2020-09-13T07:02:19Z

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
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AP
Real User
Top 20
2023-11-28T10:11:00Z
Nov 28, 2023

I recently switched from education to private business, and all I can say is that private business licensing from Microsoft is not cheap until you hit certain quantities or scale. That does not mean that it is not comparable to other industries. It is similar pricing, but it is still crazy to me how much you pay for a client. I feel it is high, but it is in line with other vendors.

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Mark Foust - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-11-28T09:32:00Z
Nov 28, 2023

Defender is typically bundled with 365 packages that the customers are already buying. We haven't done an in-depth ROI for right. Often, we leave the customer to make those decisions even though we can point to tools like that on the web or allow an analyst tool to do that type of work.

DS
Real User
Top 5
2023-11-14T12:44:00Z
Nov 14, 2023

The base price for an E5 license, which includes Enterprise Mobility + Security E5, is $57 per user per month. However, there are additional costs for certain security features, such as Premium Threat and Vulnerability Management and Insider Risk Management.

Nagendra Nekkala - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-11-08T07:32:00Z
Nov 8, 2023

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an expensive solution.

EO
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-10-03T10:48:18Z
Oct 3, 2023

The issues are always with the additional cost that comes with the E5 license. especially in a heterogeneous environment.

SM
Real User
Top 20
2023-08-17T11:47:00Z
Aug 17, 2023

If we are acquiring everything in a single place, the front end becomes cost-effective. We won't need to purchase five separate products for various tasks. Instead, it's one product designed for five tasks, which is certainly a cost-effective approach.

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SR
Real User
Top 20
2023-08-15T08:22:00Z
Aug 15, 2023

The pricing is competitive. The pay model is pay as we use. For organizations that make use of all Microsoft solutions, the cost is lower, and the visibility is increased.

Shashank Gahoi. - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 5
2023-07-18T08:50:00Z
Jul 18, 2023

We are required to pay for the data we ingest, and increasing the data amount incurs additional expenses.

JZ
Real User
Top 20
2023-07-17T21:40:00Z
Jul 17, 2023

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is more affordable compared to some other endpoint solutions.

Danny Nagdev - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-07-14T07:14:00Z
Jul 14, 2023

The cost is high, compared to other products in the market, if you look at it as a separate product. If you look at the cost where it is part of a bundle, the cost is okay.

MC
MSP
Top 20
2023-04-06T21:03:00Z
Apr 6, 2023

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is included with a Microsoft E5 license.

PP
Real User
Top 5
2023-03-18T12:13:00Z
Mar 18, 2023

I'm not too familiar with costs as I'm an architect, though I know about online pricing, as I help two teams with online purchasing and procurement. Nowadays, everyone has an enterprise agreement, such as an E3 license, which we provide to our customers. The solution saved us money.

BE
Real User
Top 20
2023-02-11T23:04:00Z
Feb 11, 2023

My company isn't off the ground yet, it's basically going to be a family medical practice run by my wife and me. I'm an IT guy and she's a nurse practitioner and, eventually, she wants to work for herself. I'm doing the background and since I do use it for my regular job, I'm doing this on my own labs as well with trial software or things I've bought subscriptions for. I've bought Microsoft E5 so a lot of it is out-of-pocket and on a shoestring budget. The nice thing about Defender and Sentinel is that the cost is based on the data logs that you ingest from the Defender endpoints and data connectors. I don't have to buy a 25- or 50- or 1,000-user or enterprise license. I can buy one license at a time. For small mom-and-pop shops, that's very important. A lot of startups don't have that kind of budget for enterprise-wide scalability, especially when they don't have many devices in the first place.

AP
MSP
Top 20
2022-11-21T19:24:00Z
Nov 21, 2022

They are now doing it on an endpoint basis. It is based on the number of endpoints, which is good.

Daniel_Ndiba - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 20
2022-10-09T19:38:00Z
Oct 9, 2022

Because Microsoft Defender comes as an add-on, it can be a bit expensive if you're trying to buy it separately. Another option is to upgrade, but the enterprise licenses for Microsoft can also be quite a bit pricey. Overall, the cost of Microsoft Defender compared to that of other endpoint detection solutions is slightly higher.

AnuragSrivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-10-09T17:07:00Z
Oct 9, 2022

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is cost-effective because there's one unified license, and with this unified license, you get the capabilities for your cloud applications, servers, and endpoints as well. Therefore, it saves us a lot of money because the cost with other solutions is for just one piece of OS or maybe an urban environment. The licensing process is not complex as well.

JH
MSP
2022-09-21T05:01:00Z
Sep 21, 2022

The cost is competitive and reasonable because most of the expense is log analytics, storage, and data consumption and ingestion. They can be throttled and controlled, so they are highly flexible. Defender has a lot of advantages over competing products. From a licensing aspect, you're not just getting a security product. You're getting a lot of other capabilities that go beyond the Defender products. You get an E5 or E3 license and some form of Defender for Endpoint included with all the other security features of the other Defender products.

David Frerie - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2022-09-15T03:23:00Z
Sep 15, 2022

It is an expensive solution. It would be nice if it could be included with the Microsoft Office package.

KF
Real User
Top 20
2022-08-28T04:07:00Z
Aug 28, 2022

If you're on Microsoft products, and you've bought into what they're doing with Teams Voice and Office, then adding in the security piece is just a slight bump. You go with the E5 licensing, which saves you a lot of money. With the bundling that Microsoft does, we have saved money. Buying individual point products would've cost us a lot more money than one integrated solution that also capitalizes on Teams Voice and things of that nature. Given our size, buying individual products would have easily cost us a million dollars.

Siddip Neduri - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-08-14T13:49:00Z
Aug 14, 2022

The comprehensiveness of the threat-protection that Microsoft security products provide depends upon the license. Right now, we are using E5 licenses which cover every security feature. But if a small or mid-level organization uses an E3 license or Business Basic plan, not all the features are provided. The cost is high for E5 licenses, but if we go with the E3 license, most of the features are not covered.

BA
Real User
Top 20
2022-08-04T07:57:00Z
Aug 4, 2022

We mostly use Microsoft products. We use Office 365, and we use Azure. We're also a Microsoft partner. So, the licensing was much cheaper for us, and at the same time, a lot of the features that we were looking for were included in Defender. We were trying to get our firm the security certification for government contracting. One of the requirements was to upgrade our Microsoft licensing to a level to be able to use the government cloud. We found out that the required licensing already included Defender. So, it helped us kill two birds with one stone. It was much easier for us to convince the executives to go with it.

YB
Real User
Top 20
2022-07-31T15:20:00Z
Jul 31, 2022

Defender doesn't cost that much. When you use Microsoft technology, you can start with the free version and see how much the technology helps your organization solve security problems before you use the subscription. They also do this pay-as-you-go model, so you only pay when you use it.

TK
Real User
Top 20
2022-06-28T00:47:00Z
Jun 28, 2022

Its price at the moment is very good because you get a lot of value for your money, especially with the subscriptions. If you have the E1, E3, or E5 enterprise subscription, you pay per month per user, and you get almost an infinite number of solutions. If you compare the price to the number of solutions that you get, it is a very good deal. I'm only concerned about the future because Microsoft is taking over one company after another. In the end, there will be no alternative and then they can do whatever they like, but for now, in terms of price, Microsoft is one of the best performers.

Prosanjit Mondal - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 20
2022-05-13T10:02:00Z
May 13, 2022

Pricing for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is competitive. Out of the bundle, you will get a lot of security, if I talk about Microsoft E5, for example, and get a lot of benefits. If the customer goes and purchases a different solution, it will cost more, so pricing for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is quite reasonable at the moment. There isn't any challenge in terms of pricing, for example, I didn't see a customer who pulled back because of the price. Some prices could be negotiable, and sometimes, as a sales point, the two become negotiable, but they don't bill one and pull back because of the pricing. If you have an E5 license, you get everything. Customers don't worry about the prices too much, because what they're a little bit worried about is the complete capability of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint in the endpoint security space when compared to other legacy solutions such as McAfee Endpoint Security and Symantec End-User Endpoint Security that are quite mature enough in this market, as seen on Gartner. Sometimes the customer is reluctant to move to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, but not because of its price. I didn't have customers who questioned the pricing for the solution.

SAMUELMWANGI - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2022-05-05T14:09:07Z
May 5, 2022

We pay annually for a license.

TW
Real User
Top 10
2022-05-04T13:03:09Z
May 4, 2022

There is an annual license required.

JamesYa - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-04-12T19:40:17Z
Apr 12, 2022

The license for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is included in the license for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

ZA
Real User
Top 20
2022-04-07T14:48:41Z
Apr 7, 2022

Microsoft Defender is not comparable to a single endpoint security product, like Trend Micro, Symantec, or McAfee. Because of that, the price is higher than others because it is doing more than what the others are doing.

SC
Real User
Top 5
2022-03-28T13:59:03Z
Mar 28, 2022

The license for Microsoft Windows covers Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

Peter Arabomen - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2022-03-22T20:41:39Z
Mar 22, 2022

We pay for our Microsoft Defender for Endpoint subscription yearly.

UchechiSylvanus - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-03-22T19:20:36Z
Mar 22, 2022

I am not aware of the price. We pay for a license, but I don't know if it is paid monthly, or on yearly basis.

YS
Real User
2022-02-18T09:20:39Z
Feb 18, 2022

The solution is included with Microsoft Office 365 subscriptions.

AR
Real User
2022-02-17T12:14:09Z
Feb 17, 2022

Licensing fees are paid annually through a partner.

VA
Real User
2022-02-14T09:57:00Z
Feb 14, 2022

Defender is available on a yearly subscription.

MP
Real User
2022-01-13T09:27:00Z
Jan 13, 2022

Compared to ESET, the pricing for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is on the higher side.

VP
MSP
2021-12-23T12:33:00Z
Dec 23, 2021

They have to pay for the Defender license. There are different licenses and skews, such as Plan 1, Plan 2, or the trial. You do not need to pay any additional costs for antivirus and anti-malware solutions for endpoint protection.

HL
Real User
2021-12-06T10:44:05Z
Dec 6, 2021

We pay a yearly license for Microsoft Defender. We also have a support contract with them.

OK
MSP
Top 5Leaderboard
2021-12-02T19:07:54Z
Dec 2, 2021

It's a yearly subscription.

WG
Real User
2021-12-01T13:03:00Z
Dec 1, 2021

The company pays for the license so I do not know much about that.

WK
Real User
2021-11-04T11:42:00Z
Nov 4, 2021

It came with Windows.

TP
Real User
2021-10-12T12:13:00Z
Oct 12, 2021

The solution comes free with Microsoft Windows 10.

EI
Real User
Top 5
2021-10-11T12:34:00Z
Oct 11, 2021

Some customers have the licensing of the suite and have all infrastructure prepared for the installation and deployment. But in some cases, when customers haven't deployed the solution and don't have licenses, it can be expensive to start from scratch.

JN
Real User
2021-09-09T21:28:00Z
Sep 9, 2021

We are using the free version. When you are centrally managing it, you can't get there without a much more expensive Microsoft solution to control the rollout and to make sure that it is up-to-date. We didn't research that, it was a stop-gap measure until we figured out what we're going to do in the long term.

Kevin Mabry - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 10
2021-08-03T23:18:00Z
Aug 3, 2021

It is built into Windows 10. If our clients are using Microsoft Defender, the cost goes away for them.

JV
Real User
2021-08-02T14:19:51Z
Aug 2, 2021

There is no licensing fee. It comes included with the Windows license.

Mohamed Abdel Hassanein - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 10
2021-06-28T07:53:00Z
Jun 28, 2021

Its price is fair. It has approximately the same price as the other products such as Kaspersky. It is much cheaper than Malwarebytes.

Anthony Alvarico - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 10Leaderboard
2021-06-09T23:41:25Z
Jun 9, 2021

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint comes with Windows 10, and it's free. But for you to be able to manage it in the cloud and use the console, you need to have either an Office 365 E5 subscription or a Microsoft M365 subscription. You need to buy an extra license.

OC
Real User
2021-06-07T12:24:00Z
Jun 7, 2021

We already use Microsoft solutions and I found it cheaper to purchase the bundle, which includes Defender. By including the antivirus in the bundle, it makes it a little cheaper for us. If you purchase it outside of the bundle, it is a little bit expensive. When you want the central administration functionality, it tends to be more expensive. The normal, standalone model is not expensive, but the enterprise model that includes the bundle with email and some web protection, is a bit more expensive.

AC
Reseller
2021-06-01T18:39:00Z
Jun 1, 2021

You just pay Windows 10 prices, then you have antivirus software. As a price comparison, Defender's costs are very low.

AM
Real User
2021-05-31T19:06:00Z
May 31, 2021

Microsoft Defender is an expensive product in my country.

FB
Real User
2021-04-29T08:41:00Z
Apr 29, 2021

It provides peace of mind with really good pricing. It won't be upsetting my budgets or anything like that.

JL
Real User
2021-03-24T13:16:31Z
Mar 24, 2021

We don't have an issue with the price. We have a bundle where the price includes all Microsoft products. This is an area that I am not dealing with. I don't have all of the information.

KM
Real User
2021-02-17T12:23:55Z
Feb 17, 2021

Licensing options vary. Some customers buy it as an enterprise agreement and pay yearly. Others buy it as a CSP, so they pay per month. It completely depends on the customer's needs.

MS
Real User
Top 10
2020-12-21T17:11:02Z
Dec 21, 2020

Currently, for us, Windows Defender is free with the purchase of Windows Server. Pricing is an important point for us when we are looking at the competitors of this solution. If we choose to go with another vendor, we will have to pay some license fees.

PT
Real User
2020-12-16T16:00:26Z
Dec 16, 2020

It is within the same range as other products. It is not too expensive, and it is also not cheap. Its price can be better, but, well, it is Microsoft.

PT
Reseller
2020-10-27T21:07:18Z
Oct 27, 2020

There is a free version of Windows Defender, although the paid version has EDR functionality. We sell this product as part of Office 365 and it is not expensive.

NK
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2020-10-20T04:19:19Z
Oct 20, 2020

When compared with other vendors, the pricing is very high. There are several other features that can be integrated with Microsoft Defender ATP such as EDR. But, it doesn't already come integrated with ATP. It's available at an additional cost. If you want the EDR feature, you would have to purchase an E-file license. The cost is three times higher to have more productivity with the dashboard.

Nadeem Abdulla - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2020-10-07T07:04:37Z
Oct 7, 2020

Microsoft Defender ATP is expensive.

Anthony Alvarico - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 10Leaderboard
2020-09-13T07:02:19Z
Sep 13, 2020

We are using the version that is included with Windows 10. If you don't purchase the advanced threat protection then there is no additional charge.

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