Huntress vs Todyl: are you buying a layer or a whole stack?

Buyers usually land on this comparison after deciding they want more than antivirus and less than an enterprise programme. Both vendors are aimed at exactly that gap. They answer it very differently.

Todyl wants to be your stack. Huntress wants to be a layer inside it. Almost everything else follows from that.

Disclosure: Obsidian Ridge is a Huntress MSSP partner and delivers Huntress-powered managed detection and response. Read the recommendation below with that in mind. Todyl's consolidation case is genuine and the section below where it wins is not a courtesy.

Short answer: the network layer is the whole difference

Todyl's platform overview describes the product as delivering "integrated SASE, EDR/NGAV, SIEM, MXDR, SOAR, and GRC in a single agent, cloud native solution." (todyl.com, retrieved 28 August 2026.)

Six modules, one agent. The one that has no equivalent on the Huntress side is SASE — the network module. Todyl describes it as creating a "Secure Global Network (SGN)" where devices with the agent installed "communicate over a secure connection tunnel to one of our regional Points of Presence (PoPs), where traffic is then routed to its intended location," with policy enforcement, deep packet inspection, firewalling, DNS filtering and web proxying with SSL inspection happening in that path. No appliance required; the answer to whether hardware is needed is, in their words, "No, the core functionality of SASE is entirely cloud-based."

For a business with staff spread across homes and coffee shops and no firewall worth the name, that is a substantial capability that endpoint-only vendors simply do not offer.

Two things Todyl does not publish

Pricing. todyl.com/pricing does not exist. The real page is request-pricing, which shows three tiers — Essentials, Advanced, Complete — with feature breakdowns and no numbers. Every tier's call to action is "Contact Sales for Pricing." (todyl.com/request-pricing.)

Minimums or contract terms. Nothing published on the pricing, platform or MSP pages.

Any Todyl per-endpoint figure you have seen came from an aggregator, not from Todyl. Treat it as unverified until it is in writing from them.

By contrast Huntress lists Managed EDR at $8.99 per endpoint per month and Managed ITDR at $4.80 per licensed identity on its own pricing page, with a 50-seat minimum per product when buying direct. The full arithmetic sits in Huntress pricing 2026: direct vs managed.

You cannot buy Todyl yourself

This is the fact most likely to end the comparison before it starts. Todyl states on its own homepage that it is "channel-only because we believe the best cybersecurity comes through trusted partners" and "never compete[s] with our partners." Their MSP page says they deliver "exclusively through trusted MSPs."

So if you are a business owner reading this without an existing IT provider, Todyl is not something you can purchase. You would need to acquire an MSP relationship first, which may be the right move for other reasons but is a much larger decision than choosing a security product.

Huntress sells direct above 50 seats and through partners below it. Two doors instead of one.

What each SOC actually is

Todyl's MXDR module includes "24/7 expert SOC services" and a named human: a "dedicated Detection and Response Account Manager (DRAM) with at least 5 years of cybersecurity experience to coordinate real time threat response," reachable "24/7 access via preferred channels (Slack, Teams, Email, etc)." (todyl.com.)

That named-person model is a real differentiator against queue-based support, and it is the same idea Arctic Wolf built its Concierge Security Team around. Huntress describes a 24/7 AI-assisted SOC providing investigation context and remediation guidance rather than a named individual.

Which you prefer depends on whether you value continuity of relationship or speed of throughput. Neither answer is obviously right.

When Todyl is the better buy

• You already have an MSP and they carry it, so the channel-only model costs you nothing
• Your people work everywhere and you have no network security at all — the SASE module covers ground endpoint tools cannot reach
• You are consolidating three or four tools at once, in which case one agent and one bill is worth real money and real hours
• You need SIEM and compliance tooling in the same place, which Todyl bundles as modules rather than separate purchases

When Todyl is the wrong buy

• You have no MSP and do not want one. The door is closed, and that is by design rather than an oversight.
• You need a number before a meeting. Nothing is published. If your buying process requires a budget figure before a sales call, this will stall.
• You only want the detection layer. Buying a six-module platform to use one module is how software spend quietly doubles.
• You are replacing nothing. Consolidation value only exists if you have something to consolidate.

Deciding

Ask one question first, because it settles most cases: do you have an MSP?

If no, the comparison is over on procurement grounds alone and the real choice is between Huntress and other vendors that will sell to you directly.

If yes, the question becomes whether you are buying a layer or a stack. If your endpoint and network story is already fine and the gap is "nobody watches the alerts," a layer is the cheaper and more honest answer. If you are staring at four renewal dates and a VPN nobody understands, a platform starts to look like the better shape.

Our own managed detection and response is deliberately a layer — it runs on Huntress, has no minimum seat count, and the pricing is public. If you want a second opinion on whether you need a stack, book a briefing and we will say so if you do.

If a questionnaire is what put this on your desk, note that consolidation and compliance are different goals. A single platform can simplify your stack and still leave a specific control unanswered on the form. Work the cyber insurance readiness list first, then choose the platform that covers it.