When leaders hear "SOC," they often picture seven-figure contracts and headcount they cannot justify. A different question is more useful for SMEs: what does €299 to €2,999 per month buy compared to doing nothing — or paying after a breach?
The real cost of going without a SOC
Ransomware and business-email compromise do not send invoices in advance. A single successful attack can cost tens of thousands in downtime, recovery, legal response, and lost customer trust — often more than years of proactive monitoring. SMEs are disproportionately targeted, and many still operate without basic security budget.
Hiring one junior security analyst in Europe frequently costs more per month than the upper end of this range — before tools, training, and shift coverage. Occasional consultancy assessments help at a point in time; they do not correlate logs at 3 a.m. or execute SOAR playbooks in under a second.
- Unpredictable incident cost: One event can exceed multiple years of subscription.
- Opportunity cost: Founders and IT generalists pulled into firefighting instead of growth.
- Compliance risk: GDPR breach notification without evidence trails multiplies exposure.
What €299–€2,999 buys a SME
Across that range, SOC AI Agent delivers 24/7 monitoring, multi-agent analysis (orchestrator + eight specialists), SOAR response, universal log ingestion, and GDPR-by-design auditing — scaled by plan without building an internal SOC team. Lower tiers suit focused environments; higher tiers support more sources, autonomy, and human-in-the-loop escalation when risk demands validation.
The comparison is not "cheap AI vs expensive humans." It is predictable protection vs unpredictable catastrophe. For many European SMEs, €299–€2,999 per month is not a luxury line item — it is a rational alternative to hoping alerts sort themselves out.
Request a demo or contact us to map the right plan to your size, log volume, and compliance needs. Pricing is transparent; the cost of waiting usually is not.
