Managed SOC Pricing That Actually Fits Small Business
No enterprise contracts. No per-endpoint surprises. Flat-rate 24/7 security monitoring with AI triage and human analysts — starting at $799/month.
Building an in-house SOC costs $400,000–$800,000 per year when you factor in analyst salaries, SIEM licensing, EDR tools, and threat intelligence feeds. ARIA delivers the same capability — Wazuh-powered detection, AI triage, and 24/7 human analyst coverage — as a flat monthly subscription that most small businesses can start on this week. Most clients are fully protected for less than they spend on their phone bill per employee. Pricing is transparent, month-to-month, and scales with your business as it grows.
What $799/Month Actually Buys You
The components of a real security program are expensive when purchased separately. A SIEM platform — Splunk, QRadar, or Microsoft Sentinel — costs $50,000–$200,000 per year at SMB scale, before the engineering time required to operate it. EDR tools run $15–$50 per endpoint per year, adding up quickly across a 20-person organization. A single security analyst in Arizona earns $85,000–$110,000 per year in base salary alone, before benefits, PTO, and tooling — and you need a minimum of four to five analysts to cover 24/7 shifts with no single points of failure.
ARIA bundles all of this into one flat monthly subscription: Wazuh SIEM/XDR deployment and management, AI-powered alert triage via the ARIA engine, 24/7 human analyst review of every alert, MITRE ATT&CK coverage documented per confirmed detection, compliance reporting across HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2, and incident response support at no extra charge. The math is not close — ARIA Professional costs less per year than two months of a single analyst's salary.
Every ARIA plan includes a 30-day onboarding period with dedicated setup assistance, a Business Associate Agreement for HIPAA-covered clients, and month-to-month flexibility with no long-term commitment required.
- Wazuh SIEM/XDR deployment and ongoing management
- AI-powered alert triage (ARIA engine)
- 24/7 human analyst review of every alert
- MITRE ATT&CK mapping per confirmed alert
- Monthly compliance reports (HIPAA / PCI-DSS / SOC 2)
- Incident response support included at no extra charge
Three Plans, One Clear Decision
Starter — $799/month covers up to 10 endpoints and is the right starting point for solo practices, small dental offices, boutique law firms, or any business taking their first step into professional security monitoring. Included: 24/7 endpoint monitoring, Microsoft 365 monitoring, real-time threat alerts, monthly security report, HIPAA-ready monitoring, and email and chat support. Additional endpoints are billed at $30/endpoint/month. Most clients on this plan are monitoring between 5 and 10 devices across one location.
Professional — $1,499/month (our most popular plan) covers up to 25 endpoints and adds the full email threat detection layer that Starter does not include: business email compromise detection, phishing analysis, impossible travel detection, mailbox rule and admin change monitoring, DMARC/DKIM/SPF audit and enforcement, and dedicated Telegram alerts to your team. It also adds compliance reporting across HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2, weekly security reports, and full incident response support. This is the right plan for regulated industries — healthcare, legal, and financial services — where email is the primary attack vector and compliance documentation is required. Additional endpoints at $25/endpoint/month.
Enterprise — starting at $2,500/month covers unlimited endpoints and adds capabilities that multi-location or operationally complex organizations require: firewall log monitoring, Azure AD and Google Workspace integration, a dedicated SOC analyst assigned to your account, custom integrations, a 15-minute critical response SLA, quarterly executive security reviews, and custom compliance reporting. Enterprise pricing varies based on environment complexity — contact us to discuss your specific requirements.
ARIA vs. Building It Yourself
Most small businesses that attempt to build internal security programs significantly underestimate the true cost. A single Tier 1 SOC analyst in Arizona earns $65,000–$85,000 per year in base salary. You need a minimum of four to five to cover 24/7 shifts — that is $260,000–$425,000 in analyst payroll before benefits, overtime, and the inevitable turnover that plagues security teams. Add a SIEM platform ($50,000–$200,000/year), EDR licensing, threat intelligence feed subscriptions, and a security engineer to keep everything running, and a genuine 24/7 SOC operation costs $500,000–$800,000 per year at minimum. That is the capability ARIA delivers at $9,588–$17,988 per year.
HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2 all require continuous security monitoring, audit logging, and documented incident response capability. Meeting these requirements with disconnected point solutions — antivirus plus a firewall plus somewhere to store logs — creates the compliance gaps that regulators and auditors specifically look for. HHS has assessed HIPAA penalties exceeding $1 million against small covered entities that had security tools but lacked continuous monitoring and documented incident response. ARIA provides the unified monitoring, audit trails, and incident documentation these frameworks require in a single subscription.
Cyber insurance is increasingly tied to demonstrated security controls. Premiums for small businesses without formal security monitoring programs have increased 40–80% since 2022, and many insurers now require evidence of EDR deployment, MFA enforcement, and active security monitoring as a condition of coverage. ARIA satisfies these requirements and provides the documentation carriers request at renewal — reducing the friction of the insurance process and, in many cases, qualifying clients for premium discounts that offset a meaningful portion of the subscription cost.
- 1 security analyst salary = 6–12x the annual cost of ARIA Professional
- SIEM platform licensing alone exceeds ARIA Enterprise annual pricing
- Average SMB breach cost ($254K) = 26 years of ARIA Starter
- Cyber insurance discounts often offset 15–25% of ARIA subscription cost
- No setup fees, no contracts, no hardware — cancel anytime with 30 days notice
Honest About What We Don't Cover
ARIA is a security monitoring and incident response service — not an IT managed service provider. We do not manage your laptops, configure your firewalls, handle helpdesk tickets, deploy software updates, or patch your operating systems. If you need those services, you need an MSP relationship alongside ARIA. Many of our clients work with an existing IT provider for day-to-day management and use ARIA specifically for security monitoring and threat response. The two services complement each other without overlap.
ARIA also does not replace a compliance consultant, HIPAA compliance officer, PCI-DSS Qualified Security Assessor, or SOC 2 auditor. We provide the technical security controls and continuous documentation that compliance frameworks require — audit logs, access records, incident reports, and control evidence — but formal compliance programs require human expertise to interpret requirements, write policies, and manage regulatory relationships. ARIA makes your compliance consultant's job significantly easier and your audit preparation dramatically faster. We are the technical foundation; your compliance team handles the program.
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