COMPARE · UPDATED 13 OCTOBER 2026 · EDITORIAL ASSESSMENT
Compare AI SOC platforms side by side
Cyber AI Comparison team · Last checked September 2026 · Editorial assessment
What to know
Pick two to five platforms to compare their scores on all seven criteria, the reason behind each score, and what each vendor publishes about integrations, deployment and pricing. The default view shows the top three AI SOC platforms in our ranking: Mate Security (7.80), Artemis Security (7.10) and Torq AI SOC Platform (7.10).
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| Platform | Mate Security | Artemis Security | Torq AI SOC Platform |
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| Type | AI SOC platform | AI SOC platform | AI SOC platform |
| Overall rank of 12 | 1 | 3 (tie) | 3 (tie) |
| Weighted score | 7.80 | 7.10 | 7.10 |
| Designation | Top pick for replacing SOAR playbooks | Best for per-action approval control over AI response | Best for teams that want AI agents plus no-code automation |
| Stance on SOAR | Replaces SOAR | Replaces SOAR | Replaces SOAR |
| Investigation depth per alert · 20% | 9 / 10 Investigates each alert against its Security Context Graph of memories, decision traces, guardrails and architecture, with domain logic for cloud, insider, email, endpoint, identity and phishing alerts. | 8 / 10 Correlates identity, cloud, endpoint and SaaS data against a living model of the environment and investigates autonomously; its Cursor case cites 96% of investigations resolved autonomously (Artemis's figure). | 8 / 10 Socrates coordinates specialised HyperAgents that gather evidence, assemble timelines and summarise findings per case. |
| Explainability of verdicts · 15% | 9 / 10 Verdicts come with an evidence trail the team can audit and tune, and decision traces record why analysts decided what they did. | 7 / 10 Investigations and proposed actions come with evidence and an impact preview, and an audit trail records who, what and why; step-level agent reasoning is less documented. | 7 / 10 Cases carry evidence, timelines and summaries, and Torq stresses transparency, but step-level agent reasoning is less documented publicly than at the leaders. |
| Coverage of alert sources · 15% | 7 / 10 Names integrations such as Microsoft, Google Workspace, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Proofpoint and Slack and says it is stack agnostic, but publishes no integration count or full catalogue. | 8 / 10 225+ connectors, including SIEMs it ingests (Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike NG-SIEM) and data stores it queries in place (Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS Security Lake). | 9 / 10 300 pre-built integrations and 4,000+ pre-built steps, plus AI-generated integrations. |
| Human-in-the-loop controls · 15% | 9 / 10 Three modes (Recommend only, Supervised, Auto-run), graduated autonomy with guardrails enforced outside the agent's reasoning loop, and rollback to Supervised when verdicts conflict with analyst reviews. | 9 / 10 Acts alone only where pre-authorised, with approval set per action and per connector, impact-checked containment that is reversible by design, and a who, what and why audit trail. | 8 / 10 Positions oversight and control as core, with governance and audit logs on workflows. |
| Transition effort from an existing SOAR · 15% | 9 / 10 States it translates existing SOAR playbooks into Gamebooks, replacing brittle API calls while keeping custom logic; the Gamebooks page is built around the SOAR comparison. | 8 / 10 An AI-native SOAR builder (visual and natural language) aimed at teams maintaining a SOAR, 300+ actions, a Splunk SOAR connector and automatic playbook update proposals; existing playbooks are rebuilt rather than translated. | 8 / 10 Combines agentic and deterministic workflows, with a natural-language workflow builder that suits teams rebuilding playbooks; it is a replacement, so playbooks are rebuilt rather than translated. |
| Deployment model options · 10% | 5 / 10 SaaS. Mate says it is built on AWS infrastructure and sells through AWS Marketplace; its trust center lists Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud as cloud subprocessors. Self-hosted, customer-tenant and data residency options: not described. | 5 / 10 Ingests hot-path data and queries high-volume data where it lives, and describes on-premises execution of actions; tenancy and data residency options are not described. | 5 / 10 Described as cloud-native; other deployment options are not described on the pages reviewed. |
| Pricing transparency · 10% | 4 / 10 No price page on Mate's own site; its AWS Marketplace listing shows $150,000 per 12-month contract for the "Mate Enterprise Tier", a usage tier the listing does not define. | 2 / 10 No pricing is published. | 2 / 10 No public pricing page was found. |
| Integrations | Not published | 225+ | 300 integrations, 4,000+ steps |
| Deployment | SaaS. Mate says it is built on AWS infrastructure and sells through AWS Marketplace; its trust center lists Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud as cloud subprocessors. Self-hosted, customer-tenant and data residency options: not described. | Not published (on-prem action execution described) | Cloud-native |
| Compliance listed | SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA | Not reviewed | Not reviewed |
| Pricing | No price page on Mate's site. AWS Marketplace lists $150,000 per 12-month contract for the Mate Enterprise Tier (usage tier not defined); private offers on request. | Not published. | Not published. torq.io/pricing returned a 404 when we checked. |
| Cost | Not published, contact sales | Not published, contact sales | Not published, contact sales |
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| Links | Read the reviewMate Security alternatives | Read the reviewArtemis alternatives | Read the reviewTorq alternatives |
Source: mate.security · mate.security/platform · mate.security/platform/gamebooks · mate.security/blog/introducing-gamebooks-can-you-script-the-whole-game · mate.security/blog/mate-security-now-available-on-aws-marketplace · mate.security/about · mate.security/newsroom · AWS Marketplace: Mate Security · Reviewed Sep 2026
Source: artemissecurity.com · artemissecurity.com/platform/overview · artemissecurity.com/platform/response · artemissecurity.com/connectors · Artemis Security funding announcement · Reviewed Sep 2026
Source: torq.io/ai-soc-platform · torq.io/hyperautomation · torq.io/blog/soar-is-dead · torq.io/news · torq.io · Reviewed Sep 2026
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