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MetaDefender Endpoint vs SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint comparison

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

Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
Sponsored
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
120
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (4th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (3rd), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)
MetaDefender Endpoint
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
69th
Average Rating
0.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SentinelOne Singularity End...
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
288
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (3rd), Anti-Malware Tools (2nd), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (1st), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (2nd), AI Observability (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.7%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MetaDefender Endpoint is 0.4%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint is 5.2%, down from 5.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint5.2%
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks3.7%
MetaDefender Endpoint0.4%
Other90.7%
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
 

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Jasmit Singh Juneja - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO & Technology Specialist at Karman Infotech Private Limited
Comprehensive endpoint visibility and multilayer security have strengthened compliance and protected removable media in critical environments
I work with the data sanitization feature, including USB. When it comes to data integrity, it is not meant for data integrity; it will modify your data. It will not look into your content, but it will look into embedded objects, such as hyperlinks, scripts, and any other embedded object, macro, and images. It will remove that potential malicious content, sanitize the hyperlink, remove the macro, sanitize the embedded objects, and remove the scripts if they are attached in your document to prevent you from zero-day attacks. MetaDefender Endpoint has an excellent malware detection feature; it has around thirty plus different anti-malware engines, so the detection ratio can go up to ninety-nine point nine percent. The vulnerability assessment feature definitely helps to address system vulnerabilities. You will have visibility of the vulnerability, and it is a continuous assessment. You will get complete visibility of your environment and of your endpoint.
Vaibhav Mahendra Kolhe - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"WildFire AI is the best option for this product."
"We can use Cortex XDR to get the entire graph of the incidents from source to destination, and we can take remedial action."
"The biggest positive impact I see from Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a significant reduction in the number of people required to manage it."
"The positive impacts I see from Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks include a complete 360-degree view of our security posture altogether, being a uniform platform where we are ingesting logs from multiple resources."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks has helped us a lot with securing the whole environment and the whole IT structure, giving us full knowledge of what is happening on the client and enabling us to take action right away from a single point for managing security operations on the hosts."
"From a single pane of glass, you can easily manage all of your endpoints."
"If any application performs suspicious activities, such as changing registries or modifying other applications, Cortex XDR detects and blocks the entire application."
"The information the dashboard provides is very clear."
"Altogether, it is going to be complete endpoint protection and visibility."
"The hunting feature is most valuable for detecting malicious or suspicious activity."
"The terminating or killing remediation process that they use is top-notch. Pretty much anything that is even remotely malicious gets blocked by it within seconds. That is important for us. We have thousands of endpoints with tens of thousands of users. It is hard to do good security for that many people without some kind of automated detection and response. That is what SentinelOne does for us. It helps us automate that process."
"It is very effective so far, it has saved us from a couple of ransomware attacks already, and the responsibility is taken off of us and onto them completely with complete and total protection."
"SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint has positively impacted my organization as it is our go-to EDR of choice."
"Deep Visibility is a valuable feature."
"It's effectively helped to reduce organizational risk."
"I think that is where SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint stands out; they are doing quite great there, and at the same time, the Purple AI feature is much better."
"The platform's ability to easily integrate with various other platforms is highly valuable."
 

Cons

"They've been having some issues with updating their endpoint agents, and it has been quite frustrating."
"The MAC agent is not as robust feature-wise as the PC version."
"The solution eats memory of the computer, unlike anything I've ever seen."
"Every 30 or 40 days, there's a new version and we need to go and make sure our customer's laptops are upgraded."
"There are some limitations on the Traps agents."
"There's room for improvement with Mac device installations, which can be challenging."
"Product might have some bugs."
"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."
"The negative aspect is that it only provides visibility; you require integration with multiple products to get complete control."
"Sometimes the firewall policy and device control policies are not working properly, so they need to work on this part."
"It would be good to see some small tools to test files or hashes that are a potential threat, I know there are already products offering this."
"The stability of SentinelOne should be improved."
"Some features could be more user-friendly; for instance, setting restrictions in the explorer for what level one must be to use it is not user-friendly and it is difficult to find what we're searching for."
"We are now using an external monitoring tool to monitor the services of SentinelOne, because apparently they don't have any solution for that."
"Managing the false positives creates additional management overhead."
"I really haven't done enough to really see any improvements."
"I believe that CAM and Clearwater are superior to Singularity Platform."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has a yearly renewal."
"It has reasonable pricing for the use cases it provides to the company."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is an expensive solution."
"Our customers have expressed that the price is high."
"We pay about $50,000 USD per year for a bundle that includes Cortex XDR."
"The price was fine."
"I don't like that they have different types of licenses."
"I did PoCs on products called Cylance and CrowdStrike. Although, I consider these products and they were also good, when it come to cost and budgetary factors, Traps has been proven to be better than the other two products. It is quite cost-effective and delivers all the entire solution which we require."
Information not available
"I don't know about the licensing model. It seems easy, but it's not my area of expertise. I don't have information on how it compares to its competitors, but the pricing is per device."
"I find the licensing cost for SentinelOne Singularity Complete fair."
"We are on a subscription model by choice. Therefore, we are paying a premium for the flexibility. We would have huge cost savings if we committed to a three-year buy-in. So, it's more expensive than the other solutions that we were looking at, but we have the flexibility of a subscription model. I think the pricing is fair. For example, if we had a three-year tie-in SentinelOne versus Cylance or one of the others, there is not that much difference in pricing. There might be a few euro or dollars here and there, but it's negligible."
"Its pricing is competitive."
"It is very affordable and easy to license, and it allows us to onboard new analysts quickly, with a turnaround time of one day at most."
"The license is paid annually and is competitive."
"I believe the retail pricing, or MSRP, is a bit high."
"Our licensing fees are about $5 USD per endpoint, per month."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
13%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
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Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business48
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise56
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business138
Midsize Enterprise75
Large Enterprise98
 

Questions from the Community

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How is Cortex XDR compared with Microsoft Defender?
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What needs improvement with MetaDefender Endpoint?
The negative aspect is that it only provides visibility; you require integration with multiple products to get comple...
What is your primary use case for MetaDefender Endpoint?
There are multiple use cases for MetaDefender Endpoint. The main one is a compliance check and system compliance chec...
Which is better - SentinelOne or Darktrace?
Which solution is better depends on which is more suitable specifically for your company. Darktrace, for example, is ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SentinelOne Singularity?
It is neither too costly, but definitely, it is one of the advantages that SentinelOne is quite adapted towards the p...
What needs improvement with SentinelOne Singularity?
I have encountered an issue related to the alerting mechanism in SentinelOne Singularity Complete. Sometimes I need t...
 

Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps
No data available
Sentinel Labs, SentinelOne Singularity, Singularity Platform
 

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank
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Havas, Flex, Estee Lauder, McKesson, Norfolk Southern, JetBlue, Norwegian airlines, TGI Friday, AVX, Fim Bank
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