About XDRCost.com
An independent reference for the cost of Extended Detection and Response platforms. Operated by Digital Signet, founded by Oliver Wakefield-Smith. Built so the budgeting question for XDR (Palo Alto Cortex XDR, Microsoft Defender XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, Trend Vision One, SentinelOne Singularity XDR and others) can be answered without a vendor pitch deck.
The reason this site exists
XDR is the marketing umbrella over what was EDR plus identity, network, email and cloud telemetry. Vendor pricing is even less standardised than for the EDR market underneath it: each vendor bundles different telemetry sources at different tiers, and the headline rate often excludes the integrations buyers expect to be included. Most top-ranking pages on XDR cost are vendor-published or partner-published. This site exists to publish defensible per-endpoint and per-employee cost bands by vendor and tier, name the modules typically excluded from the headline price, and provide a calculator that takes operational inputs and returns a like-for-like figure across vendors.
Who builds this
Oliver runs Digital Signet, an independent AI-development studio that builds data-led pricing and decision tools using public datasets. After 20 years as a solutions architect and tech lead across media, utilities, satellite, and data, he founded Digital Signet to apply autonomous AI development methodology to real software at scale.
Reach Oliver: [email protected]. Profile: LinkedIn.
About Digital Signet, the operator
This site is operated by Digital Signet, an independent AI-development studio founded by Oliver Wakefield-Smith. It is part of a portfolio of consumer cost-reference and calculator sites we run as a live R&D lab for our Signet methodology, an autonomous AI development team that ships real software at scale.
Digital Signet does not sell XDR software, does not run a managed-XDR practice, does not act as a vendor reseller, and does not accept paid placements from any XDR vendor. Editorial direction is set by Oliver. Drafts are produced via Digital Signet's autonomous AI development methodology and reviewed against the editorial framework before publication.
For consulting enquiries (fractional CTO, AI product strategy, autonomous-dev-team setup): see digitalsignet.com.
Editorial principles and disclosures
- Source pattern. Built on public reference material across the relevant publisher landscape.
- No paid placements. Does not sell XDR software, does not run a managed-XDR practice, does not act as a vendor reseller, and does not accept paid placements from any XDR vendor. Independent of every named third party in the relevant space.
- Math is documented inline. Where the site has a calculator, inputs and assumptions are visible on the calculator page. Nothing is hidden behind opaque scoring.
- Update only when underlying reality changes. Triggers: Major vendor pricing-model change (e.g. per-endpoint to per-identity, telemetry-source repackaging); New entrant publishing pricing materially below the existing band; Major XDR acquisition or product retirement event; Vendor-roadmap changes that materially shift the EDR-vs-XDR boundary.
Contact
For corrections, methodology questions, or scenarios that don't fit cleanly: [email protected].