nPro 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.
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
- —
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 | NP | WZ |
|---|---|---|
| Data residency control | 10 | 10 |
| Pricing value | 9 | 9.8 |
| Detection accuracy | 7.5 | 8 |
| Response speed | 7.5 | 7 |
| Ease of setup | 9 | 6 |
| Management UX | 7.5 | 6.5 |
| Integration depth | 6 | 8 |
| Security coverage | 8 | 8.5 |
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
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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Free for up to 99 agents, no time limit, no credit card. Deploys on your own infrastructure in minutes.
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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.