QRadar Alternative

nPro vs IBM QRadar

IBM QRadar is a long-established enterprise SIEM — and carries the licensing complexity, heavy infrastructure footprint, and deployment timelines that come with legacy enterprise software. nPro delivers modern SIEM and XDR on a lightweight ClickHouse backend that deploys in minutes.

Feature Comparison

Feature
nPro
IBM QRadar
Deployment time
~5 minutes
Weeks to months
Architecture
Lightweight, ClickHouse
Heavy appliance/stack
Licensing model
Simple flat licence
Complex (EPS/FPM tiers)
Infrastructure footprint
Modest hardware
Substantial
Retention cost
~10:1 compression
Storage-heavy
Self-hosted / sovereign
Yes
Yes
Best fit
Lean, fast-moving teams
Large legacy SOCs

Enterprise Capability Without the Enterprise Baggage

QRadar is a capable, mature platform with deep features built up over many years. But that maturity comes with cost: complex EPS and flows-per-minute licensing that is hard to predict, a heavy infrastructure footprint, and deployment projects measured in months rather than minutes. For many organisations, that weight is disproportionate to what they actually need.

nPro delivers the core enterprise SIEM capabilities — MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detection, cross-source correlation, network monitoring, and compliance reporting — on a modern ClickHouse foundation that installs in five minutes and runs on modest hardware. You get the detection outcomes without the licensing spreadsheets. See how it performs in our storage architecture comparison.

Modern SIEM, Minutes to Deploy

Self-hosted SIEM + XDR + network monitoring. Flat pricing, fast deploy.