Deep Instinct Prevention Platform vs VirusTotal comparison

Deep Instinct and VirusTotal are both solutions in the Anti-Malware Tools category. Deep Instinct is ranked #16 with an average rating of 10.0, while VirusTotal is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.8. Deep Instinct holds a 0.9% mindshare in Anti-Malware Tools, compared to VirusTotal’s 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Deep Instinct users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of VirusTotal users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

Deep Instinct and VirusTotal compete in the cybersecurity category, focusing on malware detection and prevention. Deep Instinct seems to have an edge due to its comprehensive platform support and proactive technical support, particularly for on-premises solutions.

Features: Deep Instinct offers a single platform compatible with Windows, Mac, and Android, achieving high accuracy in malware detection with minimal false positives and comprehensive threat classification. It doesn’t require frequent updates, enhancing ease of use. VirusTotal integrates with over 70 antivirus scanners, providing extensive threat intelligence capabilities, including detailed file, IP address, and URL analysis, ensuring in-depth insights into malicious activities.

Room for Improvement: Deep Instinct could improve its user interface for enhanced control and expand support for Linux systems. Improvements in reporting functionalities and clearer guidelines for setup and deployment would enhance user experiences. VirusTotal needs better documentation for query creation, improved AI integrations, and more comprehensive API support. Enhancements in its first-level protection capabilities and addressing false positives are also necessary.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Deep Instinct operates on private, public, and on-premises clouds, praised for proactive technical support but needs to reduce tech support dependency for problem analysis. VirusTotal, primarily running on public clouds, receives positive feedback for its support, delivering reliable service across time zones. Both companies are commended for effective customer service, with Deep Instinct's on-premises capability providing an advantage.

Pricing and ROI: Deep Instinct's pricing is competitive, offering high ROI, especially for larger deployments and non-profits, due to reduced false positives and administrative overhead. VirusTotal, though more expensive, offers good returns for its comprehensive analysis and threat detection, with users finding its pricing reasonable considering the depth of threat intelligence provided. Deep Instinct’s efficient cost structure is highly valued for its robust prevention capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Deep Instinct Prevention Pl...

Ranking in Anti-Malware Tools

16th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

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Ranking in other categories

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (31st)

VirusTotal

Ranking in Anti-Malware Tools

4th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

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Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Anti-Malware Tools category, the mindshare of Deep Instinct Prevention Platform is 0.9%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VirusTotal is 3.3%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Anti-Malware Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
VirusTotal	3.3%
Deep Instinct Prevention Platform	0.9%
Other	95.8%

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Tom Foal

CTO at Klaatu IT Security Ltd

Stops ransomware before it executes and reduces response time for the team

A potential area of improvement for Deep Instinct Prevention Platform is their focus on file uploads and large data storage, backups, and other related areas. It is difficult to think of what they could improve, but low information provided by the system when it detects something is one area, particularly in scripting. Deep Instinct Prevention Platform detects malicious scripts but it needs better measures, perhaps signing scripts, so we can be sure that a script is created by a client, not by some malware. It is really about helping us triage incidents effectively, so a bit more help with the analysis of incidents, particularly what the Deep Instinct Prevention Platform agent has discovered, would be beneficial. We need to know what it has spotted that makes it suspect malware.

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Chinmay Banerjee

Advisor Adtech/Martech/API product/project Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Helps businesses collect threat data while keeping privacy in mind and apable of detecting, blocking, and removing viruses and malware

There are two gray areas I still need to explore. I have worked with VirusTotal because it easily integrates with over seventy antivirus scanners and blacklisting services. In addition to those there is much scope to improve and add other services or integrations. The areas for improvement are that VirusTotal is not using much AI or generative AI models, while other competitors are starting to build them. For example, VirusTotal's work is based on the setup done by their engineers. If you want to do scanning or protection activities for a specific site, app, or device, that is the area VirusTotal is currently focused on. But other competitors are building AI models that can do things like left-side scanning and provide auto-generated reports. VirusTotal has predefined reports, but there is a lot of manual effort involved. Secondly, the API is very limited if I want to integrate VirusTotal with other applications. They need to build more connectors and provide support for Webhook connectors for the API. If you can't build your own connector, it's always good to have provisions for Webhook setup connectors across platforms. Thirdly, Kaspersky, a competitor of VirusTotal, is using a methodology called "gatekeeper." A gatekeeper is a security system that protects the inside of a building from outside threats. This is the model Kaspersky is currently using. You have your website set up, but the entire army of VirusTotal or Kaspersky is standing guard, protecting you from the first gate itself. Right now, VirusTotal detects threats from your domain, but it is always better to verify inside the domain and protect it from the first level when people or malware are entering. This first level of protection is lacking in VirusTotal right now. The security bridge and protection gate are missing.

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Pros

"This solution is good at catching viruses and it's very effective and lightweight, which are all things that you want in an antivirus product."

"The beauty about Deep Instinct is that you can set and forget it; you don't really have to deal with it, unlike other solutions where you have to constantly have an IT administrator who manages it day in, day out."

"The support is very good. They reply and respond very quickly."

"Deep Instinct Prevention Platform stops all malware, including zero-days in 20 milliseconds, and I have never managed to get anything past it, which means I do not have to get out of bed whenever something happens at the client because we know anything bad has been stopped."

"Deep Instinct's detection rate is close to 100 percent."

"It has given us a more structured approach for detecting and preventing threats. It has machine learning-based detection and prevention. Their engines, in even older versions, are able to pick these viruses and malware. They have posted a lot of use cases online for detecting different viruses and malware that have been out for many years."

"The detection rate is very high. In all the testing with around 20 partners in different environments, quite a lot of them had installed with other anti-malware applications, like Sophos. This software can co-exist with those applications in the same machine. This is impressive."

"Instead of having features like rollback and after-event actionable stuff, the whole premise and the context of the solution is to actually prevent these malicious attacks from happening to begin with.... The ability to prevent threats is the most appealing aspect. It absolutely, 100 percent helps with real-time prevention of unknown malware. That's the strength of the product."

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"VirusTotal provides 95% to 98% accurate information."

"It allows us to see if there have been previous reports on certain indicators of compromise, providing insights from other security professionals."

"The product is easy to use with coding, such as Python or Java, via its API."

"It provides detailed insights into possible malicious behavior, dropped files, and TCP connections."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The feature I like the most is the ability to see the MD5 or SHA-256 signature of the file, and also the composition of the file according to its segments."

"It is quite simple for anyone if they just want to check some suspicious URLs."

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Cons

"When things get done automatically, I would appreciate more logging of what's happening in the background... we should be able to backtrack from the log that gets uploaded to our cloud instance and see, forensically, what the root cause was."

"I am looking forward to them adding Linux in Q1 or Q2 of 2019, as this is often requested by my partners and customers."

"Some features are too resource intensive."

"I would like a little more training for the admins."

"It would be nice if there were options where, if I have to do SIEM integration, I could do so from the UI: Just pick and choose what SIEM solutions the customers use and have options to have out-of-the-box connection facility."

"The Achilles heel in our industry is reporting. I would love to see exceptional, outstanding level of reporting."

"I would like to see improvement in the user interface so that the user has more control."

"If they can bring some additional, complementary solutions, like network scanning and the like, that will help."

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"They can improve the telemetry. Whenever we handle a sample, they cannot provide any information about a victim."

"I would like to see an improved user interface and some automation."

"I would like to see improved correlation with other threat intelligence sources, not just reliant on its own database, to enhance the database of threat intelligence that VirusTotal offers."

"The platform could improve in the areas of endpoints and networks."

"VirusTotal is hard to understand because you need to know Google Docs to create queries, and it doesn't have documentation for that."

"VirusTotal has different versions, and sometimes the parameters of the API are not very clear."

"There is room for improvement, particularly in making some of the most useful features more accessible in the non-paid version."

"They can improve the telemetry. Whenever we handle a sample, they cannot provide any information about a victim."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is a little bit expensive but we are satisfied with DI's performance."

"If I include the false positive rate and the detection rate in the comparison, Deep Instinct is worth its price."

"There are no additional costs on the price, and our company has a support contract, which bundles in those services anyway."

"Pricing and licensing are very straightforward. It's two SKUs, one is for the console and the other is for the client."

"We are a nonprofit. The MSP had provides pretty decent nonprofit rates for us. This was one of the key factors that made us choose Deep Instinct over its competitors who were significantly more expensive."

"There is a need for customers of the product to pay towards the licensing costs of the tool."

"Its pricing is too high, but that is not because of the product. It is expensive because of the cost of the console. You need a console to control the whole thing, but the console is expensive. You have to split this cost among all possible users. Normally, to be able to make it economically attractive, you need at least 1,000 agents, PCs, or users. If you have a customer with 300 to 500 agents, PCs, or users, it becomes too pricey."

"One thing about their licensing program that I like is that just one covers the server as well as on the endpoint as well as mobile devices. There is no complexity in calculating how many SKUs I need for mobile, for laptop, for desktop, and for servers. It's very simple and that makes it much easier to budget."

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"The pricing is reasonable."

"We are using VirusTotal with free licenses, managing the license limits across three or four accounts, thus incurring no costs."

"VirusTotal is an expensive solution."

"The pricing is very economical."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

University

Comms Service Provider

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Midsize Enterprise

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Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	5

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Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Deep Instinct?

The price for Deep Instinct Prevention Platform is reasonable. It is about the same price as any other antivirus.

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What needs improvement with Deep Instinct?

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What is your primary use case for Deep Instinct?

Deep Instinct Prevention Platform is basically a stopper that prevents any malware, including zero-days. The main benefit Deep Instinct Prevention Platform provides is that it stops ransomware, whi...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VirusTotal?

I do not know about the pricing or licensing as our organization services VirusTotal for our clients.

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What needs improvement with VirusTotal?

I would like to see improvements in the score consistency and accuracy. VirusTotal should add more details like those from competitors such as URL Void or Symantec URL Checker, which show the categ...

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What is your primary use case for VirusTotal?

As I work in an incident response role, my daily task is to mitigate the security alert and perform the analysis part. When any alerts come, I check the IPs from where they originate and the locati...

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Overview

Deep Instinct PREVENTS >99% of UNKNOWN threats like ransomware and zero-days before they land inside your environment – not after. With both an agentless and agent-based approach, we ensure file-based and fileless attacks are prevented. To achieve this, Deep Instinct is pioneering the use of deep learning AI to prevent threats in <20ms, without requiring calls to the cloud for threat intelligence. Our ability to scale to the needs of the enterprise is unprecedented as is our delivery of the industry’s lowest false positive rate of <0.1%.

The Deep Instinct Prevention Platform combines industry-leading static analysis based on the only deep learning framework dedicated to cybersecurity and includes two solutions:

Deep Instinct Prevention for Applications is a flexible, containerized and highly scalable solution, deployed via API or ICAP, to scan million so files per day and prevent malicious files from entering storage environments.

Deep Instinct for Endpoints complements EDR solutions by preventing threats pre-execution, minimizing false positives, improving the productivity of SOC teams, and increasing the efficiency of the security stack.

To learn more, visit: https://www.deepinstinct.com.

Deep Instinct

VirusTotal provides a comprehensive digital security platform by leveraging a vast malware database. It integrates numerous antivirus scanners for robust malware and virus detection, offering valuable insights for threat intelligence and security analysis.

VirusTotal is widely used for malware analysis and cybersecurity investigations, relying on its extensive capabilities in file and IP analysis. It integrates seamlessly with various antivirus engines, ensuring detailed threat intelligence. The platform excels at performing automated reputation checks, gleaning insights from a robust community, and delivering comprehensive information on suspicious activities. With an API system, it facilitates deeper analysis and integration into existing security workflows.

What are the standout features of VirusTotal?

Vast Malware Database: A comprehensive repository for malware intelligence.
Integration with Antivirus Scanners: Collaborates with multiple scanners for enhanced detection.
File and IP Analysis: Detailed insights into files and IP addresses.
Automated Reputation Checks: Efficiently verifies file and domain safety.
Community Insights: Gathers valuable data from an active community.

What benefits and ROI should be considered?

Threat Intelligence: Informs strategic security decisions with detailed malware data.
Enhanced Detection: Supports comprehensive threat identification and response.
Contextual Analysis: Provides extensive details for thorough investigation of threats.

In sectors like retail, FinTech, and GRC, VirusTotal is integrated into cybersecurity workflows to enhance incident response capabilities. It is invaluable for analyzing phishing websites, inspecting URLs, identifying compromised information, and generating alerts for specific threats. APIs enable deeper examination of suspicious activity, supporting comprehensive cybersecurity operations.

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