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Huntress vs Malwarebytes comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
9.0
Huntress support is praised for prompt, knowledgeable, and proactive service, consistently rated excellent by users for reliability and responsiveness.
No sentiment score available
Malwarebytes' customer service is praised for availability, but some users face unresolved issues; enterprise support lacks maturity.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
5.9
Huntress needs enhanced reporting, better integration, expanded features, improved dashboards, and seamless AV and endpoint protection integration.
Sentiment score
5.8
Users criticize Malwarebytes for performance, usability issues, false positives, high costs, and demand better integration, protection, and features.
It lacks enterprise-level management and more enterprise functionality.
 

Scalability Issues

No sentiment score available
Huntress scales efficiently with rapid deployment, high responsiveness, and minimal expansion effort, supporting diverse user needs and endpoints.
Sentiment score
4.5
Malwarebytes suits small to large organizations but may encounter performance issues with endpoint expansion and increased use.
 

Setup Cost

No sentiment score available
Huntress is priced per endpoint, seen as fair due to consistent development, with adaptive, cost-effective enterprise pricing.
No sentiment score available
Malwarebytes offers enterprise pricing from $20-$60 per device annually, with additional charges for modules and regional price variations.
Malwarebytes is a bit pricey for some regions, such as Ukraine, since it's priced in US dollars.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.6
Huntress is highly rated for stability and reliable performance, with minor compatibility issues, ensuring seamless low-impact integration.
Sentiment score
8.1
Malwarebytes is stable and reliable, though some users report occasional update issues and performance impacts, leading to minor improvements.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.6
Huntress provides 24/7 threat detection, automatic remediation, and AI-enhanced security, ideal for small to medium businesses.
Sentiment score
7.5
Malwarebytes offers excellent threat detection, easy setup, robust protection, frequent updates, and strong anti-ransomware capabilities with lightweight performance.
The automated remediation feature also provides significant value.
The behavior-based detection is very nice, and it combats zero-day threats by looking for anomalous behaviors.
 

Categories and Ranking

Huntress
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
10th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
Anti-Malware Tools (5th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (9th), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (3rd)
Malwarebytes
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
28th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Huntress is 0.9%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Malwarebytes is 1.7%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

Andy Larin - PeerSpot reviewer
Effortless to use and is one of the easiest products to deploy
Huntress is effortless to use. It's one of the easiest products to deploy. Pushing out through our RMM is simple, and using it is straightforward once it's on a machine. The end user doesn't have to do anything. Everything comes back to us. I love that the alerts are human-curated. They take a look at alerts before we get them. Other products are very noisy. They'll send you an alert about anything. About 95 percent of those alerts go to Huntress first. They check to make sure that it's real and only alert us if it's actionable, something that requires our attention. When I get an alert from Huntress, it must be looked at. I love that. It saves a ton of time for my people. It can fix low-severity threats. Their team is 24/7, whereas my team is not. We want them to take action on known bad things. Sometimes, that means fixing the problem or isolating the machine so multiple machines aren't getting hit. I love that they can address those issues within a very short time.
Anas Anas - PeerSpot reviewer
Effective threat predictions, simple to deploy, and light on resources
Malwarebytes's initial setup is simple. It is easy to deploy and configure the policies and the configuration. I deployed Malwarebytes for one customer and I did it in under two days. They had approximately 50 users, it took approximately an hour. The steps I took for the implementation were downloading the Malwarebytes management console from the site, installing it, then running the discovery tool, scanning my network, and checking all of the PCs on my network. It's already pre-configured, you don't need to configure anything. The only configuration that I did on the administration console was some of the exclusion from the scan. This is the only rule that I have created. I rate the initial setup of Malwarebytes a ten out of ten.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
7%
Healthcare Company
5%
Computer Software Company
13%
University
9%
Government
7%
Retailer
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Huntress?
It is very easy to use. It is a great solution. They are one of the better vendors that I have ever worked with since I have been in the industry.
What needs improvement with Huntress?
One issue is the managed antivirus. Huntress takes control of the antivirus built into Windows Defender, but it doesn't if, for some reason, Defender isn't working properly and doesn't attempt to f...
What is your primary use case for Huntress?
We roll Huntress out across the board. It's in our base security shield, so we use it everywhere. We also use ThreatLocker. It's an application for allowlisting and blocklisting. It blocks any soft...
What do you like most about Malwarebytes?
Ten times a day, improved signatures will be downloaded, so it is very up-to-date in terms of malware experience.
What needs improvement with Malwarebytes?
The product could be improved in blocking malicious traffic, such as communication with known malicious IP addresses.
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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