SentinelOne Singularity XDR Pricing 2026 - All Tiers, Per-Endpoint Costs, and Data Lake Pricing
SentinelOne is CrowdStrike's primary challenger in the endpoint and XDR market, known for autonomous AI-driven threat response that can detect, investigate, and remediate attacks without human intervention. Their Singularity platform is priced at a slight discount to CrowdStrike while offering competitive detection capabilities in MITRE ATT&CK evaluations.
List pricing ranges from $69.99/endpoint/year (Core, EDR-only) to $229.99/endpoint/year (Commercial, full XDR + identity + cloud). XDR starts at the Complete tier ($179.99 list, typically $135-153 negotiated for mid-market). The hidden cost to watch is the Singularity Data Lake - consumption-based per-GB pricing that can add 15-30% to your total spend.
Singularity Pricing Tiers
Singularity Core
- Next-gen antivirus
- Static AI malware prevention
- Basic threat detection
- Device inventory
- Firewall control
Singularity Control
- Everything in Core
- Device control and management
- Network quarantine
- Application whitelisting
- Rogue device discovery
Singularity Complete
- Everything in Control
- Storyline Active Response (XDR)
- Behavioral AI detection
- Automated threat hunting
- Cross-source correlation
- Ranger network visibility
- 30-day telemetry retention
Singularity Commercial
- Everything in Complete
- Identity security (AD attack detection)
- Cloud workload protection
- Network attack surface management
- Vulnerability prioritization
- Extended Data Lake integration
Realistic Mid-Market Pricing
List prices above are ceiling rates. SentinelOne is one of the most aggressively discounting vendors in the XDR market, particularly when competing against CrowdStrike or Palo Alto in enterprise evaluations. Here is what mid-market buyers (500-5,000 endpoints) typically pay after negotiation:
Per-endpoint annual pricing for 500-2,000 endpoint deployments. Larger deployments (5,000+) can achieve 25-35% discounts. Multi-year commitments provide additional 10-15% savings.
Singularity Data Lake Pricing
The Singularity Data Lake is SentinelOne's centralized data platform for storing, correlating, and analyzing security telemetry from endpoints and third-party sources. Like Palo Alto Cortex Data Lake, it uses consumption-based per-GB pricing that can add significantly to your total spend if you underestimate log volumes.
Endpoint telemetry from SentinelOne agents is typically included in your endpoint license at no additional Data Lake cost. The incremental cost comes from ingesting third-party log sources (firewalls, cloud services, identity providers) and extending retention beyond the default 14-30 day period included with Complete tier.
Estimated Data Lake pricing: $0.03-0.08 per GB depending on volume commitment and contract term. An enterprise ingesting 100 GB per day of third-party logs would pay approximately $900-$2,400 per month for Data Lake storage and analytics. This represents an additional 15-30% on top of a typical Complete tier deployment.
Budget recommendation: add 20% to your SentinelOne per-endpoint licensing cost as a Data Lake reserve. This covers typical third-party log ingestion and 90-day retention for compliance purposes. Organisations with strict compliance requirements (PCI DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001) requiring 12-24 month retention should budget 30-40% above licensing for Data Lake costs.
Implementation Budget
SentinelOne recommends budgeting 15-30% of first-year licensing for implementation. The autonomous AI model requires an initial training period (typically 2-4 weeks) to learn your environment's baseline behavior before it can reliably automate threat response without false positives.
Singularity Complete tier pricing with typical mid-market discounts. Implementation includes agent deployment, policy configuration, integration, and initial analyst training. Does not include Data Lake costs.
Best For
- Organisations wanting autonomous threat response - Storyline AI detects, investigates, and remediates without analyst intervention
- Security teams with limited staffing - the automation-first approach reduces the number of analysts needed for day-to-day operations
- Mid-market enterprises (500-5,000 endpoints) looking for CrowdStrike-class detection at 10-15% lower cost
- Linux-heavy environments - SentinelOne has strong Linux server and container protection
- Organisations evaluating open XDR - SentinelOne's marketplace supports more third-party integrations than CrowdStrike
Not Best For
- Organisations needing managed threat hunting included - SentinelOne's Vigilance service is an add-on, not built-in like CrowdStrike OverWatch
- Enterprises wanting the largest threat intelligence team - CrowdStrike's intelligence operation is significantly larger
- Environments where brand recognition matters for compliance auditors - CrowdStrike and Microsoft have wider analyst recognition
- Organisations with very high data ingestion needs - Data Lake consumption pricing can make SentinelOne more expensive than expected
- Teams already running Microsoft 365 E5 - Defender XDR is essentially free in that environment
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does SentinelOne XDR cost per endpoint?
SentinelOne Singularity pricing starts at $69.99 per endpoint per year for Core (basic EPP), $79.99 for Control (adds device control and firewall), $179.99 for Complete (adds XDR, behavioral AI, and storyline visualization), and $229.99 for Commercial (adds identity security and cloud workload protection). However, list prices are rarely paid. Mid-market buyers typically negotiate Complete tier pricing to $135-153 per endpoint per year, a 15-25% discount off list price.
Which SentinelOne tier includes XDR?
SentinelOne Singularity Complete ($179.99/endpoint/year) is the minimum tier for XDR capabilities. Complete adds cross-source detection with Storyline Active Response, behavioral AI analysis, and automated threat hunting. Core and Control are EDR-only tiers focused on endpoint prevention and detection. Singularity Commercial ($229.99/endpoint/year) extends XDR with identity security (detecting Active Directory attacks) and cloud workload protection.
How much does SentinelOne Data Lake cost?
SentinelOne Singularity Data Lake uses consumption-based pricing per GB of data ingested and retained. Pricing varies by contract size but is estimated at $0.03-0.08 per GB. Endpoint telemetry from SentinelOne agents is typically included in the endpoint license at no extra data cost. Third-party log ingestion and extended retention (beyond the default 14-30 days) incur additional Data Lake charges. An enterprise generating 100 GB per day of third-party logs can expect $900-$2,400 per month in Data Lake costs.
How much should I budget for SentinelOne implementation?
Budget 15-30% of your first-year licensing cost for implementation services. For a 1,000-endpoint deployment at $150 per endpoint ($150,000 annual license), implementation costs range from $22,500 to $45,000. This covers agent deployment, policy configuration, integration with existing security tools, tuning false positives, and initial analyst training. SentinelOne deployment is faster than Cortex XDR but slightly longer than CrowdStrike due to the AI model training period needed for optimal behavioral detection.
What makes SentinelOne different from CrowdStrike?
SentinelOne's key differentiator is autonomous AI-driven response. The Storyline technology automatically reconstructs attack narratives and can remediate threats without human intervention. CrowdStrike relies more on its threat intelligence and managed hunting (OverWatch) for advanced detection. SentinelOne generally costs 10-15% less than CrowdStrike at comparable tiers and offers more aggressive volume discounts. CrowdStrike has stronger brand recognition and a larger threat intelligence team. Both perform well in MITRE ATT&CK evaluations.
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