No indexer cluster to run
Central store and search are part of the product. No separate indexer or dashboard tier to size, patch and back up.
Wazuh is open source and the licence is free; the cost is in operating it: the indexer cluster, the rules, the agents, every upgrade. Protoxol delivers SIEM, EDR and response as one supported product, as EU-hosted SaaS or self-hosted, priced per endpoint.
Short answer: if you have an engineer who can own a Wazuh deployment, Wazuh is a solid choice. If nobody on the team wants to be that person, or you also need endpoint response, email protection and network detection in the same console, Protoxol is the alternative to look at.
Central store and search are part of the product. No separate indexer or dashboard tier to size, patch and back up.
Wazuh covers logs, file integrity and host agents. Protoxol adds endpoint response, email protection and a network sensor on the same data model.
A detection catalogue maintained and versioned by our team, exportable as code. You can still add your own.
A European team that answers in your language, included in every plan. Not a separate support contract.
Wazuh facts come from the public Wazuh documentation. Protoxol facts come from our platform and plans pages. Where something depends on your environment, we say so instead of guessing.
| Criterion | Wazuh (self-hosted) | Wazuh Cloud | Protoxol |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licence and price | Open source, free. You pay in hardware and engineering time. | Paid SaaS from the Wazuh team; quoted per environment. | Per endpoint, by plan (Starter, Team, Enterprise). No per-analyst seats. |
| Who runs the backend | You: server, indexer, dashboard, upgrades, backups. Three of the four components run on infrastructure you size and patch. | Wazuh runs the backend; you run agents and rules. | Protoxol runs it as SaaS in the EU, or you self-host with the same console. |
| Endpoint agent | Windows, Linux, macOS. Log collection, FIM, SCA, vulnerability detection. | Same agent. | Windows, macOS, Linux. Behavioural detection plus live response: isolate, kill, quarantine. |
| Detection rules | XML rules and decoders. Community ruleset plus your own tuning. | Same ruleset. | Maintained catalogue, versioned and exportable as code; Sigma import. |
| Response | Active response: scripts triggered by rules on the host. | Same. | Playbooks with human approval, across endpoint, identity, email and network. |
| Email protection | Not included. | Not included. | Native module for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. |
| Network detection | Ingests Suricata or NetFlow logs; no sensor of its own. | Same. | Own network sensor, correlated with endpoint events. |
| Support | Community forum and docs; paid support available from Wazuh. | Included with the subscription. | Included in every plan, European team. |
| Data residency | Wherever you host it. | Depends on the region you pick. | EU regions, or your own infrastructure. |
Last reviewed: October 2026. If a Wazuh row is out of date, write to [email protected] and we will fix it.
You keep your historical Wazuh data on your side for as long as you need it. We do not import old alerts; we start the new timeline clean.
Wazuh is a capable open-source platform, and for teams with the time and staff to operate it, it works. The trade-off is operational: you run the infrastructure, tune the rules, maintain the agents and own every upgrade. That cost is real even when the license is free.
Protoxol takes a different approach: SIEM, EDR and response automation delivered as one supported product, as SaaS or on-prem. Your team keeps full visibility and control of investigations — without operating the plumbing underneath. If you are evaluating both, we will walk through the differences honestly in a 30-minute session.
No tool is a 100% drop-in replacement for another. Protoxol covers the SIEM, endpoint detection and response workflows most Wazuh deployments are used for, with a maintained detection catalogue and support. We review your current use cases before any migration so you know exactly what maps over.
Yes. Protoxol runs alongside an existing Wazuh deployment while you validate detections and move data sources over in stages. Most teams start with priority log sources and endpoints and expand from there.
The software is free and open source. What you pay for is the people and hardware to run the server, the indexer and the dashboard, plus optional paid support or Wazuh Cloud if you want the Wazuh team to host it.
Protoxol can ingest Wazuh alerts and logs as a source, so you can keep Wazuh running during the transition. For endpoint response you need the Protoxol agent, because isolation and process control run through it.
Teams with an engineer who owns the deployment, who mainly need log collection, file integrity and compliance reporting, and who do not need email protection or a network sensor. For that profile Wazuh is a good, cheap fit.
Pricing is per protected endpoint, by plan. We quote it against your actual endpoint count and the modules you activate. There is no public price list; the plans page explains why.