Malwarebytes Teams vs Trend Micro ServerProtect comparison

Malwarebytes and TrendAI are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. Malwarebytes is ranked #22 with an average rating of 8.5, while TrendAI is ranked #37 with an average rating of 8.3. Malwarebytes holds a 2.1% mindshare in EPP, compared to TrendAI’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Malwarebytes users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of TrendAI users who would recommend it.

Malwarebytes Teams

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87% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 9, 2025

Malwarebytes Teams and Trend Micro ServerProtect both compete in the security solutions category. While Malwarebytes Teams is favored for its pricing and remote management, Trend Micro ServerProtect is seen as having superior features, particularly in advanced server protection.

Features: Malwarebytes Teams offers cloud-based management and extensive threat detection, simplifying use across user levels. Its anti-exploit and malware removal features are strong points. Trend Micro ServerProtect provides virtual patching and central management, efficiently covering system-wide security with its virtualization capabilities. Its strength in server protection with flexible and real-time insights is noteworthy.

Room for Improvement: Malwarebytes Teams is critiqued for false positives and high CPU usage during scans, with suggestions for improved reporting, integration, and ransomware rollback features. Trend Micro ServerProtect could enhance deployment ease and alert notifications, with noted configuration complexity and high pricing also needing attention.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Malwarebytes Teams allows deployment across various cloud platforms with generally praised customer support. While setup is considered easy, complex issues might need better handling. Trend Micro ServerProtect's versatility is noted, though users face challenges in deployment and find support responsiveness lacking, despite generally satisfactory results.

Pricing and ROI: Malwarebytes Teams is competitively priced, viewed positively for its detection efficiency and ROI despite being slightly more expensive than some alternatives. Trend Micro ServerProtect, though more costly, offers flexible licensing with a significant ROI attributed to productivity gains, likened to an insurance policy against breaches.

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Categories and Ranking

Malwarebytes Teams

Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

22nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Trend Micro ServerProtect

Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

37th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Malwarebytes Teams is 2.1%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trend Micro ServerProtect is 0.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Malwarebytes Teams	2.1%
Trend Micro ServerProtect	0.8%
Other	97.1%

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

Featured Reviews

Davina Becker

Senior Content Strategist at PeerSpot

Provides protection against malware but needs improved billing transparency

I can only speak to it on a personal level. If someone is considering it, they should test it on their own systems. I can't personally recommend it because each person has their own needs. While it may work for me as a malware antivirus solution, I can't recommend it to someone else who may have a different system or use case. I rate the overall solution 7.5 out of 10. Malwarebytes protects me against malware. If they fix the pricing model so it's not automatically charging me, the rating could improve. Until then, I can't give it an 8.

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Emmanuel Okoroji

Head, Threat Intelligence & Incident Management at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Advanced server defenses have strengthened threat detection and protected critical infrastructure

From my perspective, predictive analysis is an area for improvement. The rules are very rigid. The way protection works for Trend Micro ServerProtect is that you have to specifically apply specific rules to achieve particular actions or use cases. We have had instances where a malware is dropped and that malware executes, it is detected, but because the malware has been altered a little bit, either in naming or slight behavior changes, the system is not able to stop it. This is unless you harden the rule to say block anything that appears out of place. My thinking as a security expert is that malware will typically behave outside of the normal operation of the organization. Instead of saying malware behavior based on malware behavior, I would say use analytics to identify anything that is outside the normal behavior of files and systems in the course of business operation, then flag it so it can go for further evaluation to identify if it is a malicious file execution or otherwise. Today, there are some instances where legitimate operations occur because of the static rule definition, the agent would flag a normal activity as malicious and then sometimes flag malicious activities as normal. They need to work on that area. There is a lot of competition today. When Trend Micro ServerProtect initially came out, they were premium, so there was not a lot of competition. Competition is dropping their price. Trend Micro ServerProtect should also come down on the pricing to meet competition. Though it is a great solution and an integrated solution, I think they should also meet the market competition. CrowdStrike is there, Palo Alto is there. There are many other competitors, but they need to also look at what is happening. They need to work on it. I would not say that they are overly priced, but I think they can be more competitive, especially with their new credit allocation process.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The behavior-based detection is very nice, and it combats zero-day threats by looking for anomalous behaviors."

"The most valuable features of Malwarebytes are the agents, user experience, efficiency of the findings, and MDR features."

"Being able to cloud manage it from just a cloud login is valuable. We can get to it from anywhere, which is really helpful. The fact that we can remediate from the cloud console is one of our favorite features."

"The installation process is very easy, especially since it is on the cloud."

"The central management of devices from different sites is a very good feature; this has made them much easier to manage."

"I was very satisfied with Malwarebytes in terms of its antivirus abilities."

"It gets the job done, and they are consistently updating it monthly."

"The pricing of the product is very good."

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"The most valuable features are the anti-malware and antivirus capabilities."

"Allows us to protect OneDrive and SharePoint, and emails too."

"Technical support was perfect."

"Scalable security solution with virtualization and virtual patching functions, able to provide full security that's specific to the service, e.g. it handles virtual machines better."

"Virtual Batching and the intelligent anti-malware components are valuable security tools."

"The excellent integration of Trend Micro ServerProtect with cloud platforms has benefited my organization through increased flexibility, allowing control of both on-premise and cloud environments through a single console, which provides a significant advantage to the solution."

"The staff went above and beyond to make sure our experience was unforgettable, accommodating every request with a smile and genuine care."

"Performance is very good."

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Cons

"The online reporting needs to be improved. Currently, we have to look at it online, and if we want to download a report, it just downloads as an Excel file. It's just raw information. There needs to be some way to better display it when it's downloaded."

"The EPP solution lacks the sophisticated artificial intelligence required for automating reports and letting you know about things in real-time. It stops a suspicious activity in real-time, but it doesn't let you know in real-time. You have to look at a report, and then you find out that something is wrong. You have to manually kick off a scan. With the Advanced EDR solutions, Malwarebytes has the ability to alert you in real-time, but they still don't do automatic remediation or quarantining of devices. That is something that you still have to do manually. So, the endpoint protection piece, which is just like their basic endpoint protection, lacks AI. For the advanced detection and response piece, there is an add-on that comes with it, but it still doesn't go far enough in terms of automatic remediation of viruses. It won't separate that virus from your network if something happens. You have to manually go there and do it."

"The product's stability needs improvement."

"The reporting is not as flexible as you would find with other antivirus software."

"Malwarebytes can improve its network database. Malwarebytes can scan the files and registry. It can scan the system with a light agent. It will not impact the performance of your PC. You can do the full scan and database scan using the EDR, and the RAM and CPU consumption will not increase."

"We experience a lot of false positives."

"The product has major problems in almost every facet of setup and use including setup, configuration, lack of functionality, lack of stability, false positives, questionable reporting, inability to protect from randsomeware and poor technical support and development."

"Malwarebytes is too simplistic. From a SOC IR perspective, it doesn't give you very much data around it. It doesn't tie things or provide SHA-1 and SHA-256 detection information, which makes it hard to do an additional investigation."

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"There are a few areas of improvement. Despite its high performance, there are certain aspects related to the operating system that could be improved. Specifically, I find that the protection for certain actions requires more effort compared to other actions."

"We found that when we push Trend Micro from the console to our client's PCs, we need to manually restart the PC. I have 500 users and the manual input is time-consuming."

"Lacking analytics and a machine learning technique."

"Could include additional features such as an intrusion prevention system."

"Sometimes I try to find the real source of why there is a message, but I cannot determine if it is beneficial because I am missing deeper information."

"Integration with different platforms could be an area for improvement in Trend Micro ServerProtect, e.g. it needs more integration. It could also be more secure and more stable. In the next release, this solution should also include more EDR visibility."

"They need to improve in this area by providing more documentation and custom scripts for bulk enterprise deployments."

"One thing I have been facing is that some fake threats have appeared that even Trend Micro was not able to clear up. It couldn't tell you why these threats are happening, where they are coming from and what the costs are."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Malwarebytes is a cost-effective product."

"It is really expensive. We've got between 30 and 40 licenses every year, and for the number of licenses that we have, we're finding that Malwarebytes on average costs between $900 and $1,000 more per year than comparable options. We're paying about $3,300 per year for these licenses. There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."

"I rate the tool's pricing a five out of ten."

"It is expensive."

"Its licensing is annual. There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."

"The licensing is per seat, with clients being a little less expensive than servers. If we need more licenses, we can accomplish that within a day. As Malwarebytes adds new features to their product, such as DNS filtering and a patching module, they want to charge us more even though we're a premium user, which isn't ideal."

"Its cost is around $60 a machine. The cost of the total solution for 250 people is about $8,500 a year. If we add EDR to it, it will bring that cost up to about $15,000. The cost for Carbon Black is about $25,000, which is $10,000 more, but you get all AI functions with it."

"The platform pricing is competitive with other antivirus products."

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"Pricewise, this product is okay."

"Pricing is based on the components you choose from the suite to run in your installation. Costs vary by the number of features and the number of servers."

"The product is available at a reasonable price"

"This product has an annual subscription, but also offers MSP options."

"In terms of price, the solution is in the middle; it's neither the cheapest nor the most expensive. I rate it three out of five for cost."

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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider

10%

University

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Performing Arts

Government

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	6

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Malwarebytes?

I really hate the automatic rebilling without officially confirming it with me. It's an annoyance and they should at least confirm with me, like a month before they bill me.

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What needs improvement with Malwarebytes?

It takes up too much space when it's trying to run in the background.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Trend Micro ServerProtect?

I am aware of the price of this solution. The price is good, and the licensing is fair.

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What needs improvement with Trend Micro ServerProtect?

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What is your primary use case for Trend Micro ServerProtect?

Trend Micro ServerProtect is basically a server protection solution. Given the system architecture, there is endpoint protection, the APEX, and then there is the server end protection. That is exac...

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Trend Micro ServerProtect for Storage, ServerProtect, ServerProtect for Storage

Overview

Malwarebytes Teams provides advanced threat protection and efficient detection and removal capabilities, featuring cloud-based management and robust endpoint security. It operates on Windows and Mac, emphasizing threat interception and the cloud-management interface.

Offering comprehensive protection, Malwarebytes Teams is recognized for its customizable and user-friendly interface. The anti-exploit feature effectively intercepts threats in Office applications, while frequent updates maintain security standards. Efficient scanning, threat response, and rollback features are highly valued, as is its ability to integrate seamlessly into diverse environments. Remote accessibility and cloud management enhance its robust endpoint protection.

What are the key features of Malwarebytes Teams?

Comprehensive Threat Protection: Advanced detection and removal for malware.
Cloud-Based Management: Manage security conveniently from the cloud.
Anti-Exploit Feature: Protects against threats in Office applications.
Efficient Scanning: Quick and effective threat detection.
Threat Response and Rollback: Swift response with rollback capabilities.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Enhanced Security: Continuous updates and strong endpoint protection.
Integration Flexibility: Works well with existing environments.
Reporting Capabilities: Offers effective reporting and monitoring.
Remote Accessibility: Manage security from any location.

Malwarebytes Teams is widely implemented in cybersecurity across industries for endpoint security. Organizations deploy it for malware detection, intrusion protection, and compliance scanning, relying on its antivirus capabilities and ransomware rollback. It serves as a secondary tool alongside primary systems to enhance security on both Windows and Mac environments, particularly valued for monitoring usage behaviors without controlling endpoints.

Malwarebytes

Trend Micro ServerProtect for Storage, powered by XGen security, leverages a blend of cross-generational threat protection techniques to safeguard a wide range of network attached storage systems by detecting and removing viruses and spyware in real time. This comprehensive storage security uses the industry-standard ICAP protocol to complement support for traditional RPC communication protocols. To simplify network protection for EMC, NetApp, and Hitachi Data Systems storage systems, ServerProtect for Storage provides automatic, incremental security updates and centralized management of servers via a web-based console.

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Knutson Construction

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