Best EDR Solutions in 2026

CrowdStrike sells EDR as Falcon Insight within its single-agent Falcon platform, and is one of the few enterprise vendors that publishes list prices. Falcon Go costs US$59.99 per device a year (or US$7.99 a month, for up to 100 devices); Falcon Pro US$99.99; and Falcon Enterprise US$184.99 per device a year, the tier the pricing page describes as adding continuous endpoint visibility and detection plus a team of experts who hunt for intrusions inside the platform. Falcon Complete, the managed detection and response (MDR) offering, is quote-based and includes a breach prevention warranty. A 15-day free trial requires no credit card. The company is listed on Nasdaq; for the quarter ended 31 July 2026 it reported revenue of US$1.47 billion, up 26% year on year, and annual recurring revenue (ARR) of US$5.84 billion. Its Falcon Flex licensing, which lets customers draw down modules from a committed spend, had passed US$2.29 billion in ending ARR. Strengths are the large threat-intelligence and threat-hunting operation and the breadth of modules on one sensor. Limitations: the pricing page lists EDR among the Go tier's modules but describes continuous visibility only for Enterprise, so buyers should confirm exactly which detection and retention capabilities each tier includes, and module sprawl can raise costs over time.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is Microsoft's enterprise endpoint security platform and the endpoint pillar of Microsoft Defender XDR; its signals feed a unified portal that correlates them with identity, email and cloud alerts so that an attack can be traced from a phishing message to lateral movement. It supports Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, and its documented capabilities include EDR, automatic attack disruption, predictive shielding, next-generation protection with ransomware prevention, attack surface reduction and vulnerability management. Licensing comes in Plan 1, Plan 2 and Microsoft Defender for Business; Microsoft 365 E5 and E5 Security include Plan 2. For enterprises on E3, Microsoft sells the Defender Suite at US$12.00 per user per month, paid yearly. For organisations of up to 300 users, Defender for Business costs US$3.00 per user per month and includes EDR with automatic attack disruption, covering up to five devices per user. The main advantage is economics and integration for organisations already standardised on Microsoft 365. Limitations include licensing complexity across plans and suites, and the fact that the strongest correlation depends on also deploying Microsoft's identity, email and cloud products.

SentinelOne's Singularity Platform is built around Storyline, which its annual report describes as continuously linking process behaviour into contextual narratives that a behavioural AI model evaluates on the endpoint itself. Because a Storyline records every unauthorised change made during an attack, the agent can remediate or roll back those changes with a single action, which the company presents as eliminating manual clean-up. Storyline Active Response (STAR) lets users write custom indicator-of-compromise rules that run in real time, and Purple AI, a generative AI assistant, supports natural-language hunting and automated investigation. The 10-K lists the tiers as Singularity Core (EPP replacing antivirus), Control (adds device and network control), Complete (the flagship EDR offering), Commercial and Enterprise, priced generally per endpoint. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange; for the quarter to 31 July 2026 revenue grew 21% to US$292 million and ARR 22% to US$1.218 billion, with 1,715 customers above US$100,000 ARR. Prices are not available on its own site to automated readers in this review, and the full EDR feature set requires the Complete tier or higher.

Cortex XDR is Palo Alto Networks' detection and response product; it correlates data from endpoint, network, cloud, identity and email sources with behavioural analytics, and runs on a single sensor shared with other Cortex Platform capabilities. Analysts can write custom behavioural indicators of compromise (BIOCs), IOCs and correlation rules, and the product exposes a REST API that returns alerts and incidents as JSON. An AI assistant, Cortex AgentiX Assistant, supports investigation and response, and Palo Alto's Unit 42 offers MDR, managed threat hunting and incident response as services. The product page cites 99% prevention in the 2025 AV-Comparatives Endpoint Prevention and Response (EPR) test and describes Cortex as a four-time Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for endpoint protection platforms. These are vendor-reported citations. Cortex XDR's distinguishing strength is network telemetry from the firewall estate, which most endpoint-first vendors lack. Its limitations are that no editions or prices are published, and the full cross-source value depends on owning other Palo Alto products.

Trend Micro's detection and response platform is now marketed as TrendAI Vision One; the product site uses the TrendAI brand while the copyright line still reads Trend Micro Incorporated. The Security Operations offering unifies what the company calls agentic SIEM, agentic SOAR and XDR. Its EDR component provides visibility and threat prevention for endpoints and servers, and sits alongside native detection-and-response modules for networks (NDR), identity (ITDR), email (EmDR), cloud (CDR) and data (DDR). Native and third-party telemetry are combined in one console, and the page cites leadership in the IDC MarketScape for worldwide XDR software (2025) and participation in a 2025 MITRE ATT&CK evaluation. The breadth of first-party sensors, particularly for email and network, is the main reason buyers shortlist it for EDR. Limitations: pricing and the credit-based licensing model are not described on the product page, and the move to a new brand and domain means documentation and contracts may reference both names.

Sophos sells EDR as a one-click addition to Sophos Endpoint in its central console, with XDR including endpoint protection and EDR as standard while extending visibility across the wider environment. Automated responses include process termination, ransomware rollback, network isolation and adaptive attack protection; analysts can also isolate endpoints manually and use live response for direct, audited shell access to devices. AI functions include prioritised detections, case summaries, AI search and command analysis, and detections are mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Historical events can be searched in the Sophos Data Lake even when devices are offline, and Sophos XDR can ingest data from non-Sophos endpoint agents such as Microsoft Defender. The company says it is trusted by more than 600,000 customers, and its MDR service adds 24/7 detection, threat hunting, full-scale incident response and a breach protection warranty. The EDR page does not state a data-retention period or prices, so buyers must obtain both in a quote.

Bitdefender has been a security provider since 2001, with its corporate headquarters in Bucharest, Romania, and says more than half its employees work in research and development. GravityZone EDR combines prevention layers (patch management, exploit defence, fileless attack defence, tunable HyperDetect machine learning and cloud sandboxing) with automatic correlation of attacks across endpoints into single incidents, real-time attack-chain visualisation, and threat hunting through historical and live searches for indicators of compromise. A risk-management module scores vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and user behaviour. Incidents can be forwarded to Splunk, QRadar and Azure Sentinel. Bitdefender MDR adds 24/7 monitoring from its SOC, and Bitdefender XDR extends coverage to network and cloud. Vendor-reported figures on the page include up to 85% fewer incidents through prevention-first design. Standalone EDR Cloud is sold through a demo request, while a one-month free trial is offered for GravityZone Business Security Enterprise. Prices for the EDR tier are not published.

ESET cites more than 30 years of work, 11 research and development centres and more than 850 researchers and technology experts; its North American operation is in San Diego. ESET Inspect is the detection and response module of the ESET PROTECT platform. It supports Windows, macOS and Linux, maps detections to MITRE ATT&CK, correlates data into incidents showing root-cause events, and exports detections and remediation data through a public REST API to SIEM, SOAR and ticketing tools. Suspicious files can be submitted to ESET LiveGuard Advanced for an interactive behavioural report. Its notable difference from most rivals is deployment choice: ESET Inspect runs either as a cloud service or on premises, which suits organisations with data-residency requirements or air-gapped segments. It is sold in the ESET PROTECT Premium and Ultimate tiers and in ESET PROTECT MDR Ultimate, with a no-card trial. Prices are loaded dynamically on ESET's plan page and could not be verified for this review.

Cisco Secure Endpoint is sold in three tiers. Essentials provides automated responses, including one-click isolation of an infected host, powered by Cisco Talos intelligence; Advantage adds advanced EDR and access to a malware analysis and threat intelligence portal; Premier adds Talos threat hunting, in which Cisco analysts proactively search customer environments using hunts mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. The product also offers built-in or fully managed EDR, risk-based vulnerability management from Kenna Security, USB device control, and integration with Cisco XDR for incident management and automated playbooks. Orbital provides cloud-based attack research and response features such as live endpoint queries. The main reason to choose it is integration with the Cisco security estate and Talos, one of the larger commercial threat-intelligence groups. Limitations: prices are not shown on the product page, and the page does not fully list which features sit in each tier, so a licensing comparison is needed before purchase.

Elastic Security adds endpoint protection and response to the Elastic search and analytics platform. The endpoint page describes behaviour-based prevention of ransomware and malware, host-based behaviour analytics, automated actions that stop, pause or quarantine threats, osquery for host context, and Attack Discovery, which groups alerts into attacks, including data ingested from third-party tools. It covers Windows, macOS and Linux. Elastic cites AV-Comparatives results, including a top result with 100% protection and zero false alarms in a 2026 Endpoint Prevention and Response test, and Strong Performer status in the Forrester Wave for XDR platforms, Q2 2026. Pricing is distinctive: since 23 March 2026 Elastic has charged no per-endpoint fee on its serverless security offering, billing instead for data ingest (from US$0.09 per GB on Essentials) and retention (from US$0.017 per GB per month). Response actions, tamper protection and device control require the Complete tier. The model can be economical for large fleets with modest telemetry, but cost becomes a function of data volume, which is harder to forecast than a seat count.

Huntress was founded in 2015 by former US National Security Agency cyber operators, with Kyle Hanslovan as co-founder and chief executive, and says it partners with more than 285,000 organisations. Unlike most entries, Huntress sells EDR only as a managed service: Managed EDR costs US$8.99 per endpoint per month (MSRP) and includes 24/7 threat detection and response, active remediation, custom incident reporting and free managed antivirus, with SOC management included at no additional cost. The same model extends to Managed ITDR for Microsoft 365 and Google identities at US$4.80 per identity per month and Managed SIEM at US$4.00 per data source per month. MSPs are billed monthly in arrears on deployed usage; direct customers commit to a 12-month term with a 50-seat minimum per product. Free trials are the full product including SOC support. The trade-off is depth: Huntress targets the small and mid-sized market and is not designed as a self-operated hunting console for a large in-house SOC, and deployment and day-to-day portal management are not included in the price.

WithSecure is headquartered in Helsinki. Its Elements EDR detects threats that bypass endpoint protection and supports investigation and response on Windows, macOS and Linux. Broad Context Detection consolidates related events into incidents showing the full attack chain from first touch to objective, and threats can be contained in one click by isolating hosts, quarantining files or killing processes. Luminen, its AI assistant, gives plain-language response guidance for each detection. An optional Elevate service lets WithSecure experts validate detections, and Co-Security Services extend a customer's team on demand. A 30-day free trial is available without a credit card. The product appeals to European buyers who want a vendor headquartered in the EU and flexible access to expert help without committing to full MDR. Prices are not on the product page.

Carbon Black is now a Broadcom product line; the former carbonblack.com domain redirects to Broadcom's product page. The current line comprises Carbon Black Cloud EDR and Threat Intelligence, Carbon Black App Control, and Carbon Black Cloud Workload, positioned around threat prevention with detailed policy customisation and threat detection and response using endpoint, network and workload data. App Control, an allow-listing product, remains a common choice for fixed-function systems such as point-of-sale or industrial workstations. Broadcom sells Carbon Black through partners and distributors and publishes no prices. The product page cites a Forrester Total Economic Impact study commissioned for the product reporting a 427% three-year return on investment. The page gives little technical detail, so buyers will need partner briefings or documentation to compare it with rivals.