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 8.3, while Swimlane is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.6. Splunk holds a 7.8% mindshare in SOAR, compared to Swimlane’s 3.0% 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 January 2026, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of Torq is 4.9%, up from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk SOAR is 7.8%, up from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Swimlane is 3.0%, down from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Splunk SOAR	7.8%
Torq	4.9%
Swimlane	3.0%
Other	84.3%

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

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Trevor R.

Cybersecurity Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees

Automation has transformed phishing triage and case management for our security team

In terms of increasing alert handling capability for our SecOps staff, Torq's Agentic AI is really strong in analysis, and recently, we started using what's called the AI Step, having really great success. Using that one piece of AI, we auto-closed 511 cases in quarter four alone. Torq has changed the day-to-day experience for my security analysts by enhancing their workload management and how they feel about their job, as they can now operate cases more quickly and have a nicer centralized location for information that previously required manual work. Torq's unified platform approach to AI SOC automation and case management has significantly benefited us by integrating the case management platform with the automation, which saves time compared to managing multiple point solutions across our security stack.

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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."

"The best feature in Splunk SOAR is the visual Playbook Editor. The drag-and-drop interfaces make visualizations and understanding workflows easy."

"Fortunately, the system helps to parse through these alerts and determine which ones are important and need further investigation."

"Splunk SOAR helps reduce my mean time to detect significantly and enhances it very well; it reduces the mean time to detect by approximately 70%."

"The most valuable features of Splunk SOAR are the easy integration with other solutions, including other Splunk solutions. The most important playbooks we need on the market come already on the Frontend. However, nowadays, Splunk changed its name, it's not Frontend anymore, it's Splunk Store. This is a very strong point."

"The solution’s dashboard is really good and customizable. It also has a good UI."

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

"The benefits were immediate when we started using Mission Control Splunk SOAR over a year ago; it has made it easier for our analysts to work on alerts using playbooks and forward them."

"In Splunk SOAR, I find the playbooks valuable. We get to create multiple playbooks, and within each playbook, there is a different type of investigation attached to it, which helps out an analyst or new analysts coming on board."

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"Swimlane saves us 80 to 90 percent of our time by quickly helping us design the journey and efficiently passing information to various components."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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Cons

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

"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."

"have put a number of ideas on the ideas.splunk.com site for feature requests for the Splunk SOAR product. I posted one of them about three years ago, which finally got implemented in the latest release that just got announced, so the time to implement new features and things like that is a little bit concerning."

"The application does not work properly and does not pass the log-based configuration. I feel that some kind of review should happen in the application. This review should validate things so that we can get the right information. Splunk does not tell us where the IP address is associated with."

"And most of the challenges that I have faced with the solution can be found in the documentation itself."

"I haven't used it fully, but based on my usage, I could not find simulation tools and features. It currently lacks simulation features, which are important for me for creating a playbook. It is also very expensive for my region."

"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."

"Splunk SOAR can improve IoT/OT security-related case studies or your use cases. Their integration with identity and access management (IAM) solutions is a bit shaky. They don't have good integration with a lot of IAM solutions. They do have good capability in terms of user access management internally, but even with privileged user access, they have a good module. However, if they have to integrate with solutions, such as CyberArk or IBM IAM solutions they are lacking, the visibility of user access is not that much."

"The font used in the interface could be changed and made easier to read."

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

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

"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."

"The initial setup and deployment are complex."

"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 stability of the solution has room for improvement."

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

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"I don't know the exact price, but for my region, it is very 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."

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

"The licensing cost is reasonable."

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

"We renewed it this year. This year was the first time there was a dramatic increase in the price. It was kind of non-negotiable. It was just a high increase. We had internal communications, and it was definitely a surprise to us. In a short time frame, we renewed it this year. Prices are going up everywhere, but they are not always justifiable, at least not to our eyes. The pricing this year was definitely a big shock."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

University

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	33

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

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Torq?

From our research and testing with the tool, we determined there need to be modifications and changes to train the LL...

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What is your primary use case for Torq?

I used Torq for conducting one of the proof of evaluations for a vendor we are connected with. I am currently working...

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What advice do you have for others considering Torq?

One of our members uses AWS, and we receive their feed. This involves triaging AWS-related logs. While I do not have ...

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What do you like most about Splunk Phantom?

Splunk SOAR's quick response to incidents is the most valuable part.

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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?

The visibility of Splunk SOAR's playbook viewer is rather unclear to me; I wonder what the visibility is for. There a...

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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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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 22% of the time

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Compared 15% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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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.

Splunk

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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