Bitdefender GravityZone XDR 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.

BD

Bitdefender GravityZone XDR

Bitdefender

8.1

Average across eight dimensions

Deployment
Hybrid
Licensing
Per endpoint
Time to value
Medium
Segment
SMB / mid-market / enterprise
G2
4.1 (108)
WZ

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
4.5 (72)

Score by dimension

Dimension BD WZ
Data residency control 6.5 10
Pricing value 7.5 9.8
Detection accuracy 9 8
Response speed 8.5 7
Ease of setup 8 6
Management UX 8 6.5
Integration depth 8.5 8
Security coverage 9 8.5

What the comparison says

Bitdefender GravityZone XDR is hybrid and Wazuh is self-hosted. Where your obligations dictate residency, that difference tends to settle the choice before any score is read.

Bitdefender GravityZone XDR licenses on per endpoint, Wazuh on free; paid support available. Neither bills on data volume, so the comparison is about what each licence includes rather than how much you send it.

Bitdefender GravityZone XDR leads on detection, response speed, ease of setup and management UX. Wazuh leads on residency and pricing value.

Bitdefender GravityZone XDR

  • +Consistently top results in AV-TEST and AV-Comparatives independent testing.
  • +On-premises GravityZone deployment available, unlike most XDR vendors here.
  • +One platform covers endpoints, servers, virtual machines and cloud workloads.
  • −Console navigation flagged as complex by a meaningful share of reviewers.
  • −Deep scans can affect performance on older endpoint hardware.

Best for Organisations wanting proven detection with an on-premises management option.

Watch out Verify which XDR features are available in the on-premises build specifically.

Wazuh

  • +Genuinely free and open source with no licence cost at any scale.
  • +Mature rule engine, file integrity monitoring and configuration assessment.
  • +Fully self-hosted and air-gap capable with a large community rule base.
  • −The surrounding stack is where the real cost lands: indexer, dashboards and storage.
  • −Operational burden falls entirely on your team unless a support contract is bought.

Best for Teams with platform engineering capacity and a strong preference for open source.

Watch out Budget for the indexing layer and the engineer who maintains it.

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Data last verified 2026-10-06. 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 are verifiable against each vendor's documentation: deployment model, licensing basis and residency.