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SentinelOne vs Microsoft Defender XDR Comparison (2026)

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SentinelOne

Microsoft Defender XDR

Overview

SentinelOne delivers autonomous cybersecurity powered by AI, enabling real-time prevention, detection, and response to threats across endpoints, cloud workloads, and identity systems—empowering organizations to stay ahead of cyberattacks with speed, visibility, and control.

Microsoft 365 Defender is an automated, cross-domain security solution that leverages the power of the Microsoft 365 security portfolio to automatically analyze threat data across domains, building a complete picture of each attack in a single dashboard. Microsoft 365 Defender is part of Microsoft’s XDR (extend, defend, recover) strategy and aims to provide global visibility into the data generated by existing security solutions.

Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

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Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

view more detailsview details

Video & Screenshots

No videos yet

Pricing

Starting from

179.99

Per month

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

Starting from

No pricing info

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

User reviews

4.8

117

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

90%

would recommend this app

4.5

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

77%

would recommend this app

Pros

“Deploying, checking agent health across our environment, and pulling up an endpoint's history when something looks off is all pretty intuitive and it's great because I'm not digging through nested menus to find what I need.”

Philip D.

Network Administrator

“Devices can be assigned to different customers and different policies and exclusions can be set for each customer.”

Nick B.

Systems Engineer

“so there are PCs Missing AV we have to manually audit to find.”

Andrew P.

NOC Engineer

Pros

“user interface was good and easy to use, neatly portrayed and understandable when using online on my laptop”

Epeli T.

controller

“Microsoft Defender XDR provides visibility over the entire environment.”

Bill L.

Vice President of Sales and Operations

“It helps me in identifying and blocking various types of threats, malware, phishing attempts, and other advanced attacks.integrated with Microsoft services, so it helps in providing holistic security approach.”

Vinoth D.

Quality Analyst

Cons

“Some alerts can take extra time to investigate, and the console can feel a little busy when trying to find specific details quickly.”

August K.

Managed services Engineer

“They still haven't completely consolidated their Dashboards. So depending on the SentinelOne product or packages you purchase you will unfortunately have to navigate multiple Dashboard.”

Stephan v.

Head of SecOps, XDR and MSSP

“I recently had to approve it tagging Norton VPN and it would not approve the entire string of hits. ”

Paul B.

Owner

Cons

“Unable to detect and prevent zero-day ransomware attacks.”

Timothy C.

IT Engineer

“It consumes significant amount of storage space & powerChallenge in integrating with non-Microsoft environmentsSometimes it alerts the standard activity as potential threats, this lead to investigation & wasting of time”

Vinoth D.

Quality Analyst

“False Positives and Overlapping Alerts: Like any security solution, Microsoft 365 Defender may generate false positive alerts or overlap with other security products.”