What is Endpoint Index?

It publishes every vendor price and lab result with its source and the date it was checked, and ranks products by a published SMB Fit Score. The name refers to endpoint security, the protection on a business's laptops, desktops and servers; it is not an index of API endpoints. Listing is free, and paid Featured and Claimed placements cannot change scores or ranks.

The main things on the site are the SMB Endpoint Security Price Index of published prices at 5 to 100 seats, vendor pricing pages such as CrowdStrike pricing, rankings by Fit Score, head-to-head comparisons and buyer research.

Endpoint Index covers antivirus, endpoint detection and response (EDR) and managed detection and response (MDR) products sold to small and mid-size businesses. It launched in September 2026. Each product page shows the price, the capabilities, the independent lab results and the SMB Fit Score, and every value on it links to the page it came from and the date it was last checked.

Where the data comes from

Endpoint Index takes facts from three scored sources: the vendor's own product page, the vendor's own store or pricing calculator, and three independent test labs (AV-Test, AV-Comparatives and MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations). Vendor press releases and third-party sites can appear on a product page, but they never count towards the score. A value that cannot be confirmed from a scored source scores zero, and the page says why.

A product is eligible if it protects business endpoints, can be bought by a small business without an enterprise-only contract, and has a public product page. Published pricing and lab results are not required. Quote-only products are listed and marked as such, and a product with no current lab results says so plainly.

How the data is checked

An automated check runs every week. It fetches each source page, detects changes and flags them for review by a person; prices are never updated automatically. Every verification date has to fall within 90 days, and a product with an older value is marked stale until it is re-verified. Lab results older than 18 months stay on the page with a "dated" label and earn no points.

How products are ranked

Rankings are sorted by the SMB Fit Score, a formula from 0 to 100 built from four components: efficacy in independent tests, price transparency and level, how easily a small business can buy and run the product, and capability coverage. The score measures fit for a small-business buyer, not absolute protection. The formula and its weights are set out in the methodology, and every product page shows each input, its points and the total. A change to the formula bumps the score version and is logged.

How we make money

• Claimed listings. A yearly fee for a verified vendor badge and a vendor profile, labelled "From the vendor".
• Featured placements and Category Sponsors. Yearly fees for a labelled card on a category page, or the single labelled sponsor slot on it. They sit outside the ranked table and never appear on product reports.

Prices are on the rate card.

None of these can change a score, a rank, an inclusion or editorial text. Commercial information is stored separately from product data, the scoring code never reads it, and every build of the site fails if the scoring code references it. Vendor profile text appears only in panels labelled "From the vendor", and a Claimed vendor cannot edit product data: every change needs the same public-source check. We do not run display ads, sell user data, or accept payment for editorial coverage. Endpoint Index's operator may provide services to companies in this category; scores and rankings are computed from published data and cannot be altered by any commercial relationship. The full rules are in the editorial policy.

Corrections

Report an error to [email protected] with a link to the public page that shows the correct value. Every report is reviewed within 5 business days, and verified corrections appear in the changelog with what changed and the date.

Open data

The full dataset is published at /data/ under CC BY 4.0. You may reuse it, including commercially, if you credit Endpoint Index and link to the dataset page.

Contact

Editorial questions, corrections and vendor enquiries: [email protected].