Side by side
Cortex XSOAR vs Mate Security: facts side by side
The short answer
XSOAR is a SOAR product and Mate is an AI SOC analyst product. XSOAR adds AI inside SOAR, while Mate replaces SOAR. XSOAR documents on-premises, hybrid or customer-tenant hosting and a published integration count; 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 XSOAR and Mate differ at a glance?
| Fact | XSOAR | Mate |
|---|---|---|
| Primary model | SOAR | AI SOC analyst |
| Also reaches into | AI SOC analyst | None |
| Position on SOAR | Adds AI inside SOAR | Replaces SOAR |
| Integrations | 900+ prebuilt integrations and automation packs; thousands of security actions in the Marketplace. | Not published |
| Deployment | Cortex XSOAR 8 SaaS, Cortex XSOAR 8 On-prem (end of life 30 September 2029 per Palo Alto documentation) and Cortex XSOAR 6. | 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. |
| Pricing | Not published | Not published |
| Compliance | Not reviewed | 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. |
| Funding | Not in our sources | $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?
Cortex XSOAR
Mate Security
- Your analysts
- Rules you write
- AI agent
- Provider's analysts
- Shared
- Not described
Stages where they differ:
- Triage: XSOAR rules you write, Mate AI agent
- Investigate: XSOAR shared, Mate AI agent
- Respond: XSOAR rules you write, Mate shared
- Tune: XSOAR your analysts, Mate shared
- Nights and weekends: XSOAR rules you write, Mate not described
Which capabilities does each document?
| Capability | XSOAR | Mate | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Translates existing SOAR playbooks | Not described | Documented | Differs |
| On-premises, hybrid or your own cloud tenant | Documented | Not described | Differs |
| Integration count published | Documented | Not described | Differs |
| Runs response actions itself | Documented | Documented | |
| Approval or sign-off before actions | Documented | Documented | |
| Can act alone on some cases | Documented | Documented | |
| Optional service where the vendor's people work the queue | Not described | Not described | |
| Multi-tenant or MSSP offering | Not described | Not described | |
| Single-tenant option | Not described | Not described | |
| Data residency option | Not described | Not described | |
| Pricing unit or tiers published | Not described | Not described |
What are the strengths and limits of each?
XSOAR
Strengths
- The largest integration and content catalog among the vendors here.
- SaaS and on-premises editions, and a route to agents without migrating playbooks.
Limits
- Investigation depth per alert still depends largely on the playbooks your team maintains.
- Pricing is not published, and XSOAR 8 On-prem has a stated end-of-life date of 30 September 2029.
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 XSOAR, and when Mate?
Choose XSOAR if you need:
- on-premises, hybrid or customer-tenant hosting
- a published integration count
- The largest integration and content catalog 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?
XSOAR
Mate
Asked often about this page
Which is better, XSOAR or Mate?
We do not rank vendors. XSOAR documents on-premises, hybrid or customer-tenant hosting and Mate documents translating existing SOAR playbooks. The fit finder orders vendors by the needs your answers imply.
Do XSOAR and Mate publish pricing?
Neither publishes pricing on its own site.
Can XSOAR and Mate be used together?
Our sources do not describe an integration between XSOAR 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.XSOAR profilePalo Alto Networks' SOAR platform, with Cortex AgentiX described as its next generation.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.