Devo vs Wazuh
A side-by-side comparison on deployment model, data residency, licensing basis and security coverage. Structural facts are verifiable against vendor documentation; the scored dimensions are our assessment.
Devo
Devo
6.9
Average across eight dimensions
- Deployment
- SaaS only
- Licensing
- Ingest volume
- Time to value
- Medium
- Segment
- Enterprise
- G2
- —
Wazuh
Wazuh Inc.
8.0
Average across eight dimensions
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Licensing
- Free; paid support available
- Time to value
- Complex
- Segment
- SMB / mid-market
- G2
- —
Score by dimension
| Dimension | DV | WZ |
|---|---|---|
| Data residency control | 2.5 | 10 |
| Pricing value | 5.5 | 9.8 |
| Detection accuracy | 8 | 8 |
| Response speed | 8 | 7 |
| Ease of setup | 7.5 | 6 |
| Management UX | 8 | 6.5 |
| Integration depth | 8 | 8 |
| Security coverage | 8 | 8.5 |
Devo
- +Very strong query performance over large historical datasets
- +Retains full-fidelity data for long periods without rehydration steps
- +Fast to deploy with no infrastructure to operate
- −SaaS only — no self-hosted deployment path
- −Smaller ecosystem and community than the incumbents
Best for Enterprises needing fast search across long retention windows
Watch out No residency control — assess against your regulatory position first
Wazuh
- +No licence cost at any scale, with a genuinely capable rule engine
- +Includes file integrity monitoring and configuration assessment out of the box
- +Very large community rule base and active development
- −The indexing and storage layer is where cost and complexity actually accumulate
- −Dashboard and reporting experience trails commercial platforms
Best for Teams with engineering capacity and a strong open-source preference
Watch out Free licence, real operational cost — staff it honestly or buy support
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Data last verified 2026-09-16. nPro publishes this comparison. Where nPro appears as one of the platforms listed, its card is marked and its scores are our own assessment. Third-party review scores are sourced from public vendor profiles. Structural facts — deployment model, licensing basis, residency — are verifiable against each vendor's documentation.