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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 10 of 10
Best for: Detection-led teams that want autonomous triage with readable queries, and keep response with analysts
| Criterion | Mate | Vega | 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 Vega: Agentic Triage works every alert autonomously, with hunting, detection and triage run as one loop that queries each source where the data lives. Source: Vega Agentic Triage · Read 13 Oct 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 Vega: Verdicts come with prioritised next actions, such as isolating a host or rotating keys, for analysts to carry out; Vega does not state that it executes response, so there is no autonomy to set. Source: Vega Agentic Triage · Read 13 Oct 2026 | 9 / 10 | 4 / 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 Vega: Each conclusion shows the Vega KQL query behind it, each alert is marked escalated or not with its reasoning, and every hunt step shows its work. Source: Vega Agentic Triage · Read 13 Oct 2026 | 9 / 10 | 9 / 10 | Tie |
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 Vega: Says it queries every source in place and exposes the platform to AI clients over MCP, but publishes no connector list or count. Source: Vega connectors · Read 13 Oct 2026 | 7 / 10 | 6 / 10 | Mate |
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 Vega: Data stays where it lives (no migration, ingestion or egress, Vega says); hosting options, tenancy, residency and attestations are not described. Source: Vega homepage · Read 13 Oct 2026 | 6 / 10 | 4 / 10 | Mate |
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 Vega: No SOAR integration, playbook translation or response execution is described; Vega says it layers onto the existing stack. Source: Vega connectors · Read 13 Oct 2026 | 9 / 10 | 4 / 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 Vega: No pricing page; Get a demo only. Source: Vega homepage · Read 13 Oct 2026 | 4 / 10 | 2 / 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
Agentic Triage works every alert.
Source: Vega Agentic Triage · Read 13 Oct 2026
Investigation queries every source where the data lives.
Source: Vega homepage · Read 13 Oct 2026
Each conclusion shows the KQL behind it.
Source: Vega Agentic Triage · Read 13 Oct 2026
Recommends next actions; executing them is not described.
Source: Vega Agentic Triage · Read 13 Oct 2026
No autonomous response described.
Source: Vega Agentic Triage · Read 13 Oct 2026
Documented by Mate only: act on sign-off and act alone, within limits. Documented by Vega only: none. Documented by both: triage, investigate and show work.
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 pricing page; Get a demo only.
Source: Vega homepage · Read 13 Oct 2026
HOSTING SaaS on Vega's Security Analytics Mesh; Vega says no migration, ingestion or egress. Tenancy, residency and attestations: Not published.
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 Vega if your team is detection-led and wants autonomous triage whose every conclusion can be checked against the query behind it. Look elsewhere first if you want the platform to carry out response actions, or need published connectors, hosting details or pricing.
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, Vega 4/10). Mate: Three levels (Recommend only, Supervised, Auto-run), with each action scored on Confidence, Precision and Reversibility outside the agent loop. Vega: Verdicts come with prioritised next actions, such as isolating a host or rotating keys, for analysts to carry out; Vega does not state that it executes response, so there is no autonomy to set.
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. Vega does not document actions on sign-off natively, and No autonomous response described. Rungs documented: Mate 5 of 5, Vega 3 of 5.
Mate: Not published. Vega: Not published. Pricing clarity scores: Mate 4/10, Vega 2/10.