Wazuh is a popular open-source security platform, but running it in production means managing a Wazuh-plus-Elastic stack, with the indexing, tuning, and operational overhead that comes with it. nPro delivers the same security outcomes on a simpler, faster ClickHouse foundation.
Wazuh itself is free, and that is genuinely attractive. But the total cost of a Wazuh deployment is dominated by what surrounds it: an Elasticsearch or OpenSearch cluster to tune and scale, index lifecycle management, and the engineering time to keep the whole stack healthy. For teams without dedicated platform engineers, that overhead is the real price.
nPro collapses the stack into a single integrated platform on ClickHouse. You get MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detection, cross-source correlation, network monitoring, and compliance reporting without assembling and maintaining multiple components. It deploys in five minutes and runs with minimal ongoing tuning, see the Ubuntu deployment guide.
Wazuh is a serious piece of software and a comparison page that pretends otherwise is not much help when you are the one choosing. There are situations where it is the better answer.
Wazuh charges nothing at any number of agents. If licence cost is the binding constraint and you have the engineering capacity to run the indexing and storage layer, no commercial platform will beat free.
The community rule base is very large and actively developed, and file integrity monitoring and configuration assessment come in the box. For teams who want to read, fork and maintain their own rules, that openness has real value.
nPro's behavioural analytics are still in development and are not comparable to a dedicated UEBA platform today. Its integration ecosystem is also smaller than the long-established platforms. If either is a requirement rather than a preference, weigh that honestly.
nPro has no SaaS option. That is deliberate, and it is also a commitment on your side. You need a Linux server that somebody patches, monitors and backs up. If your organisation has no appetite for running infrastructure, a hosted platform is the better fit whatever its licensing model looks like.
What you get in exchange is residency that does not depend on a vendor's regional policy, air-gapped operation where the network demands it, and a ClickHouse storage engine that takes materially less tuning to run than an Elasticsearch cluster. For regulated organisations that were going to self-host regardless, that trade is usually the easy part.
Self-hosted SIEM + XDR + network monitoring. Free tier, 5-minute deploy.