SentinelOne Control vs Complete: Coverage Differences and Price

SentinelOne Singularity Control is endpoint protection plus suite controls: the Core antivirus and behavioral AI engine, with firewall control, USB and Bluetooth device control and rogue device discovery added. Singularity Complete includes everything in Control and adds the detection and response layer: extended detection and response with 14 days of searchable endpoint data, an AI security assistant and the option to add managed threat hunting. SentinelOne lists Control at $79.99 and Complete at $179.99 per endpoint per year, as of October 2026, and its pricing page now leads with Complete.

So the $100 difference buys investigation, not prevention; the blocking engine is the same. For SentinelOne against Huntress and CrowdStrike, see Huntress vs SentinelOne vs CrowdStrike; for SentinelOne against Microsoft's endpoint product, see Defender for Business vs CrowdStrike vs SentinelOne.

What is the difference between SentinelOne Control and Complete?

What does SentinelOne's own package table show?

SentinelOne's pricing and packages page shows Complete, Commercial and Enterprise as its headline packages, with Control and Core available in the comparison table's drop-down. Condensed from that table, as of October 2026:

SentinelOne notes that the prices are shown for 5 to 100 workstations, that purchases go through authorized partners, and that the partner's pricing controls where the two differ. Enterprise, above Commercial, is quoted.

What does Control add to Core?

Core is SentinelOne's antivirus replacement: static and behavioral AI on the agent, automated response, and one-click remediation and rollback, according to its Core page. The Singularity Control page adds three suite features on top:

• Firewall control. Native operating system firewall control for Windows, macOS and Linux, with location awareness, so a laptop can get a stricter policy outside the office network.
• Device control. Rules for any class of USB device, including read-only access to USB storage, and Bluetooth by version and device type, on Windows and macOS.
• Rogue device discovery. Network sweeps that find machines without the SentinelOne agent, so coverage gaps show up.

What does Complete add?

Complete is where the EDR is. SentinelOne's Complete page says it includes all Core and Control features and adds detection, investigation and hunting: telemetry from endpoints, cloud workloads and identity sources correlated into a visual story of each event, Purple AI natural-language queries for hunting, and 14 days of historical EDR data as standard, with an option to upgrade to 365 days. SentinelOne also says its Cloud Funnel can copy that data to a SIEM you own.

Two kinds of retention are easy to confuse here. On the same page, SentinelOne says malware and fileless attack incidents are kept for 365 days out of the box, while the historical EDR data, the record of everything else that ran on a device, is kept for 14 days unless you pay for more. The incident record tells you what was caught; the EDR history is what lets someone find what was missed.

Why does the EDR data matter to whoever watches the alerts?

With Control, the console shows what the agent blocked and the story of that threat. What it does not keep is a searchable history of everything else that happened on the device, which is what an analyst uses to answer the questions that follow an alert: how did it get in, what else ran, which other machines did that account touch. That history is the 14 days of data in Complete. SentinelOne's table also offers managed threat hunting as an add-on to Complete but not to Control, and lists its own MDR service as an add-on only to Commercial and Enterprise.

The same table settles a common insurance question. If an application asks whether you run endpoint detection and response on every device, Control is not the package that answers it, because extended detection and response starts at Complete.

Which fits a small team?

Illustrative situations, not client stories:

• A small office that needs USB and firewall rules on every laptop and has nobody who would read EDR data. Control covers prevention and those controls; decide separately how alerts will be handled.
• A firm whose cyber insurance application asks about EDR. Complete or higher.
• A company buying through a provider that will investigate alerts. Complete, because investigation needs the history; ask whether the provider adds threat hunting or longer retention.
• A company that also wants identity threat detection or 90 days of data. Commercial, which includes both and managed threat hunting.
• A business already on Microsoft 365 Business Premium. Compare first with Defender for Business, which it already owns and which includes EDR.

What do Control and Complete cost?

At SentinelOne's list prices, as of October 2026, an illustrative 25-endpoint office would pay about $2,000 a year for Control and about $4,500 for Complete, a difference of $2,500. Final pricing comes from the authorized partner, so treat the list price as a reference point rather than a quote. Other drivers:

• Add-ons. Managed threat hunting, the agentic AI SOC analyst and retention beyond 14 days.
• Implementation. Removing the previous antivirus cleanly and rolling the agent out in stages, with exclusions for line-of-business software.
• Support. Who reviews the threats the agent stops and who investigates the ones it flags, at what hours.

How does NetSys help?

Disclosure: the endpoint tools our service pages name for managed clients are ThreatDown EDR and Microsoft Defender for Business, not SentinelOne. Whichever package you choose, the outcome depends on who acts on the alerts. Our managed detection and response service puts NetSys engineers on every alert around the clock, with containment, a written root cause and a monthly summary an owner can read, and it runs month to month.

Book a call with a NetSys engineer to check what your current endpoint licenses include and who reviews their alerts.

Frequently asked questions

Does SentinelOne Control include EDR?

Not by SentinelOne's own package table, which lists extended detection and response for Complete, Commercial and Enterprise but not for Control or Core. Control adds firewall control, device control and rogue device discovery to Core's prevention.

Does SentinelOne Control include rollback?

Yes. SentinelOne says Control includes all Core features, and its Core page lists one-click remediation and rollback that reverses unauthorized changes made by an attack. Rollback is a recovery feature in every package, not a reason on its own to buy Complete.

Is SentinelOne Control still available?

Yes. As of October 2026 it appears in the comparison table on SentinelOne's pricing page at $79.99 per endpoint per year, though the page's headline packages are Complete, Commercial and Enterprise. Purchases go through SentinelOne's authorized partners.

Does Singularity Complete include managed detection and response?

No. Complete is the platform. SentinelOne's table lists managed threat hunting as an add-on to Complete and its MDR service as an add-on to Commercial and Enterprise. Monitoring can also come from a partner or a managed service provider.

What is the difference between Singularity Complete and Commercial?

Commercial, at $229.99 per endpoint per year as of October 2026, adds identity threat detection and response, 90 days of data retention instead of 14, and managed threat hunting included rather than as an add-on.

What affects cost, implementation and support?

The package, the endpoint count, add-ons such as threat hunting and longer retention, and the partner's final price. Implementation is mostly removing the old antivirus and a staged rollout. Support depends on who reviews and investigates alerts, which neither package includes on its own.