Huntress vs Jamf Protect (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Huntress if

• Fits if you run IT for several small businesses and want a security team watching
• Works for a company with endpoints to cover and no in-house analysts

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you're a home user, as there's no consumer plan
• Not for you if you want a free plan, as the pricing page lists none
• Pricey if you want a plain antivirus: $8.99 per endpoint a month is a managed service price
• Watch out: pricing is list price, quotes come from a demo form, the term is 12 months and multi-year price protection isn't offered

Pick Jamf Protect if

• Fits if you run a fleet of Macs and already use Jamf
• Works for IT teams that want Mac malware logs sent to a SIEM

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you have fewer than 25 devices on the bundles, as that is the minimum
• Skip it if your fleet has Windows or Linux machines, as neither is listed
• Pricey if you buy Jamf for Mac at $12.50 per device a month, billed annually
• Watch out: no standalone Jamf Protect price is shown, and it is sold to Jamf Cloud customers only

Huntress

• Pricing shown is MSRP and falls as volume rises; exact quotes come from a demo form, and Huntress says it is channel-first and sells mostly through partners.
• The standard term is 12 months, and the pricing FAQ says multi-year price protection is not offered.
• Business product only: there is no consumer plan, and the pricing page lists no free plan.
• Each product is priced on a different unit: endpoints, identities, data sources or learners.

Jamf Protect

• Jamf lists it as available with Jamf for Mac or Jamf for Mobile; no standalone Jamf Protect price is shown on the pricing page.
• Jamf for Mac and Jamf for Mobile have a 25-device minimum and are sold to Jamf Cloud customers only.
• The page lists no Windows or Linux support; macOS and mobile devices are the focus.
• Jamf Now, the small-business plan, starts at $4 per device per month and is for organizations with fewer than 25 employees.

Huntress

Managed EDR

A lightweight agent for Windows and macOS, with Linux also covered, feeds detections to the Huntress SOC, which investigates and remediates.

Free managed antivirus

The Managed EDR price includes managed antivirus, so the product can stand in for a conventional antivirus on a business machine.

Identity threat detection

Managed ITDR looks for privilege escalation, suspicious logins and mail flow manipulation in Microsoft 365 and Google accounts.

Athena engine

The site describes Athena as agentic AI that investigates every alert alongside the human SOC analysts.

Incident reporting

Custom incident reports come with Managed EDR and Managed ITDR at no extra cost, according to the pricing page.

Log collection and training

Managed SIEM correlates logs from many sources, and Managed SAT runs phishing simulations and training for employees.

Jamf Protect

Next-gen antivirus for Mac

Blocks known malware and variants from running on a Mac and quarantines malicious files automatically.

Behavioral threat detection

On-device monitoring watches for suspicious events that exploit Apple vulnerabilities and for fileless and living-off-the-land attacks.

Telemetry to SIEM tools

Sends system and log data to tools including Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps and Sumo Logic.

Web threat protection and content filtering

Filters web content by policy and defends against phishing, ransomware, cryptojacking and malware domains.

Mobile threat defense

Detects jailbroken devices and risky apps, and can block access to work resources from devices that are not healthy.

Huntress

• Managed EDR$8.99

  per endpoint / month, MSRP

  24/7 detection and response by the SOC, remediation, incident reporting and managed antivirus. Rate falls with volume.

• Managed ITDR$4.80

  per licensed identity / month, MSRP

  Watches Microsoft 365 and Google identities for account takeover, suspicious policy changes and mail flow tampering.

• Managed SIEM$4.00

  per data source / month, MSRP

  Collects and correlates logs from endpoints, firewalls, cloud apps and identity systems, with pooled storage.

• Managed ISPM$4.00

  per licensed identity / month, MSRP

  Managed hardening of Microsoft 365 identity settings, with drift fixed in about 15 minutes, as the page says.

• Managed SAT$2.08

  per learner / month, MSRP

  Managed security awareness training with phishing simulation and automated reporting.

Jamf Protect

• Jamf for Mac$12.50

  per macOS device / month, billed annually

  Bundle of Jamf Pro, Connect and Protect with 25-device minimum; includes endpoint protection and content filtering.

• Jamf for Mobile$5.75

  per mobile device / month, billed annually

  Bundle with mobile device management and mobile threat defense, 25-device minimum.

• Jamf Now$4

  per device / month and up

  For organizations under 25 employees; includes macOS malware protection.