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Mate Security vs Splunk SOAR: facts side by side
The short answer
Mate is an AI SOC analyst product and Splunk SOAR is a SOAR product. Mate replaces SOAR, while Splunk SOAR adds AI inside SOAR. Mate documents translating existing SOAR playbooks; Splunk SOAR documents on-premises, hybrid or customer-tenant hosting 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 Splunk SOAR differ at a glance?
| Fact | Mate | Splunk SOAR |
|---|---|---|
| Primary model | AI SOC analyst | SOAR |
| Also reaches into | None | SIEM copilot |
| Position on SOAR | Replaces SOAR | Adds AI inside SOAR |
| Integrations | Not published | 300+ third-party tools and 2,800+ automated actions. |
| 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. | Cloud, on-premises or hybrid. |
| 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. | Not reviewed |
| 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
Splunk SOAR
- Your analysts
- Rules you write
- AI agent
- Provider's analysts
- Shared
- Not described
Stages where they differ:
- Triage: Mate AI agent, Splunk SOAR rules you write
- Investigate: Mate AI agent, Splunk SOAR rules you write
- Respond: Mate shared, Splunk SOAR rules you write
- Tune: Mate shared, Splunk SOAR your analysts
- Nights and weekends: Mate not described, Splunk SOAR rules you write
Which capabilities does each document?
| Capability | Mate | Splunk SOAR | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Translates existing SOAR playbooks | Documented | Not described | Differs |
| On-premises, hybrid or your own cloud tenant | 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 | |
| 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?
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.
Splunk SOAR
Strengths
- Broad action library and the widest deployment choice here: cloud, on-premises or hybrid.
- The natural fit for teams whose SIEM is Splunk Enterprise Security.
Limits
- The AI capabilities sit in Enterprise Security; SOAR on its own is playbook-driven.
- Prices are not published.
When would you choose Mate, and when Splunk SOAR?
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 Splunk SOAR if you need:
- on-premises, hybrid or customer-tenant hosting
- a published integration count
- Broad action library and the widest deployment choice here: cloud, on-premises or hybrid.
What does each vendor say about its own results?
Mate
Splunk SOAR
No vendor figures were collected for Splunk SOAR.
Asked often about this page
Which is better, Mate or Splunk SOAR?
We do not rank vendors. Mate documents translating existing SOAR playbooks and Splunk SOAR documents on-premises, hybrid or customer-tenant hosting. The fit finder orders vendors by the needs your answers imply.
Do Mate and Splunk SOAR publish pricing?
Neither publishes pricing on its own site.
Can Mate and Splunk SOAR be used together?
Our sources do not describe an integration between Mate and Splunk SOAR. 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.Splunk SOAR profileSplunk's SOAR, now a native capability inside Splunk Enterprise Security.