Palantir Foundry vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

Palantir and Splunk are both solutions in the IT Operations Analytics category. Palantir is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.0, while Splunk is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.3. Palantir holds a 4.1% mindshare in IOA, compared to Splunk’s 15.4% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Palantir users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

Splunk Enterprise Security and Palantir Foundry are prominent contenders in the data management and analytics sector. Splunk Enterprise Security appears to have an advantage in log management and search abilities, while Palantir Foundry excels in data integration and real-time analytics.

Features: Splunk Enterprise Security is known for its exceptional log management, efficient data ingestion from numerous sources, and advanced visualization tools that transform operational data into valuable insights. Palantir Foundry, on the other hand, offers robust data integration, real-time analytics, and a unified platform for data management, which is advantageous for digital twin enterprises.

Room for Improvement: Splunk Enterprise Security could enhance its GUI and integration capabilities with other tools for better user experience and ease in setup. Palantir Foundry might focus on increasing user-friendliness for non-technical users, clarity in error messages, and simplifying its initial setup to mitigate high costs and complexity.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Splunk Enterprise Security offers flexible deployment options across various cloud environments and a robust support network, which could be inconsistent at times. In contrast, Palantir Foundry mainly focuses on the public cloud and has a less developed support structure, potentially making it challenging to meet immediate user needs.

Pricing and ROI: Splunk Enterprise Security uses a data ingestion volume-based pricing model, potentially costly for large-scale use but provides substantial ROI with its comprehensive features. Palantir Foundry, meanwhile, offers a high initial cost but promises a cost-effective total cost of ownership by cutting down on development needs with its integrated data approach, leading to significant ROI over time through efficient data and process management.

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Categories and Ranking

Palantir Foundry

Ranking in IT Operations Analytics

10th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (12th), Supply Chain Analytics (1st), Cloud Data Integration (11th), Data Migration Appliances (3rd), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (1st), Data and Analytics Service Providers (1st)

Splunk Enterprise Security

Ranking in IT Operations Analytics

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

375

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Palantir Foundry is 4.1%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 15.4%, down from 26.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Operations Analytics Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security	15.4%
Palantir Foundry	4.1%
Other	80.5%

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Featured Reviews

SRINIVAS RATHOD

Architect at L&T Technology Services

Finds security and customization features impressive, although cost concerns persist

My experience with Palantir Foundry and Azure has been good. Palantir Foundry is costly, but Azure is open, which allows for easier experimentation. Being a closed product, Palantir Foundry is difficult to practice offline unless we have an enterprise edition. However, it is very secure compared to other platforms. Palantir Foundry's best features include security, built-in features, low-code, no-code platform, and ease of use. The collaborative workspaces within Palantir Foundry contribute to team efficiency and project outcomes through seamless operation. The ease of customization is particularly notable. I have worked with the data lineage feature in Palantir Foundry, which comes by default. We simply need to tick the checkbox and make necessary configuration changes within the system itself. We do not need to procure another lineage platform as Palantir Foundry has its own built-in features for data lineage, data governance, and data security. The lineage feature helps enhance our data management practices by allowing us to understand the origin of data, track all activities happening on the data, identify users and consumers, and monitor how it flows across the system. This makes it easier to generate reports based on the lineage database. The predictive analytics capability within Palantir Foundry impacts financial forecasting strategies through its AIP functionality, which includes numerous pre-built models, LLMs, and data science application libraries. Using the AIP library within Palantir Foundry helps us develop quick resolutions for predictive models and analytics.

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reviewer1469784

Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Helps us detect cyber threats quickly and integrate multiple feeds effectively

Overall, the product is good, but when it comes to some infrastructure issues, we have to dig into more logs. There is no straightforward indication of an issue. Health check kind of dashboards are not available. More AI would help us, and more optimization, since security products run more queries. The AI module could suggest solutions, optimizing queries or workload balancing. If the product itself advises on running queries during peak times, it would be similar to what ChatGPT currently offers. We see quite a few issues on stability. Even last week, we faced something, and identifying bottlenecks is not easy. We need more SMEs, and there is no mechanism to tell us about indexer or search head issues. Self-monitoring dashboards could be beneficial. The technical support still requires more improvement. Often, primary support takes a lot of time and forwards most solutions to the engineering side. The primary support team has very limited knowledge to provide.

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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

"Great features available in one tool."

"Encapsulates all the components without the requirement to integrate or check compatibility."

"Palantir Foundry is a robust platform that has really strong plugin connectors and provides features for real-time integration."

"The security is also excellent. It's highly granular, so the admins have a high degree of control, and there are many levels of security. That worked well. You won't have an EDC unless you put everything onto the platform because it is its own isolated thing."

"The virtualization tool is useful."

"The solution provides an end-to-end integrated tech stack that takes care of all utility/infrastructure topics for you."

"I rate Palantir Foundry a ten out of ten."

"I like the data onboarding to Palantir Foundry and ETL creation."

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"Visualizations helped the organisation with a better understanding of its KPIs."

"The metrics and trends that Splunk Enterprise Security generates using all the data points we send allow customers to understand better what their users are doing."

"The most valuable feature of Splunk Enterprise Security is website activity monitoring."

"The product is adept at log mining."

"Splunk Enterprise Security is a standard solution providing good customer service and partnership."

"Splunk Enterprise Security would provide better capabilities and out-of-box detections."

"I would assess the stability and reliability of Splunk Enterprise Security as generally good, with very few downtime, crashes, and performance issues."

"What I appreciate about Splunk Enterprise Security is creating the newest SPL for network traffic and using the risk-based alerting feature that helps my organization by allowing me to learn more information about Splunk every day because it is a big platform."

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Cons

"If you want to create new models on specific data sets, computing that is quite costly."

"The solution could use more online documentation for new users."

"Cost of this solution is quite high."

"The workflow could be improved."

"The frontend capabilities of Palantir Foundry could be improved."

"The startup pricing is high, causing concern despite being cost-effective in terms of total cost of ownership."

"There is not a wide user base for the solution's online documentation so it is sometimes difficult to find answers."

"Compared to other hyperscalers, Palantir Foundry is complex and not so user-intuitive."

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"The user interface is the main area for improvement."

"Splunk Enterprise Security documentation exists, but compared to Palo Alto, Palo Alto has more knowledge base articles."

"Some additional features that should be included in the next release of Splunk Enterprise Security are an integrated Attack Range, not as a separate solution, providing a way to test the rules in the production environment."

"Queries are not always as easy or straightforward as they might be, so it can be difficult to figure out what you need to look for."

"Splunk Enterprise Security is complicated in terms of developing specific cybersecurity use cases."

"Make it easy to use and the cost cheaper. This will help all organisations to implement Splunk."

"For us, the area that Splunk Enterprise Security can improve is performance optimization."

"It requires a significant amount of relatively complex architecture once you push past the single server instance."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's expensive."

"Palantir Foundry has different pricing models that can be negotiated."

"Palantir Foundry is an expensive solution."

"The solution’s pricing is high."

"Splunk differs from other SIEM solutions by using a gigabyte-based pricing model, rather than the agent-based licenses common with its competitors."

"I think that most of the monitoring solutions are expensive."

"The price is comparable."

"It's more expensive than the other tools, but it's worth it. Every penny is worth it."

"I've heard Splunk is often preferred over other options, but the cost can be prohibitive for smaller organizations."

"It is expensive. I work for multiple clients. I am working for more than five clients, but most of the clients are switching from Splunk to Sentinel because of the cost. Even though Sentinel is very limited, clients are moving to Sentinel."

"My experience with the solution's setup cost, pricing, and licensing was really good."

"Pricing is probably its weakest spot. As compared to some competitors, Splunk is really expensive."

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Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 26, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	109
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	264

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Palantir Foundry?

Apart from the pricing and offline availability issues, improvements are needed in Palantir Foundry's costing factor. Cost-wise, it is not open for everybody, and they are not exposing anything out...

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What is your primary use case for Palantir Foundry?

One of the leading European manufacturing plants uses Palantir Foundry for manufacturing interior parts of various car brands such as Honda, Hyundai, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW. This involves hig...

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What advice do you have for others considering Palantir Foundry?

Palantir Foundry is an excellent product for data engineering. On a scale of one to 10, I would rate Palantir Foundry a 9.

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What SOC product do you recommend?

For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...

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What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?

It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...

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How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?

Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Overview

Palantir Foundry is an enterprise data management platform offering comprehensive tooling for working with big data. Because it is an operating system made for modern enterprises, it is highly available and a continuously updated platform.

Palantir Foundry is a fully managed SaaS platform that spans from cloud hosting and data integration to flexible analytics, visualization, model-building, operational decision-making, and decision capture. It equips technical and non-technical users to make data-driven operational decisions.

Palantir Foundry includes tools to integrate data of any scale, format, or structure, and also has granular, flexible access controls for individual datasets. In addition, it has an open, modular architecture with multiple RESTful APIs, it has native applications for developing machine learning and artificial intelligence, it provides sophisticated data science applications for users of all technical abilities, and much more.

Palantir Foundry Features

The most valuable Palantir Foundry features include:

Security, flexibility, interoperability, easy deployment, built-in role classification, purpose-based access controls, interoperable architecture, model integration, AI modeling tools, ontology, custom workflows, team-specific applications, self-serve analytics, lineage system, operational application building, 200+ data connectors, data versioning, change management framework, sand decision orchestration, and custom dashboard and report building tools.

With Palantir Foundry You Can:

Accelerate development & operations
Collaborate globally
Save time on security
Reduce costs

Palantir Foundry Benefits

Some of the many Palantir Foundry benefits include:

Modular: Because Palantir Foundry is modular, it can integrate with existing infrastructure.
Granular governance: Robust data governance controls help ensure seamless compliance, auditability, and security.
Secure data sharing: The security infrastructure allows you to share data securely, within organizations and with chosen partners.
Rapid integration: Palantir Foundry can rapidly integrate models and data from data platforms into an operational ontology, and can also fuel existing data platforms.
Stand-alone deployment: Palantir Foundry can be deployed standalone and can provide all necessary capabilities for data connection, data integration, and model building.
Prevent lock-in: The data and model integration suites are designed to prevent lock-in, and assume that tools will be interoperating with Palantir Foundry as an organization grows.
No SQL necessary: Users do not have to use SQL queries or employ engineers to write strings in order to search petabytes of data. With Palantir Foundry, natural language is used to query data and results are returned in real-time.
Excellent data integration: Palantir Foundry provides secure, scalable, and resilient integration of all data sources.
Availability: The Palantir platform uses DNS routing, gateways and elastic load balancing to ensure availability. Dedicated accounts and virtual resources are used on a per customer basis.
Multiple metrics types: The Palantir platform provides hundreds of metrics. Some include average session length, drop-off rate, number of logins per user, number of accounts, and search speed.

Reviews from Real Users

PeerSpot users like Palantir Foundry because it has many advantages:

“It is user-friendly, good automation, and allows you to do a better job of data governance.” - Associate, Inhouse Consulting at a pharma/biotech company

“Works seamlessly with good end-to-end capabilities and the capability to scale.” - Wallace H., Sr. Director at a tech services company

Palantir

Splunk Enterprise Security delivers powerful log management, rapid searches, and intuitive dashboards, enhancing real-time analytics and security measures. Its advanced machine learning and wide system compatibility streamline threat detection and incident response across diverse IT environments.

Splunk Enterprise Security stands out in security operations with robust features like comprehensive threat intelligence and seamless data integration. Its real-time analytics and customizable queries enable proactive threat analysis and efficient incident response. Integration with multiple third-party feeds allows detailed threat correlation and streamlined data visualization. Users find the intuitive UI and broad compatibility support efficient threat detection while reducing false positives. Despite its strengths, areas such as visualization capabilities and integration processes with cloud environments need enhancement. Users face a high learning curve, and improvements in automation, AI, documentation, and training are desired to maximize its potential.

What Are the Key Features of Splunk Enterprise Security?

Log Management: Efficiently manages and organizes a vast amount of logs for better data handling.
Rapid Data Search: Quickly retrieves relevant data for fast decision-making.
Flexible Dashboards: Customizable dashboards provide clear data visualization.
Comprehensive Threat Intelligence: Offers detailed insights to preemptively defend against threats.
Real-Time Analytics: Analyzes data in real-time to enhance response times.
Integration with Third-Party Feeds: Streamlines information flow from multiple sources.

What Benefits Should Users Investigate in Reviews?

Efficient Incident Response: Enhances the ability to respond promptly to threats.
False Positive Reduction: Minimizes incorrect threat alarms, making monitoring more efficient.
Threat Detection Speed: Accelerates the identification and evaluation of security threats.
Cost-Effectiveness: Potential savings through better licensing options and operational efficiency.
User Adaptability: Enhancements in documentation and training resources aid in overcoming the learning curve.

In specific industries like finance and healthcare, Splunk Enterprise Security is instrumental for log aggregation, SIEM functionalities, and compliance monitoring. Companies leverage its capabilities for proactive threat analysis and response, ensuring comprehensive security monitoring and integration with various tools for heightened operational intelligence.

Splunk

Sample Customers

Merck KGaA, Airbus, Ferrari,United States Intelligence Community, United States Department of Defense

Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.

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