Darktrace
Verified Oct 22, 2026 ActiveSelf-learning behavioural detection with autonomous response across network, email, cloud and AI use
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Pricing
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No public price: the site offers a demo and a trial or evaluation in your own environment, and contracts are quoted by sales. Pricing scales with the modules deployed and the size of the estate.
Use tool ↗About Darktrace
Darktrace builds a behavioural model of each organisation's own environment — devices, accounts, mail flow, cloud workloads — and flags what deviates from it instead of matching known signatures, which is how it claims to catch novel and zero-day activity before a CVE is public. Its response layer can contain a suspicious session on its own, with configurable policies for when it may intervene, either natively or through your firewalls, EDR, SOAR and ITSM tools. The product lines today are Secure AI, Email and Hybrid Network, sold to more than 10,000 customers by Darktrace Holdings Limited, a Cambridge, UK company that began in 2013 and was taken private by Thoma Bravo in October 2024. Pricing is quote-only after a demo or in-environment evaluation.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 22, 2026
Verified sources
- Homepage presents the Darktrace Behavioral Defense Platform with Secure AI, Email and Hybrid Network product lines, cites '10,000+ customers', and offers 'Get a demo' and 'Start free trial' with no prices (15 October 2026)darktrace.com ↗
- Hybrid Network page: builds a behavioural model of each organisation's environment, detects zero-day threats 'on average 8 days before public CVE disclosure', automated containment with 'fully configurable policies', response natively or through firewalls, EDR, SOAR and ITSM tools; no pricing, demo and in-environment evaluation only (15 October 2026)darktrace.com ↗
- Company page: building a new model for cybersecurity since 2013, offices in Cambridge, New York, London and Singapore, AI Research Center in Cambridge, UK, 2,300+ employees, 10,000 customers; copyright Darktrace Holdings Limited (15 October 2026)darktrace.com ↗
- Thoma Bravo completed its all-cash acquisition of Darktrace on 1 October 2024 at $7.75 per share, valuing the company at approximately $5.3 billion; CEO Jill Popelka (15 October 2026)thomabravo.com ↗
Is Darktrace legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Apr 26, 2013 (13 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Dec 6, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 22, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 22, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2013The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Darktrace Holdings Limited, United KingdomOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Darktrace
Darktrace is the name most buyers mean by anomaly-based detection, and the autonomous response is the genuine differentiator: it acts on behaviour the vendor has never seen a signature for. The cost of that approach is tuning — a self-learning model needs weeks to settle and a team that will review what it flags, or the response policies get switched off. Mid-size and large estates with a staffed SOC get the value; small teams tend to pay for a console nobody watches.
Pros
- Detection is based on each organisation's own baseline, so it does not depend on signature updates
- Autonomous response can contain a session natively or through firewalls, EDR, SOAR and ITSM integrations
- One platform spans network, email, cloud, OT, identity and AI-tool usage
- Over 10,000 customers and 2,300+ staff; stable private ownership under Thoma Bravo since 2024
Cons
- No public pricing; everything goes through a demo and a sales quote
- Behavioural models need a learning period and ongoing tuning to keep false positives down
- Taken private at $5.3bn, so financials and roadmap are no longer disclosed publicly
- API and integration details are not described on the product pages
Best for
- Organisations with a SOC that can tune and act on behavioural alerts
- Estates mixing on-premises, cloud, OT and email where signature tools leave gaps
- Security teams that want machine-speed containment with policy limits on what it may do
Not for
- Small companies without a dedicated security function to review alerts
- Buyers who need a public price or a self-serve purchase
Watch out: Budget for the people, not just the licence: the detection and the autonomous response only pay off if someone reviews the model's decisions, and a quote that covers several modules can climb quickly with estate size.
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