CrowdStrike Falcon vs. Sophos Intercept X

CrowdStrike Falcon

299 Reviews and Ratings

Sophos Intercept X

210 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CrowdStrike Falcon	Score9 out of 10	N/A	CrowdStrike offers the Falcon Endpoint Protection suite, an antivirus and endpoint protection system emphasizing threat detection, machine learning malware detection, and signature free updating. Additionally the available Falcon Spotlight module delivers vulnerability assessment with no performance impact, no additional agents, hardware, scheduled scans, firewall exceptions or admin credentials.	$59.99 per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
Sophos Intercept X	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Sophos Endpoint Protection (Sophos EPP) with Intercept X is an endpoint security product providing an antivirus / antimalware solution that when upgraded with Intercept X or Intercept X Advanced provides advanced threat detection and EDR capabilities.	$28 per year per user

Pricing

CrowdStrike Falcon

Sophos Intercept X

Falcon Go (Small Business): $59.99
per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
Falcon Go (Small Business): $59.99
Falcon Pro: $99.99
per endpoint/month (for 5-250 endpoints, billed annually)
Falcon Enterprise: $184.99
per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)

Intercept X Advanced: $28
per year per user
Intercept X Advanced with XDR: $48
per year per user
Sophos Managed Threat Response: $79
per year per user

Pricing Offerings
CrowdStrike Falcon	Sophos Intercept X
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Pricing is for a 3-year commitment. Government and Education pricing available.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	CrowdStrike Falcon	Sophos Intercept X
Considered Both Products	CrowdStrike Verified User Chose CrowdStrike Falcon We moved on from Symantec and compared with Sophos - the impact (performance) to the endpoint is very minimal - our engineers always fight new security tools. During testing, they were running CrowdStrike for 2 weeks when they asked when we would install the new EDR tool to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CrowdStrike Falcon At the time we evaluated the products, CrowdStrike was clearly leading in this space. It's possible since that time so other products have added additional features and may be equivalent. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CrowdStrike Falcon Having a single console to manage all the different modules is a great plus against all the other competitors. Also, being a cloud native solution, single agent for everyhing, and the ease of use of the whole solution is a plus. Even the extras as CS Falcon, which makes you able … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CrowdStrike Falcon CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint certainly comes in with a slight price premium compared to other offerings, but when you're talking about your last line of defense against malware it's well worth it. From a feature perspective, many players offer similar feature sets but what sets … Incentivized Helpful? David Reyes Sr Systems Engineer in Information Technology at InnovaSystems (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose CrowdStrike Falcon Overall I found CrowdStrike Falcon's EDR capabilities superior to their competitors. Also, the user interface has taken its time to mature and is very intuitive and has a natural flow. Policy configuration and assignment as well as the features and settings within the config … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CrowdStrike Falcon CrowdStrike Falcon provides advanced threat hunting techniques and advanced threat and endpoint detection response Incentivized Helpful?	Sophos No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

CrowdStrike Falcon

Sophos Intercept X

Comparison of Endpoint Security features of CrowdStrike Falcon and Sophos Intercept X
Feature	CrowdStrike Falcon 9.1 85 Ratings	Sophos Intercept X 8.9 18 Ratings
Anti-Exploit Technology	9.677 Ratings	7.118 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)	9.783 Ratings	9.018 Ratings
Centralized Management	9.884 Ratings	10.018 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support	8.24 Ratings	8.03 Ratings
Infection Remediation	9.480 Ratings	10.018 Ratings
Vulnerability Management	7.863 Ratings	8.44 Ratings
Malware Detection	9.483 Ratings	10.018 Ratings

User Ratings
	CrowdStrike Falcon	Sophos Intercept X
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (88 ratings)	9.0 (35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (3 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (2 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (9 ratings)	8.1 (12 ratings)
In-Person Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)