# AI SOC Compared

> Editorial rankings of AI SOC platforms by how much of the alert queue a lean security team can hand off, and how much control it keeps: end-to-end investigation, autonomy controls, readable reasoning, data sources, hosting, SOAR playbooks and pricing. Vendor facts read 27 September, 11 October and 13 October 2026; updated 14 October 2026.

## Rankings and method

- [Home](https://aisoccompared.com/): The lead question, the ranking, the autonomy ladder matrix and which platform fits which team.
- [AI SOC rankings](https://aisoccompared.com/ai-soc-rankings): 10 platforms ranked, the per-criterion breakdown, every autonomy ladder and products not ranked.
- [How we score](https://aisoccompared.com/soc-scoring): Criteria, weights, the total formula, sensitivity checks, evidence rules and limits.

## Platforms

- [Mate Security](https://aisoccompared.com/soc-platform/mate-security): Best for lean teams that want every alert investigated with autonomy they can set per category, and SOAR playbooks carried over.
- [Prophet Security](https://aisoccompared.com/soc-platform/prophet-security): Best for small teams that want native response with sign-off and an optional human review layer.
- [Torq AI SOC Platform](https://aisoccompared.com/soc-platform/torq): Best for teams with many tools to connect that want AI agents and no-code automation in one product.
- [Artemis Security](https://aisoccompared.com/soc-platform/artemis-security): Best for teams that want to pre-authorise response per action and per connector, with an AI-native SOAR beside it.
- [Dropzone AI](https://aisoccompared.com/soc-platform/dropzone-ai): Best for teams that want AI investigation now and keep their SOAR for response.
- [7AI](https://aisoccompared.com/soc-platform/7ai): Best for teams whose analysts must read every step before trusting a verdict.
- [Exaforce](https://aisoccompared.com/soc-platform/exaforce): Best for teams that want native response across cloud, identity and email, run by their own staff or as an Exaforce-managed service.
- [Conifers CognitiveSOC](https://aisoccompared.com/soc-platform/conifers): Best for teams that need processing in their own Azure tenant or region, and MSSPs.
- [Intezer](https://aisoccompared.com/soc-platform/intezer): Best for teams whose queue is dominated by endpoint and malware alerts.
- [Vega](https://aisoccompared.com/soc-platform/vega): Best for detection-led teams that want autonomous triage with readable queries, and keep response with analysts.

## Compare

- [Side by side](https://aisoccompared.com/soc-side-by-side): Compare two to five platforms on every score, reason, autonomy rung, price and hosting option.
- [Analyst hours calculator](https://aisoccompared.com/analyst-hours-calculator): Size an alert queue in analyst hours and re-rank the platforms on your own weights and must-haves.
- Pair pages: https://aisoccompared.com/<a>-v-<b>-soc for every pair of the 10 platforms, slugs in alphabetical order, for example https://aisoccompared.com/mate-security-v-prophet-security-soc. Alternatives pages: https://aisoccompared.com/leaving-<slug>, for example https://aisoccompared.com/leaving-torq.

## Learn

- [AI SOC course](https://aisoccompared.com/ai-soc-course): Ten lessons on handing the alert queue to an AI SOC.
- [From alert to closed case: the stages an AI SOC claims to cover](https://aisoccompared.com/ai-soc-course/alert-to-closed-case): The five stages of alert work and who does each.
- [What a trustworthy AI SOC verdict contains](https://aisoccompared.com/ai-soc-course/what-a-trustworthy-verdict-contains): Evidence, steps, confidence and a way to disagree.
- [Where the agent reads your data: API queries, federated search and ingest](https://aisoccompared.com/ai-soc-course/where-the-agent-reads-your-data): Query in place, search across stores, or copy the data in.
- [Context that persists: memory and decision history in an AI SOC](https://aisoccompared.com/ai-soc-course/context-that-persists): What a platform remembers about you, and why it matters.
- [Shadow mode first: running an AI SOC beside your analysts](https://aisoccompared.com/ai-soc-course/shadow-mode-first): Let it recommend, compare, then decide.
- [Five signals that an alert category is ready for more autonomy](https://aisoccompared.com/ai-soc-course/five-signals-a-category-is-ready): When to move a category up a step.
- [Pulling autonomy back: rollback, drift and audit in an AI SOC](https://aisoccompared.com/ai-soc-course/pulling-autonomy-back): Fallback, kill switches and the weekly review.
- [Pilot metrics for a small SOC: four numbers to track](https://aisoccompared.com/ai-soc-course/pilot-metrics-for-a-small-soc): Agreement, unfinished, review time, missed.
- [Moving SOAR playbooks to an AI SOC: what to test after translation or rebuild](https://aisoccompared.com/ai-soc-course/moving-soar-playbooks-what-to-test): Translate, rebuild or keep: then test.
- [Reading AI SOC pricing units and trust pages before the first call](https://aisoccompared.com/ai-soc-course/pricing-units-and-trust-pages): What is published, and what to ask for.
- [AI SOC terms](https://aisoccompared.com/ai-soc-terms): Plain definitions of AI SOC terms.
- [AI SOC FAQ](https://aisoccompared.com/ai-soc-faq): Questions lean security teams ask, grouped by theme.

## Notes

- [What AI SOC vendors publish about data handling: trust pages read in October 2026](https://aisoccompared.com/alert-desk-notes/ai-soc-trust-pages-read-october-2026): Attestations, subprocessors, tenancy and keys, vendor by vendor.
- [Beyond triage: hunting and detection engineering agents in AI SOC products](https://aisoccompared.com/alert-desk-notes/hunting-and-detection-agents-2026): What vendors added beyond the alert queue in 2026.
- [AI SOC funding in 2025 and 2026: what the rounds say, and what they do not](https://aisoccompared.com/alert-desk-notes/ai-soc-funding-what-it-says): Rounds, acquisitions and what they mean for buyers.
- [Reversibility as a design rule: how ten AI SOC vendors describe unattended actions](https://aisoccompared.com/alert-desk-notes/reversibility-how-vendors-describe-unattended-actions): Ten vendors, ten ways to limit what an agent does alone.
- [Buying an AI SOC through a cloud marketplace: what the listings change](https://aisoccompared.com/alert-desk-notes/buying-ai-soc-through-cloud-marketplace): Committed spend, faster paperwork, and three list prices.
- [Platform AI vs a standalone AI SOC: what the big platforms' pages show](https://aisoccompared.com/alert-desk-notes/platform-ai-vs-standalone-ai-soc): Why AI inside your SIEM or EDR is a different purchase.
- [Two reading dates, one ranking: what we checked again on 11 October 2026](https://aisoccompared.com/alert-desk-notes/what-we-checked-again-on-11-october): Second reads, corrected facts and their effect on scores.
- [Evaluating an AI SOC when you have no SOAR](https://aisoccompared.com/alert-desk-notes/evaluating-an-ai-soc-without-a-soar): Native response, zero playbook weight, and what to check.

## Data

- [Autonomy ladder data (CSV)](https://aisoccompared.com/data/autonomy-ladder.csv): Rung status, note and source for each platform.