# Huntress review (2026): is it worth $8.99 a month? > Managed endpoint detection and response with a 24/7 human SOC Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Antivirus & Malware Protection - **Made by:** Huntress (since 2015) - **Website:** https://www.huntress.com - **Runs on:** Windows, macOS, Linux, Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you're a home user, as there's no consumer plan. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## 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). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **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 | $8.99 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. | Read from https://www.huntress.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Huntress before buying. ## 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. ## Good for - IT providers that resell managed security to small businesses - Small and mid-size companies without their own security team - Businesses replacing a self-managed antivirus with a monitored one ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: D.** $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. - **Free plan and trial: D.** A free trial of the full product with the 24/7 team, but the length isn't stated. No free plan. - **Features: B.** Managed endpoint detection, identity threat detection, log collection, incident reports and a managed antivirus. Each product is priced on a different unit. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It's sold through partners and set up through a demo form. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Windows, Mac and Linux with a web console, plus Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace links. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among antivirus apps - 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/antivirus ## Keep it, 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. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: An engine that recognises new malware as it appears. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows and Linux that stay in step with each other. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace **Tags:** Malware protection, Reports, AI features ## Alternatives - [CrowdStrike Falcon Go](https://toolgpa.com/tools/crowdstrike-falcon-go): Small-business antivirus with USB device control and mobile protection. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/crowdstrike-falcon-go-vs-huntress) - [Sophos Home](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sophos-home): Business-grade antivirus for up to 10 Windows PCs and Macs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/huntress-vs-sophos-home) - [Bitdefender](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bitdefender): Antivirus suites for computers and phones, with a free Windows tier. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bitdefender-vs-huntress) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.huntress.com - https://www.huntress.com/pricing - https://www.huntress.com/platform/managed-edr - https://www.huntress.com/company/our-story Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/huntress Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).