Proofpoint publishes no prices on its product pages. Its small-business line, Proofpoint Essentials, lists through authorized resellers at $3.93 to $9.42 per user per month in October 2026, while its enterprise products, including Core Email Protection, Enterprise DLP and Insider Threat Management, are sold by quote only.
This guide shows what each Proofpoint product costs where a figure is available, what changes with the Essentials migration to 365 Total Protection, and how Proofpoint’s prices compare with other email security options.
How Much Does Proofpoint Cost?
Proofpoint Essentials costs $3.93 per user per month for the Business plan, $5.37 for Advanced and $8.14 for Professional, according to the price list of Iron Cove Solutions, an authorized Proofpoint partner, for 1 to 25 users in October 2026. For a 25-person company on the Advanced plan, that comes to $1,611 a year.
Every other Proofpoint product is priced by quote. Proofpoint’s enterprise product pages route buyers to “How to buy” and demo requests, with no figures, so the cost of Core Email Protection, Enterprise DLP or Insider Threat Management depends on user count, modules, deployment method and contract term.
Proofpoint Price List
The table collects every Proofpoint product with its current published or listed price. Essentials figures are reseller list prices; the rest have no public price.
| Product | Who it is for | Price | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials Business | Small businesses | $3.93 per user per month | Iron Cove Solutions price list, 1 to 25 users |
| Essentials Advanced | Small businesses adding attachment defense, URL protection and encryption | $5.37 per user per month | Iron Cove Solutions price list, 1 to 25 users |
| Essentials Professional | Small businesses adding 10-year archiving and legal hold | $8.14 per user per month | Iron Cove Solutions price list, 1 to 25 users |
| Essentials Business+, Advanced+, Professional+ | Same tiers with added BEC detection and email warning tags | $4.86, $5.87 and $9.42 per user per month | Iron Cove Solutions price list, 1 to 25 users |
| 365 Total Protection | Microsoft 365 email security, backup, awareness training and governance suite | Quote through partners | Proofpoint 365 Total Protection page |
| Core Email Protection | Enterprise email security for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace | Quote only | Proofpoint Core Email Protection page |
| Collaboration Security Prime | Email security extended to messaging, collaboration tools, cloud apps and suppliers | Quote only | Proofpoint Core Email Protection page |
| Enterprise DLP | Data loss prevention across email, cloud apps, endpoints and GenAI tools | Quote only | Proofpoint Enterprise DLP page |
| Insider Threat Management | Risky user behavior across endpoints, browsers, cloud, email and web | Quote only | Proofpoint Insider Threat Management page |
Iron Cove lists volume bands from 1 to 10 users up to 200+ users and notes that per-user prices fall at higher bands. Treat the Essentials figures as a ceiling for small teams and ask for the price at your band.
Proofpoint Products Overview
Proofpoint sells two product families. Small and midsize businesses buy Essentials, or now its successor 365 Total Protection, mostly through managed service providers. Enterprises buy Core Email Protection and its larger bundles, plus separate data security products such as Enterprise DLP and Insider Threat Management.
The line between the two shifted in December 2025, when Proofpoint completed its acquisition of Hornetsecurity, the maker of 365 Total Protection, which serves over 125,000 customers through 12,000+ managed service providers according to Proofpoint’s announcement.
Proofpoint Essentials (Email Protection)
Proofpoint Essentials is the email security line for small businesses, sold in Business, Advanced and Professional plans, each with a Plus variant. Business covers spam, virus and phishing filtering, content filtering and email continuity. Advanced adds attachment defense, URL protection, stronger antivirus scanning and email encryption. Professional adds 10-year email archiving, legal hold and compliance reports, according to Iron Cove’s price list.
The bigger pricing question in 2026 is the migration. Proofpoint’s Essentials product page now redirects to 365 Total Protection, and Sherweb, a Proofpoint partner, tells its customers that 365 Total Protection is the future platform for MSP and SMB customers and that Essentials customers will need to migrate, with no official end-of-life date set.
The move comes with a new plan and a new price. Sherweb says customers who migrate early can keep their Essentials price until November 30, 2026, and that Proofpoint offers a migration tool that takes about 45 minutes per client for Microsoft 365 tenants.
Pros: a low listed entry price, plans that scale from filtering to archiving, and a migration path with a price hold for early movers.
Cons: no price published by Proofpoint itself, and a platform change ahead that will reset both the feature set and the price after November 2026.
Proofpoint Core Email Protection (Formerly TAP)
Proofpoint’s Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) page now redirects to Core Email Protection, Proofpoint’s current enterprise email security product. Core Email Protection deploys through the Microsoft Graph API, which Proofpoint says takes 48 hours, or inline as a secure email gateway, and covers messages before delivery, in the mailbox, after delivery and at click time.
Proofpoint publishes no price for Core Email Protection. Your quote depends on the number of protected users, the deployment method, and whether you add Collaboration Security Prime, which extends protection to messaging tools, cloud apps and supplier risk.
Pros: two deployment options, protection that continues after delivery, and detections that SOC analysts can view in the Microsoft 365 console.
Cons: quote-only pricing, and the broader bundle you may need for collaboration tools adds to the cost.
Proofpoint Information Protection (Enterprise DLP)
Proofpoint Enterprise DLP protects sensitive data across email, cloud apps, endpoints and GenAI tools, combining content detection with user behavior insight in one console. It is priced by quote, so the cost depends on the channels you cover and the number of users.
Pros: one console for data loss alerts from email, cloud and endpoint channels.
Cons: quote-only pricing, and the price grows with each channel you add to coverage.
Proofpoint Insider Threat Management (ITM)
Proofpoint Insider Threat Management identifies high-risk users by combining user activity, data movement and behavioral signals across endpoints, browsers, cloud apps, email and web. It is priced by quote.
Pros: visibility into user activity across many channels, with adaptive controls that can block risky data movement.
Cons: quote-only pricing, and the alerts it raises still need someone to investigate whether the behavior was malicious or simply part of someone’s job.
Is Proofpoint Cheaper Than Other Email Security Options?
For Microsoft 365 customers, the most common comparison is Microsoft’s own add-on, which publishes its prices. The table sets Proofpoint’s available figures against the published prices of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 in October 2026.
| Option | Price per user per month | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 | $2.00, paid yearly | Microsoft product page |
| Proofpoint Essentials Business | $3.93 | Iron Cove Solutions reseller price list |
| Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 | $5.00, paid yearly | Microsoft product page |
| Proofpoint Essentials Advanced | $5.37 | Iron Cove Solutions reseller price list |
| Proofpoint Essentials Professional | $8.14 | Iron Cove Solutions reseller price list |
| Microsoft Defender Suite | $12.00, paid yearly; requires Microsoft 365 E3 or equivalent | Microsoft product page |
| Proofpoint Core Email Protection | Quote only | Proofpoint |
| Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration | Quote only; packages Advanced Protect and Complete Protect, which adds DLP | Check Point plans page |
On listed prices, Proofpoint Essentials costs more per user than Defender for Office 365 at each comparable step, while its Professional plan bundles 10-year archiving and legal hold. The Microsoft figures assume you already pay for Microsoft 365, so compare the total per-user bill, and ask any vendor for a quote at your exact user count.
How UnderDefense Can Improve Proofpoint Efficiency
Proofpoint blocks and flags threats in email and data channels, and the alerts that get through still need investigation: did the user who clicked a rewritten URL get compromised, and is the file upload ITM flagged a real exfiltration? UnderDefense Agentic AI SOC answers those questions on top of the tools you already run.
| Proofpoint gives you | What UnderDefense Agentic AI SOC adds | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Click-time alerts from Core Email Protection | AI agents check the clicking user’s identity and endpoint activity for signs of follow-on compromise | You learn whether a click turned into an incident, about 2 minutes from alert to triage |
| User-reported phishing | ChatOps follows up with the reporting user over Slack, Microsoft Teams, email or SMS | Reports get closed with the user’s context attached |
| DLP and ITM alerts about data leaving | The user is asked to confirm the business reason before an analyst decides | Fewer false alarms escalated to HR or legal |
| Email and data alerts in separate consoles | Correlation with SIEM, identity, endpoint and cloud data across 250+ integrations | One investigation that spans email, data and endpoint alerts |
| Alerts outside office hours | Analysts on duty 24/7 with a 20-minute SLA response for critical alerts | Weekend phishing waves handled the same day |
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FAQ
1. How much does Proofpoint cost per user?
Proofpoint Essentials lists at $3.93 to $9.42 per user per month through authorized resellers, depending on the plan, for 1 to 25 users. Enterprise products such as Core Email Protection, Enterprise DLP and Insider Threat Management have no public price and are quoted per organization.
2. Does Proofpoint publish a price list?
No. Proofpoint’s product pages show no prices. The Proofpoint price list in this guide combines reseller list prices for Essentials with the quote-only status of every enterprise product, as of October 2026.
3. What happens to Proofpoint Essentials pricing after the 365 Total Protection migration?
Essentials customers move to 365 Total Protection on a new plan with a different price. According to Sherweb, customers who migrate early keep their Essentials price until November 30, 2026, and Proofpoint has set no official end-of-life date for Essentials.
4. Is Proofpoint more expensive than Microsoft Defender for Office 365?
On listed prices, yes. Defender for Office 365 costs $2 or $5 per user per month paid yearly, while Proofpoint Essentials lists at $3.93 to $8.14 for the comparable tiers. Enterprise Proofpoint pricing is quote-only, so compare a real quote at your user count.
5. What drives the cost of a Proofpoint quote?
User count, the products and bundle you choose, the deployment method (API or secure email gateway), the channels covered for DLP and insider threat, and the contract term. Resellers also price Essentials in user bands, with lower per-user prices at higher bands.
