ServiceNow Security Operations vs Splunk SOAR comparison

ServiceNow and Splunk are both solutions in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category. ServiceNow is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.1, while Splunk is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.3. ServiceNow holds a 3.5% mindshare in SOAR, compared to Splunk’s 7.8% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of ServiceNow users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

ServiceNow Security Operations and Splunk SOAR are both competitors in the cybersecurity arena, focusing on automation and orchestration capabilities. ServiceNow has a notable edge in integration capabilities, especially with its own ecosystem. In contrast, Splunk SOAR stands out for its flexibility and robust automation features.

Features: ServiceNow Security Operations excels in integrating with its IT ecosystem, providing comprehensive incident response, efficient threat intelligence, and robust vulnerability management. Splunk SOAR is recognized for its powerful automation abilities, custom workflow designs, and extensive security playbook library.

Room for Improvement: ServiceNow Security Operations could enhance its standalone integration with non-ServiceNow platforms, optimize user experience beyond its ecosystem, and advance automation capabilities. Splunk SOAR can improve by simplifying its initial setup, enhancing integration ease with non-Splunk tools, and expanding pre-built playbooks to further minimize customization needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ServiceNow Security Operations offers straightforward deployment within ServiceNow environments and has comprehensive onboarding support. Splunk SOAR presents a flexible deployment model, supported by detailed documentation, though it may demand more initial setup effort due to customization potential.

Pricing and ROI: ServiceNow Security Operations pricing reflects its strong integration capabilities, providing excellent ROI when paired with ServiceNow infrastructure. Splunk SOAR may involve higher initial costs but delivers significant ROI through its extensive automation features and flexibility.

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Torq

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of Torq is 4.9%, up from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow Security Operations is 3.5%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk SOAR is 7.8%, up from 7.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Splunk SOAR	7.8%
ServiceNow Security Operations	3.5%
Torq	4.9%
Other	83.8%

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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Kalyan Kothali

Associate Vice President at Wissen infotech

Effectively manages vulnerabilities and reduces false positives

ServiceNow Security Operations provides significant control over vulnerabilities, allowing users to mark false alarms as false positives and ignore them, which is important because many vulnerabilities are not real but appear as such. There are many aspects that we could handle. For certain vulnerabilities, remediation requires spending extra on hardware or OS upgrades, or purchasing new versions, which implies a cost. For that reason, we can take an exception for a couple of months or days, and once that exception expires, that vulnerability automatically reappears. These features help us ensure that everything is under control, and when we discuss vulnerabilities, we can consolidate them into one central category, which means working on one vulnerability automatically resolves the rest, making it efficient with the features provided.

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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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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

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

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

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

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

"My favorite feature is the application vulnerability scanner."

"ServiceNow Security Operations provides significant control over vulnerabilities, allowing users to mark false alarms as false positives and ignore them, which is important because many vulnerabilities are not real but appear as such."

"The most valuable aspect of working with ServiceNow is its meaningful and feature-rich product."

"The solution is available over the cloud and is easy to manage."

"ServiceNow Security Operations also takes care of GRC, governance, risk and compliance, enabling it to provide risk assessment."

"What I found most valuable in ServiceNow Security Operations is that it's very useful for any incoming vulnerability. For example, if my team finds any vulnerability on servers such as the CA and CMDB integrated with ServiceNow Security Operations, my team can make some changes. My team can map the vulnerabilities found on the CA server, make the changes required, and resolve the vulnerabilities before the system is attacked. You can avoid vulnerability attacks through ServiceNow Security Operations, so this is the best feature of the solution. ServiceNow Security Operations is beneficial mainly for vulnerability response and engagement purposes."

"It's stable."

"The solution is stable."

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"When you design a playbook, you can integrate multiple log sources and define rules... After that, the platform automatically compiles all these activities and, based on the results, the analyst only has to indicate whether the result is a true or false positive. That reduces the time and effort involved."

"The customization of the playbook in Splunk SOAR is very beneficial."

"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 feature is the API connector, depending on how it's formatted and who made the actual app offering for it. The REST API is my favorite component. It's very easy to use. The filters are also really valuable. Those are the two primary features but I enjoy using the rest of it."

"Fortunately, the system helps to parse through these alerts and determine which ones are important and need further investigation."

"The most valuable feature is the risk-based access control."

"My understanding is the initial setup isn't too hard."

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

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Cons

"The initial deployment of Torq was not easy."

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

"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."

"The threat intelligence module needs a better dashboard."

"We'd like customization to be easier in terms of the UI and using the dashboards."

"The solution needs to make customization easier. You cannot do much customization immediately. It requires an extensive workload. If the customization process was user-friendly, it would be much better."

"The initial setup is difficult."

"It's very slow. When you click a button or update a field, it takes forever to actually react."

"There are limitations for the third-parties that are providing the inputs. They should increase the robustness of the solution."

"Report generation within ServiceNow can take some time. Additionally, there are occasional issues when raising a ticket, which can also consume time."

"It is challenging for the customers to understand the processes for SecOps. It needs to be simplified."

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"The creation of playbooks is complex in Splunk SOAR, and the number of integrations needs enhancement. Although it enhances alert handling, it still has a journey to compete with Palo Alto SOAR and FortiSOAR."

"Creating playbooks using the solution’s playbook editor, for me, is very cumbersome. There have been instances where I have said to myself that I just don't want to use this editor. I might just use a code block and write my own code within it... The functionality in the playbook editor is 80 percent there, but that 20 percent is still lacking. They could make it more efficient."

"I haven't had any issues with the solution so far."

"There are areas where Splunk SOAR can continue to improve, particularly regarding the synchronization of information, as sometimes it takes longer than other tools."

"The Splunk SOAR platform was not designed specifically for case management which is why this area needs improvement."

"Splunk's support for integration is subpar and has room for improvement."

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

"Portability is one thing that is currently lacking. The open-source product that I evaluated had portability. It would require a lot of development effort, but it will save the cost of rewriting all the playbooks."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"If you're going to implement it on your own, there would be internal costs. If you're going to implement it through a contractor or consultant, you have to pay for that."

"It is an expensive product."

"Compared to competitor tools, ServiceNow Security Operations is more affordable"

"The product is more expensive than other solutions."

"This product is a good value for the money."

"The solution is more expensive than BMC Remedy, the other ITSM tool available in the market."

"The tool is not cheap."

"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 moderately priced, neither cheap nor overly expensive."

"The licensing cost is reasonable."

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

"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."

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

"I found the price of Splunk SOAR to be good."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	15

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	33

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Torq?

From our research and testing with the tool, we determined there need to be modifications and changes to train the LL...

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What is your primary use case for Torq?

I used Torq for conducting one of the proof of evaluations for a vendor we are connected with. I am currently working...

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What advice do you have for others considering Torq?

One of our members uses AWS, and we receive their feed. This involves triaging AWS-related logs. While I do not have ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow Security Operations?

It is relatively expensive but manageable.

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What needs improvement with ServiceNow Security Operations?

ServiceNow Security Operations is not specifically a vulnerability management or incident tool, but rather a data agg...

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What advice do you have for others considering ServiceNow Security Operations?

Initially, acquire basic knowledge about the system and understand how ServiceNow Security Operations operates with o...

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What do you like most about Splunk Phantom?

Splunk SOAR's quick response to incidents is the most valuable part.

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

I am familiar with the pricing aspect, setup cost, and licensing cost of Splunk SOAR, and it is pretty much similar t...

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What needs improvement with Splunk Phantom?

The visibility of Splunk SOAR's playbook viewer is rather unclear to me; I wonder what the visibility is for. There a...

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Comparisons

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Compared 12% of the time

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR vs Torq

Compared 10% of the time

Swimlane vs Torq

Compared 7% of the time

Fortinet FortiSOAR vs Torq

Compared 3% of the time

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Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR vs ServiceNow Security Operations

Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

Microsoft Sentinel vs ServiceNow Security Operations

Compared 6% of the time

NetWitness NDR vs ServiceNow Security Operations

Compared 5% of the time

CRITICALSTART vs ServiceNow Security Operations

Compared 4% of the time

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Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR vs Splunk SOAR

Compared 16% of the time

Fortinet FortiSOAR vs Splunk SOAR

Compared 12% of the time

Tines vs Splunk SOAR

Compared 9% of the time

Google Security Operations vs Splunk SOAR

Compared 5% of the time

Microsoft Sentinel vs Splunk SOAR

Compared 4% of the time

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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

ServiceNow Security Operations is a cutting-edge security solution designed to elevate organizations' security incident response (SIR) processes through automation and orchestration. Going beyond traditional SOAR, this comprehensive Security Operations Suite integrates seamlessly with other ServiceNow products and offers a wide array of features. Its components include Security Incident Response (SIR), which automates incident workflows and offers pre-built playbooks; Security Configuration Compliance (SCC), continuously scanning and automating compliance tasks; Vulnerability Response (VR), prioritizing and remediating vulnerabilities; Threat Intelligence (TI), aggregating threat data for proactive threat hunting; and additional features like IT Service Management integration, Machine Learning and AI, reporting, and a mobile app. The benefits span improved incident response speed, reduced mean time to resolution, increased security posture, enhanced compliance, collaborative synergy between security and IT teams, and operational cost reductions.

ServiceNow

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.

Splunk

Sample Customers

Information Not Available

DXC Technology, Freedom Security Alliance, Prime Therapeutics, Seton Hall University, York Risk Services

Recorded Future, Blackstone

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