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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Vectra AI and Rapid7 InsightIDR are key security platforms competing in advanced threat detection and security intelligence. Rapid7 InsightIDR has an edge with its extensive features.

Features: Vectra AI is known for advanced threat detection, enhancing network visibility and real-time analysis. Rapid7 InsightIDR features comprehensive threat intelligence and insightful reporting, along with enhanced endpoint visibility, offering an appealing feature set.

Room for Improvement: Vectra AI could improve integration flexibility, report customization, and user interface intuitiveness. Rapid7 InsightIDR needs better log management, alert accuracy, and integration capabilities, which could enhance user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Vectra AI is praised for straightforward deployment and consistent support, while Rapid7 InsightIDR is easy to use but could improve deployment speed and support responsiveness to match Vectra AI's service levels.

Pricing and ROI: Vectra AI offers competitive pricing with significant ROI due to detection accuracy and efficiency. Rapid7 InsightIDR is considered costly but provides substantial ROI through its extensive features, valued by users for long-term investment.

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Categories and Ranking

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Ranking in Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

16th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (15th), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (7th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (22nd), Threat Deception Platforms (4th)

Vectra AI

Ranking in Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

15th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (5th), Network Detection and Response (NDR) (2nd), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (11th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Extended Detection and Response (XDR) category, the mindshare of Rapid7 InsightIDR is 2.5%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vectra AI is 3.1%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Vectra AI	3.1%
Rapid7 InsightIDR	2.5%
Other	94.4%

Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

Featured Reviews

SohailHyder

Head of Cyber Security at Super Secure

Has supported compliance needs for mid-sized organizations but lacks customization and advanced integration

If we pitch Rapid7 InsightIDR against solutions such as SIEMs from Splunk or LogRhythm, it is not as customizable as a SIEM solution is. This is where it can improve if we keep in front the feature sets of a complete SIEM solution. Most common in the market is QRadar, but it is depleting now. It has been taken over by some other products such as Splunk and LogRhythm. If we compare these things with Rapid7 InsightIDR, then there are definitely some gaps that need to be filled. Data retention is also one concern because Rapid7 InsightIDR is cloud-based and operates on a subscription model. Whatever data you want to retain, it has to be paid for separately or it has a cost. Other solutions that are on-premises can have their own infrastructure or they provide some data retention for a month or in some capacity-wise, they provide that solution to them which makes them more attractive.

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RahulReddy

Consultant at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

Threat detection has improved and malicious emails are now identified quickly

Vectra AI offers artificial intelligence capabilities with visibility that can be integrated into our day-to-day operations and other tools, including malware detection tools and cyber threat tools. Vectra AI has positively impacted my organization. Last year while using it, we received many malicious email threats and virus incidents, including a trojan virus that had reportedly been deployed by someone. Our company used Vectra AI to detect the malicious threats and viruses before they could cause more damage, and we successfully stopped the threats. Using Vectra AI, I notice that server downtime has decreased significantly. We now experience only two to three hours of downtime, whereas without Vectra AI and other tools, our downtime would exceed 48 to 72 hours.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The alerting to drive investigations and remediation has been its most valuable feature."

"I have seen that Rapid7 InsightIDR provides security to the networks and endpoints in the company."

"User behavioral analytics allows us to pinpoint abnormal or suspicious behavior among millions of events every day."

"The product works well. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"Simple configuration and automatically syncs to the cloud platform."

"It improved my organization by building a security alerting program."

"The log aggregation and storage provided by InsightIDR has shown no issues with scalability; aggregating over one hundred millions events daily."

"The UI is very good."

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"The most valuable feature for Cognito Detect, the main solution, is that external IDS's create a lot of alerts. When I say a lot of alerts I really mean a lot of alerts. Vectra, on the other hand, contextualizes everything, reducing the number of alerts and pinpointing only the things of interest. This is a key feature for me. Because of this, a non-trained analyst can use it almost right away."

"I like the way that Vectra AI focuses on the internal network. Nowadays, most of the attackers are already inside, and they can be inside for many years before they start attacking. With normal monitoring, it's quite difficult to find them."

"Vectra AI generates relevant information."

"Cognito Streams gives you a detailed view of what happens in the network in the form of rich metadata. It is just a super easy way to capture network traffic for important protocols, giving us an advantage. This is very helpful on a day-to-day basis."

"It does a reliable job of parsing out the logs of all the network traffic so that we can ingest them into our SIEM and utilize them for threat hunting and case investigations. It is pretty robust and reliable. The administration time that we spend maintaining it or troubleshooting it is very low. So, the labor hour overhead is probably our largest benefit from it. We spend 99% of our time in Vectra investigating cases, responding to incidents, or hunting, and only around 1% of our time is spent patching, troubleshooting, or doing anything else. That's our largest benefit from Vectra."

"One of the most valuable features of the platform is its ability to provide you with aggregated risk scores based on impact and certainty of threats being detected. This is both applied to individual and host detections. This is important because it enables us to use this platform to prioritize the most likely imminent threats. So, it reduces alert fatigue follow ups for security operation center analysts. It also provides us with an ability to prioritize limited resources."

"Vectra AI has positively impacted my organization; last year while using it, we received many malicious email threats and virus incidents, including a trojan virus that had reportedly been deployed by someone, and our company used Vectra AI to detect the malicious threats and viruses before they could cause more damage, and we successfully stopped the threats."

"Scalability wise, we have many sensors, and Vectra AI seems to handle them all very well."

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Cons

"Needs a better ability to customize the check within the console."

"Cloud risk assessment is one area where I think they need a lot of improvement."

"They should add more configuration and security features to it."

"The searching feature in Rapid7 InsightIDR needs to evolve"

"There are certain limitations with Rapid7 that I am working on."

"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"If we pitch Rapid7 InsightIDR against solutions such as SIEMs from Splunk or LogRhythm, it is not as customizable as a SIEM solution is."

"Lacks a mobile application."

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"It does a little bit of packet capture on alert so you can look at the packet capture activity going on, but it doesn't collect a whole lot of data. Sometimes it's only one or two frames, sometimes it does collect more. That's why they have the addition of their Recall platform, because that really does help expand the capability."

"In comparison with a lot of systems I used in the past, the false positives are really a burden because they are taking a lot of time at this moment."

"The reporting from Cognito Detect is very limited and doesn't give you too many options. If I want to prepare a customized report on a particular host, even though I see the data, I have to manually prepare the report. The reporting features that are built into the tool are not very helpful."

"Some of their integrations with other sources of data, like external threat feeds, took a bit more work than I had hoped to get integrated."

"I think Vectra AI's automation, reporting, and integration could be improved."

"The solution's marketing is not good."

"Pricing could be improved, as many customers have complained about the pricing model and pricing complexity."

"You are always limited with visibility on the host due to the fact that it is a network based tool. It gives you visibility on certain elements of the attack path, but it doesn't necessarily give you visibility on everything. Specifically, the initial intrusion side of things that doesn't necessarily see the initial compromise. It doesn't see stuff that goes on the host, such as where scripts are run. Even though you are seeing traffic, it doesn't necessarily see the malicious payload. Therefore, it's very difficult for it to identify these type of host-driven complex attacks."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing is by endpoint and amount of retention time (at least ours is). Default retention was one year, but we are able to push the retention further if needed. There's also a provide-your-own-S3 option for longer retention if you don't want to pay for the additional retention years in your Rapid7 agreement."

"The pricing of the solution depends on the user. But there is a yearly licensing cost."

"The team is very willing to work with companies. My suggestion is to call the Rapid7 sales department and see how they can help."

"The pricing is good, and it is not very expensive."

"The solution has a mid-range price point in the market"

"I am sure that there are cheaper products out there, but none that meet so many of our needs whilst maintaining stability and usability."

"I rate Rapid7 InsightIDR's price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"It is on a yearly basis. For our own company, for about 250 users, it was 16,000 euros a year."

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"There are additional features that can be purchased in addition to the standard licensing fee, such as Cognito Recall and Stream."

"It is an expensive solution, but it's not the most expensive we've seen. We also know how much we're going to pay, unlike with some other providers where all of a sudden our license explodes."

"The upfront pricing model that we have would have been more beneficial if it had been a recurring license fee, but that wasn't a massive issue for us. It's fairly priced."

"The solution is low-cost and affordable."

"Their licensing model is antiquated. I'm not a fan of their licensing model. We have to pay for licensing based on four different things. You have to pay based on the number of unique IPs, the number of logs that we send through Recall and Stream, and the size of our environment. They need to simplify their licensing down to just one thing. It should be based on the amount of data, the number of devices, or something else, but there should be just one thing for everything. That's what they need to base their licensing on. Cost-wise, they're not cheap. They were definitely the most expensive option, but you get what you pay for. They're not the cheapest option."

"We have a desire to increase our use. However, it all comes down to budget. It's a very expensive tool that is very difficult to prove business support for. We would like to have two separate networks. We have our corporate network and PCI network, which is segregated due to payment processing. We don't have it for deployed in the PCI network. It would be good to have it fully deployed there to provide us with additional monitoring and control, but the cost associated with their licensing model makes it prohibitively expensive to deploy."

"The license is based on the concurrent IP addresses that it's investigating. We have 9,800 to 10,000 IP addresses."

"Vectra's licensing model could scale to our research network, which has multiple, 100-gigabit links."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	29

Questions from the Community

What SOC product do you recommend?

For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...

What do you like most about Rapid7 InsightIDR?

During simulations or demonstrations, the tool generates alerts, providing details such as the specific application, its origin, and potential threats. For instance, it can identify if an applicati...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rapid7 InsightIDR?

The product pricing is very cheap.

What is the biggest difference between Corelight and Vectra AI?

The two platforms take a fundamentally different approach to NDR. Corelight is limited to use cases that require the eventual forwarding of events and parsed data logs to a security team’s SIEM or ...

What do you like most about Vectra AI?

The solution is currently used as a central threat detection and response system.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vectra AI?

It is very acceptable when you compare it with Darktrace, for example.

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Also Known As

InsightIDR

Vectra Networks, Vectra AI NDR

Overview

Parsing hundreds of trivial alerts. Managing a mountain of data. Manually forwarding info from your endpoints. Forget that. InsightIDR instantly arms you with the insight you need to make better decisions across the incident detection and response lifecycle, faster.

Rapid7

Vectra AI specializes in AI-driven threat detection and response, empowering security teams to detect attacker activities, correlate alerts, and enhance visibility across modern environments. The emphasis on high-fidelity threats enables rapid and confident incident response in network, identity, and cloud settings.

Ranked highly across several categories, Vectra AI is renowned for its AI-driven threat management capabilities, offering substantial insights into attack cycles. The integration with platforms and focus on key accounts aids in improved threat detection and response times. PeerSpot gives it an average rating of 8.6, and it's frequently compared to Fortinet FortiGate. Popular among large enterprises, it's favored by professionals in the computer software industry, accounting for significant research interest.

What are Vectra AI's key features?

Incident Aggregation: Combines alerts into manageable campaigns, reducing alert fatigue.
Behavioral Detection: Identifies anomalies for detailed attack cycle insights.
Integration Capabilities: Works with Office 365 and EDR to consolidate security efforts.
Privileged Account Monitoring: Analyzes high-risk actions for enhanced security.
Anomaly Detection: Highlights risks early, improving response times and resource use.

What benefits should users expect from reviews?

Enhanced Threat Management: Users gain detailed attack cycle visibility.
Improved Response Efficiency: Emphasis on threats reduces reaction time.
Resource Optimization: Intelligent detection optimizes resource utilization.
Comprehensive Security Integration: Seamless integration improves overall security.

In industries like large enterprises and computer software, Vectra AI is crucial for network visibility and threat detection. It ensures security across private and cloud infrastructures, with users leveraging it to identify malicious activities and enhance threat management through AI-driven alerts and integration with existing security tools.

Sample Customers

Liberty Wines, Pioneer Telephone, Visier

Tribune Media Group, Barry University, Aruba Networks, Good Technology, Riverbed, Santa Clara University, Securities Exchange, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association

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