ESET Inspect vs SentinelOne Singularity
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.
ESET Inspect
ESET
8.2
Average across eight dimensions
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Licensing
- Per endpoint
- Time to value
- Fast
- Segment
- SMB / mid-market
- G2
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SentinelOne Singularity
SentinelOne
8.0
Average across eight dimensions
- Deployment
- Hybrid
- Licensing
- Per endpoint
- Time to value
- Medium
- Segment
- Mid-market / enterprise
- G2
- 4.7 (213)
Score by dimension
| Dimension | ES | S1 |
|---|---|---|
| Data residency control | 8 | 4.5 |
| Pricing value | 8 | 6 |
| Detection accuracy | 8.5 | 9.5 |
| Response speed | 8 | 9.5 |
| Ease of setup | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| Management UX | 8 | 8.5 |
| Integration depth | 8 | 9 |
| Security coverage | 8.5 | 9.5 |
What the comparison says
ESET Inspect is self-hosted and SentinelOne Singularity is hybrid. Where your obligations dictate residency, that difference tends to settle the choice before any score is read.
ESET Inspect licenses on per endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity on per endpoint. Neither bills on data volume, so the comparison is about what each licence includes rather than how much you send it.
ESET Inspect leads on residency, pricing value and ease of setup. SentinelOne Singularity leads on detection, response speed, integrations and security coverage.
ESET Inspect
- +On-premises ESET PROTECT server available. That is a genuine self-hosted control plane.
- +Very low endpoint performance impact compared with most agents here.
- +Strong false-positive control, which reduces analyst load meaningfully.
- −Managed detection service is less mature than managed-first competitors.
- −Advanced threat intelligence features require additional tiers.
Best for SMB and mid-market wanting self-hosted EDR with a light agent footprint.
Watch out ESET is folding the cloud Inspect console into ESET PROTECT through 2027. On-premises Inspect is unaffected, so specify the on-prem build.
SentinelOne Singularity
- +Autonomous containment without waiting for analyst intervention.
- +One-click rollback reverses ransomware file encryption on the endpoint.
- +Purple AI supports natural-language threat hunting across telemetry.
- −Licensing model is complex. Validate per-seat versus capacity carefully.
- −On-premises availability has varied by release and region; confirm before shortlisting.
Best for Teams wanting automated response without building the automation themselves.
Watch out Confirm current self-hosted availability directly. Do not assume from older documentation.
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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.