Mate Security review: an AI SOC with autonomy a small team can dial up and down
SHORT ANSWER
Mate Security ranks 1 of 10 at 7.90 out of 10. It has one of the most specific public descriptions here of how autonomy is controlled: Recommend only, Supervised and Auto-run levels, with each action checked on confidence, precision and reversibility outside the agent loop. It scores lower on data sources, hosting options and pricing clarity, because it publishes no integration count, no dedicated or customer-tenant hosting, and no pricing unit: its only public price is an AWS Marketplace listing for one undefined usage tier.
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.
Hand-off score (editorial assessment, 0 to 10)
7.90 / 10
Rank 1 of 10 on default weights
Rungs documented: 5 of 5
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.
Best for: Lean teams that want every alert investigated with autonomy they can set per category, and SOAR playbooks carried over
A filled rung means the vendor's own pages describe that step. It does not measure how well or how often the step works in your environment.
How does Mate score on each criterion?
Mate Security: score, reason and source per criterion
Criterion
Weight
Score
Why
Source
Investigates end to end
20%
9 / 10
Highest in set
Mate says it investigates every alert, including informational ones, against a Security Context Graph of memories, decision traces, guardrails and architecture.
Names Microsoft, Google Workspace, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Proofpoint and Slack and says it is stack agnostic, but publishes no integration count or catalogue.
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.
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.
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 says it investigates every alert, including informational ones, against what it calls a Security Context Graph: memories about your environment with a source, confidence and freshness, decision traces that record why analysts decided past cases, guardrails and a map of your architecture. Mate says the graph is built within 24 hours of integrating. Investigations follow domain logic for cloud, insider risk, business email, endpoint, identity and phishing alerts, and verdicts come back with an evidence trail the team can audit.
How much can Mate do on its own?
Response runs at one of three levels. Recommend only leaves every action to the team. Supervised keeps a person in the loop for response. Auto-run lets trusted categories run end to end. Mate scores each action on Confidence, Precision and Reversibility, which it calls CPR, and says those checks are enforced outside the agent loop, so the model cannot talk itself past them. When verdicts in a category conflict with analyst reviews, the category drops back to Supervised automatically. For a two or three person team, that combination answers the practical question of how to hand work off without losing the ability to take it back.
What does Mate say about itself?
Agentic SOC platform that investigates each alert against a Security Context Graph of the organization, runs response at three autonomy levels, and translates SOAR playbooks into Gamebooks.
Scope
Agents run triage, investigations, response, threat hunting and detections; Mate calls it an agentic SOC designed for AI speed.
Security Context Graph of memories (with source, confidence and freshness), decision traces, guardrails and architecture; Mate says it is built within 24 hours of integrating.
Trust center lists ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, CCPA and GDPR, with documents including a SOC 2 Type 2 report, an ISO 27001 certificate, a 2026 pentest report and a disaster recovery drill report.
Founders Asaf Wiener (CEO), Oren Saban (CPO) and Guy Pergal (CTO); investors listed: Canaan, Team8, Insight Partners, M12. Newsroom lists a $15.5M seed (November 2025) and a $35M Series A (July 2026).
Mate's own site shows no price. Its AWS Marketplace listing shows one dimension, the Mate Enterprise Tier, described as the usage tier level in the Mate platform, at $150,000 for a 12-month contract, with private offers through Mate's sales team; what a usage tier covers is not defined. Mate says marketplace purchases can count toward AWS spending commitments. Its trust center lists ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, CCPA and GDPR, and names Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud as cloud subprocessors. No single-tenant, customer-tenant or data residency option is described, and no Mate-run managed service is offered, so night cover stays with your team or a provider.
PRICING 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.
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.
INTEGRATIONS Named: Microsoft (identity and mail), Google Workspace, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Proofpoint, Slack, threat intelligence platforms. Count: Not published.
Where is it strong, and what should you check?
Strengths
Among the most specific public descriptions of graded autonomy in this set: three levels, action checks on confidence, precision and reversibility, and automatic fallback.
The only platform here that describes translating existing SOAR playbooks rather than rebuilding them.
Check before you buy
No pricing unit: the only public price is a marketplace list price for one undefined usage tier.
No integration count or catalogue published; confirm every tool your alerts come from.
No single-tenant, customer-tenant or data residency option described.
Who should choose Mate?
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.
How does Mate compare pair by pair?
Mate against each other platform, computed from the scores and weights
Investigates end to end, Autonomy you can dial, Reaches your data sources, Hosting and data handling, Brings SOAR playbooks along and Pricing clarity
no criterion
Frequently asked questions
Can Mate Security act without approval?
Only at the Auto-run level, for categories you choose. Recommend only and Supervised keep people in charge of response, and Mate says a category falls back to Supervised when its verdicts conflict with analyst reviews.
Is Mate Security hosted only on AWS?
No hosting choice is offered publicly, but the trust center lists both Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud as cloud subprocessors. Mate's AWS Marketplace post says the platform is built on AWS infrastructure.
How much does Mate Security cost?
Mate's site shows no price. Its AWS Marketplace listing shows $150,000 for a 12-month contract for the Mate Enterprise Tier, a usage tier the listing does not define, with private offers on request. Mate says marketplace purchases can count toward AWS commitments.