Bitdefender Antimalware SDK

Bitdefender's malware detection engine licensed to other vendors as an SDK, for integration across a range of operating systems and architectures. Over 200 hardware manufacturers, software providers, and cloud-based solution companies have strengthened their products by licensing Bitdefender's SDKs, threat intelligence, and sandbox technology. Bitdefender’s technologies top the charts of industry benchmarks, maintaining a 99.9% detection rate and low false positives across the board. Bitdefender technology licensing empowers software vendors, service providers, and device manufacturers to embed industry-leading cybersecurity protection into their offerings. Bitdefender Antimalware SDK covers Linux and Windows.

Current Version

—Not known

Product Page

bitdefender.com/oem

Market

Enterprise

Licence

Paid

Price

Quote

Record Created

2026-10-05

Last Updated

2026-10-23

Bitdefender was founded in 2001 in Bucharest by Florin Talpeș, who still runs it, and grew out of SOFTWIN, the Romanian software firm he had started a decade earlier. It is privately held, its main research centre is still in Bucharest, and its North American operation is in San Antonio, Texas. The company says more than half its staff work in research and development and that it has filed over 580 patents. Home users buy Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, Bitdefender Internet Security, Bitdefender Total Security, Bitdefender Premium Security and Bitdefender Ultimate Security, with Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac, Bitdefender Mobile Security and a free edition beside them. Organisations buy Bitdefender GravityZone, which spans endpoint protection, XDR and a managed detection service. One thing matters when comparing scores across this index: Bitdefender licenses its detection engine to other security companies, so several products listed here under other names are running its engine underneath. Their laboratory results tend to move together rather than independently, which is worth knowing before reading two such scores as two opinions. Vendor page →

Website

bitdefender.com

Country

🇷🇴Romania

Headquarters

🇷🇴Bucharest, Romania

Year Established

2001

Customers

40K organisations

Users

500M devices protected

Revenue

≈ $363.0M (2024)