Splunk SOAR vs Swimlane comparison

Splunk and Swimlane are both solutions in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category. Splunk is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0, while Swimlane is ranked #16 with an average rating of 7.8. Splunk holds a 7.3% mindshare in SOAR, compared to Swimlane’s 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Splunk users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Swimlane users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 9, 2025

Swimlane and Splunk SOAR are competitors in the security orchestration, automation, and response sector. Despite Swimlane's attractive pricing and support, Splunk SOAR stands out with its comprehensive features, justifying a higher price.

Features: Swimlane offers customizable dashboards, rule-based automation, and efficient security task management. Splunk SOAR features advanced machine learning for threat detection, a vast library of pre-built integrations, and enhanced functionalities for complex security environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Swimlane provides straightforward deployment with a low learning curve and efficient support for setup. Splunk SOAR, while requiring more resources due to its complex architecture, is supported by robust customer service, though Swimlane's deployment is quicker and easier.

Pricing and ROI: Swimlane offers competitive pricing with a focus on cost-effective ROI. Though Splunk SOAR has higher initial costs, its advanced features and efficient threat management promise long-term ROI benefits. Swimlane attracts budget-conscious buyers, while Splunk SOAR's value lies in its capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Splunk SOAR

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Swimlane

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

16th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

AI-Powered Security Automation (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of Splunk SOAR is 7.3%, down from 8.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Swimlane is 3.3%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

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Shubham Sinha.

Senior Principal Information Security Analyst at Veritas Technologies LLC

Helped eliminate repetitive and redundant tasks, but custom functions and reporting need a lot of work

The visibility of the solution’s playbook viewer depends on the right you assign to the analyst. SOAR has the flexibility to distinguish between the roles of analyst and owner. If the analyst's role is to just work on a ticket, they cannot view the playbook design platform. That is limited to the owner. That can be both a good and bad thing. A major problem I have faced in SOAR's rights distribution is roles and responsibilities. Suppose I am initially granted user rights or analyst rights, but later on, I also get admin rights. SOAR is unable to amend the limitations of my role. I raised a support ticket with Splunk about this. They said it's a bug in their 5.3.5 version. To fix this, I had to reinstall the entire platform from scratch, just to amend the rights and responsibilities of one role. This bug was not fixed. Also, the latest GUI is terrible. The previous one was better. Another point is that while using Splunk SOAR in an investigation is not difficult, there are some complex parameters. We have SOAR case management, but the licensing is going to put a big hole in your pocket. Also, there is an issue with investigation node addition. When you are doing node additions you cannot grant the entire environment to have SOAR visibility into the incident. So when you integrate it with an ITSM tool, like ServiceNow or Jira for ticketing purposes, there is a challenge. When you do nodes for investigation on a regular basis, sometimes it does not update our ServiceNow platform, which is terrible. It is a redundant activity for an analyst to update that in the case management as well as in the ITSM tool. Although SOAR provides integration, the functionality of investigation and nodes is terrible when it comes to integration. An additional area for improvement is custom function creation. It's terrible. A newbie cannot create custom functions right away. They would require a solid understanding first. Also, the reporting is really awful. If I want to do a report for a customized time period, such as the last three days or the last four days, or from the 10th to the 12th of June, that is not available in SOAR at all. That kind of feature is available in Cortex XSOAR. Reporting is a real challenge.

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Srikanth Nuthalapati

Software Engineering Manager at Deloitte

Great support, scalable, and easier to code

The stability of the solution has room for improvement. I would like Swimlane to provide a single space where we can go to code, build, and automate. Where we have a provision to create tables, playbooks, and tables to produce results, connect all the dots, and make the flow automated. This would make it much easier to navigate than having to jump to different places. I would like to have a single button to click that would start me on the journey of creating my own code from the ground up, from the workflow algorithm to the automation process. This would be simpler than what I had with Splunk Phantom, where I had to piece things together and connect the dots to get the full picture. With this new feature, I could create the full picture with just one button click.

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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

"It has definitely saved a decent amount of time for our analysts so they can focus on other tasks."

"In Splunk SOAR, I find the playbooks valuable. We get to create multiple playbooks, and within each playbook, there is a different type of investigation attached to it, which helps out an analyst or new analysts coming on board."

"The best feature is the integration and the custom Python code that we can write. Splunk SOAR provides us with both of these capabilities, allowing us to integrate different security solutions with Splunk SOAR and take remediation actions directly on those security tools."

"Workflow management is most valuable. It is easily customizable"

"The most valuable feature of Splunk SOAR is the automated playbooks, which saves analysts time."

"I like the integration capabilities of Phantom. It has a lot of integrations with other products. Its searching methodologies are also good. It is also easy to understand and easy to create playbooks."

"Our customers find it easy to conduct searches and consider it an excellent content management system."

"Very flexible integration with other tools"

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"Swimlane is a very effective way to represent workflows involving multiple users."

"The technical support from Swimlane is very good."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the support."

"It provides us with a single portal for our logs from different solutions."

"Swimlane saves us 80 to 90 percent of our time by quickly helping us design the journey and efficiently passing information to various components."

"Our primary goal was to reduce analyst time, and we have been successful in that."

"Swimlane enables two SOC analysts to work efficiently as much as ten analysts would without Swimlane, which translates to significant manpower savings."

Cons

"The pricing could be a bit more reasonable. It would be great if it were feasible for smaller organizations."

"The UI can be more customizable for the clients."

"We've had trouble implementing the solution with Microsoft products. There seems to be an integration gap."

"The dashboard could be improved and some other features. SOAR should integrate network capabilities, allowing us to also monitor the WLAN network. Splunk is also expensive and difficult for beginners to learn. It's hard for a new user to figure out how to visualize old threat data. It took two to three months to learn with hands-on experience how to use the dashboard, visualize events, and analyze threats."

"To make Splunk SOAR a better solution, there could be better built-in debugging tools, smarter playbook suggestions, and enhanced lifecycle management."

"They can improve on what they are currently doing. They can provide more playbooks or at least template playbooks that are in their repository."

"have put a number of ideas on the ideas.splunk.com site for feature requests for the Splunk SOAR product. I posted one of them about three years ago, which finally got implemented in the latest release that just got announced, so the time to implement new features and things like that is a little bit concerning."

"In my opinion, the focus should be on improving its simplicity, specifically the interface, and configuration."

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"The stability of the solution has room for improvement."

"There is a need for enhanced version control in Swimlane. Currently, our version does not support it, making it tough to move changes between environments during significant updates."

"I would prefer to have more colors added to represent different risks or notations, which can be used for the prioritization of risks and the significance of information."

"We faced a lot of issues with the product’s stability."

"The initial setup and deployment are complex."

"I would like to see improvements in the minor bugs that occur with each update, as some features might have issues."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't know the exact price, but for my region, it is very expensive."

"Splunk SOAR is more expensive compared to other options for SOAR."

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

"It's very overpriced because it is based on the number of users. There is no bulk licensing."

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

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

"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."

"We renewed it this year. This year was the first time there was a dramatic increase in the price. It was kind of non-negotiable. It was just a high increase. We had internal communications, and it was definitely a surprise to us. In a short time frame, we renewed it this year. Prices are going up everywhere, but they are not always justifiable, at least not to our eyes. The pricing this year was definitely a big shock."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Government

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

University

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Questions from the Community

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?

Splunk SOAR is moderately priced, neither cheap nor overly expensive.

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What needs improvement with Splunk Phantom?

There are areas in Splunk SOAR that have room for improvement. To make Splunk SOAR a better solution, there could be better built-in debugging tools, smarter playbook suggestions, and enhanced life...

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What do you like most about Swimlane?

It provides us with a single portal for our logs from different solutions.

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What needs improvement with Swimlane?

There is a need for enhanced version control in Swimlane. Currently, our version does not support it, making it tough to move changes between environments during significant updates. Furthermore, d...

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What is your primary use case for Swimlane?

We have been using Swimlane for security automation within our company. All the ingestions, automations, and everything within our department goes through Swimlane.

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Overview

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.

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Swimlane is a leader in security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR). By automating time-intensive, manual processes and operational workflows and delivering powerful, consolidated analytics, real time dashboards and reporting from across your security infrastructure, Swimlane maximizes the incident response capabilities of over-burdened and understaffed security operations.

Swimlane was founded to deliver scalable innovative and flexible security solutions to organizations struggling with alert fatigue, vendor proliferation and chronic staffing shortages. Swimlane is at the forefront of the growing market for security automation and orchestration solutions that automate and organize security processes in repeatable ways to get the most out of available resources and accelerate incident response.

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Recorded Future, Blackstone

LinkedIn, TransUnion, Citrix, Aetna, Perspecta

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