Understanding Trend Micro Pricing for Consumers and Businesses

Trend Micro Antivirus Pricing for Consumers

Trend Micro offers several antivirus plans for different needs and devices. The pricing varies based on features, the number of devices covered, and the length of the subscription.

Free Options and Trials

Trend Micro provides a selection of free security tools, including a password manager (limited to five passwords), a dark web monitoring tool, and a ransomware decryptor. Additionally, users can access trial versions of its primary antivirus products:

• Maximum Security: 30-day free trial
• Internet Security: 30-day free trial
• Antivirus + Security: 30-day free trial
• Mobile Security for Android: 7-day free trial
• Mobile Security for iOS: 7-day free trial

Paid Antivirus Plans

Trend Micro offers eight antivirus plans for different device types and security needs:

Refund Policy

Trend Micro provides a 30-day money-back guarantee for its antivirus plans. Customers can request a refund via email. To ensure timely refunds, users should submit their request at least seven days before the guarantee period ends.

Additional Security Services

Beyond antivirus, Trend Micro offers add-on services such as:

• ID Security: Free dark web monitoring app
• VPN Proxy One Pro: $29.95/year for one device, $59.95/year for five devices
• Password Manager: Free for up to five passwords; $14.95/year or $24.95/2 years for unlimited passwords
• Cleaner One Pro: $14.99/year for one device, $29.99/year for five devices

Related content: Read our guide to Trend Micro XDR

Trend Micro Pricing for Business

Trend Micro offers several security solutions for businesses with pricing based on usage. Costs vary depending on the type of protection needed, such as workload security, network security, container security, and endpoint security. Here is an overview of its pricing model:

Workload Security

Trend Micro charges per virtual machine (VM) instance per hour. Pricing depends on the instance size:

• Micro, small, medium, single-core instances: $0.011 per hour
• Large, dual-core instances: $0.032 per hour
• Extra-large, quad-core or larger instances: $0.047 per hour
• On-premises (non-cloud) instances: $0.047 per hour

Network Security

Pricing is based on the volume of data inspected. Organizations pay $0.014 per GB of traffic analyzed.

Container Security

Costs depend on the type of container workload:

• Per container node: $0.168 per hour
• Per serverless container: $0.017 per hour

File Security

Pricing is structured based on the number of files inspected per bucket per hour:

• First 20 files: Free
• 21–200 files: $0.42 per hour
• 201–400 files: $0.63 per hour
• 401+ files: $1.155 per hour

Cloud Sentry

Organizations using Cloud Sentry pay $0.228 per AWS account per hour.

Conformity (Cloud Compliance Monitoring)

Trend Micro’s Conformity service is priced per cloud account based on the number of resources:

• Up to 249 resources: Free
• 250–999 resources: $0.074 per hour
• 1,000–5,000 resources: $0.305 per hour
• 5,001+ resources: $0.368 per hour

Endpoint Security with XDR

For endpoint protection, Trend Micro charges $0.007 per endpoint per hour.

Notable Trend Micro Limitations

While Trend Micro provides useful security solutions, there are some challenges that users may encounter. These limitations were reported by users on the G2 platform:

• Complex setup: Initial setup and configuration, especially for Trend Vision One, can be difficult, requiring a steep learning curve for new users.
• Overwhelming interface: The dashboard offers detailed insights but can feel cluttered, making navigation challenging.
• Delayed policy updates: Changes in configuration or policy updates may take time to reflect, causing potential delays in security adjustments.
• High pricing: Some users find Trend Micro’s pricing to be expensive compared to other email security solutions, and smaller businesses may find it cost-prohibitive.
• Confusing credit system: The transition to a credit-based licensing model has been unclear, and some features require additional credits.
• Integration issues: While Trend Micro supports third-party integrations, some users report that these are not always seamless or intuitive.
• Feature overload: Frequent feature additions can make it harder to navigate and locate relevant settings.
• XDR search limitations: The XDR Threat Investigation tool restricts free-text searches, requiring users to specify search methods, which can slow investigations.
• Glitches and stability concerns: Users have reported occasional system glitches and difficulties in viewing Trend Micro Cloud Application Security within XDR.

Cynet: Ultimate Trend Micro Alternative for Businesses

Cynet is a holistic security solution that protects against threats to endpoint security and across your network. Cynet provides tools you can use to centrally manage endpoint security across the enterprise.

Cynet’s intelligent technologies can help you detect attacks by correlating information from endpoints, network analytics and behavioral analytics with almost no false positives. 

With Cynet, you can proactively monitor entire internal environments, including endpoints, network, files, and hosts. This can help you reduce attack surfaces and the likelihood of multiple attacks. 

Cynet provides cutting edge EDR capabilities:

• Advanced endpoint threat detection—full visibility and predicts how an attacker might operate, based on continuous monitoring of endpoints and behavioral analysis.
• Investigation and validation—search and review historic or current incident data on endpoints, investigate threats, and validate alerts. This allows you to confirm the threat before responding to it, reducing dwell-time and performing faster remediation.
• Rapid deployment and response—deploy across thousands of endpoints within two hours. You can then use it to perform automatic or manual remediation of threats on the endpoints, disrupt malicious activity and minimize damage caused by attacks.

In addition, Cynet All-in-One provides the following endpoint protection capabilities:

• NGAV—providing automated prevention and termination of malware, exploits, Macros, LOLBins, and malicious scripts with machine learning based analysis.
• User Behavior Rules—detecting and preventing attacks using compromised credentials through the use of behavioral baselines and signatures.
• Deception technology—planting fake credentials, files and connections to lure and trap attackers, mitigating damage and providing the opportunity to learn from attacker activity.
• Monitoring and control—providing asset management, vulnerability assessments and application control with continuous monitoring and log collection.
• Response orchestration—providing manual and automated remediation for files, users, hosts and networks customized with user-created scripts.

Learn more about the Cynet All-in-One security platform.