Side by side
Mate Security vs Prophet Security: facts side by side
The short answer
Both Mate and Prophet are AI SOC analyst products. Both replace SOAR. Mate documents translating existing SOAR playbooks; Prophet documents an optional service where its own people work the queue, a single-tenant option and a published integration count. 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 Mate and Prophet differ at a glance?
| Fact | Mate | Prophet |
|---|---|---|
| Primary model | AI SOC analyst | AI SOC analyst |
| Also reaches into | None | MDR |
| Position on SOAR | Replaces SOAR | Replaces SOAR |
| Integrations | Not published | 200+ out of the box. |
| Deployment | 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. | Single-tenant; customer data in individual datastores; bring-your-own-key option; runs on AWS. On-premises: not described. |
| Pricing | Not published | Not published |
| Compliance | 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. | SOC 2 Type II (report on request) |
| Funding | $15.5M seed (November 2025) and a $35M Series A (July 2026), per Mate's newsroom; investors listed: Canaan, Team8, Insight Partners, M12. | Not in our sources |
Who carries each stage?
Mate Security
Prophet Security
- Your analysts
- Rules you write
- AI agent
- Provider's analysts
- Shared
- Not described
Stages where they differ:
- Nights and weekends: Mate not described, Prophet provider's analysts
Which capabilities does each document?
| Capability | Mate | Prophet | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Translates existing SOAR playbooks | Documented | Not described | Differs |
| Optional service where the vendor's people work the queue | Not described | Documented | Differs |
| Single-tenant option | Not described | Documented | Differs |
| Integration count published | Not described | Documented | 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 | |
| Data residency option | Not described | Not described | |
| Pricing unit or tiers published | Not described | Not described |
What are the strengths and limits of each?
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.
Prophet
Strengths
- Native, scoped response with a sign-off option, so response does not depend on a SOAR.
- An optional human service for teams without 24x7 staff, plus single-tenant hosting with BYOK.
Limits
- Pricing is not published.
- No path for translating existing SOAR playbooks is described, and hosting is AWS only on the pages reviewed.
When would you choose Mate, and when Prophet?
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.
Choose Prophet if you need:
- an optional service where its own people work the queue
- a single-tenant option
- a published integration count
- Native, scoped response with a sign-off option, so response does not depend on a SOAR.
What does each vendor say about its own results?
Mate
Prophet
No vendor figures were collected for Prophet.
Asked often about this page
Which is better, Mate or Prophet?
We do not rank vendors. Mate documents translating existing SOAR playbooks and Prophet documents an optional service where its own people work the queue. The fit finder orders vendors by the needs your answers imply.
Do Mate and Prophet publish pricing?
Neither publishes pricing on its own site.
Can Mate and Prophet be used together?
Our sources do not describe an integration between Mate and Prophet. 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.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.Prophet profileAn AI SOC analyst with scoped response actions and an optional 24x7 human review service.