Register of Vendor Pricing · Compiled by Digital Signet · Revised 20 June 2026
Tier register

Tier-1+2 SOC Pricing 2026: Triage and Validated Alerts

Tier-1+2 adds triage and validation on top of monitoring. The customer receives only validated, actionable alerts (not raw signal). Response is typically a handoff to the customer rather than vendor-driven containment.

Band · per endpoint / month

$ 6 to $ 18

What this tier is

Monitor plus analyst-validated alerts; alerts triaged, false positives filtered, severity assigned, response recommended.

What this tier is not

Not active response, not threat hunting. The vendor does not take action on the customer's environment without explicit approval; some Tier-1+2 vendors offer limited isolation as an option.

Best-fit vendors at this tier

  • Expel. Workbench portal exposes the triage decisions to the customer in real time; per-integration metering.
  • Red Canary. ATR automated triage layer reduces analyst load; per-endpoint metering on top of customer EDR.
Source: https://www.sans.org/white-papers/soc-survey/, verified 19 June 2026.

Other tiers

AnnexTier-1 SOC Pricing 2026$ 3 to $ 8 per endpoint / monthAnnexTier-1+2+3 SOC Pricing 2026$ 12 to $ 35 per endpoint / monthAnnexCo-Managed SOC Pricing 2026$ 9 to $ 25 per endpoint / month plus 1 to 3 customer-side L1 FTE