every edition, with multi-year terms available.

Volume, nonprofit, government and education discounts are offered through sales, and MSP pricing is separate.

A one-time white-glove onboarding fee is required on Detect and Respond and included on Automate. The fee is $250 on one of the two lower editions and $500 on the other, and Blumira's desktop and mobile pricing tables assign the two amounts the opposite way round, so confirm which applies before you sign. Extra Blumira Agents cost $3 per agent a month.

What a 50-employee company pays, by our arithmetic on those list prices: Detect $600 a month or $7,200 a year, Respond $800 a month or $9,600 a year, and Automate $1,050 a month or $12,600 a year. Add $250 to $500 of onboarding to the first year of Detect or Respond.

Per employee, that is $144, $192 and $252 a year. The step from Detect to Automate costs $5,400 a year at that headcount, which buys endpoint agents, 24/7 incident support and automated containment.

For comparison, Wazuh Cloud starts at $571 a month for up to 100 agents with one month of indexed data, so Detect costs more than that tier from the 48th employee, while keeping a full year of searchable logs.

Huntress prices its managed SIEM at $4 per data source a month MSRP and its managed EDR at $8.99 per endpoint, a different unit that rewards companies with few log sources.

Methodology: we read the pricing pages of Blumira, Huntress, Wazuh, Rapid7 and Microsoft Sentinel on November 4, 2026, used list prices only, and multiplied per-employee prices by headcount and by 12 for yearly totals. Vendors that publish no fixed price are described, not estimated.

Blumira fits a small or mid-sized company with an IT generalist or a small IT team, a compliance or cyber-insurance requirement for log monitoring and a year of retention, and no budget for a security analyst. Healthcare practices, credit unions, manufacturers and local governments are its stated industries.

Detect suits a team that wants visibility and audit-ready reports; Respond is the edition to choose once you want endpoint isolation and someone to call at night during an incident; Automate is for teams that would rather the tool contain a threat on its own.

Our security tools for an IT team of one guide covers what else that kind of team needs.

Skip it if you have the skills to run an open-source SIEM, since Wazuh costs nothing to self-host, as our free SIEM tools guide explains.

Skip it too if you already pay for Microsoft security licensing and want logs in Sentinel, or if you want a fully managed SOC doing response for you, where Huntress and other MDR providers fit better.

Larger teams with analysts may want the query depth of a platform from our Splunk alternatives list.