Compare Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel 
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At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (55.0% of reviews)
Enterprise (41.2% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go Per Month
Pay As You Go
Elastic Security
Star Rating
(22)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (55.0% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go Per Month
Free Trial is available
Browse all 3 pricing plansMicrosoft Sentinel
Star Rating
(290)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (41.2% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go
Browse all 11 pricing plansElastic Security vs Microsoft Sentinel
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Elastic Security easier to use and do business with overall. However, reviewers preferred the ease of set up with Microsoft Sentinel, along with administration.
- Reviewers felt that Elastic Security meets the needs of their business better than Microsoft Sentinel.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Elastic Security is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Elastic Security over Microsoft Sentinel.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Elastic Security
Elastic Cloud Serverless
Pay As You Go
Per Month
A fully automated, usage-based platform. Ideal for variable workloads where compute scales independently from storage, requiring zero capacity planning or infrastructure management.
- No-ops management: Elastic handles all upgrades and scaling
- Decoupled compute and storage scaling
- Specialized VCUs for Ingest, Search, and Machine Learning
Microsoft Sentinel
Pay-As-You-Go
Pay As You Go
Effective Per GB Price - $2.46
Savings Over Pay as You Go: N/A
- Pay-As-You-Go
Free Trial
Elastic Security
Free Trial is available
Microsoft Sentinel
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
9.2
16
8.6
224
Ease of Use
8.8
16
8.5
230
Ease of Setup
7.1
13
8.3
130
Ease of Admin
7.7
8
8.3
124
Quality of Support
8.9
14
8.5
219
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
9.0
7
8.7
119
Product Direction (% positive)
10.0
15
9.5
219
Features by Category
Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
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Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) PlatformsHide 14 FeaturesShow 14 Features
Not enough data
Not enough data
Detection & Response
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Analytics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Platforms
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Services - Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Services - Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Cloud Visibility
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
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Security
Not enough data
Not enough data
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Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Identity
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Network Management
9.7
5
8.9
170
Not enough data
8.4
161
9.8
7
8.8
166
Incident Management
Not enough data
8.7
169
Not enough data
8.7
165
Not enough data
8.9
165
Security Intelligence
Not enough data
8.7
168
Not enough data
8.3
160
Not enough data
8.5
162
Not enough data
8.5
162
Agentic AI - Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
System Control
Not enough data
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Not enough data
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Vulnerability Prevention
Not enough data
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Security Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)Hide 11 FeaturesShow 11 Features
Not enough data
8.5
111
Automation
Not enough data
8.2
95
Not enough data
8.4
98
Not enough data
8.7
97
Not enough data
8.8
99
Orchestration
Not enough data
8.8
98
Not enough data
8.7
99
Not enough data
8.6
98
Not enough data
8.4
97
Response
Not enough data
8.6
100
Not enough data
8.1
94
Not enough data
8.5
91
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel are categorized as Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Unique Categories
Elastic Security is categorized as ETL Tools, Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Platforms, and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Microsoft Sentinel is categorized as Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Elastic Security
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Microsoft Sentinel
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
42.1%
Internet
10.5%
Telecommunications
5.3%
Security and Investigations
5.3%
Outsourcing/Offshoring
5.3%
Other
31.6%
Information Technology and Services
26.2%
Computer & Network Security
14.6%
Computer Software
8.2%
Banking
4.1%
Security and Investigations
3.7%
Other
43.1%
Alternatives
Discussions
Elastic Security has no discussions with answers
What is Microsoft Sentinel used for?
3 Comments
RS
It's for SIEM tool for real time incident responder and threat intelligence .Read more
If I had to have a question, I would ask if there were any plans to add linux support to this program.
2 Comments
DY
need to ask Microsoft, but since dot.net core can be installed in Linux, I believe the agent will work as it uses the .net platform. please experiment Read more
How I able to install /integrated Azure Sentinel agents to collect data on IOT devices/ DLP/ Endpoint devices Computer / Laptops / Printers
1 Comment
DY
So couple of point for IOT devices. You can leverage with IOT Hub in Azure. Most IOT devices uses C as their programming language you will probaly need to...Read more
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