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

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.

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.

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.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an expensive solution.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We pay annually for a license.

There is an annual license required.

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

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.

The license for Microsoft Windows covers Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

We pay for our Microsoft Defender for Endpoint subscription yearly.

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.

The solution is included with Microsoft Office 365 subscriptions.

Licensing fees are paid annually through a partner.

Defender is available on a yearly subscription.

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

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.

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

It's a yearly subscription.

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

It came with Windows.

The solution comes free with Microsoft Windows 10.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Microsoft Defender is an expensive product in my country.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Microsoft Defender ATP is expensive.

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.