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
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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 | 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 |
What the comparison says
Both platforms are self-hosted, so deployment model is not what separates them here. ESET Inspect is described as fast to reach value, against complex for Wazuh.
ESET Inspect 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.
ESET Inspect leads on response speed, ease of setup and management UX. Wazuh leads on residency and pricing value.
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.
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.