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Trend no longer sells most of its platform as per-seat SKUs. You buy a pool of credits and spend them across whichever Vision One capabilities you switch on — endpoint, server, email, network, cloud, attack surface management. As of January 2026 the programme is named TrendAI Flex; older documentation, and most of the internet, still calls it Trend Vision One Credits. The model is genuinely good for buyers who plan to grow into the platform, and genuinely confusing on the first quote. This page explains how the money actually works.
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The credit model changes how you should negotiate. On a per-seat SKU you argue about unit price; on credits you argue about the size of the pool and the conversion rate applied to your entitlement, and those are set per deal. Three practical points for Indian buyers. First, size the pool for what you will run in year two, not month one — credits are reallocatable but a pool that is too small means a mid-term top-up at whatever rate applies then. Second, get the conversion rate for each capability written into the quote, because that is the number that decides whether the pool covers your fleet. Third, watch the consumption lines: XDR cloud data ingestion is billed per GB and will grow quietly as you connect more sources. Trend Micro does not publish a list price for this product in India, and we will not invent one. Every Indian quote is built by the partner from your seat or workload count, the term (1, 2 or 3 years), and which capabilities you switch on. Through National IT Service you get that quote in INR with a GST invoice, plus deployment and console configuration.
WhatsApp +91 98119 98370 with your seat count, server count, mailbox count and which capabilities you want live in year one. We model the credit pool with Trend, get the entitlement conversion rates in writing, and quote in INR with GST. Allow 1-2 weeks for a properly modelled credit quote.
It is the universal licensing unit for the Vision One platform. Instead of buying a separate SKU per product, you buy a pool of credits and spend them on the capabilities you enable — endpoint protection, server and workload protection, email security, network detection, cloud risk management. Trend renamed the programme TrendAI Flex in January 2026, but the mechanics are the same and most documentation still says "credits".
Yes, that is the point of the model. Credits can be redistributed across Vision One solutions within your subscription term, so a pool bought mostly for endpoint can be partly shifted to email security or sandbox analysis when priorities change. This is the real advantage over per-seat SKUs for Indian mid-market teams whose security roadmap shifts year to year — you are not stuck holding shelfware for a product you stopped using.
It depends on which tier you enable and which features are switched on for that endpoint, and the conversion rate that applies is set in your own entitlement rather than in a public price list. Trend does not publish a single public credits-per-seat table you can plan against without a login, so treat any number you find on a blog with suspicion. Ask your partner to state the conversion rate for each capability in the quote — a credit quote without those numbers cannot be checked.
Usually yes at platform scale, and not always at one product. If you run only endpoint protection and have no plan to add anything, a straightforward endpoint licence is simpler and often no more expensive. Credits pay off when you run three or more Vision One capabilities, or when you expect to add capabilities mid-term, because you avoid buying and renewing separate SKUs on separate dates.
Protection does not stop dead, but you cannot enable new capacity until you top up, and the top-up is priced at whatever applies at that point rather than at your original deal rate. This is why sizing for year two matters. We build a headroom assumption into the model and agree a top-up price in advance where Trend will commit to one.
Get a Trend Micro quote priced in INR with GST invoice — we size the licence, deploy it, and can run the console for you.