Side by side
Exaforce vs Mate Security: facts side by side
The short answer
Both Exaforce and Mate are AI SOC analyst products. Both replace SOAR. Exaforce documents an optional service where its own people work the queue 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 Exaforce and Mate differ at a glance?
| Fact | Exaforce | Mate |
|---|---|---|
| Primary model | AI SOC analyst | AI SOC analyst |
| Also reaches into | MDR | None |
| Position on SOAR | Replaces SOAR | Replaces SOAR |
| Integrations | 130+ across IaaS, SaaS, identity, endpoint, SIEM, SOAR, email, ticketing, threat intel and AI. | Not published |
| Deployment | Not published | 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 | $75M Series A (April 2025) and $125M Series B (May 2026), per Exaforce's newsroom. | $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?
Exaforce
Mate Security
- Your analysts
- Rules you write
- AI agent
- Provider's analysts
- Shared
- Not described
Stages where they differ:
- Tune: Exaforce not described, Mate shared
- Nights and weekends: Exaforce provider's analysts, Mate not described
Which capabilities does each document?
| Capability | Exaforce | Mate | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Translates existing SOAR playbooks | Not described | Documented | Differs |
| Optional service where the vendor's people work the queue | 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 | |
| Multi-tenant or MSSP offering | Not described | Not described | |
| On-premises, hybrid or your own cloud tenant | 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?
Exaforce
Strengths
- Native response across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS and email, behind approval gates.
- A choice of running it yourself or having Exaforce run it, on the same platform.
Limits
- Deployment, tenancy and residency options are not described on the pages reviewed.
- The only public price is a marketplace starter pack whose unit is not defined.
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 Exaforce, and when Mate?
Choose Exaforce if you need:
- an optional service where its own people work the queue
- a published integration count
- Native response across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS and email, behind approval gates.
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?
Exaforce
Mate
Asked often about this page
Which is better, Exaforce or Mate?
We do not rank vendors. Exaforce 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 Exaforce and Mate publish pricing?
Neither publishes pricing on its own site.
Can Exaforce and Mate be used together?
Our sources do not describe an integration between Exaforce and Mate. Ask both vendors before planning to run them together.
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Fit finderOrder vendors by the needs your answers imply.Which modelThe decision guide for all four models.Exaforce profileAn agentic SOC in which Exabots handle detection, triage, investigation and response, run by your team or managed by Exaforce.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.