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Mate Security vs Tines: facts side by side

The short answer

Mate is an AI SOC analyst product and Tines is a SOAR product. Both replace SOAR. Mate documents translating existing SOAR playbooks; Tines documents on-premises, hybrid or customer-tenant hosting and a published pricing unit or tiers. 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 Tines differ at a glance?

FactMateTines
Primary modelAI SOC analystSOAR
Also reaches intoNoneAI SOC analyst
Position on SOARReplaces SOARReplaces SOAR
IntegrationsNot publishedNot published
DeploymentMate 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.Shared stack, self-hosted or hybrid; Tines says AI features are available wherever Tines is deployed.
PricingNot publishedFree edition: unlimited users and connectors, 3 live workflows, one-time $50 AI allowance. Paid editions: contact sales; startup program discounts.
ComplianceISO 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.$125M Series C at a $1.125B valuation, announced 11 February 2025.

Who carries each stage?

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

Tines

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

Stages where they differ:

  • Investigate: Mate AI agent, Tines shared
  • Tune: Mate shared, Tines your analysts

Which capabilities does each document?

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

Tines

Strengths

  • Self-hosted and hybrid deployment, with AI available wherever Tines runs.
  • A free edition with published limits, so a team can build before talking to sales.

Limits

  • No prebuilt AI SOC analyst is described; your team designs the investigation logic.
  • No integration count, and paid editions have no public price.

When would you choose Mate, and when Tines?

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 Tines if you need:

  • on-premises, hybrid or customer-tenant hosting
  • a published pricing unit or tiers
  • Self-hosted and hybrid deployment, with AI available wherever Tines runs.

What does each vendor say about its own results?

Mate

Tines

No vendor figures were collected for Tines.

Asked often about this page

Which is better, Mate or Tines?

We do not rank vendors. Mate documents translating existing SOAR playbooks and Tines documents on-premises, hybrid or customer-tenant hosting. The fit finder orders vendors by the needs your answers imply.

Do Mate and Tines publish pricing?

Tines publishes tiers or a pricing unit; Mate does not publish pricing on its own site. Neither publishes a paid list price there.

Can Mate and Tines be used together?

Our sources do not describe an integration between Mate and Tines. 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.Tines profileA workflow platform for AI agents, apps and automation that positions itself as a modern SOAR, with an AI SOC use case built from workflows.