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Huntress logoHuntress

Huntress

4.8/5
activpayroll logoactivpayroll

activpayroll

4.0/5
ROI categoryrisk compliancerisk compliance
Time-to-ValueUnder 1 day (about 30 minutes to deploy) (~1d)About 6 months for a multi-country rollout (~180d)
Typical annual TCO$12,000/yr$0/yr
Starting price$96/yr$0/yr
Implementation feeNoneNone
Seat tiersNo tiers. Example rates at 100 units: Managed EDR $7.99/endpoint, ITDR $3.60/identity, ISPM $3.40/identity, SIEM $3.50/source, SAT $1.75/learner.Not published; engagement scoped per country and employee count
Implementation friction1/54/5
Friction meter
Best forSMB and mid-market teams that want enterprise-grade endpoint, identity and email defense without building a 24/7 security operations center.; MSPs and MSSPs delivering managed security to many clients; Huntress reports 11k+ partners and 277k+ organizations secured.; Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace-centric organizations needing managed identity threat detection and posture hardening.; Organizations facing cyber-insurance, CMMC or audit evidence demands, with managed SIEM retention and compliance-platform integrations.; Lean IT teams that want one-click remediation and human-written incident reports instead of raw alerting.Multinational employers running payroll in many countries who want one provider and one governance model; Companies consolidating multiple in-country payroll providers into a single global model; HR and finance teams that need payroll wired into HRIS/HCM systems such as Workday, UKG, HiBob, Sage People or Cornerstone; Organisations with internationally mobile staff needing assignment payroll, expat tax and mobility coordination
Not forEnterprises that want to run, tune and staff their own detection engineering and SOC tooling in-house.; Environments requiring on-premise or air-gapped tooling; Huntress is delivered as a cloud-managed service.; Buyers who need public self-serve checkout rather than a demo-led, volume-quoted sales process.; Organizations whose main need is OT/ICS or medical-device protection, which the sources do not cover.Single-country employers with simple domestic payroll needs; Buyers who want self-serve payroll software with no managed-service layer; Teams that require published, self-checkout pricing before evaluation; Very small headcounts where a global managed payroll model is disproportionate

Stack fit matrix

SalesforceNot supportedNot supported
AWSNot supportedNot supported
SnowflakeNot supportedNot supported
HubSpotNot supportedNot supported
Google WorkspaceNativeNot supported
Microsoft 365NativeNot supported
SAPNot supportedNot supported
SlackIntegrationNot supported
MCP (Model Context Protocol)NativeNot supported

Compliance

SOC 2 Not listed Not listed
ISO 27001 Not listed Not listed
GDPR Not listed Not listed
HIPAA Not listed Not listed
FedRAMP Not listed Not listed
ISO 42001 Not listed Not listed
IAPP AIGPnamed staff Not listed Not listed
AI app-builder checkwhat this checksNo cautionNot checked yet

Company & support

Who is behind each solution, and how you reach support. “Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention a channel, not that it is unavailable.

Founded2015 (11 yrs)2001 (25 yrs)
HeadquartersColumbia, USNot recorded
PhoneNot listedNot listed
EmailNot listedNot listed
Live chatNot listedNot listed
Support portal / ticketsPlan not statedNot listed
Community forumNot listedNot listed
Help centre / docsNot listedNot listed
Dedicated account managerNot listedPlan not stated
In person / on-siteNot listedNot listed
Support hoursNot recordedNot recorded
Response timeNot statedNot stated

AI & MCP readiness

Whether each solution can join your AI stack, and what it asks of you to do so.

MCP connectionreaches AI clientsOfficial serverNot supported
AI featuresNone recordedNot yet recorded
Built around AI?Not recordedNot recorded
Trains on your dataNot recorded — ask the vendorNot recorded — ask the vendor
Runs onNot recordedNot recorded
AI pricingIncluded in the planNot recorded
Model keyNot recordedNot recorded
AI usage auditNot recordedNot recorded

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Typical annual cost × Time-to-value

$0/yr$6/yr$109/yr$2k/yr$30k/yr0d4d18d72d280dAnnual TCO ← betterDays to value better →Quick & CheapQuick & PriceySlow & CheapSlow & Pricey

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