CrowdStrike vs SentinelOne: EDR Price and Features Compared

CrowdStrike Falcon is the better fit for most mid-size and large enterprises that want the deepest native platform (identity, cloud, SIEM, AI security) under one console, while SentinelOne Singularity is the stronger pick for organizations that want transparent, publicly posted per-endpoint pricing and are comfortable buying through a channel partner. Both are cloud-native, single-agent Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platforms built around behavioral AI rather than signature matching, and both now bundle EDR into a broader Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platform that reaches into identity, cloud workloads and, for CrowdStrike, SaaS and AI systems. The real differences show up in how each company packages and prices its tiers, and in how much you can learn before you ever talk to a salesperson.

What is EDR, and why CrowdStrike and SentinelOne keep coming up together

Endpoint Detection and Response platforms continuously monitor laptops, servers and virtual machines for suspicious behavior, then let security teams investigate and contain threats from a central console. CrowdStrike Falcon and SentinelOne Singularity are two of the most visible names in that market, and both built their businesses on the same core pitch: replace slow, signature-based antivirus with a lightweight agent that uses machine learning and behavioral analysis to catch attacks signature databases miss. If your team is comparing endpoint protection options and has already looked at consumer-grade tools, note that this is a different category — see our comparison of Windows Defender, Norton and McAfee for individual devices for that side of the market. CrowdStrike and SentinelOne, by contrast, are built for IT and security operations teams managing fleets of company-owned endpoints, not individual consumer devices.

Company and platform snapshot

CrowdStrike markets its product as the Falcon platform, built around what it calls an "AI-native architecture": a single lightweight sensor that captures telemetry once and feeds it to modules covering endpoint security, identity, cloud, SaaS applications and AI systems, according to CrowdStrike's own platform page. The company states it has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection for seven consecutive years as of its 2026 marketing claims, and cites 100% detection and protection with zero false positives in its most recent MITRE ATT&CK evaluation results, both per CrowdStrike's own site. CrowdStrike also publishes a Forrester Total Economic Impact figure of 273% ROI over three years on its endpoint security page.

SentinelOne markets its product as the Singularity platform, describing it as "one AI-native platform" unifying endpoint, cloud, identity and AI security behind a shared data lake and a single console, per SentinelOne's platform page. The company highlights its Purple AI investigation assistant, which it says reduces detection time by 63%, and states it was named a 2024 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Endpoint Protection Platforms and recognized as a Leader for XDR by IDC MarketScape, according to SentinelOne's own XDR page. SentinelOne also cites 100% detection accuracy with zero delayed detections and 88% less alert noise than the median vendor in MITRE ATT&CK evaluation results, per its own site.

Pricing: what's actually public

This is where the two vendors diverge most sharply for a buyer doing early research, and it's worth reading closely before assuming either company's "starting price" is the number you'll actually pay.

CrowdStrike publishes monthly and annual per-device pricing for its three self-service tiers on its official pricing page. Falcon Go starts at $7.99 per device billed monthly ($59.99 billed annually) and is capped at a maximum of 100 devices — a small-business tier. Falcon Pro starts at $14.99 per device monthly ($99.99 annually), adding firewall management on top of Go. Falcon Enterprise starts at $19.99 per device monthly ($184.99 annually) and is the first self-service tier to add full Endpoint Detection and Response plus threat intelligence and hunting — a buyer wanting actual EDR, not just next-gen antivirus, needs to budget for Enterprise or above, since Go and Pro are built primarily around next-gen antivirus, device control and mobile device protection. Above Enterprise sits Falcon Complete, CrowdStrike's managed detection and response (MDR) offering that pairs the platform with CrowdStrike's own analysts; the pricing page states this tier requires contacting sales. CrowdStrike does not publish pricing for its higher-end modules either, including identity protection, cloud security, or bundled Falcon Flex purchasing — all of those require a sales conversation.

SentinelOne publishes annual per-endpoint pricing for two of its three tiers on its official platform-packages page. Singularity Complete is listed at $179.99 per endpoint per year (roughly $15 per endpoint per month) and includes AI-driven endpoint and cloud workload protection, real-time detection and response, 14-day data retention and an AI security assistant. Singularity Commercial is listed at $229.99 per endpoint per year (roughly $19 per month), adding identity detection and response, 90-day data retention and managed threat hunting on top of Complete. The top tier, Singularity Enterprise, which adds an agentic AI SOC analyst for automated triage and expert-led onboarding and training, is listed as contact-sales-only, with no public price shown. SentinelOne's own pricing page notes the published figures apply to deployments of 5 to 100 workstations and that purchases are completed through an authorized third-party partner — so even SentinelOne's "public" prices function more as a published starting point for budgeting than a guaranteed final invoice.

Neither company publishes pricing for larger enterprise fleets (thousands of endpoints), multi-year contract discounts, or bundled suites that combine endpoint, identity and cloud modules at a blended rate. Both vendors also price servers, virtual desktops and cloud workloads differently from standard workstations in practice, which is a detail worth confirming directly with sales before comparing a quoted number against either company's published per-endpoint figure.

Detection approach: AI and behavior over signatures

Neither vendor relies primarily on signature-based antivirus definitions. CrowdStrike describes its approach as combining "AI trained and refined by elite security experts" with what it calls indicators of attack — behavioral patterns that flag malicious intent even from previously unseen code — rather than matching known malware signatures, per CrowdStrike's endpoint security page. SentinelOne similarly describes its engine as AI-native "from inception," using behavioral AI across devices and credentials, correlated through its Purple AI assistant and an AI SIEM layer that pulls in data from connected sources, according to SentinelOne's own platform pages.

In practice, both companies are selling the same fundamental shift the security industry made away from static signatures and toward behavioral, machine-learning-driven detection. Buyers should treat marketing-stated detection percentages as vendor-reported claims rather than independently reproduced benchmarks: both vendors cite MITRE ATT&CK evaluation results on their own sites, but MITRE's evaluations are run under conditions each vendor helps shape, and the headline percentages (100% detection, zero false positives, 88% less noise, and so on) come from each company's own newsroom framing of those results rather than from a neutral third-party report published outside either vendor's domain.

Deployment model and platform coverage

Both platforms use a single lightweight agent per endpoint rather than stacking separate tools for antivirus, EDR and device control. CrowdStrike says its single sensor collects telemetry once and reuses it across endpoint, identity, SaaS, cloud and AI-system modules — the company's stated philosophy is "collect once and use everywhere." SentinelOne makes a near-identical claim with its unified agent and shared data lake spanning endpoint, cloud, identity and AI security, enabling what it describes as autonomous protection, detection and response without manual tool-switching between products.

On operating system coverage, CrowdStrike states its single lightweight sensor protects "every major operating system," which in practice covers Windows, macOS and Linux server and workstation fleets. SentinelOne explicitly lists Windows, macOS and Linux endpoint coverage plus a separate Singularity Mobile product for mobile device protection, alongside its own cloud workload and container coverage. Both vendors position cloud workload protection and identity threat detection as natural extensions of the same agent and console rather than bolt-on products from an acquisition — though both are, functionally, separately licensed modules layered on top of the core EDR tier rather than included by default at every price point.

Notable platform features beyond core EDR

• Threat hunting: CrowdStrike offers managed threat hunting bundled into its Falcon Complete MDR tier and as a standalone capability referenced across its platform pages, drawing on its Falcon OverWatch hunting team. SentinelOne offers a dedicated threat hunting service as part of its managed services portfolio, and includes managed threat hunting starting at the Commercial tier.
• XDR: Both vendors now ship XDR as an extension of their core EDR agent rather than a separate product line. CrowdStrike's XDR capability, Falcon Insight XDR, correlates native and third-party telemetry across security domains for existing EDR customers via connector packs that unlock cross-domain detections and response actions from a single console. SentinelOne's Singularity XDR layers Purple AI-driven investigation and automated incident prioritization on top of the same unified agent and data lake.
• Identity protection: CrowdStrike's identity module, Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security, protects hybrid Active Directory and cloud identity providers like Microsoft Entra ID and Okta, with automated response actions such as forced multi-factor authentication or password resets. SentinelOne's equivalent, Singularity Identity, is included starting at the Commercial pricing tier rather than sold as a fully separate add-on.
• AI assistants: CrowdStrike's Charlotte AI and SentinelOne's Purple AI serve a similar purpose — letting analysts query telemetry and triage alerts in natural language rather than writing manual detection queries, both companies say.
• Real-time response: CrowdStrike highlights Real Time Response actions that let analysts remotely investigate and contain a compromised endpoint from anywhere, built into Falcon Insight XDR. SentinelOne's console similarly supports remote remediation actions as part of its core Singularity agent.

Which platform fits which organization

A small business with a lean or no dedicated security team and a hard device-count ceiling will find CrowdStrike's Falcon Go tier easier to reason about up front, since it's explicitly priced and capped at 100 devices — though buyers should note that tier doesn't include full EDR, only next-gen antivirus and device/mobile controls. A mid-size company that needs real detection and response, not just next-gen antivirus, should expect to budget for CrowdStrike Falcon Enterprise or SentinelOne Singularity Commercial, both of which publish a per-device starting price in a similar $15-$20-per-month range once annualized, and both of which add identity or threat-hunting capability on top of base detection.

Larger enterprises evaluating a managed or fully agentic SOC experience, where the vendor's own AI or analysts handle a share of triage, will end up in a contact-sales conversation either way, via CrowdStrike Falcon Complete or SentinelOne Singularity Enterprise, since neither company publishes list pricing at that tier. Organizations that already run heavily on Microsoft infrastructure often also evaluate Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alongside both of these platforms, since Defender bundles differently depending on existing Microsoft 365 or Azure licensing — that three-way comparison is a common next research step once CrowdStrike and SentinelOne pricing is understood on their own terms. If your organization hasn't yet settled the more basic question of whether it needs EDR versus simpler endpoint protection at all, our breakdown of consumer antivirus pricing and features is a useful contrast for understanding what EDR adds on top of basic malware protection, even though that comparison covers consumer products rather than enterprise fleets.

Buying considerations before you talk to sales

Because neither company publishes complete pricing for its top tiers, buyers should go into sales conversations with a few numbers ready: exact endpoint count (including servers and virtual machines, which both vendors often price differently from standard workstations), whether identity protection or cloud workload coverage needs to be bundled in or purchased separately, and whether you want the vendor's own analysts handling triage (CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, SentinelOne Singularity Enterprise) or prefer your own team working the console directly on a self-service tier. Given that SentinelOne explicitly routes purchases of its published-price tiers through an authorized third-party partner, it's worth asking early in the process whether your actual quote will match the list price shown on sentinelone.com, since partner pricing can vary from the published figure. It's also worth asking both vendors directly whether a quoted price includes a specific contract length, since published monthly figures are typically tied to annual billing rather than true month-to-month flexibility.

Bottom line: what to do next

CrowdStrike Falcon and SentinelOne Singularity are close competitors built on the same core idea: a single AI-driven agent replacing signature-based antivirus and fragmented point tools with one console covering endpoint, identity and cloud. CrowdStrike publishes clearer entry-level small-business pricing across three self-service tiers (Falcon Go, Pro and Enterprise) and has the broader native module lineup once you move upmarket into identity, cloud and SaaS security, but its exact enterprise and MDR pricing stays behind a sales call. SentinelOne publishes per-endpoint annual pricing further up its stack, through Complete and Commercial, which makes early budgeting easier for teams that want a number before picking up the phone, but its top Enterprise tier and the fact that purchases route through a partner mean the final number still isn't guaranteed from the website alone.

Neither company's self-reported detection statistics should be treated as independently verified benchmarks; they're vendor marketing claims, even when sourced from legitimate third-party evaluation frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK. The practical path for most buyers is straightforward: size your environment, decide honestly whether you need full EDR or just modern antivirus-level protection, and request quotes from both vendors at the specific tier that actually includes detection and response rather than the cheapest entry-level package on either pricing page.

Written bySana Qureshi

Sana Qureshi runs the security and privacy desk. She reports on actively exploited vulnerabilities, vendor patches and data breaches, and covers the password managers, VPNs and authentication tools readers use to protect themselves. Her alerts cite vendor advisories, CISA and the CVE record directly.

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