CrowdStrike Falcon Complete vs SentinelOne Vigilance vs Arctic Wolf

What the service includes beyond the agent

All three services put analysts behind the agent, and all three claim 24/7 coverage. What differs is how much the vendor does without asking. CrowdStrike says Falcon Complete analysts deliver full-cycle remediation on the customer's behalf, combining automation, agents and human judgment to contain threats. The service page describes analysts correlating telemetry across endpoints, identities, cloud and SaaS, and owning every outcome.

SentinelOne's Vigilance service, now sold as Wayfinder MDR, investigates every alert, contains threats and escalates only when it matters, with response actions taken according to the response policy the customer configures. Its Commercial tier adds managed threat hunting, and the service page lists behavioral and periodic threat hunts on EDR across the packages.

Arctic Wolf sells a Concierge Experience: 24/7 monitoring, investigations and response actions, plus posture reviews. It counted more than 74,000 of those reviews in 2025, just over 202 a day.

The published performance numbers are averages

Each vendor now publishes an average rather than a guarantee. CrowdStrike reports a one-minute median time to contain and 2.7 million detections remediated a month. SentinelOne reports a 3.3-minute average time to detect and a 100 percent detection result in the MITRE ATT&CK Managed Services Evaluation. Arctic Wolf publishes no detection or containment time on its MDR page; it cites a Forrester total economic impact study claiming up to a 90 percent reduction in the frequency of a successful attack and up to 90 percent less impact.

None of the three publishes a contractual response-time SLA on the pages a buyer reads before signing. The published averages are useful for comparing operations, but they are not the number to put in a contract. If a board asks what happens at 03:00 on a Sunday, the answer is the escalation path and the warranty, not the median.

Response authority and the warranty

Response authority is where the contracts diverge. CrowdStrike's model is full-cycle remediation on the customer's behalf. SentinelOne acts within a configured response policy, which means the customer decides in advance what the service may isolate, kill or roll back. Arctic Wolf describes agentic response with humans in the loop and response actions inside its triage service.

The warranty is the other half. SentinelOne includes up to $1 million in breach response coverage across Windows, Linux, macOS and cloud workloads if an undetected breach occurs. Arctic Wolf offers up to $3 million in financial assistance, but only with the Total Security Operations Bundle plus Aurora Managed Endpoint Defense on a three-year term. CrowdStrike's Falcon Complete page publishes no warranty figure. A warranty with conditions is not the same as a lower price, and the conditions are where a procurement team should spend its time. Read the trigger before treating either figure as insurance: Arctic Wolf ties its number to a bundle and a three-year term, and SentinelOne's applies when a breach goes undetected, which is narrower than a missed alert.

What each vendor publishes about price

Only one of the three publishes a per-endpoint list price. SentinelOne lists Singularity Complete at $179.99 per endpoint a year and Singularity Commercial at $229.99, with Enterprise priced on request. Its MDR layer is quoted separately. CrowdStrike publishes no price for Falcon Complete; Vendr's deal data puts it at $18 to $30 per endpoint a month. Arctic Wolf publishes no price; Vendr puts its MDR at $8 to $25 per endpoint a month.

The units are not interchangeable. SentinelOne's number buys the platform, before the managed service. CrowdStrike's and Arctic Wolf's numbers are the service. A buyer who compares $179.99 a year with $18 a month is comparing a platform with an MDR contract and will draw the wrong conclusion.

Minimum seats and the 500-seat sum

The minimum is the number that kills a small deal. Vendr records an annual contract minimum of $50,000 to $75,000 for CrowdStrike and $25,000 to $50,000 for Arctic Wolf. SentinelOne publishes no minimum and sells per endpoint.

At 500 endpoints, CrowdStrike's band works out to $108,000 to $180,000 a year, and Arctic Wolf's negotiated band for 100 to 500 endpoints, $12 to $18 per endpoint a month, works out to $72,000 to $108,000. SentinelOne's platform list at 500 endpoints is $89,995 to $114,995 before the MDR quote. Those totals are list or deal-data arithmetic, not quotes, but they set the order of magnitude and the room to negotiate.

The decision rule

Choose CrowdStrike if the estate wants remediation performed for it and can clear a $50,000 to $75,000 minimum. The published one-minute median containment is the strongest operational claim of the three, and the trade-off is that the price arrives as a quote.

Choose SentinelOne if a published per-endpoint price and a $1 million warranty matter, and the team is willing to write a response policy that tells the service what it may do. The platform list price is transparent; the MDR line is not, so ask for it as a separate line with its own term.

Choose Arctic Wolf if a named concierge team and a $3 million warranty on a three-year bundle are worth more than a published detection time. At 500 endpoints its deal band starts below CrowdStrike's, but the warranty conditions and the bundle requirement are part of the price. Whichever vendor survives the shortlist, ask for the MDR line, the minimum and the warranty conditions in the same document.