Enterprise endpoint protection is rarely expensive because the software costs more to build. It’s expensive because of everything wrapped around it: minimum seat counts, annual commitments, a sales cycle with a quote and a call, and a managed-service layer priced per endpoint per month on top of the license.
We sell SentinelOne — the same product, the same console — starting at $7 per endpoint per month for Control and $10 for Complete, with no minimum and no contract. This is how that’s possible, and where the tradeoffs actually are.
What you’re really paying for in a typical enterprise quote
Strip an enterprise security deal down and the license is often the smaller line item. The rest is:
- Minimums. Many vendors won’t sell below 25, 50, or 100 seats. If you have six computers, you’re quoted for fifty.
- The sales motion. Discovery calls, a scoping document, a quote that expires, a renewal negotiation. That process costs the vendor real money and it’s priced into your seat cost.
- Managed service. A 24/7 SOC watching your alerts is genuinely valuable and genuinely expensive. It’s also frequently bundled in whether you asked for it or not.
- Annual prepay. Cheaper per seat, but you’re financing the vendor for a year and you’re locked in if the product disappoints in month two.
None of those costs are fake. They’re just costs for a company that has a security team, and they get passed to the business that doesn’t.
What we cut, specifically
We removed the parts that don’t apply to a small operation:
No minimum. One endpoint is a valid order. Our own volume discounts don’t start until ten seats, and above 24 you should talk to us directly — but the floor is one.
No sales cycle. The checkout is a link. You pick monthly or yearly, pick Control or Complete, and your SentinelOne site is created automatically. There is no call.
No managed SOC. This is the real tradeoff, and it’s the one worth understanding before you buy. We provide the licensing, the console, and documentation. We monitor account configuration — endpoint counts, admin changes, exclusions that we’d advise against — but we do not watch your alerts for you and we do not respond to incidents unless you’ve arranged that separately. If you need someone on call at 3am, you need a managed provider, and you should pay for one.
Automation instead of headcount. A new order provisions a dedicated SentinelOne site, sets the license count, enables unprotected-endpoint discovery, and creates your console user — start to finish, without anyone touching it. Seat changes sync the same way. That’s why one person can run this at these prices.
What you get that consumer antivirus doesn’t have
The short version: behavioural detection, rollback, and a console.
SentinelOne watches what a process does, not just whether its file matches a known-bad signature — which is what catches ransomware that has never been seen before. When something does get through, the agent can roll the machine back to its pre-attack state. Your files come back. That capability alone is the reason this class of product exists.
You also get a management console showing every protected device, its status, and what’s happened on it. On a fleet of five that’s a nice-to-have. On a fleet of twenty it’s the difference between knowing and guessing.
Where the money actually goes
Our pricing is per endpoint, and it drops as you add more:
| Endpoints | Control /mo | Complete /mo |
|---|---|---|
| 1–9 | $7.00 | $10.00 |
| 10–19 | $6.50 | $9.50 |
| 20+ | $6.00 | $9.00 |
Yearly works out cheaper still. We publish a running count of licensed endpoints on the products page — when it reaches 50, a further permanent 5% comes off for everyone, existing customers included. We’d rather show the number than claim a discount is coming.
Is this right for you?
Probably yes if you run a handful of machines for a real business, you’ve been quoted something absurd for a fleet your size, or you’re technical enough to read an alert and act on it.
Probably not if you need someone else to respond to incidents, if you have compliance obligations requiring a monitored SOC, or if a single home PC is your whole estate — in that case Microsoft Defender is genuinely good, it’s already installed, and we’d rather tell you that than sell you something.
Full terms, including how billing and cancellation work, are in the SentinelOne service agreement. If you want to try it, the trial gives you one device for 7 days on monthly plans and 14 on yearly.