Best Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Software

Paid · Falcon Enterprise · $19.99 USD · per device · per month · billed monthly · Falcon Enterprise device subscription
Paid · Falcon Enterprise · $184.99 USD · per device · per year · annual upfront payment · Falcon Enterprise device subscription

Enterprise
Mid-market

Enterprise and mid-market security operations teams
Organizations needing strong endpoint telemetry and threat hunting

Organizations requiring an on-premises management plane
Buyers seeking antivirus-only simplicity

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a cloud-delivered endpoint security product for preventing, detecting, investigating, and responding to threats across supported desktop, server, and mobile environments.

83Category score

Some paid plan amounts are unverified — check official pricing

Enterprise
Mid-market

Organizations standardized on Microsoft 365 and Intune
Enterprise security operations teams needing advanced hunting and response

Buyers expecting server licenses inside the normal user entitlement
Organizations seeking a vendor-neutral standalone XDR product

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TrendAI Vision One Endpoint Security

TrendAI Vision One Endpoint Security unifies endpoint and workload prevention, detection, investigation, response, and security operations within the Trend Vision One platform.

81Category score

Some paid plan amounts are unverified — check official pricing

Enterprise
Mid-market

Enterprises with mixed endpoints, servers, workloads, virtual machines, and specialized devices
Security teams seeking integrated EDR with wider Vision One correlation and automation

Buyers that require transparent self-service per-device pricing
Small teams seeking a lightweight standalone antivirus without security-operations complexity

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Cybereason EDR

Cybereason EDR is an endpoint detection and response product that correlates endpoint telemetry into attack narratives and supports investigation, hunting, containment, and remediation.

80Category score

Some paid plan amounts are unverified — check official pricing

Mid-market
Enterprise

Security operations teams that need endpoint-centric detection, investigation, containment, and remediation
Small and medium enterprises seeking bundled endpoint prevention, EDR, and an MDR service tier

Buyers that require a publicly priced, standalone EDR-only commercial package

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ESET Inspect

ESET Inspect is an EDR and XDR-enabling module for detecting anomalous endpoint behavior, investigating incidents, hunting threats, and performing remote remediation through ESET PROTECT.

79Category score

Custom quote required for some paid plans

Enterprise
Mid-market

Existing ESET PROTECT customers adding EDR and threat hunting
Security teams that value transparent editable detection rules

Buyers seeking a vendor-neutral sensor independent of ESET endpoint protection
Teams requiring transparent public pricing

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ThreatDown Endpoint Detection and Response

ThreatDown Endpoint Detection and Response is a cloud-managed EDR product for detecting suspicious endpoint behavior, investigating activity, containing attacks, remediating malware, and recovering Windows files after ransomware.

79Category score

Some paid plan amounts are unverified — check official pricing

Mid-market
Small business
Enterprise

Small and mid-market teams seeking a separately purchasable EDR package
Organizations wanting behavioral detection, query-based hunting, isolation, remediation, and Windows ransomware rollback in one console

Buyers requiring a publicly verified numeric price before entering the configurator or sales process
Organizations expecting 24x7 human-led monitoring and response in the Advanced EDR package

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Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR is an endpoint security and detection-and-response product that combines prevention, endpoint telemetry, investigation, response, and cross-source analytics.

77Category score

Some paid plan amounts are unverified — check official pricing

Security operations teams that need endpoint prevention, detection, investigation, and response in one product
Organizations that want to correlate endpoint data with network, cloud, identity, and email signals

Buyers that require 24/7 managed detection and response to be included in the base endpoint license
Organizations that cannot accommodate licensed endpoint capacity controls for Pro-specific capabilities

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Bitdefender GravityZone EDR

Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is a cloud-managed endpoint detection and response product for correlating endpoint activity, investigating attack chains, hunting threats, and containing incidents.

76Category score

Custom quote required for some paid plans

Mid-market
Enterprise
Small business

Security operations teams that need endpoint event correlation, investigation, and response workflows
Organizations seeking endpoint EDR that can complement an existing EPP deployment

Organizations without personnel to investigate and respond to security incidents
Buyers requiring native cross-surface identity, network, cloud, productivity-application, and mobile telemetry within an endpoint-only EDR product

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Sophos Endpoint

Sophos Endpoint is a centrally managed endpoint security product that combines prevention with EDR investigation and response across business endpoints and servers.

73Category score

Custom quote required for some paid plans

Security analysts and IT administrators needing self-managed EDR
Organizations seeking integrated endpoint prevention, detection, investigation, and response