# Carbon Black review (2026): is it worth it? > Endpoint and workload security from Broadcom, bought via partners Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Carbon Black, formerly sold as VMware Carbon Black, is now a Broadcom product. It combines threat prevention with detection and response across endpoints, networks and workloads, managed from a cloud console, and it is bought through partners or by contacting Broadcom. - **Category:** Antivirus & Malware Protection - **Made by:** Broadcom - **Website:** https://www.broadcom.com/products/carbon-black - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a published price, since the page offers only Buy via Partner and Contact Us. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing Carbon Black's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Threat prevention:** Policy-based controls aimed at stopping targeted attacks and preventing repeat attacks, with room to customize. - **Threat detection and response:** Collects detailed activity data across endpoints, networks and workloads so analysts can see an attack and contain its impact. - **Workload protection:** A Carbon Black Cloud Workload product is named on the page for protecting servers and cloud workloads. - **Cloud-managed agents:** Customers quoted on the page describe agent deployment and a cloud-managed model. ## Good for - Larger organizations and public-sector teams with a security staff - Teams that want detailed endpoint activity data for investigations ## Worth knowing - No prices or plans are published; the page offers Buy via Partner and Contact Us. - The product was VMware Carbon Black before Broadcom's acquisition; the page now uses the name Carbon Black. - Supported operating systems and the plan tiers are not listed on the page read, so platforms show only the cloud console. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Carbon Black, now a Broadcom product, collects detailed activity data across endpoints, networks and workloads for security analysts. No prices, plans or supported operating systems are published, and you buy through a partner. Look elsewhere if you want to see a price before you talk to anyone. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published, so there is nothing to set against this category's $2.58 to $6.50 a month; the listing says it is by quote. Buying goes through a partner. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free on record: no free plan and no trial, and a demo request is not a trial. - **Features: C.** Prevention policies, detection and response and a workload product are named, but plan tiers and supported operating systems are not on the page, so the listing cannot show the whole job. - **Ease of use: C.** Business product with a console and agents to roll out; no store rating is on record and the listing shows setup work, so it sits at the ordinary grade. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Only a cloud console is on record. No operating systems, phone apps or integrations are listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Broadcom's own pages on 13 November 2026. The vendor's page could not be read in full when this was graded, so we went by the listing. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among antivirus apps - Carbon Black's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 3 of the 56 other antivirus apps we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (C, above 10 of 56) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/antivirus ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Carbon Black 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: 51 of the 56 other antivirus apps grade higher. - You could not: An engine that recognises new malware as it appears. - You could not: Millions of server log lines read to see what search bots crawl. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Malware protection, Log file analysis ## 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-vmware-carbon-black) - [Cynet](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cynet): AI-driven endpoint security with 24x7 managed response, by quote. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cynet-vs-vmware-carbon-black) - [Huntress](https://toolgpa.com/tools/huntress): Managed endpoint detection and response with a 24/7 human SOC. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/huntress-vs-vmware-carbon-black) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.broadcom.com/products/carbon-black Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/vmware-carbon-black Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).