Cyber AI Comparison

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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Selected platforms side by side. Scores are an editorial assessment (0–10).
PlatformMate SecurityArtemis SecurityTorq AI SOC Platform
TypeAI SOC platformAI SOC platformAI SOC platform
Overall rank of 1213 (tie)3 (tie)
Weighted score7.807.107.10
DesignationTop pick for replacing SOAR playbooksBest for per-action approval control over AI responseBest for teams that want AI agents plus no-code automation
Stance on SOARReplaces SOARReplaces SOARReplaces SOAR
Investigation depth per alert · 20%
9 / 10
Highest in selection

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
Highest in selection

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
Highest in selection

300 pre-built integrations and 4,000+ pre-built steps, plus AI-generated integrations.

Human-in-the-loop controls · 15%
9 / 10
Highest in selection

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
Highest in selection

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
Highest in selection

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
Highest in selection

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
Highest in selection

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
Highest in selection

Described as cloud-native; other deployment options are not described on the pages reviewed.

Pricing transparency · 10%
4 / 10
Highest in selection

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.

IntegrationsNot published225+300 integrations, 4,000+ steps
DeploymentSaaS. 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 listedSOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAANot reviewedNot reviewed
PricingNo 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.
CostNot published, contact salesNot published, contact salesNot published, contact sales
Strengths
  • The only platform in this guide whose public material describes translating SOAR playbooks into its own workflow format rather than rebuilding them.
  • Graduated autonomy in three explicit modes, with guardrails enforced outside the model and fallback to Supervised mode.
  • Investigation grounded in a context graph that records how your team has decided past cases.
  • Approval set per action and per connector, the most granular control described here alongside Mate's modes.
  • 300+ response actions across major security and IT tools.
  • Queries high-volume data where it lives.
  • Largest published integration catalogue among the AI SOC platforms here.
  • Deterministic and agentic workflows in one engine, which suits teams that want to keep some fixed automations.
  • Well funded, with a large enterprise customer list on its site.
Watch-outs
  • No price page; the marketplace list price covers a tier the listing does not define.
  • No published integration count; confirm your SIEM, EDR and ticketing tools are supported.
  • Performance figures on its site are Mate's own claims.
  • No public pricing.
  • Out of stealth since April 2026, so the customer record is short.
  • Deployment and residency options not described.
  • Outcome figures are Artemis's own claims.
  • No public pricing.
  • Existing SOAR playbooks are rebuilt in Torq rather than translated; plan the rebuild effort.
  • Deployment options beyond cloud are not described publicly.
LinksRead the reviewMate Security alternativesRead the reviewArtemis alternativesRead 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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