Two ways to protect a small business with ESET. The main difference is management: one app per device, or one console for all of them.
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| Small Business Security | PROTECT Entry | |
|---|---|---|
| Seats sold online | 5–25 | 5–100 (quote above 100) |
| Central management console | – | ✓ cloud or on-prem |
| Server security | ✓ | ✓ |
| Safe banking, anti-theft, password manager, encryption | ✓ | – |
| Ransomware remediation & device control | – | ✓ |
| Upgrade path | To ESET PROTECT | To PROTECT Advanced / Complete |
Features as listed on this site and in ESET South Africa's Feb 2026 business price list. Check eset.com/za/business for the full current feature matrix.
| Small Business Security | PROTECT Entry | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 seats | R1,469.00 incl. VAT | R3,110.75 incl. VAT |
| 10 seats | R1,719.00 incl. VAT | R6,221.50 incl. VAT |
| 15 seats | R2,578.51 incl. VAT | R7,952.25 incl. VAT |
| 25 seats | R4,297.53 incl. VAT | R13,253.75 incl. VAT |
List prices from the official ESET South Africa price lists (consumer Oct 2025; business Feb 2026), ZAR. VAT at 15%. ESET's e-store may show promotional prices at checkout.
Small Business Security puts protection on each device and manages it there. That suits an office where the owner or one staff member looks after a handful of laptops, a couple of phones and perhaps a file server. There's no console to learn.
PROTECT Entry adds the ESET PROTECT console. From one screen you can deploy ESET to new machines, apply the same policy everywhere, see which devices are out of date or have detections, and control USB devices. You pay for that visibility in setup time and in someone's attention. It pays off once you have more devices than you can check by hand, or when an outside IT provider looks after you.
Small Business Security stops at 25 seats. If you're at 20 and hiring, starting on PROTECT Entry avoids a migration later. PROTECT also gives you a path to Advanced (adds full disk encryption and advanced threat defence) and Complete (adds cloud app protection, mail server security and patch management). See all PROTECT tiers.
Protects work and personal devices and servers: safe banking, anti-theft, password manager and encryption.
R1,469.00 incl. VAT
R1,277.39 excl. VAT
List price. Checkout, payment & licence delivery by ESET's e-store; promotions may apply there.
Need 26+ seats? Request a quote.
Modern multilayered endpoint protection with machine learning and easy cloud or on-prem management.
R3,110.75 incl. VAT
R2,705.00 excl. VAT
List price. Checkout, payment & licence delivery by ESET's e-store; promotions may apply there.
Need 101+ seats? Request a quote.
No. Both protect business devices, but PROTECT Entry adds a central management console (cloud or on-prem) for deploying policies and seeing alerts across every endpoint. Small Business Security is app-based and simpler to run.
On this site, Small Business Security is sold for 5–25 seats (the ESET limit for that product). PROTECT Entry is sold online for 5–100 seats, and larger deployments are quoted.
At ESET South Africa list prices, 5 seats for 1 year cost R1,469.00 incl. VAT for Small Business Security and R3,110.75 incl. VAT for PROTECT Entry. Prices for other seat counts are in the table.
Yes, you can move to ESET PROTECT when you renew or when you grow. Ask ESET or send a request through our quote form if you need help planning it.
Still unsure? Read our small-business antivirus guide or compare every ESET plan.
