SentinelOne Review

Buy SentinelOne for on-agent prevention that still runs when the laptop is off the network, then refuse the Core rate if the job is an investigation. The packages page is a ladder, and the bottom rung leaves out the history a SOC needs when it reconstructs an incident.

This review prices that ladder, then sets it beside CrowdStrike, Defender for Business, Huntress, and Bitdefender.

A console you will operate and a SOC you will rent should not be priced as the same purchase. The package-by-package split with Falcon is in CrowdStrike vs SentinelOne.

Toolradar data: Toolradar, the software directory we run, shows 816 tools evaluated in its September 2026 security ranking. That figure is the whole security category.

The endpoint record for this product is the SentinelOne page on Toolradar.

How we compared: SentinelOne's packages page plus the Core and Complete product pages, CrowdStrike's US pricing page, Microsoft's US Defender for Business page, Huntress's pricing page on the US dollar setting, and Bitdefender's US business deals page, checked on September 24, 2026.

Where a yearly bill appears, we multiplied the printed rate, and no vendor paid for inclusion.

SentinelOne Singularity is an endpoint platform sold as five packages on one comparison matrix, and that matrix is what you should read before a partner call. Core, Control, Complete, and Commercial print a per-endpoint annual rate, while Enterprise is call for pricing, so the top tier cannot go into a budget from the public page.

Core is the protection package: the matrix gives every package endpoint protection, role-based access, and multi-tenant management, then withholds device and firewall control, remote shell, cloud workloads, and autonomous prevention from Core. A team that needs those controls is already on the next package.

The Core page still describes on-agent static and behavioral AI, Storyline context, and patented one-click rollback that does not depend on the cloud. Confirm those behaviors are in the Core license before you sign, because that is what a roaming laptop is buying.

Control checks autonomous prevention, detection, and response, plus cloud workloads and device, firewall, and remote-shell controls. Buyers who want response without an investigation archive land here, and this row still has no retention value.

Complete is the investigation package, because extended detection and the AI Security Assistant are checked there and left off Control. The Complete page describes Purple AI queries, event summaries, and the same rollback, so an analyst can ask what happened and still undo it.

Commercial puts identity detection, the longer retention window, and managed threat hunting inside the printed rate. Enterprise adds the agentic analyst, network discovery, forensics, and guided onboarding, and keeps that longer retention, so the quote is about forensics and the analyst.

Managed detection stays an add-on on Commercial and Enterprise and is unchecked on Complete, so a night shift is a second quote even after you buy hunting.

SentinelOne says it was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms for a sixth year running, a procurement checkbox rather than a reason to skip the matrix.

The Core and Complete pages describe the 2024 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK evaluation as 100% detection with zero delays, so read the notes before you treat that slogan as your own result.

The agent is the product: static and behavioral AI run on the device, and always-on protection does not require the cloud, so a laptop encrypting files off the network still has that engine.

Rollback is the recovery claim, separate from remote shell. Core and Complete describe patented one-click remediation that reverses unauthorized changes, so the first move is not a reimage. Remote shell sits with device and firewall control, from Control upward and absent on Core, so a Core buyer cannot open a shell from this license.

Reconstruction depends on the retention cell, not the agent. Core and Control show no retention value, Complete has the short window, and Commercial and Enterprise have the longer one, so last month's process tree is off the lower rows.

The Complete page stores malware and fileless incidents for 365 days, against the short window for historical EDR data, and the upgrade to that longer store is not priced. Do not treat the malware store as if it were the historical EDR window.

A case on day 20 stays in Commercial's longer window and drops out of Complete's historical EDR window, even when the malware store still has the file. Cloud Funnel can copy data to a SIEM, Amazon S3, or Google Cloud Storage, which is how you keep a longer record than the package includes.

Every order goes through an authorized partner, printed rates are US dollars for the band on the page, and taxes may be extra. The partner's terms win when they conflict, so the page is a ceiling for comparison, not the invoice.

The Core page offers storage in North America, Europe, or Asia, and lists Windows 11, Windows Server through 2019, macOS through Ventura, and 10 Linux families. Confirm the agent for a newer macOS release, or a current Mac fleet can fail after you sign.

The number a budget template grabs is Core, and that package is endpoint protection, so it understates an investigation. Five workstations, the bottom of the printed band, are $349.95 for a year at the Core rate, our multiplication.

Twenty Core endpoints are $1,399.80 for the year: prevention and rollback, without a searchable history.

Control, at $79.99 per endpoint per year, is the first row with autonomous response, cloud workloads, and device, firewall, and remote-shell controls. Twenty Control endpoints are $1,599.80, a step up for those actions, and the row still has no retention cell.

Complete adds extended detection and the AI Security Assistant, and twenty Complete endpoints are $3,599.80 for the year, the bill when someone will work an incident. Commercial adds identity detection, managed hunting, and the longer retention window, and twenty Commercial endpoints are $4,599.80.

Enterprise is a sales conversation, because the agentic analyst, forensics, and guided onboarding sit there and the public page will not price them.

Managed detection is an add-on on Commercial and Enterprise, with no dollar amount, and the matrix leaves it off Complete. The Complete page still describes Singularity MDR as expert-led hunting and 24/7 coverage, so budget a second quote if you need a staffed SOC.

CrowdStrike's US schema lists Falcon Pro at $99.99 per device per year, between a prevention bundle and Enterprise, whose description names detection, threat intelligence, and hunting. Go stops at a device cap, so the next device is a different purchase.

Twenty Enterprise devices are $3,699.80 for the year, our multiplication, against the twenty-Complete bill above. Hunting is inside that description and an add-on on Complete, so the nearer peer for a hunt in the rate is Commercial.

Annual Falcon subscriptions can be canceled within 30 days for a full refund, and CrowdStrike offers a 15-day trial of Falcon Prevent and Device Control. SentinelOne's packages page lists neither a trial nor a refund window, so a wrong package is a partner conversation, not a cancel button.

Modules these stickers leave out are covered in how much EDR costs, and Falcon's cards are in CrowdStrike Falcon pricing.

Defender for Business is $3 per user per month, paid yearly, tax excluded, on Microsoft's US page. One year is $36 per user, our multiplication, and twenty users are $720 for the year. Each user can cover five client devices, so a laptop-heavy office can cost less than a sensor-priced agent.

Business Premium, which includes the product, is $22 per user per month, paid yearly, and the no-Teams edition is $18.79 per user per month, paid yearly. A tenant on that suite should not add a second order. The cap is 300 users, and past it this license is the wrong contract.

Huntress prints an example, not one sticker for every fleet. On the US dollar view, 50 endpoints are $8.99 per endpoint per month, or $449.50 per month. A year of that example is $5,394, our multiplication, against $8,999.50 for the same count of Complete endpoints with no SOC in the rate.

Direct and reseller purchases require that seat floor per product, and an MSP purchase does not, so a smaller company cannot buy the example direct. The example includes the 24/7 SOC and excludes deployment and portal work. The term is 12 months, with no multi-year freeze, so the renewal is repriced.

Bitdefender's US deals page sells one, two, or three years online for up to 100 endpoints, then a partner above that band. It publishes no list price, so two buyers do not share a number. Read which GravityZone tier includes detection before you pay, because the checkout total is not a feature list.

For a lineup rather than this one invoice, use the endpoint detection guide.

Buy Complete or Commercial when the fleet is inside the printed band and someone will work the console. Complete fits a team that can live with the short history window and will export the rest through Cloud Funnel.

Commercial fits a team that wants identity detection, longer retention, and managed hunting in the printed rate, then still negotiates the partner invoice.

Core fits a legacy-antivirus replacement if you have confirmed the on-agent engine and rollback are in the license. It fails the moment you need a process tree from last month, because that history is not on this row.

Skip it when you need a staffed night shift, because managed detection is an add-on with no printed rate. Price managed detection or Huntress, and meet the direct seat floor or buy through an MSP.

Skip it when the company is a Microsoft tenant under the published user cap and the devices are clients. The user license is the cheaper unit, and a second agent needs a reason. A prevention-only refresh is a different market, covered in antivirus for business.

Above the printed band, do not multiply the sticker into a forecast, because the page stops there and Enterprise is a sales conversation. Cyberpresso is the weekday note when a package moves, so subscribe free if that should hit the inbox before renewal.