Huntress review (2026): is it worth $8.99 a month?
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Huntress report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for managed threat detection for small IT firms
Huntress sells managed endpoint detection with a 24/7 security team watching, mostly through IT partners. It's for businesses, there's no consumer plan, and it costs $8.99 per endpoint a month on a 12-month term.
Who Huntress is for
- 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
Who Huntress is not for
- 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
Why Huntress gets a 2.0
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- DValue for money$8.99 per endpoint a month at list, which is in the dearest tenth of antivirus tools, though you're buying a monitored service rather than a plain scanner.
- DFree plan and trialA free trial of the full product with the 24/7 team, but the length isn't stated. No free plan.
- BFeaturesManaged endpoint detection, identity threat detection, log collection, incident reports and a managed antivirus. Each product is priced on a different unit.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. It's sold through partners and set up through a demo form.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWindows, Mac and Linux with a web console, plus Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace links.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Huntress's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Huntress's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 0 of the 25 other antivirus apps we grade, and level with 3.
It stands best on features (B, above 9 of 25) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $8.99 a month, against a middle price of $4.50 for the category: 19 of the 20 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 10 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 26 antivirus apps we grade, cut by the letter each got. Huntress’s own letter is outlined.
- DValue for moneyAbove 0 of 25, level with 4
- DFree plan and trialAbove 2 of 25, level with 2
- BFeaturesAbove 9 of 25, level with 16
- CEase of useAbove 1 of 25, level with 2
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 5 of 25, level with 20
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 22 antivirus apps. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Huntress, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Huntress you would be making an engine that recognises new malware as it appears. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 22 of the 25 other antivirus apps grade higher. It costs $107.88 a year.
What you could make
- Reports: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- An engine that recognises new malware as it appears.
- Apps for macOS, Windows and Linux that stay in step with each other.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Huntress’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Huntress?
Huntress is a managed security platform for businesses and the IT providers that serve them. Its core product, Managed EDR, puts an agent on Windows, macOS and Linux machines and has the Huntress security operations center investigate and respond to threats, with managed antivirus included. Identity, log, security training and Microsoft 365 hardening products are priced separately.
Worth knowing
- 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.
Key features
- 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.
Huntress pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Huntress is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $8.99 per endpoint / month (Managed EDR, MSRP).
- Starts at
- $8.99 per endpoint / month (Managed EDR, MSRP)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- Free trial of the full product, including 24/7 SOC support; length not stated
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Managed EDR | $8.99per endpoint / month, MSRP | 24/7 detection and response by the SOC, remediation, incident reporting and managed antivirus. Rate falls with volume. |
| Managed ITDR | $4.80per licensed identity / month, MSRP | Watches Microsoft 365 and Google identities for account takeover, suspicious policy changes and mail flow tampering. |
| Managed SIEM | $4.00per data source / month, MSRP | Collects and correlates logs from endpoints, firewalls, cloud apps and identity systems, with pooled storage. |
| Managed ISPM | $4.00per licensed identity / month, MSRP | Managed hardening of Microsoft 365 identity settings, with drift fixed in about 15 minutes, as the page says. |
| Managed SAT | $2.08per learner / month, MSRP | Managed security awareness training with phishing simulation and automated reporting. |
Read from huntress.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Huntress before you buy.
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Common questions
Does Huntress have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Huntress is listed for Windows, macOS, Linux and Web.
Does Huntress have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Huntress is listed for Windows, macOS, Linux and Web.
Is Huntress open source?
Huntress is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.