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 7.6% mindshare in SOAR, compared to Swimlane’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 89% 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 Mar 29, 2026

Swimlane and Splunk SOAR are competing in the security orchestration, automation, and response solutions market. Swimlane, with its focus on pricing and customer support, provides an advantage for resource-constrained organizations. However, Splunk SOAR, equipped with advanced automation and integrations, is favored due to its comprehensive feature set.

Features: Swimlane stands out for its customizable dashboards, integration framework, and capability to enable security teams through incident management. Splunk SOAR offers matured automation and orchestration features, seamless integrations across numerous security tools, and allows complex playbook creation, providing enhanced threat detection and response.

Room for Improvement: Swimlane could improve in automation depth, integration with niche tools, and scalability for larger environments. Splunk SOAR can work on simplifying its deployment process, enhancing real-time user support during setup, and boosting its cloud-deployment efficiency.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Swimlane's deployment is straightforward, supported by an intuitive setup and strong customer service, resulting in a rapid adoption rate. Splunk SOAR, while offering extensive documentation and support, may involve a more intensive deployment process that could benefit from more streamlined integration paths.

Pricing and ROI: Swimlane offers competitive pricing, making it appealing for organizations focused on cost-saving and quick return on investment. Splunk SOAR, demanding a higher initial investment, compensates with its extensive capabilities that promise a higher long-term ROI by improving operational efficiencies.

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of Torq is 3.8%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk SOAR is 7.6%, up from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Swimlane is 2.8%, 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	7.6%
Torq	3.8%
Swimlane	2.8%
Other	85.8%

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

"Torq's unified platform approach to AI, SOAR, automation, and case management is superior compared to my experience managing multiple point solutions."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Since we started working with Torq, I am handling much fewer alerts, it is becoming really easy for me to handle an alert, I have all the information that I need, I do not need to connect to different vendors to receive this information, and the main thing I got from Torq is time, which now helps me to build another automated system and learn."

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

"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 most valuable features of Splunk SOAR are the easy integration with other solutions, including other Splunk solutions, and the most important playbooks we need on the market come already on the Splunk Store, which is a very strong point."

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

"Splunk SOAR has saved us a lot; monthly, around 300 hours of effort, it is saving with Splunk SOAR, and it has helped us where we were able to run the SOC operation with the less number of headcount versus what we used to do earlier."

"If a company wants to automate redundant work, this solution is perfect for that."

"Splunk SOAR is really saving my time."

"Very flexible integration with other tools"

"The features of Splunk SOAR that I appreciate most are the integrations with all the other applications and tools."

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"This is the best SOAR product available on the market right now and I recommend it."

"Swimlane enables two SOC analysts to work efficiently as much as ten analysts would without Swimlane, which translates to significant manpower savings."

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

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

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

"The technical support from Swimlane is very good."

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

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

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Cons

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

"We have MCP that we are working with our cloud security platform, and we wanted to connect this MCP to the case management."

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

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

"The initial deployment of Torq was not easy."

"What we have seen is if the workflow gets halted or if we want to halt a workflow, it cannot be resumed."

"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."

"It would be ideal if we could automate processes even more."

"I see room for improvement in Splunk SOAR regarding the learning curve, specifically breaking it down, as the Python side requires some technical knowledge."

"I'm not an expert on Splunk SOAR, but I'm sure our team members know what areas could be improved."

"We have playbooks written to extract these events and put them into the workflow since it wasn't structured as expected. It was a miss for us. We couldn't figure out why it broke or what actually happened there. It was something in this feed with legitimate and security events, so we tried to understand the names and what we would call them."

"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."

"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."

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

"The initial setup and deployment are complex."

"The stability of the solution has room for improvement."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"The cost is high and the licensing is on an annual basis."

"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."

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

"The licensing cost is reasonable."

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

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

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Construction Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

University

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

University

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	16
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	37

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

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Torq?

This is exactly what we discussed two days ago with the Torq team. We told them where we want to see improvements. Fo...

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What is your primary use case for Torq?

I use Torq as my case management and alert system. Working as a SOC analyst, the first thing I do every morning is ge...

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What advice do you have for others considering Torq?

I would definitely recommend Torq. I have no doubt, really. When we looked for another vendor, Torq really answered a...

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

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is perfectly acceptable, helping us significantly wi...

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What needs improvement with Splunk Phantom?

Sometimes it lags when I am working on multiple things. Apart from that, every feature is useful. Integration is an a...

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What is your primary use case for Splunk Phantom?

We have been using Splunk SOAR for analyzing threats and mitigating issues in cybersecurity. We provide input and SQL...

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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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