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 "id": "crowdstrike",
 "name": "CrowdStrike",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "crowdstrike.com",
 "category": "Security",
 "task": "Security, backup & privacy",
 "summary": "Endpoint protection built around a cloud-delivered agent: antivirus, EDR and threat hunting.",
 "best_for": "small and mid-size companies that want a serious endpoint agent without running a security team — Falcon Go is genuinely priced for businesses under 100 devices",
 "skip_if": "you are under ten devices and already run a maintained operating system with its built-in protection, because at that size the management overhead outweighs the gain; also skip Go if you actually need EDR, since that starts a tier up",
 "honest_knock": "Two numbers decide whether this is for you, and neither is the headline. The first is the 100-device ceiling on Falcon Go: it is not a soft limit you grow through, it is the point where you change product. The second is the annual rate, which is worth doing the division on — $59.99 a year against $7.99 a month is $95.88, so annual saves 37%, one of the larger annual discounts in security software. Beyond that, be honest with yourself about which tier you are comparing: Go is antivirus with a good agent, and the endpoint detection and response that CrowdStrike is famous for starts at Pro. Comparing Go against a full EDR product from a competitor is comparing the wrong things.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$7.99",
  "entry_price_terms": "Falcon Go · per device per month, or $59.99 per device a year",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-09-22 on crowdstrike.com/en-us/pricing/falcon-go/ from a Netherlands exit; all six amounts unchanged since 1 Aug 2026 and the page states 'All prices listed are in US Dollars' with no regional list) Priced per device. Falcon Go $7.99 per device per month, or $59.99 per device billed annually — capped at a maximum of 100 devices. Falcon Pro $14.99 monthly or $99.99 annually per device. Falcon Enterprise $19.99 per device per month, or $184.99 per device billed annually — a rate the 1 Aug reading recorded as unpublished. Larger tiers and managed services are quote-only. The free trial is a single 15-day Falcon Free Trial covering Next-Gen Antivirus, Device Control and Express Support, not a trial of each paid tier. Annual subscriptions are billed in full at the start of the term and can be cancelled within 30 days for a full refund.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-22",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 7.99,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Falcon Go, per device per month, or $59.99 per device a year; Go is capped at 100 devices. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-08-28.",
   "page": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/crowdstrike-review/"
  },
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "SentinelOne or Microsoft Defender for Business",
  "why": "the direct endpoint peers — Defender is often already in your Microsoft licence, so price that first before comparing per-device rates"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/crowdstrike.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/crowdstrike-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/crowdstrike/",
  "vendor_site": "https://crowdstrike.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://get.crowdstrike.com/doyp36lyy70i",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "crowdstrike:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "crowdstrike:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "crowdstrike:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "crowdstrike:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": {
   "what": "Local server for the Falcon platform across 16 modules: detection search, fleet queries by platform or sensor version, CVE hunting, adversary research, cloud posture, identity risk and firewall rules, plus Real Time Response. Minimum API scopes are Hosts: READ and Alerts: READ.",
   "plan": "Not stated. Their documentation lists the modules but says nothing about which Falcon subscriptions or module entitlements you need for them.",
   "status": "Live",
   "source": "https://developer.crowdstrike.com/falcon-mcp/",
   "checked": "2026-07-28",
   "note": "The vendor's own MCP server, from our MCP research; it works with your own account at the vendor."
  },
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}