Vijilan vs SentinelOne. Keep the agent. Question the service.
Let's be clear up front: SentinelOne's endpoint agent is excellent, and ThreatRespond runs on top of it every day. This comparison is about the managed service, not the agent. SentinelOne's MDR — Vigilance, renamed Singularity MDR in August 2024, renamed Wayfinder in November 2025 — responds inside the approved Singularity scope: its own platform, its own licenses. Vijilan's SOC operates your client's whole estate, SentinelOne included, under your brand. One vendor asks you to buy more of its platform to get a SOC; the other wraps the platform you already bought.
SentinelOne Wayfinder MDR is a credible service: the SOC executes containment (kill, quarantine, rollback, isolate) rather than just alerting, Gartner Peer Insights named it a Customers' Choice for MDR, and Google Threat Intelligence enrichment plus Purple AI give it a real AI-SOC story. Its structural limits are equally real: MDR attaches only to the Singularity platform and responds within that scope, DFIR sits in a separate retainer tier, default EDR retention is short with the Data Lake priced per-GB on top, the service is not white-label at normal MSP scale, and SentinelOne sells direct while fielding its own SMB managed SKU through distribution. Vijilan is the inverse: channel-exclusive, white-label at every tier, and vendor-agnostic — ThreatRespond turns the SentinelOne estate you already deployed into a fully managed SOC service that also covers the identity, SaaS, email and network surfaces around it, with ThreatLog SIEM included and no per-GB charges. Keep SentinelOne as the EDR. Choose who runs it based on whose name is on the report and who owns the response.
Side by side. Feature by feature.
| Capability | Vijilan | SentinelOne (Wayfinder MDR) |
|---|---|---|
| Response model | SOC owns containment across the estate: ThreatContain isolates hosts, disables accounts, blocks IPs, kills processes, then updates your queue | SOC executes authorized actions (kill, quarantine, remediate, rollback, isolate) — genuinely act-first, but within the approved Singularity platform scope |
| Works with your existing EDR | Vendor-agnostic: ThreatRespond operates SentinelOne, Defender, Carbon Black and others as the response plane | MDR requires SentinelOne platform licensing; no managed service over a third-party EDR |
| Coverage beyond endpoint | Six domains — endpoint, network, identity, cloud, SaaS/app, data — plus email and IoT/OT | Endpoint, cloud workloads and identity natively; select third-party email/network/identity feeds via Data Lake ingestion, primarily as investigation context |
| SIEM and data economics | ThreatLog SIEM included at every tier, no per-GB data charges | Singularity AI SIEM / Data Lake priced separately on per-GB consumption; default EDR retention on the Complete tier is 14 days with paid extensions |
| DFIR | SOC-driven investigation and active remediation are part of the service | Not in the base MDR tier: packaged as an IRR retainer, bundled hours in MDR Elite, or ad-hoc Emergency Response |
| White-label | Full white-label at every tier: your brand on reports, dashboards and notifications | Wayfinder is SentinelOne-branded; own-brand delivery means running your own SOC on the platform or an N-able-scale OEM deal |
| Channel model | Channel-exclusive: sells only through MSPs/MSSPs/VARs, never direct | Direct and channel; also fields its own SMB managed SKU (Managed AI Defense on Pax8) alongside partner services |
| Warranty | No breach warranty marketing; the service standard is active containment with a 15-minute response SLA | Ransomware warranty up to $1M — capped at $1,000 per endpoint with configuration and claims conditions |
| Endpoint technology pedigree | Runs on your chosen EDR; ThreatDefend option brings CrowdStrike Falcon with OverWatch hunting | Five consecutive years a Gartner MQ Leader for Endpoint Protection; one-click rollback is a genuine differentiator |
| Best fit | MSPs with SentinelOne (or mixed) estates that want a white-label SOC over what's already deployed | Organizations standardizing everything on the Singularity platform and buying the vendor's own SOC with it |
// last updated 2026 · comparisons reflect public product information at time of writing
Pick Vijilan when…
- Your clients already run SentinelOne and you want a 24/7 SOC over it without buying more platform SKUs — ThreatRespond wraps the agent that's already deployed
- You need the service under your brand: Wayfinder reports carry SentinelOne's name, ThreatRespond reports carry yours
- You want response ownership across identity, SaaS, email and network, not containment scoped to one vendor's platform
- You want SIEM included with no per-GB ingestion charges instead of a separately metered Data Lake
- You want DFIR-grade investigation inside the service rather than a separate retainer line-item
- You'd rather partner with a vendor that is structurally incapable of selling around you than one that ships its own SMB managed SKU through distribution
Pick SentinelOne (Wayfinder MDR) when…
honest answer: they're a better fit in these cases
- You're standardizing every client on the Singularity platform anyway and want one vendor for agent, data lake and SOC
- One-click rollback and the endpoint agent's autonomous response are your top evaluation criteria
- A ransomware warranty (within its per-endpoint caps and conditions) matters to your clients' insurance conversations
- You run your own SOC and want a top-tier EDR platform with multi-tenant, consumption-based MSSP commerce underneath it
- You want Google Threat Intelligence enrichment and Purple AI tooling in the same console as the EDR
The agent is not the argument
MSPs sometimes read a SentinelOne comparison as EDR-versus-EDR. It isn't. SentinelOne's agent is one of the two or three best on the market, which is exactly why ThreatRespond supports operating it. The real question is the layer above: who watches it at 2 AM, who acts when it fires, whose name is on the report, and what happens on the surfaces the agent doesn't see — the OAuth grant in M365, the impossible-travel sign-in, the firewall probe. Wayfinder MDR answers those questions inside SentinelOne's platform boundary and brand. Vijilan answers them across the estate, under yours.
Count the line-items
SentinelOne's managed stack builds up: platform licenses (historically Complete tier or higher) as the prerequisite, the MDR add-on on top, Data Lake ingestion billed per-GB for third-party telemetry and longer retention — the default on Complete is 14 days — and DFIR through an IRR retainer or the Elite tier. Each piece is defensible; the sum is a quote with four moving meters. Vijilan's Essential through Elite tiers price per user or per endpoint with ThreatLog SIEM included, no data-volume billing, and investigation-through-containment inside the service. For an MSP quoting a flat per-seat security service to clients, the shape of the vendor bill matters as much as its size.
Three names in 27 months, and a direct motion
Vigilance became Singularity MDR in August 2024, which became Wayfinder in November 2025 — three brand generations for the same service inside about two years, alongside a May 2026 restructuring that cut roughly 8% of staff as resources shifted to AI. None of that makes the SOC bad, but it complicates contracts, collateral and enablement for a partner reselling it. The sharper structural point for MSPs: SentinelOne sells direct, and in September 2025 it launched Managed AI Defense — its own SMB-targeted managed offering through Pax8. Vijilan's counter-position is simple and permanent: channel-exclusive by charter, white-label at every tier, no direct motion to collide with yours.
Vijilan vs SentinelOne FAQ.
Is Vijilan cheaper than SentinelOne's MDR?+
They're shaped differently. SentinelOne prices the platform per endpoint (published list rates for small bands), then MDR, Data Lake consumption and DFIR retainers on top — the managed-service SKUs themselves are quote-only. Vijilan prices predictably per user or per endpoint with SIEM and containment included and no data-volume billing; exact rates are shared through partner verification because Vijilan sells only through the channel. Compare the all-in monthly for a real client, not the headline agent price.
Can Vijilan manage clients that run SentinelOne?+
Yes — that's ThreatRespond's core design. The SOC operates the SentinelOne agent your client already runs as the response plane (isolate, kill, quarantine), adds identity, SaaS, email and network coverage around it, and delivers the whole thing white-label. No agent swap, no platform migration.
Does SentinelOne's SOC actually take action?+
Yes, and we credit that: Vigilance/Wayfinder analysts execute pre-authorized containment — kill, quarantine, remediate, rollback, endpoint isolation — rather than only alerting. The honest differences are scope and brand: those actions run within the approved Singularity platform scope, DFIR is a separate retainer, and the service is delivered under SentinelOne's name, not yours.
Can I migrate from Wayfinder MDR to Vijilan without touching endpoints?+
Usually, yes. If the estate runs SentinelOne agents, ThreatRespond takes over operations on top of them — onboarding is about an hour per tenant. Mind two contract details on the way out: Data Lake retention (export what you need before access ends) and any IRR retainer term running past the MDR end date.
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