ESET Inspect 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.
ESET Inspect
ESET
8.2
Average across eight dimensions
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Licensing
- Per endpoint
- Time to value
- Fast
- Segment
- SMB / mid-market
- 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 | ES | WZ |
|---|---|---|
| Data residency control | 8 | 10 |
| Pricing value | 8 | 9.8 |
| Detection accuracy | 8.5 | 8 |
| Response speed | 8 | 7 |
| Ease of setup | 8.5 | 6 |
| Management UX | 8 | 6.5 |
| Integration depth | 8 | 8 |
| Security coverage | 8.5 | 8.5 |
ESET Inspect
- +On-premises ESET PROTECT server available — 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 If you need a vendor-run SOC, this is not the strongest option in the table
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 — indexer, dashboards, storage — is where the real cost lands
- −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 2026-09-16. 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.