Cisco XDR vs nPro
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.
Cisco XDR
Cisco
7.1
Average across eight dimensions
- Deployment
- SaaS only
- Licensing
- Per endpoint
- Time to value
- Medium
- Segment
- Enterprise
- G2
- 4.7 (3)
nPro
NPRO TECH Sdn. Bhd.
8.1
Average across eight dimensions
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Licensing
- $4.50/agent/mo
- Time to value
- Fast
- Segment
- Mid-market / regulated enterprise
- G2
- —
Score by dimension
| Dimension | CI | NP |
|---|---|---|
| Data residency control | 3 | 10 |
| Pricing value | 5.5 | 9 |
| Detection accuracy | 8 | 7.5 |
| Response speed | 8 | 7.5 |
| Ease of setup | 7 | 9 |
| Management UX | 7.5 | 7.5 |
| Integration depth | 9 | 6 |
| Security coverage | 8.5 | 8 |
What the comparison says
Cisco XDR is SaaS only and nPro is self-hosted. Where your obligations dictate residency, that difference tends to settle the choice before any score is read.
Cisco XDR licenses on per endpoint, nPro on $4.50/agent/mo. Neither bills on data volume, so the comparison is about what each licence includes rather than how much you send it.
Cisco XDR leads on integrations. nPro leads on residency, pricing value and ease of setup.
Cisco XDR
- +Strongest network telemetry story of any platform in this table.
- +Talos threat intelligence is among the largest research operations in the industry.
- +Natural fit where Cisco networking is already the standard.
- −SaaS delivery with no on-premises option for the XDR control plane.
- −Full value depends on owning a broad amount of Cisco infrastructure.
Best for Cisco-standardised enterprises wanting network and endpoint correlation.
Watch out Assess how much of the value is contingent on further Cisco purchases.
nPro
- +Runs entirely on your own infrastructure with no cloud dependency and no SaaS option.
- +Flat USD 4.50 per agent per month with no per-gigabyte ingestion charge at any tier.
- +Bundles network monitoring with SIEM and XDR on one ClickHouse backend.
- −Smaller integration ecosystem than any tier-one vendor in this table.
- −Behavioural analytics still in development. Identity Sync is live, baselining is not.
Best for Regulated organisations that must keep security telemetry inside their own perimeter.
Watch out No SaaS option and no vendor-staffed SOC. You operate the platform yourself.
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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.