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By The Alert Desk · AI SOC Compared · Published 2026-09-27 · Updated 2026-10-14
Desk research from public vendor pages; vendor facts read 27 September, 11 October and 13 October 2026; published 27 September 2026, updated 14 October 2026. Editorial assessment; we did not test the products.
Rank 4 of 10
Best for: Teams that want to pre-authorise response per action and per connector, with an AI-native SOAR beside it
Rank 1 of 10
Best for: Lean teams that want every alert investigated with autonomy they can set per category, and SOAR playbooks carried over
| Criterion | Artemis | Mate | Higher |
|---|---|---|---|
Investigates end to end 20%WhyArtemis: Correlates identity, cloud, endpoint and SaaS data against a living model of the environment and investigates autonomously; its Cursor case cites 96% of investigations resolved autonomously (Artemis's figure). Source: Artemis Security homepage · Read 13 Oct 2026 Mate: Mate says it investigates every alert, including informational ones, against a Security Context Graph of memories, decision traces, guardrails and architecture. Source: Mate Security homepage · Read 11 Oct 2026 | 8 / 10 | 9 / 10 | Mate |
Autonomy you can dial 20%WhyArtemis: Acts alone only where you have pre-authorised it, with approval set per action and per connector, impact-checked containment that is reversible by design, and a who, what and why audit trail. Source: Artemis Security response · Read 13 Oct 2026 Mate: Three levels (Recommend only, Supervised, Auto-run), with each action scored on Confidence, Precision and Reversibility outside the agent loop. Source: Mate Security platform · Read 11 Oct 2026 | 9 / 10 | 9 / 10 | Tie |
Shows its reasoning 15%WhyArtemis: Investigations and each proposed action come with evidence and an impact preview; step-level agent reasoning is described less specifically than at the leaders. Source: Artemis Security response · Read 13 Oct 2026 Mate: Verdicts carry an evidence trail the team can audit and tune, and decision traces record why analysts decided past cases. Source: Mate Security platform · Read 27 Sep 2026 | 7 / 10 | 9 / 10 | Mate |
Reaches your data sources 15%WhyArtemis: 225+ connectors, ingesting SIEMs such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel and CrowdStrike NG-SIEM and querying stores such as Snowflake, BigQuery and AWS Security Lake in place. Source: Artemis Security connectors · Read 13 Oct 2026 Mate: Names Microsoft, Google Workspace, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Proofpoint and Slack and says it is stack agnostic, but publishes no integration count or catalogue. Source: Mate Security platform · Read 27 Sep 2026 | 8 / 10 | 7 / 10 | Artemis |
Hosting and data handling 10%WhyArtemis: Ingests hot-path data and queries high-volume data where it lives, and describes on-premises execution of response; tenancy, residency and attestations are not described. Source: Artemis Security platform overview · Read 13 Oct 2026 Mate: Trust center lists ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, CCPA and GDPR, with AWS and Google Cloud as cloud subprocessors; no single-tenant, customer-tenant or residency option is described. Source: Mate Security trust center · Read 11 Oct 2026 | 5 / 10 | 6 / 10 | Mate |
Brings SOAR playbooks along 10%WhyArtemis: An AI-native SOAR builder aimed at teams maintaining a SOAR, with 300+ actions, a Splunk SOAR connector and automatic proposals for playbook updates; playbooks are rebuilt rather than translated. Source: Artemis Security response · Read 13 Oct 2026 Mate: States it translates existing SOAR playbooks into Gamebooks, replacing brittle API calls while keeping custom logic. Source: Mate Security: Gamebooks · Read 27 Sep 2026 | 8 / 10 | 9 / 10 | Mate |
Pricing clarity 10%WhyArtemis: No pricing page; Book a Demo only. Source: Artemis Security homepage · Read 13 Oct 2026 Mate: AWS Marketplace listing shows $150,000 for a 12-month contract for one dimension, the Mate Enterprise Tier, a usage tier the listing does not define; no pricing unit and no price on Mate's own site. Source: AWS Marketplace: Mate Security listing · Read 11 Oct 2026 | 2 / 10 | 4 / 10 | Mate |
Every alert investigated 24/7 in its Cursor case.
Source: Artemis Security homepage · Read 13 Oct 2026
Autonomous investigation across identity, cloud, endpoint and SaaS.
Source: Artemis Security homepage · Read 13 Oct 2026
Evidence and an impact preview per action; step-level reasoning not described.
Source: Artemis Security response · Read 13 Oct 2026
Approval set per action and per connector.
Source: Artemis Security response · Read 13 Oct 2026
Acts alone only where pre-authorised, reversible by design.
Source: Artemis Security response · Read 13 Oct 2026
Mate says it investigates 100% of alerts, including informational ones.
Source: Mate Security homepage · Read 11 Oct 2026
Investigations run against the Security Context Graph with domain logic for six alert domains.
Source: Mate Security platform · Read 27 Sep 2026
Verdicts come with an evidence trail; decision traces record why analysts decided past cases.
Source: Mate Security platform · Read 27 Sep 2026
Supervised level: human in the loop for response.
Source: Mate Security platform · Read 11 Oct 2026
Auto-run level with CPR checks outside the agent loop; falls back to Supervised on conflict with analysts.
Source: Mate Security platform · Read 11 Oct 2026
Documented by Artemis only: none. Documented by Mate only: show work. Documented by both: triage, investigate, act on sign-off and act alone, within limits.
A partial rung counts as not documented in these sentences.
Not published
No pricing page; Book a Demo only.
Source: Artemis Security homepage · Read 13 Oct 2026
HOSTING SaaS; hot-path data ingested, high-volume data queried where it lives; on-premises execution of response actions described. Tenancy, residency and attestations: Not published.
Not published
No price on Mate's own site. AWS Marketplace listing: $150,000 for a 12-month contract, dimension Mate Enterprise Tier (described as the usage tier level in the Mate platform, not otherwise defined); private offers through Mate's sales team. Mate says marketplace purchases can count toward AWS commitments.
Source: AWS Marketplace: Mate Security listing · Read 11 Oct 2026
HOSTING SaaS. Mate's AWS Marketplace post says it is built on AWS infrastructure; its trust center lists Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud as cloud subprocessors. Self-hosted, customer-tenant and data residency options: Not published.
Choose Artemis Security if you want to decide action by action and connector by connector what may run unattended, or if you maintain a SOAR and want an AI-native builder beside it. Look elsewhere first if you need published pricing or hosting details, or a vendor with a longer track record.
Choose Mate Security if you want every alert investigated and a documented way to move categories from recommendations to unattended action and back, or if you have SOAR playbooks you want carried over rather than rebuilt. Look elsewhere first if you need a defined pricing unit, a published integration catalogue or hosting in your own tenant.
Where Mate Security scores lower
Mate Security ranks 1 of 10 on default weights. It holds the highest or tied highest score on Investigates end to end, Autonomy you can dial, Shows its reasoning and Brings SOAR playbooks along. It scores lower on Reaches your data sources (7 against Torq AI SOC Platform at 9), Hosting and data handling (6 against Conifers CognitiveSOC at 9) and Pricing clarity (4 against Dropzone AI and Intezer at 5).
Mate publishes no pricing unit (its only public price is an AWS Marketplace listing for one undefined usage tier), no integration count, and no single-tenant, customer-tenant or residency option. Its lead comes from autonomy control and playbooks: it is the only platform here that describes three autonomy levels with action checks outside the agent loop and translating existing SOAR playbooks.
Neither: they tie on our autonomy criterion (Artemis 9/10, Mate 9/10). Artemis: Acts alone only where you have pre-authorised it, with approval set per action and per connector, impact-checked containment that is reversible by design, and a who, what and why audit trail. Mate: Three levels (Recommend only, Supervised, Auto-run), with each action scored on Confidence, Precision and Reversibility outside the agent loop.
Artemis documents actions on sign-off, and documents unattended actions within limits: Acts alone only where pre-authorised, reversible by design. Mate documents actions on sign-off, and documents unattended actions within limits: Auto-run level with CPR checks outside the agent loop; falls back to Supervised on conflict with analysts. Rungs documented: Artemis 4.5 of 5, Mate 5 of 5.
Artemis: Not published. Mate: Not published. Pricing clarity scores: Artemis 2/10, Mate 4/10.