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By The Alert Desk · AI SOC Compared · Published 2026-09-27 · Updated 2026-10-14
Desk research from public vendor pages; vendor facts read 27 September, 11 October and 13 October 2026; published 27 September 2026, updated 14 October 2026. Editorial assessment; we did not test the products.
Rank 1 of 10
Best for: Lean teams that want every alert investigated with autonomy they can set per category, and SOAR playbooks carried over
Rank 2 of 10
Best for: Small teams that want native response with sign-off and an optional human review layer
| Criterion | Mate | Prophet | Higher |
|---|---|---|---|
Investigates end to end 20%WhyMate: Mate says it investigates every alert, including informational ones, against a Security Context Graph of memories, decision traces, guardrails and architecture. Source: Mate Security homepage · Read 11 Oct 2026 Prophet: The AI SOC Analyst triages and investigates with what Prophet calls senior-analyst depth, beside hunting and detection engineering agents. Source: Prophet Security homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026 | 9 / 10 | 8 / 10 | Mate |
Autonomy you can dial 20%WhyMate: Three levels (Recommend only, Supervised, Auto-run), with each action scored on Confidence, Precision and Reversibility outside the agent loop. Source: Mate Security platform · Read 11 Oct 2026 Prophet: Scoped Agent Actions run autonomously or with your sign-off, and Watchtower adds a 24x7 human review service. Source: Prophet Security homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026 | 9 / 10 | 8 / 10 | Mate |
Shows its reasoning 15%WhyMate: Verdicts carry an evidence trail the team can audit and tune, and decision traces record why analysts decided past cases. Source: Mate Security platform · Read 27 Sep 2026 Prophet: Determinations Prophet says you can audit, following the questions a human analyst would ask. Source: Prophet Security homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026 | 9 / 10 | 8 / 10 | Mate |
Reaches your data sources 15%WhyMate: Names Microsoft, Google Workspace, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Proofpoint and Slack and says it is stack agnostic, but publishes no integration count or catalogue. Source: Mate Security platform · Read 27 Sep 2026 Prophet: 200+ out-of-the-box integrations. Source: Prophet Security homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026 | 7 / 10 | 8 / 10 | Prophet |
Hosting and data handling 10%WhyMate: Trust center lists ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, CCPA and GDPR, with AWS and Google Cloud as cloud subprocessors; no single-tenant, customer-tenant or residency option is described. Source: Mate Security trust center · Read 11 Oct 2026 Prophet: Dedicated single-tenant with bring-your-own-key; SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 42001:2023; AWS processing in the United States, Germany, Switzerland or Japan; deletion on exit listed, retention period not stated. Source: Prophet Security trust center · Read 11 Oct 2026 | 6 / 10 | 8 / 10 | Prophet |
Brings SOAR playbooks along 10%WhyMate: States it translates existing SOAR playbooks into Gamebooks, replacing brittle API calls while keeping custom logic. Source: Mate Security: Gamebooks · Read 27 Sep 2026 Prophet: Runs response natively, so no SOAR is required, but no playbook translation is described. Source: Prophet Security homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026 | 9 / 10 | 6 / 10 | Mate |
Pricing clarity 10%WhyMate: AWS Marketplace listing shows $150,000 for a 12-month contract for one dimension, the Mate Enterprise Tier, a usage tier the listing does not define; no pricing unit and no price on Mate's own site. Source: AWS Marketplace: Mate Security listing · Read 11 Oct 2026 Prophet: No price; the pricing address returned not found, a free proof of value is offered, and its AWS Marketplace listing refers buyers to Prophet's site. Source: Prophet Security pricing URL (returned not found) · Read 11 Oct 2026 | 4 / 10 | 3 / 10 | Mate |
Mate says it investigates 100% of alerts, including informational ones.
Source: Mate Security homepage · Read 11 Oct 2026
Investigations run against the Security Context Graph with domain logic for six alert domains.
Source: Mate Security platform · Read 27 Sep 2026
Verdicts come with an evidence trail; decision traces record why analysts decided past cases.
Source: Mate Security platform · Read 27 Sep 2026
Supervised level: human in the loop for response.
Source: Mate Security platform · Read 11 Oct 2026
Auto-run level with CPR checks outside the agent loop; falls back to Supervised on conflict with analysts.
Source: Mate Security platform · Read 11 Oct 2026
The AI SOC Analyst triages every alert.
Source: Prophet Security homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026
Investigation with auditable determinations.
Source: Prophet Security homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026
Determinations follow the questions a human analyst would ask.
Source: Prophet Security homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026
Agent Actions can require your sign-off.
Source: Prophet Security homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026
Agent Actions can run autonomously within their scope.
Source: Prophet Security homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026
Documented by Mate only: none. Documented by Prophet only: none. Documented by both: triage, investigate, show work, act on sign-off and act alone, within limits.
A partial rung counts as not documented in these sentences.
Not published
No price on Mate's own site. AWS Marketplace listing: $150,000 for a 12-month contract, dimension Mate Enterprise Tier (described as the usage tier level in the Mate platform, not otherwise defined); private offers through Mate's sales team. Mate says marketplace purchases can count toward AWS commitments.
Source: AWS Marketplace: Mate Security listing · Read 11 Oct 2026
HOSTING SaaS. Mate's AWS Marketplace post says it is built on AWS infrastructure; its trust center lists Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud as cloud subprocessors. Self-hosted, customer-tenant and data residency options: Not published.
Not published
No price published; the /pricing address returned not found. A free proof of value is offered.
Source: Prophet Security pricing URL (returned not found) · Read 11 Oct 2026
HOSTING Dedicated single-tenant with bring-your-own-key option; infrastructure on AWS with processing in the United States, Germany, Switzerland or Japan; Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic listed as AI subprocessors. On-premises: Not published. SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023.
Choose Mate Security if you want every alert investigated and a documented way to move categories from recommendations to unattended action and back, or if you have SOAR playbooks you want carried over rather than rebuilt. Look elsewhere first if you need a defined pricing unit, a published integration catalogue or hosting in your own tenant.
Choose Prophet Security if you want native response with explicit sign-off, single-tenant hosting with your own keys, or a human review service at night. Look elsewhere first if you want existing SOAR playbooks translated or a published price.
Where Mate Security scores lower
Mate Security ranks 1 of 10 on default weights. It holds the highest or tied highest score on Investigates end to end, Autonomy you can dial, Shows its reasoning and Brings SOAR playbooks along. It scores lower on Reaches your data sources (7 against Torq AI SOC Platform at 9), Hosting and data handling (6 against Conifers CognitiveSOC at 9) and Pricing clarity (4 against Dropzone AI and Intezer at 5).
Mate publishes no pricing unit (its only public price is an AWS Marketplace listing for one undefined usage tier), no integration count, and no single-tenant, customer-tenant or residency option. Its lead comes from autonomy control and playbooks: it is the only platform here that describes three autonomy levels with action checks outside the agent loop and translating existing SOAR playbooks.
Mate on our autonomy criterion (Mate 9/10, Prophet 8/10). Mate: Three levels (Recommend only, Supervised, Auto-run), with each action scored on Confidence, Precision and Reversibility outside the agent loop. Prophet: Scoped Agent Actions run autonomously or with your sign-off, and Watchtower adds a 24x7 human review service.
Mate documents actions on sign-off, and documents unattended actions within limits: Auto-run level with CPR checks outside the agent loop; falls back to Supervised on conflict with analysts. Prophet documents actions on sign-off, and documents unattended actions within limits: Agent Actions can run autonomously within their scope. Rungs documented: Mate 5 of 5, Prophet 5 of 5.
Mate: Not published. Prophet: Not published. Pricing clarity scores: Mate 4/10, Prophet 3/10.