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7AI vs Mate Security: facts side by side

The short answer

Both 7AI and Mate are AI SOC analyst products. 7AI works beside SOAR, while Mate replaces SOAR. 7AI documents an optional service where its own people work the queue; Mate documents translating existing SOAR playbooks. We do not name a winner: which fits depends on your team, and the fit finder can order them by your answers.

By The Triage Desk · AI Cyber Compare · Published 2026-10-08

Desk research from public vendor pages: vendor facts read September 2026, updated 2026-10-13. Editorial reading of what vendors publish; we did not run the products and did not interview vendors.

How do 7AI and Mate differ at a glance?

Fact7AIMate
Primary modelAI SOC analystAI SOC analyst
Also reaches intoMDRNone
Position on SOARWorks beside SOARReplaces SOAR
IntegrationsNot publishedNot published
DeploymentAvailable through the AWS Security Hub Extended plan (announced 26 February 2026). Self-hosted or on-premises: not described.Mate says it is built on AWS infrastructure and sells through AWS Marketplace. Its trust center lists Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services as cloud subprocessors. Self-hosted, customer-tenant or data residency options: not described.
PricingNot publishedNot published
ComplianceSOC 2 Type II (security and confidentiality), audited by Decrypt Compliance. ISO 27001: not stated.ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, CCPA and GDPR, per its trust center, which also lists a SOC 2 Type 2 report, a HIPAA completion letter, an ISO 27001 certificate, a 2026 pentest report and a disaster recovery drill report.
Funding7AI states $166M in total funding.$15.5M seed (November 2025) and a $35M Series A (July 2026), per Mate's newsroom; investors listed: Canaan, Team8, Insight Partners, M12.

Who carries each stage?

7AI

Work strip for 7AI: Triage, AI agent; Investigate, AI agent; Respond, shared; Tune, shared; Nights and weekends, provider's analysts.TriageAI agentInvestigateAI agentRespondSharedTuneSharedNights and weekendsProvider's analysts

Mate Security

Work strip for Mate Security: Triage, AI agent; Investigate, AI agent; Respond, shared; Tune, shared; Nights and weekends, not described.TriageAI agentInvestigateAI agentRespondSharedTuneSharedNights and weekendsNot described
  • Your analysts
  • Rules you write
  • AI agent
  • Provider's analysts
  • Shared
  • Not described

Stages where they differ:

  • Nights and weekends: 7AI provider's analysts, Mate not described

Which capabilities does each document?

Capability7AIMateDifference
Translates existing SOAR playbooksNot describedDocumentedDiffers
Optional service where the vendor's people work the queueDocumentedNot describedDiffers
Runs response actions itselfDocumentedDocumented
Approval or sign-off before actionsDocumentedDocumented
Can act alone on some casesDocumentedDocumented
Multi-tenant or MSSP offeringNot describedNot described
On-premises, hybrid or your own cloud tenantNot describedNot described
Single-tenant optionNot describedNot described
Data residency optionNot describedNot described
Integration count publishedNot describedNot described
Pricing unit or tiers publishedNot describedNot described

What are the strengths and limits of each?

7AI

Strengths

  • The most detailed public description of step-level investigation records among the vendors here.
  • Native response actions behind approval gates, plus an optional 24x7 expert service.

Limits

  • Integration count and catalog are not published.
  • Only a marketplace contract price is public, and no self-hosted or on-premises deployment is described.

Mate

Strengths

  • The only vendor here whose public pages describe translating existing SOAR playbooks into its own format rather than rebuilding them.
  • Graduated autonomy in three named levels, with guardrails and actions scored on confidence, precision and reversibility and enforced outside the agent loop.
  • Investigations grounded in a context graph of memories and decision traces from your own team.

Limits

  • No pricing unit is published; AWS Marketplace lists one Enterprise tier.
  • No integration count is published; confirm your SIEM, EDR and ticketing tools are covered.

When would you choose 7AI, and when Mate?

Choose 7AI if you need:

  • an optional service where its own people work the queue
  • The most detailed public description of step-level investigation records among the vendors here.

Choose Mate if you need:

  • translating existing SOAR playbooks
  • The only vendor here whose public pages describe translating existing SOAR playbooks into its own format rather than rebuilding them.

What does each vendor say about its own results?

7AI

Mate

Asked often about this page

Which is better, 7AI or Mate?

We do not rank vendors. 7AI documents an optional service where its own people work the queue and Mate documents translating existing SOAR playbooks. The fit finder orders vendors by the needs your answers imply.

Do 7AI and Mate publish pricing?

Neither publishes pricing on its own site.

Can 7AI and Mate be used together?

Our sources do not describe an integration between 7AI and Mate. Ask both vendors before planning to run them together.

Read next

Fit finderOrder vendors by the needs your answers imply.Which modelThe decision guide for all four models.7AI profileAn agentic security platform whose investigations show each agent's mission, tools, requests, responses and conclusion.Mate profileMate is the AI SOC platform built on a home-grown security context graph, running continuous detection / continuous response (CD/CR) and replacing SOAR by translating playbooks into Gamebooks.