Cisco Secure Endpoint Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026
Starting at $6.75/user/mo, Cisco Secure Endpoint is highly competitive, but only if you qualify for Cisco Enterprise Agreement discounts.
Cisco Secure Endpoint plans and pricing
Billing surface
Pick a plan, set your seat count and switch billing to see the running total. The full breakdown lives in the calculator below.
Secure Endpoint Essentials
This plan provides essential endpoint protection, ideal for small to medium businesses needing core security features without advanced customization.
Secure Endpoint Advantage
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Secure Endpoint Premier
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Cisco Secure Endpoint pricing: the quick answer
Cisco Secure Endpoint starts at $6.75 per user a month for Essentials as of July 8, 2026, the only tier Cisco actually publishes. Advantage and Premier, which carry XDR and threat hunting, are quote-only, and there is no free plan. The endpoint agent usually sells through Cisco partners rather than a public checkout, and the per-endpoint rate only lands with the partner quote. Most buyers here are Cisco shops folding this into a bigger agreement, which is exactly when the standalone number stops being knowable.
- Secure Endpoint Essentials$6.75/user/mo
- Secure Endpoint AdvantageCustom
- Secure Endpoint PremierCustom
At $6.75/mo to start, Cisco Secure Endpoint sits 225% above the $2.08/mo median across 5 endpoint security (xdr/edr) tools we track.
Cisco Secure Endpoint cost calculator
Cisco Secure Endpoint Hidden Costs & Pitfalls
The $6.75 figure covers the Essentials software license and nothing around it. The real spend depends on which tier your rep steers you to and how the agent gets bought.
Cisco Secure Endpoint pricing, read against its live plans and category
Positioning
Only one Cisco Secure Endpoint price is public: Essentials at $6.75/user/mo, with no free option. Advantage and Premier, the tiers that carry XDR and threat hunting, are quote-only, so the number that matters for a real security program is the one you cannot see. The entry price reads well against basic malware detection and web filtering, but the value thins out once you account for the resource footprint users report and the fact that serious EDR sits behind a sales call.
Cost drivers
- 1The endpoint agent (formerly AMP) is usually sold through partners rather than self-serve, historically around $5 to $10 per endpoint per month, so the standalone rate is hard to isolate.
- 2On AWS PAYG deployments the Secure Firewall ASA Virtual rate is the Cisco software fee only. A c5.xlarge runs $0.92 per instance-hour in software, and AWS EC2 compute bills separately underneath it.
Watch-outs
The low sticker hides the total. Reps frequently bundle the endpoint agent into larger enterprise agreements, which makes the true standalone cost difficult to pin down, and the performance footprint pushes indirect costs into hardware and lost productivity.
Editor’s take
If you are already a Cisco shop with Enterprise Agreement discounts, Essentials at $6.75/user/mo is a defensible line item for basic coverage. If you are shopping endpoint security on its own merits and want the real EDR number without a sales cycle, Cisco is not the easy answer, and rivals with published tiers will tell you what you pay before you commit.
Oleh KemFounder & Lead AnalystCisco Secure Endpoint price history
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Sources & verification
| Source | What was checked | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| Official Website | Official vendor website | — |
| G2 | G2 verified user reviews · 4.5/5 · 27 reviews | — |
| Capterra | Capterra verified user reviews · 4.2/5 | — |
| TrustRadius | TrustRadius verified reviews | — |
| PeerSpot | PeerSpot enterprise peer reviews | — |
Every fact on this Cisco Secure Endpoint pricing page is tied to a named source and a verification date. Freshness-sensitive figures trace to the sources above; verify against the vendor before relying on them.
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