Heimdal Endpoint Security vs SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint comparison

Heimdal and SentinelOne are both solutions in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category. Heimdal is ranked #42 with an average rating of 9.0, while SentinelOne is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.9. Heimdal holds a 0.7% mindshare in EDR, compared to SentinelOne’s 5.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Heimdal users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of SentinelOne users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Heimdal Endpoint Security are competitors in the cybersecurity market. SentinelOne tends to be favored for its cost-effectiveness and support, while users recognize Heimdal for its comprehensive feature set, which they deem worth the price.

Features: SentinelOne Singularity Complete offers AI-powered threat detection, automated endpoint protection, and a unified platform for streamlined security management. Heimdal Endpoint Security provides proactive threat hunting, multi-layered security, and advanced ransomware protection. SentinelOne emphasizes a holistic, automated approach, whereas Heimdal focuses on blocking sophisticated threats with a proactive stance.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SentinelOne Singularity Complete has a straightforward deployment model with integrated support for fast implementation. Heimdal Endpoint Security provides flexible deployment options for various organizational needs, supported by responsive customer service. SentinelOne offers a seamless integration experience, while Heimdal provides adaptable deployment strategies, both maintaining strong support structures.

Pricing and ROI: SentinelOne Singularity Complete features competitive setup costs, attracting companies seeking high ROI with minimal financial outlay. Heimdal Endpoint Security may be more costly upfront but delivers ROI through its comprehensive defense features and adaptability to complex environments. SentinelOne is seen as cost-effective for setup, whereas Heimdal offers a higher perceived ROI due to its extensive capabilities.

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Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.6%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Heimdal Endpoint Security is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint is 5.3%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint	5.3%
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks	3.6%
Heimdal Endpoint Security	0.7%
Other	90.4%

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Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH

Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk

Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration

Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.

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DEEPAK KUMAR PACHDEO DUBEY

Senior IT Support Specialist at PXGEO

Delivers efficiency and agility with USB control limitations

One area where we lag is that, since we use everything from Heimdal, including XDR and other features, we also use the privilege manager feature called Elevation. What we lack is granular USB control. We have an issue where we can only switch USB on or off. I want to whitelist specific devices in the network, which I currently cannot do.

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Vaibhav Mahendra Kolhe

Soc Analyst at Softcell Technologies Limited

Automation has reduced alerts and freed the soc team to focus on faster incident response

Regarding mean time to respond, the improvements I see with SentinelOne Singularity Complete are that genuine files also get alerts. We are getting false positives, but we are also getting genuine true positive alerts. The improvement will be deep visibility because as I am using Splunk as a SIEM, I compare deep visibility with Splunk, but deep visibility has limited access with only a 14-day policy to retain logs. The improvement will be in overall policy management. The third point will be the complexity of policies. If we want some endpoints to use only USB or if we need to block USB on some points, the policy management is very complex. The fourth point will be that Mac OS and Linux don't have the rollback policy; that policy is only for Windows. These four points are improvements if SentinelOne Singularity Complete can address them. Data privacy and security when utilizing Purple AI is crucial for SentinelOne Singularity Complete, and SentinelOne Singularity Complete lacks in data security. Data security is very important in this world. In my organization, if we deploy SentinelOne Singularity Complete and we have integrated all the firewalls, all devices, and AWS devices to SentinelOne Singularity Complete, logs will be forwarded to SentinelOne Singularity Complete through SentinelOne Singularity Complete. However, SentinelOne Singularity Complete doesn't have data security solutions such as Forcepoint DLP or 48 layer; SentinelOne Singularity Complete doesn't have that DLP solution. From the data security point of view, SentinelOne Singularity Complete is not good.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The stability of the solution is very good. We have about 100 users on it right now, and we use it twice a week."

"Monitoring is most valuable."

"Its ability to react to cyber data attacks is awesome. That is pretty much the use of it. What blows your mind is the ability to access your assets remotely and see what is actually going on with them. You can not only see them in a console. You can also react very rapidly to your assets that are compromised."

"We have found in our test Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks to be a very good tool."

"Cortex XDR lets us manage several clients from the same console, and its endpoint defense is more advanced than traditional antivirus."

"Cortex XDR features advanced threat detection capabilities."

"If you are looking for security, mainly for advanced threat prevention from ransomware and malware attacks, I would recommend Cortex."

"The product is very good, it has caught a lot of exploits that most products would not."

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"As compared to multiple solutions I have used in the past, Heimdal is a very agile and lightweight solution."

"It identifies what applications are vulnerable. If I go to the applications, such as Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Reader, I can see our current list of vulnerabilities: How many are vulnerable and how many need to be updated with patching. One of the most valuable aspects is the ease of finding specific vulnerabilities."

"The initial setup of SentinelOne is very easy. You only need to turn it on and it starts working with a couple of clicks."

"It has the ability to rollback a ransomware infection instantly and with minimal disruption to the user & provides robust reporting."

"The solution gives me peace of mind when it comes to the reliability of the computers on our system."

"It provides network and asset visibility for us."

"As a reseller and user, I would say that SentinelOne Singularity Complete is better than its competition; I have evaluated Palo Alto, Trellix, and CrowdStrike as well, and SentinelOne EDR is much better than all of them as the capability and technical capabilities are superior with efficient and faster detection."

"The customer support for this solution is good."

"SentinelOne Singularity Complete stands out for its threat-hunting abilities and the agility of its agents in detecting malicious content across our gateways and endpoints."

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Cons

"The connection to the internet has not performed as expected."

"When it comes to malware files, it should be a little quick because, at times, it would give a wrong result in the sense of what it might be on malware, even if it still might be a normal one."

"The server sometimes stops continuously to check things so it would be helpful to receive access updates or technical reasons."

"It is an enterprise-level solution. Its price could be less expensive."

"The playbooks could be improved to include more functionalities or actions."

"Dashboards do not allow everyone to see what's happening."

"I have seen lagging with Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. There was one time when we faced a threat actor trying to gain access to our system. When our team utilized the tool, we were all on the same dashboard and we faced a lag issue at that time of around five minutes, which was quite significant."

"There is a severe gap in functionality between Windows, Linux, and Mac versions. For example all folder restriction settings are Windows only. Traps 5.0+ does not have SAML / LDAP integration."

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"What we lack is granular USB control. We have an issue where we can only switch USB on or off."

"In my opinion, the real-time monitoring capabilities in Singularity Platform sometimes work and sometimes they don't, because there are a lot of false positives and people use unsigned applications which get deleted or quarantined by the product."

"When sending out new updates, you have to figure out which one is the right one, so it would be easier if they committed to that, because when you're sitting out updates, there are different names and something different, making it tricky to figure out which one is compatible with your program or company."

"The compatibility with new legacy systems should be enhanced as other EDR products support these systems, which Singularity does not."

"Native integration with the mobile console is an area that can be improved."

"Most of the customers in Sri Lanka are currently migrating from SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint to CrowdStrike."

"The dashboards can be improved, and their dashboarding functionality needs to be better. The way the dashboards look is not really impactful or meaningful."

"Interoperability with other SentinelOne solutions and other third-party tools is an area where you can run into some issues. Because of the way the agent works, there are sometimes things that are blocked or prevented from happening that are not identified as a threat, and therefore, not alerted in the console. Sometimes, we do have to dig through the logs, run tests, and adjust the whitelisting or exclusions to make sure that other applications will run properly."

"The training for SentinelOne Singularity should be free."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is okay, although direct support can be expensive."

"Our license will require renewal in August, after which the maintenance will continue as usual."

"The pricing seems fair, and I do like the licensing model. You use wherever they are, and it is elastic."

"This is an expensive solution."

"I feel it is fairly priced."

"I don't have any issues with the pricing. We are satisfied with the price."

"Compared to CrowdStrike, Cortex XDR is an expensive solution."

"Our customers have expressed that the price is high."

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"Nothing good is cheap, and SentinelOne is no exception."

"SentinelOne is more affordable than some competing products, and it's not overly expensive for what you're getting."

"Its price is per endpoint per year. One of the features of its licensing is that it is a multi-tenanted solution. From an MSSP point of view, if I want to have several different virtual clouds of customers, it is supported natively, which is not the case with, for example, Microsoft Defender. Another nice thing about it is that you can buy one license if you want to. Some vendors insist that you buy 50 or 100, whereas here, you can just buy one."

"I rate Singularity Complete a seven out of ten for affordability. It's more expensive than our previous solution, but it does its job well. At the same time, there is some room for improvement. Cheaper is always better."

"SentinelOne is significantly less expensive than CrowdStrike. I recently did a price comparison between CrowdStrike and SentinelOne to determine where we are going for the next three years. CrowdStrike is 200% to 300% the cost."

"I believe the retail pricing, or MSRP, is a bit high."

"SentinelOne Singularity Complete is reasonably priced."

"I find the licensing cost for SentinelOne Singularity Complete fair."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

15%

Computer Software Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	46
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	54

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	130
Midsize Enterprise	70
Large Enterprise	92

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Heimdal Endpoint Security?

Pricing, compared to what we had before, was quite economical. There was a difference of about twenty percent or some...

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What needs improvement with Heimdal Endpoint Security?

One area where we lag is that, since we use everything from Heimdal, including XDR and other features, we also use th...

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It is neither too costly, but definitely, it is one of the advantages that SentinelOne is quite adapted towards the p...

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

Heimdal Next-Gent Endpoint Antivirus, Thor Vigilance Enterprise, Heimdal Endpoint Detection and Response, Heimdal DNS Security - Endpoint, Heimdal Threat Prevention, Heimdal Ransomware Encryption Protection

Sentinel Labs, SentinelOne Singularity, Singularity Platform

Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks

Heimdal Endpoint Security offers leading protection with advanced threat intelligence, enhancing cyber resilience for businesses. Its seamless integration elevates security postures efficiently.

Heimdal Endpoint Security provides comprehensive defense against sophisticated cyber threats, combining innovative technologies with a user-centric approach. Enterprises benefit from its intelligent threat detection, streamlined management, and adaptive security measures, ensuring robust protection.

What are the key features of Heimdal Endpoint Security?

Threat Prevention: Proactive defense strategies identify and block potential threats before they infiltrate systems.
Patch Management: Automated patch updates ensure vulnerabilities are addressed swiftly, reducing risk exposure.
Next-Gen Antivirus: Advanced malware detection and removal tools keep endpoints secure from evolving threats.
Ransomware Encryption Protection: Real-time monitoring prevents unauthorized encryption attempts, safeguarding data.
DarkLayer Guard: Filters malicious web traffic, maintaining safe browsing environments.

What should users consider in terms of ROI and benefits?

Increased Security Efficiency: Reduces manual effort in threat detection and response, allowing teams to focus on strategic tasks.
Cost-effective Protection: Minimizes financial impact of security breaches through preventive measures.
Scalability: Easily adapts to growing business requirements without compromising performance.
Compliance Support: Helps meet regulatory standards, mitigating risks of non-compliance penalties.

Companies across industries implement Heimdal Endpoint Security to safeguard sensitive data and maintain operational integrity. Finance sectors benefit from its capability to secure transactional data, while healthcare providers use it to protect patient information, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations. Its adaptability makes it a choice for organizations facing diverse cybersecurity challenges.

Heimdal

SentinelOne Singularity Complete is an advanced endpoint security platform featuring centralized management across multiple locations. It leverages AI-driven behavior detection, threat prioritization, and ransomware rollback for enhanced protection and streamlined operations.

With a focus on endpoint protection, threat detection, and automated response, SentinelOne Singularity Complete provides comprehensive security through AI-powered behavioral analysis and real-time threat detection. The centralized console simplifies management, offering seamless integration and minimal system impact. Its robust reporting capabilities facilitate compliance with audit-ready reports. Lightweight agents operate across diverse environments, improving visibility and performance while curbing manual efforts. To optimize its utility, faster console load times and improved customizability in reports and dashboards are recommended. Users may benefit from smoother integration with IT tools and enhanced policy management flexibility, as well as upgraded agent processes and simplified endpoint deployment. Expanding built-in analytics and refining alert management can further heighten platform efficacy.

What are the key features of SentinelOne Singularity Complete?

AI-Powered Detection: Utilizes advanced AI to identify potential threats based on behavior.
Automatic Remediation: Automatically rectifies detected issues, reducing response times.
Ransomware Rollback: Restores data to previous states if affected by ransomware attacks.
Centralized Dashboards: Provides real-time insights through intuitive dashboards.
Threat Prioritization: Identifies and ranks threats based on potential impact.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Integration: Seamlessly connects with security solutions to enhance risk management.
Minimal System Impact: Operates efficiently, preserving system performance.
Enhanced Protection: Delivers robust threat defense through AI-driven technology.
Compliance Support: Offers detailed reporting for audit readiness.
User Convenience: Combines autonomous decision-making with an intuitive interface.

In various industries, SentinelOne Singularity Complete is implemented for endpoint protection and incident management. Companies rely on it for its real-time threat detection and automated response capabilities, ensuring compliance and reduced manual intervention. Its adaptive nature supports diverse environments, enhancing operational efficiency.

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

Brother, Symbion, CPH West

Havas, Flex, Estee Lauder, McKesson, Norfolk Southern, JetBlue, Norwegian airlines, TGI Friday, AVX, Fim Bank

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