Splunk SOAR vs Swimlane comparison

Splunk and Swimlane are both solutions in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category. Splunk is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.2, while Swimlane is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.6. Splunk holds a 8.0% mindshare in SOAR, compared to Swimlane’s 2.9% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Splunk users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Swimlane users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

Swimlane and Splunk SOAR are competing in the security orchestration, automation, and response category. Swimlane provides a more attractive pricing model and customer support, whereas Splunk SOAR excels with a comprehensive functionality set, offering a compelling choice for those seeking robust capabilities.

Features: Swimlane focuses on customization ease, flexible automation processes, and security operation environments. Splunk SOAR is notable for advanced machine learning, extensive integrations, and sophisticated toolsets suited for complex environments.

Room for Improvement: Swimlane could enhance its AI capabilities and include more advanced threat detection features. It can also benefit from a richer integration ecosystem and greater scalability. Splunk SOAR may improve user interface simplicity, require less training time, and reduce initial setup complexity to be more user-friendly.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Swimlane offers an easy deployment process augmented by excellent technical assistance, making integration within existing infrastructures smooth. Splunk SOAR, while providing reliable customer service, requires a more intricate initial setup due to its advanced features, necessitating an extended deployment period.

Pricing and ROI: Swimlane has lower setup costs and provides quicker returns on investment due to its economical pricing structure. Splunk SOAR, although higher in initial cost, justifies the expense with a significant potential ROI, attributed to its extensive feature capabilities and integration options.

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Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of Torq is 4.2%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk SOAR is 8.0%, up from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Swimlane is 2.9%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Splunk SOAR	8.0%
Torq	4.2%
Swimlane	2.9%
Other	84.9%

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

Featured Reviews

Nimrod Vardi

Global IT Director at OpenWeb

Automation workflows have transformed our IT, enabling secure just-in-time access control

We work with them quite often, so we have a direct line regarding areas in Torq that have room for improvement. If we have a feature request, we can request it. I do not have anything in mind at the moment. We were a design partner for a short while, so we feel that they listen and that users of the system have an impact on the way the system is designed for the better. They have a new community, which is something that I personally suggested years ago. There are many people like me in different places and they might have already built the workflow that I need. Having the option to share workflows or to jump on a thread and say I have this need, did anyone ever build a workflow for it, is amazing. Someone would jump in and say yes, sure, here, take this workflow. I think this is an amazing thing and I really hope that the community will come alive because I think this is really powerful. This is something that I already suggested and it did happen eventually, and I am quite happy with it. I do not have any specific feature in mind that I have a need for at the moment.

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Shiboo Suren

Manager cybersecurity at Hexion Inc.

Automates threat response and reduces investigation time but needs better threat intelligence integration

One thing that we would like to see with Splunk SOAR is the expandability to the threat intelligence feed. Currently, we have limited ingestion to the threat intelligence feed for the correlation purpose. We would like to see it being integrated, with license cost or without license cost, to leading threat intelligence sources such as Recorded Future, Feedly, or Flare. That is something we would appreciate having integrated. The second thing on the improvement side is about exposed credential-related information. If we start ingesting those data to Splunk SOAR or SIEM with some sort of integration with threat intelligence feed, that will also improve our detection and prediction method or help us with the investigation.

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MoumitaDas

Software Engineer III at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Task persistence and integration ease have been key benefits

The best part of Swimlane is the persistent notifications and its ease of integration, requiring minimal coding. While it lacks response features, it can be integrated with messaging or queue services to achieve this. Any incident response requires additional integration since Swimlane itself doesn't react to incidents. Real-time data in terms of persistence is configurable, and without config, tasks persist indefinitely until completion. If using Appian versions below 11, integration features for Swimlane aren't available. By default, Swimlane lacks built-in intelligence, needing coding for integration. Although the Swimlane is beneficial and reduces manpower requirements, it's hindered by its lack of exposure. If exposed through services or endpoints, its functionality could be accessed without needing a local standalone application. On a scale of one to ten, this solution deserves a rating of nine.

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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

"Using that one piece of AI, we auto-closed 511 cases in quarter four alone."

"As an analyst, it has demonstrated potential to reduce workforce requirements and time needed for related activities."

"Once I started to use the system and I saw the potential, it changed all of our work in IT."

"Any request that comes in, regardless of how complex it is, I can accomplish it with Torq."

"What I appreciate most about Torq is that it is an essential part of our system."

"If I review about 100 vendors that I might work with, Torq is definitely in the top five that gave me personally investment back, just because every bit of effort I put into Torq eventually became a workflow that gave it back to me."

"The most valuable feature of Splunk SOAR that stands out is it has a great SOAR. The automation and orchestration module is highly mature. A lot of use cases are on user entity and behavioral analytics (UEBA), which is artificial intelligence and machine learning-based (AIML)."

"The product provides 100% automation for certain processes."

"Splunk SOAR has made a huge impact across security operations and the business overall."

"Very flexible integration with other tools"

"The solution allows us to customize playbooks and incorporate custom code, allowing us to drag and drop elements while still writing code to build the integrations we need."

"Before its use, analyzing each email would take at least 15 to 20 minutes, with some complex cases taking up to 30 minutes...With the automation provided by Splunk Phantom, we could significantly reduce the amount of time and human effort required to complete this task."

"The most valuable feature is the risk-based access control."

"In terms of time savings in threat responses, as a team, we save more than 30%, estimated around 30-40%."

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"The technical support from Swimlane is very good."

"The biggest advantage of Swimlane for us is that it saves time, which in turn helps us in cost-saving."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the support."

"We are using it for a SOAR platform at a Cyber Security company which is MSSP."

"Our primary goal was to reduce analyst time, and we have been successful in that."

"On a scale of one to ten, this solution deserves a rating of nine."

"Swimlane is a very effective way to represent workflows involving multiple users."

"It provides us with a single portal for our logs from different solutions."

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Cons

"It was able to capture data but was unable to differentiate between the agent hostname we are using and the hostname that resides on the back end of the Internet."

"Regarding the pricing of Torq, I would say it is expensive."

"The initial deployment of Torq was not easy."

"Regarding stability, I have noticed some lagging, crashing, and downtime, which is one of my largest gripes."

"Even now, we have workflows that are in production that use AI steps and I get different results, making it unusable to some degree."

"While support is available, the resources around Splunk SOAR are more homegrown by other users, and discovering different troubleshooting methods is harder to do with Splunk SOAR than with Enterprise Security or other Splunk services."

"Splunk SOAR should improve its ease of upgrade, which is a pain point for us right now."

"Suppose I am initially granted user rights or analyst rights, but later on, I also get admin rights. SOAR is unable to amend the limitations of my role. I raised a support ticket with Splunk about this. They said it's a bug in their 5.3.5 version. To fix this, I had to reinstall the entire platform from scratch.."

"The cost of Splunk SOAR has room for improvement."

"They can improve on what they are currently doing. They can provide more playbooks or at least template playbooks that are in their repository."

"Creating playbooks using the solution’s playbook editor, for me, is very cumbersome. There have been instances where I have said to myself that I just don't want to use this editor. I might just use a code block and write my own code within it... The functionality in the playbook editor is 80 percent there, but that 20 percent is still lacking. They could make it more efficient."

"The tool's response is slower because it has to search through a huge dataset, which can be improved for latency."

"In the beginning, we couldn't find any specific documents for every function. It wasn't easy to navigate to what we needed."

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"One of the disadvantages of Swimlane is that to manage the platform, we need hardcore developers."

"Swimlane's search bar is not working effectively, and there is no option to differentiate between two cases at the same time."

"I would prefer to have more colors added to represent different risks or notations, which can be used for the prioritization of risks and the significance of information."

"The initial setup and deployment are complex."

"I would like to see improvements in the minor bugs that occur with each update, as some features might have issues."

"Swimlane is not scalable because it is not exposed. Currently, it's a manual component that requires configuration through coding."

"We faced a lot of issues with the product’s stability."

"There is a need for enhanced version control in Swimlane. Currently, our version does not support it, making it tough to move changes between environments during significant updates."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I found the price of Splunk SOAR to be good."

"In my opinion, the price is high, but if you want good products, you have to be willing to pay for them."

"Splunk SOAR is moderately priced, neither cheap nor overly expensive."

"When we first purchased our Splunk SOAR license, it was based on an event-count model. It was based on the number of events. I had strong opinions at the time that automation should not be stifled by the amount of automation you can accomplish, so the previous structure was not as beneficial for us. Later that year, we got told or saw at a conference that they announced user-based pricing. We are now in a renewal period, so we migrated to a user-based license model, which is more appropriate for us so that we no longer have to worry about stifling our automation based on the quantity."

"Splunk is a fast enterprise tool, but it costs too much. At the same time, it's worth what we pay, in my opinion. We can efficiently perform all the functions and tie together the data. It's the perfect tool for our needs."

"It's very overpriced because it is based on the number of users. There is no bulk licensing."

"The tool is not cheap."

"Splunk SOAR is more expensive compared to other options for SOAR."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

University

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	35

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Torq?

We do not utilize the AI features that much. When it comes to general AI features of Torq, we are just slowly startin...

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What is your primary use case for Torq?

Torq markets itself as a security tool, and we do use them for security, but not in the traditional sense they market...

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What advice do you have for others considering Torq?

I would rate Torq an eight overall. I feel that Torq is as good as the effort you put into it. The limitations are ve...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Phantom?

I am familiar with the pricing aspect, setup cost, and licensing cost of Splunk SOAR, and it is pretty much similar t...

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What needs improvement with Splunk Phantom?

There are areas for improvement in Splunk SOAR, such as the need for more code-level customizations despite providing...

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What is your primary use case for Splunk Phantom?

My use case for Splunk SOAR is for orchestration, mostly for automation, as I work with the Security Operations Cente...

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What needs improvement with Swimlane?

One of the disadvantages of Swimlane is that to manage the platform, we need hardcore developers. We have recently se...

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What is your primary use case for Swimlane?

We are using Swimlane for automation purposes and security orchestration. We are using Swimlane's Playbook Automation...

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What advice do you have for others considering Swimlane?

I would rate Swimlane a seven out of ten as a product.

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Overview

Torq is the enterprise AI SOC solution that effectively combines adaptive insights and automation to handle critical threats efficiently. It manages threat lifecycles, swiftly moving from triage to response, ensuring effective risk management.

Torq is designed to streamline security operations by aggregating telemetry across your security stack. It investigates significant risks and manages threats from triage to containment and remediation. This AI-driven tool enhances the capabilities of your SecOps team, allowing them to achieve more impactful results without introducing complicated processes.

What are the key features of Torq?

Adaptive Agentic Insights: Provides real-time threat intelligence tailored to specific security challenges.
Automation: Automates responses to security incidents, minimizing manual intervention requirements.
Threat Lifecycle Management: Comprehensive handling of threats from detection to remediation.
Telemetry Aggregation: Integrates data across platforms for a unified security overview.

Why consider Torq based on reviews?

Efficiency: Users notice significant reductions in time spent managing threats.
Risk Reduction: Enhanced ability to identify and address critical threats promptly.
Resource Optimization: Allows teams to allocate effort to other critical tasks by reducing manual security operations.
Scalability: Adaptable to meet the demands of growing or changing infrastructures.

In industries like finance and healthcare, Torq shows effectiveness by adapting to specific risk scenarios often encountered in these fields. Its integration with existing infrastructures makes it a valuable asset for maintaining stringent security standards, essential for protecting critical data and operations in diverse high-stakes environments.

Torq

Splunk SOAR offers features like automation and orchestration of manual tasks, speeding up work, detection and response to advanced and emerging threats.

Go from overwhelmed to in-control

Automate manual tasks. Address every alert, every day. Establish repeatable procedures that allow security analysts to stop being reactive and focus on mission-critical objectives to protect your business.

Force multiply your team

Orchestrate and automate repetitive tasks, investigation and response to increase efficiency and productivity, and do more with the people you already have. Make a team of three feel like a team of 10.

From 30 minutes to 30 seconds

Work faster with Splunk SOAR. Respond to threats in seconds. Lower your mean time to respond (MTTR) by automating security tasks and workflows across all of your security tools.

End-to-end security operations made easy

Take advantage of Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk SOAR joining forces to provide a seamless and intuitive SecOps platform to prevent, detect and respond to advanced and emerging threats.

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Swimlane is a leader in security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR). By automating time-intensive, manual processes and operational workflows and delivering powerful, consolidated analytics, real time dashboards and reporting from across your security infrastructure, Swimlane maximizes the incident response capabilities of over-burdened and understaffed security operations.

Swimlane was founded to deliver scalable innovative and flexible security solutions to organizations struggling with alert fatigue, vendor proliferation and chronic staffing shortages. Swimlane is at the forefront of the growing market for security automation and orchestration solutions that automate and organize security processes in repeatable ways to get the most out of available resources and accelerate incident response.

Swimlane

Sample Customers

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Recorded Future, Blackstone

LinkedIn, TransUnion, Citrix, Aetna, Perspecta

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