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MProofpoint vs ZeroFox
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Proofpoint if…
- you're in its core audience: enterprise security teams, government agencies
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Choose ZeroFox if…
- you need an API to build on
- you're in its core audience: enterprise security teams, corporate security and executive protection teams
Side by side
Feature Proofpoint ZeroFox
Pricing modelContact for pricingContact for pricing
Starting price——
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWebWeb
CategoryEmail securityBrand protection & anti-phishing
CompanyProofpointZeroFox
Full feature lists
P Proofpoint
- Email threat protection via API or gateway
- DMARC, brand protection and lookalike domain detection
- Account takeover detection and response
- Enterprise DLP across email, cloud and endpoints
- Insider threat management
- Risk-based security awareness training (ZenGuide)
- Visibility and control over employee and AI agent AI usage
- Digital communications capture, archiving and discovery
Z ZeroFox
- Brand impersonation monitoring and takedowns
- Lookalike domain and phishing site detection
- Executive protection with doxxing and PII removal
- Dark web monitoring of forums, markets and chats
- Compromised credential detection
- External attack surface management (EASM)
- Intel feeds and an analyst search portal
- Integrations with TIP, SIEM, SOAR and EDR
Their home pages
What each vendor shows first: the pitch, the plans and the sign-up.
Proofpoint · proofpoint.com
ZeroFox · zerofox.comWhat you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
Proofpoint
Contact for pricing. Plan details aren't published.
ZeroFox
Foundation BundleCustom
Core BundleCustom
Premium BundleCustom
Executive BundleCustom
Strengths and limitations
Proofpoint
- Broad suite covering email, data, insider risk and AI security
- Used by more than 80 of the Fortune 100
- FedRAMP-certified offering for federal agencies
- Email security, DLP and insider threat products share one console
- Pricing available only through sales
- Built mainly for enterprise-scale deployments
ZeroFox
- Covers brand, domain, executive and dark web threats in one platform
- Bundles include set yearly takedown quotas (250 to 1,000)
- Human analysts review threats to reduce false positives
- Takedown API connector and SIEM/SOAR integrations
- All pricing is quote-based
- No self-serve or free plan
- Bundles cap the number of takedowns and protected assets
More comparisons
Other options to consider
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Contact
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Contact
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Brand protection and phishing takedowns for companies targeted by online fraud
Brand protection & anti-phishing
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AI-driven detection and takedown of phishing and brand impersonation
Brand protection & anti-phishing
Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Nov 11, 2026. Editorial policy