OpenAI vs SentinelOne

OpenAI — Foundation Models · Private · $852B valuation · 5 of 5 figures sourced  |  SentinelOne — Application · Public · $7.5B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

OpenAI Daybreak and Singularity Cloud Security do comparable work on data security and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to detect and respond to security threats; smaller scale (public).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

3 of 17 capabilities — Shares data analysis, data security and threat detection and response.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship AI agent and application.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — SentinelOne: $7.5B market cap, against OpenAI's $852B valuation.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldOpenAISentinelOne
Size$852B valuation$7.5B mkt cap different basis
Employees4,5002,900 SentinelOne has 36% fewer
Founded20152013 2 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryFoundation ModelsApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Model APIAI agent, Application, Data service, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USAMountain View, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Data analysisData securityThreat detection and response

Not verified for SentinelOne · 14

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingCode generationCode reviewDocument extractionEvaluation and observabilityImage generationPresentation generationSpeech to textSummarizationText generationText to speechSearch answersWorkflow automation

Recorded for OpenAI. SentinelOne’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for OpenAI · 1

Guardrails and safety

Recorded for SentinelOne. OpenAI’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

OpenAI

Application

ChatGPTApplication

Assistant for chat, web search, file analysis and image generation, used in the browser and in desktop and mobile apps; developers can build custom in-chat apps for it via the Apps SDK, built on the Model Context Protocol.

ChatGPT AtlasApplication

OpenAI's agentic web browser. Deprecated on 9 August 2026, with its browser-based agentic capabilities moved into ChatGPT and Codex.

ChatGPT GovApplication

A version of ChatGPT that US government agencies deploy in their own Microsoft Azure commercial or Azure Government cloud, so the agency manages its own security, privacy and compliance.

ChatGPT for ExcelApplication

ChatGPT in the Excel ribbon: builds and edits spreadsheets, formulas and formatting from plain-language requests, answers questions about what is in the workbook, and asks permission before changing it. OpenAI's own page bundles this with a separate ChatGPT for Google Sheets add-in; this record covers the Excel add-in only.

ChatGPT for PowerPointApplication

ChatGPT in the PowerPoint ribbon: creates new slides, rewrites and restructures an existing deck, and turns notes, documents or spreadsheets into presentation-ready content while keeping the output editable in PowerPoint.

ChatGPT for WordApplication

ChatGPT in a Microsoft Word sidebar: drafts, revises and reorganizes the open document from notes or pasted source text, pulling in context from connected apps like Outlook, SharePoint, Google Workspace and Dropbox.

SoraApplication

OpenAI's text-to-video product. The web and app experiences were discontinued on 26 April 2026; the API will be discontinued on 24 September 2026.

AI agent

CodexAI agent

Coding agent that reads, edits and runs a codebase from the terminal, an IDE extension and the ChatGPT web app.

SentinelOne

Application

Prompt SecurityApplication

Discovers and governs employee and developer use of AI services, redacts sensitive data in prompts, controls autonomous agents and MCP servers, and defends custom AI applications against prompt injection, jailbreaks and data poisoning.

Singularity Cloud SecurityApplication

Cloud-native application protection platform that defends production workloads, cloud and AI infrastructure and the data stores feeding models, detecting and responding to threats autonomously across the cloud estate.

Singularity EndpointApplication

AI-powered endpoint security that combines endpoint protection, detection and response, and automated remediation and rollback in a single agent across Windows, macOS, Linux and cloud workloads.

Singularity IdentityApplication

Identity-security module of the Singularity Platform that protects against credential misuse and identity-based attacks.

Singularity MobileApplication

On-device mobile threat defense for iOS, Android and ChromeOS that stops phishing, malware and risky apps with an on-device model and needs no cloud connection to detect.

Wayfinder TDRApplication

Managed AI-assisted threat detection and response (MDR-style) service delivered by SentinelOne's global services team.

AI agent

Purple AIAI agent

An agentic AI security analyst embedded in the Singularity Platform that auto-triages alerts, runs investigations and threat hunts, and recommends or executes response actions over OCSF-normalized SentinelOne and third-party telemetry.

No counterpart

OpenAI sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for SentinelOne yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Agent platform

OpenAI DaybreakAgent platform

OpenAI's cybersecurity offering, bringing together frontier cyber models, Codex Security and partner workflows to find, validate and fix vulnerabilities, with an access-gated Daybreak Red tier for authorised vulnerability research and red teaming.

OpenAI FrontierAgent platform

Enterprise platform for connecting AI agents to systems of record and running them under enterprise identity, access and observability controls.

Model API

OpenAI APIModel API

Hosted API for OpenAI's text, image, audio and embedding models, billed per token.

SentinelOne sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for OpenAI yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Platform

Singularity AI SIEMPlatform

A security information and event management platform that ingests and normalizes cloud, identity, endpoint and third-party telemetry, correlates signals into incidents via Purple AI, and executes containment from the investigation console.

Singularity PlatformPlatform

Umbrella platform that runs SentinelOne's endpoint, cloud, identity and mobile protection on one agent and console with autonomous detection, response and rollback; the modules a buyer licenses are recorded separately.

Data service

Singularity AI Data PipelinesData service

A security telemetry pipeline service that filters low-value logs, normalizes heterogeneous sources into OCSF, and enriches events before they reach a SIEM, built on technology from SentinelOne's acquisition of Observo AI.