Comparison
Wardex vs. the market.
An honest, spec-level comparison against the five XDR/EDR platforms most commonly evaluated alongside Wardex. All values reflect publicly documented behaviour at the time of writing.
| Capability | Wardex | CrowdStrike Falcon | SentinelOne Singularity | Microsoft Defender XDR | Elastic Security | Wazuh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deployment model | Self-hosted / air-gapped | SaaS | SaaS (limited on-prem) | SaaS (Azure) | Self-hosted or Cloud | Self-hosted |
| Data sovereignty | ✓ 100% on-prem | Vendor cloud | Vendor cloud | Microsoft cloud | Operator choice | ✓ On-prem |
| Single-binary install | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Source available | ✓ BSL 1.1 → Apache | — | — | — | ✓ Elastic 2.0 | ✓ AGPL |
| Entry price | Free / €49 mo | ~$300/mo (Go) | Per-seat | E5 bundle | Free tier | Free |
| Memory forensics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Partial | Partial | — |
| UEBA + geo-validation | ✓ | Add-on | Add-on | ✓ | Partial | — |
| YARA + Sigma rule packs | ✓ in-box | Add-on | Add-on | Add-on | ✓ | ✓ |
| Digital twin / adversarial harness | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| SLSA provenance + SBOM | ✓ signed cosign | — | — | — | Partial | — |
| Offline / air-gapped support | ✓ | — | Limited | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Written in | Rust | C / Go | C++ | C# / .NET | Go / Java | C |
Sources: vendor product pages, public documentation, and MITRE ATT&CK evaluations. Last reviewed: 2025. Where a feature requires an add-on or higher tier it is marked "Add-on". Wardex detection feature set reflects current release v0.53.0.
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