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Mate Security vs Torq AI SOC Platform: facts side by side

The short answer

Both Mate and Torq are AI SOC analyst products. Both replace SOAR. Mate documents approval or sign-off before actions and translating existing SOAR playbooks; Torq documents 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 Torq differ at a glance?

FactMateTorq
Primary modelAI SOC analystAI SOC analyst
Also reaches intoNoneSOAR
Position on SOARReplaces SOARReplaces SOAR
IntegrationsNot published300 pre-built integrations and 4,000+ pre-built steps, plus AI-generated integrations.
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.Described as cloud-native. Other options: not described on the pages reviewed.
PricingNot publishedNot published
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.SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, ISO 42001:2023 and German BSI C5 (the last two announced 5 December 2025).
Funding$15.5M seed (November 2025) and a $35M Series A (July 2026), per Mate's newsroom; investors listed: Canaan, Team8, Insight Partners, M12.$70M Series C (September 2024); $140M Series D at a $1.2B valuation (January 2026). Acquired Jit (May 2026).

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

Torq AI SOC Platform

Work strip for Torq AI SOC Platform: Triage, AI agent; Investigate, AI agent; Respond, shared; Tune, shared; Nights and weekends, not described.TriageAI agentInvestigateAI agentRespondSharedTuneSharedNights and weekendsNot described
  • Your analysts
  • Rules you write
  • AI agent
  • Provider's analysts
  • Shared
  • Not described

They match on every stage.

Which capabilities does each document?

CapabilityMateTorqDifference
Approval or sign-off before actionsDocumentedNot describedDiffers
Translates existing SOAR playbooksDocumentedNot describedDiffers
Integration count publishedNot describedDocumentedDiffers
Runs response actions itselfDocumentedDocumented
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
On-premises, hybrid or your own cloud tenantNot describedNot described
Single-tenant optionNot describedNot described
Data residency optionNot describedNot described
Pricing unit or tiers 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.

Torq

Strengths

  • The largest published integration catalog among the AI SOC platforms here, with deterministic and agentic workflows in one engine.
  • Heavily funded, with a steady 2026 release record (Agentic Builder, Jit, SOC Brain).

Limits

  • Existing SOAR playbooks are rebuilt in Torq rather than translated; plan the rebuild effort.
  • No public pricing, and deployment beyond cloud-native is not described.

When would you choose Mate, and when Torq?

Choose Mate if you need:

  • approval or sign-off before actions
  • 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 Torq if you need:

  • a published integration count
  • The largest published integration catalog among the AI SOC platforms here, with deterministic and agentic workflows in one engine.

What does each vendor say about its own results?

Mate

Torq

Asked often about this page

Which is better, Mate or Torq?

We do not rank vendors. Mate documents approval or sign-off before actions and Torq documents a published integration count. The fit finder orders vendors by the needs your answers imply.

Do Mate and Torq publish pricing?

Neither publishes pricing on its own site.

Can Mate and Torq be used together?

Our sources do not describe an integration between Mate and Torq. 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.Torq profileAgentic AI on top of Hyperautomation: AI agents for triage and investigation plus a no-code automation engine.