Sangfor Endpoint Secure vs SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint comparison

Sangfor and SentinelOne are both solutions in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category. Sangfor is ranked #35 with an average rating of 8.7, while SentinelOne is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.9. Sangfor holds a 0.8% mindshare in EDR, compared to SentinelOne’s 5.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Sangfor users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of SentinelOne users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Sangfor Endpoint Secure are prominent competitors in the endpoint security market. SentinelOne appears to have the upper hand due to its advanced AI capabilities and stronger centralized management features.

Features: SentinelOne Singularity Complete excels with its AI-powered behavior detection, centralized management for multi-location endpoint handling, and in-depth forensic analysis, making it efficient in threat detection and response. Its cloud-based platform offers seamless remote management which is invaluable for distributed environments. Sangfor Endpoint Secure boasts integration with next-generation firewalls and a honeypot feature for detecting attacks, providing comprehensive protection, but it falls short in offering deep visibility and centralized management features.

Room for Improvement: SentinelOne could enhance its platform with more customizable reports, faster console load times, improved IT tool integration, and slight upgrades in policy controls for complex setups. Sangfor needs to refine its user interface, reduce support response times, and address VPN security issues. Additionally, its upgrade process is less seamless, and there are sporadic licensing issues that need resolution.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SentinelOne supports diverse deployment options including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, with customer service recognized for its quick response, though more proactive support channels are desired. Sangfor primarily targets on-premises setups, suitable for smaller or mid-sized businesses. While its customer service is timely, initial support levels could be improved.

Pricing and ROI: SentinelOne, though positioned at a higher price point, provides valuable ROIs through strong features and comprehensive threat protection, which offsets costs associated with incident responses. Its pricing remains competitive against solutions like CrowdStrike. Sangfor, offering a "pay as you grow" pricing, is more cost-effective for smaller enterprises but lacks the advanced capabilities found in SentinelOne that justify the latter's higher cost.

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.5%, down from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sangfor Endpoint Secure is 0.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint is 5.3%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint	5.3%
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks	3.5%
Sangfor Endpoint Secure	0.8%
Other	90.4%

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH

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.

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Ovais Abbas

Coordinator Associate at National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases

Quick threat response and behavior analysis while enhancing network security

The main use case is usually related to security. It deals with attacks that come day-to-day such as zero-day attacks and APT attacks. Our main task is to secure the network infrastructure in the hospital where I work It facilitates the departments of IT and other departments to procure and…

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Vaibhav Mahendra Kolhe

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.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Threat identification and detection are the most valuable features of this solution."

"It has absolutely improved the way our organization functions, we are more secure, it is giving us more peace of mind, and it has found malicious activity happening on our endpoints that probably would not have been detected if we didn't have it."

"The behavior-based detection feature is valuable."

"Technical support is the best in class, in my opinion, because they have invested heavily in research and development."

"The most valuable aspect of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks for me is its integration with AI detection, where we get to know the behavioral detection based on users, traffic patterns, and different services that we consume."

"The interface is easy to use and it is more up to date than our previous solution."

"If you are looking to deploy a security solution as a whole, this is a good option."

"They have a new GUI which is just fantastic."

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"The tool's AI feature is helpful in endpoint security."

"Sangfor Endpoint Secure has some good policy certificates."

"The most valuable feature I have found in the system is its comprehensive end-to-end protection."

"The tool's most valuable features are control access, endpoint security, and load balancing of ISPs."

"I like the tool's honeypot feature. Some features include having a honeypot to detect attacks in a certain area. Additionally, there is RDP protection, which means that when we remote into our server or any endpoint, we must enter a password as a second layer of security. It can also integrate with next-generation firewalls."

"We use the product for network protection from any malicious threat."

"The real-time monitoring feature of Sangfor Endpoint Secure is truly real-time, with no delay compared to other solutions."

"What stands out to me is the dual-end user interface they provide."

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"Overall, I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete a nine out of ten because nothing is perfect, but it is close."

"Security operations have been improved as SentinelOne is easier to manage and update compared to most traditional anti-malware products."

"It is hard to put into numbers how much SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped reduce alerts; if it was just a percentage, I would have to say 90% and above."

"SentinelOne Singularity Complete, together with SentinelOne Vigilance, is an EDR tool with capabilities such as these, which I found valuable: the dashboard that shows you all the information and the power to either manually or automatically quarantine issues or threats in the environment."

"We made the switch because SentinelOne is not signature-based, it's an AI solution."

"The Deep Visibility feature is the most useful part of the EDR platform. It gives us good insights into what is actually happening on the endpoints, e.g., when we have malicious or suspicious activity. We came from a legacy type AV previously, so we didn't have that level of visibility or understanding. For simplifying threat-hunting, it is extremely useful, where traditional techniques in threat hunting are quite laborious. We can put in indicators of compromise and it will sweep the environment for them, then they would give us a breakdown of what assets have been seen and where they have been seen, which is more of a forensics overview."

"The XDR capability is quite good."

"Now that we have SentinelOne, we cannot go without it."

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Cons

"It is not easy to sell Cortex XDR, not because it isn't a good tool. Its marketing needs to be improved."

"A little bit more automation would be nice."

"The solution should force customers to integrate with network traffic to see the full benefits of XDR."

"The solution lacks real-time, on-demand antivirus."

"The solution lags to the real-time scenarios here and there."

"There is a severe gap in functionality between Windows, Linux, and Mac versions. For example all folder restriction settings are Windows only. Traps 5.0+ does not have SAML / LDAP integration."

"We have found that there are times Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks does not detect some of the viruses, we have to use another protection solution called Kaspersky."

"The encryption is not up to the mark."

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"There are a few areas for improvement. We have encountered licensing issues on occasion, and sometimes updates don't apply properly."

"It is complicated to establish a tunnel due to technical issues in the VPN system."

"Currently, the tool lacks reporting functionalities."

"The interface has too many buttons, making it cluttered."

"When an issue occurs, the response time for first-level support and the time taken for meetings could be improved."

"It would be much more convenient if the migration tool could be installed directly on the customer's VMs, enabling a smoother migration process to the new infrastructure, with potential restrictions addressed accordingly."

"Sangfor Endpoint Secure should include healing capabilities."

"I believe Sangfor Endpoint Secure could improve in terms of its user interface and management capabilities."

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"The ability to have more direct purchasing for smaller groups and smaller businesses would be great."

"I would like to see something a little more sophisticated than simply being able to mark a false positive as safe or there's usually just one or two options in certain areas and they're a little rudimentary at this stage."

"SentinelOne makes it more difficult to define users. It is more granular than CrowdStrike, but it is not preferred because you have to check hundreds of roles."

"In terms of improvement areas for SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint, I think there are a couple of features that are improving, particularly the dashboard such as creating a multi-function dashboard."

"The false positive rate has room for improvement."

"Their threat feed is also limited. You get a very vast threat feed, but again it is not as mature as you get from a CrowdStrike or Microsoft stack."

"SentinelOne Singularity Complete offers competitive pricing, but there's always potential for even better value."

"Sometimes I get a response from them, but at times they may not have answers and defer to the engineering team, which can prolong the resolution time beyond expectations for customer satisfaction."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is an expensive solution."

"I don't have any issues with the pricing. We are satisfied with the price."

"It's way too expensive, but security is expensive. You pay for your licensing, and then you pay for someone to monitor the stuff."

"The price was fine."

"Its pricing is kind of in line with its competitors and everybody else out there."

"The price of the product is not very economical."

"The return on investment is from the user side because we have seen the performance of it increase the delivery time of the product if we are using too many web-based and on-premise applications. In indirect ways, we saw the return of investment in terms of performance and user satisfaction increase."

"The pricing seems fair, and I do like the licensing model. You use wherever they are, and it is elastic."

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"We were using Hyper-V. So, we switched to Sangfor because of the pricing."

"Its "pay as you grow" model offers cost-effectiveness compared to major cloud providers."

"The product is expensive compared to other vendors."

"The solution is cheap. It is cheaper than other products by 15-20 percent."

"Sangfor Endpoint Secure is not a cheap solution."

"Sangfor Endpoint Secure's pricing is cheap. I rate it seven out of ten."

"Price-wise, Sangfor Endpoint Secure can be considered a competitively priced product in the market as it offers quite low prices compared to other solutions."

"The pricing and licensing make sense."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"It is expensive. There is no doubt about it. If one of the functions does not work, it becomes very difficult for any CIO to justify the cost."

"After negotiations, the pricing was found to be fair."

"USD$6 per end point which decreases as end points increase."

"SentinelOne can cost approximately $70 per device."

"The tool's price is reasonable."

"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."

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Top Industries

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Construction Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

17%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Media Company

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	46
Midsize Enterprise	20
Large Enterprise	52

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	3

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	118
Midsize Enterprise	67
Large Enterprise	88

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

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Sentinel Labs, SentinelOne Singularity, Singularity Platform

Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks

Organizations use Sangfor Endpoint Secure for endpoint protection and security management, managing devices, servers, and networks against malicious threats. It also assists in blocking websites, managing infrastructure, applications, antivirus needs, and aids in migrating to cloud environments.

Sangfor Endpoint Secure offers end-to-end protection, incorporating file protection, AI detection, behavior analysis, access control, and ISP load balancing. It facilitates VM migration with minimal downtime and includes a dual-end user interface for creating firewall rules, uploading images, and configuring VM settings. Enhancements such as Hyper-V capabilities, policy certificates, honeypot features, and next-generation firewall integrations are available. However, Sangfor Endpoint Secure could improve on console management, reporting functionalities, public cloud migration support, navigation, VPN system issues, licensing, update management, transitioning processes, and incorporating healing capabilities.

What are its most important features?

Comprehensive end-to-end protection including file protection
AI detection and behavior analysis
Access control and ISP load balancing
Ease of VM migration with minimal downtime
Streamlined dual-end user interface for firewall rules and VM settings
Hyper-V capabilities and policy certificates
Honeypot feature for attack detection and RDP protection
Integration with next-generation firewalls

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Enhanced device, server, and network security from malicious threats
Simplified migration from on-premises to cloud environments
User-friendly navigation and management capabilities
Advanced detection and behavior analysis reducing potential threats
Streamlined enforcement of robust security policies

Sangfor Endpoint Secure is implemented across various industries to ensure comprehensive security management and protection. IT departments leverage its VM migration capabilities for seamless transitions to cloud environments. Healthcare organizations use it to secure sensitive patient data, while educational institutions utilize it for safeguarding academic records and personal information. Financial services employ it to protect critical transactional data and adhere to stringent compliance requirements.

Sangfor

SentinelOne Singularity Complete is an advanced endpoint security platform featuring centralized management across multiple locations. It leverages AI-driven behavior detection, threat prioritization, and ransomware rollback for enhanced protection and streamlined operations.

With a focus on endpoint protection, threat detection, and automated response, SentinelOne Singularity Complete provides comprehensive security through AI-powered behavioral analysis and real-time threat detection. The centralized console simplifies management, offering seamless integration and minimal system impact. Its robust reporting capabilities facilitate compliance with audit-ready reports. Lightweight agents operate across diverse environments, improving visibility and performance while curbing manual efforts. To optimize its utility, faster console load times and improved customizability in reports and dashboards are recommended. Users may benefit from smoother integration with IT tools and enhanced policy management flexibility, as well as upgraded agent processes and simplified endpoint deployment. Expanding built-in analytics and refining alert management can further heighten platform efficacy.

What are the key features of SentinelOne Singularity Complete?

AI-Powered Detection: Utilizes advanced AI to identify potential threats based on behavior.
Automatic Remediation: Automatically rectifies detected issues, reducing response times.
Ransomware Rollback: Restores data to previous states if affected by ransomware attacks.
Centralized Dashboards: Provides real-time insights through intuitive dashboards.
Threat Prioritization: Identifies and ranks threats based on potential impact.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Integration: Seamlessly connects with security solutions to enhance risk management.
Minimal System Impact: Operates efficiently, preserving system performance.
Enhanced Protection: Delivers robust threat defense through AI-driven technology.
Compliance Support: Offers detailed reporting for audit readiness.
User Convenience: Combines autonomous decision-making with an intuitive interface.

In various industries, SentinelOne Singularity Complete is implemented for endpoint protection and incident management. Companies rely on it for its real-time threat detection and automated response capabilities, ensuring compliance and reduced manual intervention. Its adaptive nature supports diverse environments, enhancing operational efficiency.

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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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