Darktrace

Darktrace is a cybersecurity company built around self-learning AI for threat detection and autonomous response. Thoma Bravo completed its take-private of Darktrace in October 2024 in a $5.3 billion cash deal, and the company was delisted from the London Stock Exchange when it took effect on October 1, 2024. One source says that in 2026 Darktrace operates as a Thoma Bravo portfolio company with a more aggressive commercial push around multi-module platform deals. Its products are consolidated into the ActiveAI Security Platform, covering network, email, cloud, endpoint, OT and identity threat surfaces, with Self-Learning AI said to run on each customer's own data rather than globally trained models, per a profile citing Darktrace's page.

There is no public price list, and Darktrace's pricing URL returned a not-found error when I tried it, so treat it as contact sales. A pricing guide citing Vendr transaction data puts the median deal at $55,200 a year, the 75th percentile at about $131,000 and large enterprise contracts above $300,000 to $500,000. Another guide says discounts range from 18% to 45%, with three-year terms unlocking the deepest, and lists per-module rates such as $18 to $32 per user per year for Network DETECT, $12 to $22 per mailbox for Email DETECT and $22 to $38 per endpoint for Endpoint DETECT at 10,000 users. These come from third-party guides and conflict on details, so use them only to benchmark a quote.

Darktrace suits mid-size and large organisations that want AI-based anomaly detection across networks and email. Compare Vectra AI, CrowdStrike Falcon and SentinelOne. Browse the Cybersecurity tools directory for more.

Network and email threat detection

Self-learning AI.

Autonomous response

Across surfaces.

Who owns Darktrace?

Thoma Bravo since October 2024.

Pricing?

Quote only.

Typical deal size?

Median about $55,200 a year per Vendr-based data.

Discounts?

Reportedly 18%-45%.