Head-to-head comparisons

Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security is the better antivirus buy for most small offices: it costs $38.50 per endpoint per year at 10 seats against $54.90 per endpoint per year for ESET PROTECT Core, sells online from 3 devices, and blocked more threats in AV-Comparatives' latest business test.

Microsoft Defender for Business is the better buy for most small businesses in this pair: it costs $36.00 per user per year, against $88.00 per endpoint per year for Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security Premium at 10 seats, and it includes EDR, which Premium does not.

For most small businesses Microsoft Defender for Business is the better buy: it includes EDR at $36.00 per user per year, while CrowdStrike Falcon Go costs $59.99 per endpoint per year and stops at next-generation antivirus, with EDR starting two plans higher at Falcon Enterprise.

For most Microsoft 365 businesses without security staff, the answer is both: Microsoft Defender for Business as the EDR tool at $36.00 per user per year, and Huntress Managed EDR as the 24/7 team that watches it.

Microsoft Defender for Business is the better buy for most businesses under 300 users: it includes EDR at $36.00 per user per year, against $179.99 per endpoint per year for SentinelOne Singularity Complete at 10 seats, and it has the fresher lab results as of 30 September 2026.

CrowdStrike Falcon Go and Huntress Managed EDR are not substitutes: Falcon Go is next-generation antivirus with no EDR, and Huntress is EDR with a 24/7 human security team attached.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete is worth its higher price only if someone will work the EDR alerts it produces: it adds detection and response and ransomware rollback, neither of which CrowdStrike Falcon Go includes.

SentinelOne Singularity Control is the better entry plan for a business that will act on alerts, because it includes EDR and ransomware rollback for $79.99 per endpoint per year, while CrowdStrike's EDR starts two plans above Falcon Go.

ThreatDown Elite is the better buy for most businesses buying direct, because it sells online from 5 endpoints at $99.00 per endpoint per year, while Huntress Managed EDR requires 50 endpoints outside the MSP channel.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Sophos Endpoint are sold at different levels, so compare the right editions first.

Huntress Managed EDR is the better choice for a business with nobody to run EDR, because its 24/7 security team is in the price; SentinelOne Singularity Complete is the stronger tool for a team that will operate it.