Bitdefender GravityZone

Bitdefender is a Romanian company, founded in Bucharest in 2001 by Florin and Mariuca Talpes, who still hold the majority; Vitruvian Partners took a minority stake in 2017. It is privately held, every one of its five research and development centres is in Romania (Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, Timisoara and Targu Mures), and its business pages carry the European Digital SME Alliance's "Cybersecurity made in Europe" label with a pointed line about the US CLOUD Act. We looked for a Russian or Chinese link in the ownership, the management or the engineering and found none. The UK entity is Bitdefender Limited, Companies House 05046316, with Florin Talpes as the person with significant control.

Prices are in pounds excluding VAT ("taxes not included" at checkout), read on 9 September 2026 for 25 devices on a one-year term. GravityZone Business Security is the plan we score: £614.99 list for 25 devices, which is £24.60 a device a year, or £430.49 (£17.22) on the 30 per cent first-term promotion running at the time, with desktops, laptops and servers, physical or virtual, Windows, macOS and Linux, all drawn from the same device count. GravityZone Small Business Security is priced almost identically (£619.99 list) with fewer modules, so Business Security is the better buy of the two. Business Security Premium, at £1,359.99 list for 25 (£54.40 a device, £38.08 on promotion), is where EDR arrives, under the names Attack Forensics and Visualization and Sandbox Analyzer. Business Security Enterprise and the MDR and MDR Plus services are quote-only; no MDR price is published anywhere. Add-ons at extra cost include Patch Management, Full Disk Encryption, Email Security for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and Security for Mobile. Two- and three-year terms are offered; there is no monthly billing for a direct buyer, which only Bitdefender's MSP partners get. A free trial is offered on every self-service tier, and a paid one-hour Setup and Go onboarding session was £167.33 in the same cart.

The buying route is the commercial structure Tim praised in the brief: a pricing calculator and card checkout on bitdefender.com for one to 100 devices, then partners above that or for Enterprise, with the same GravityZone Control Center console from a handful of seats to thousands. Seats are added and renewals handled from the My Company licence page inside the console, and the public API and ConnectWise, NinjaOne and Datto integrations mean an MSP can run it too. An on-premises Control Center is available as a virtual appliance for anyone who does not want the cloud console. Ransomware Mitigation restores encrypted files from its own copies on every tier, Network Attack Defense and Risk Management are standard on Business Security, and mobile devices need the paid add-on. No MCP server was found.

The independent record is the strongest in this comparison outside Sophos and CrowdStrike. AV-Comparatives' Business Security Test for August to November 2025 (published 15 December 2025) scored Business Security Premium at 99.8 per cent real-world protection with two false alarms, 99.9 per cent malware protection with none, and "Very Fast" for performance; Bitdefender reports the Approved Business Product award for both 2025 rounds and the top EPR result, which we could not read from the lab's PDF. It has taken part in the MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise evaluations for three consecutive years to 2024 and makes much of needing an average of three alerts to describe an incident. Two GravityZone server-side request forgery bugs (CVE-2024-2223 and CVE-2025-2243) are on record and patched; no breach of Bitdefender itself. Trustpilot's 4.3 on 12,243 reviews is the consumer profile, with VPN pop-ups and renewals the themes, so it says little about GravityZone; G2 gives GravityZone 4.0 on 79 reviews, with console complexity for non-technical users the recurring complaint.

In our experience: Next Generation ICT Ltd, the company behind Saaskly and Fractional Teams, runs GravityZone on its own estate. We chose it because the commercial structure fits a small company as well as a large one, the licensing portal lets us add and renew seats ourselves, deployment is quick, and we have found no Russian or Chinese link in its ownership or engineering. For security reasons we do not publish which tier or how many devices we run. Saaskly has an affiliate link for Bitdefender through impact.com, disclosed on this page; it was joined after the score was set and did not change it.