After SOAR

CywarevSwimlane (Turbine)

Cyware 7.24Swimlane (Turbine) 6.14

Cyware v Swimlane (Turbine): the totals are 1.10 apart, outside the 0.25 band. Cyware leads on the total; the rows below say why. Rows won: Cyware 6, Swimlane (Turbine) 1, level 2.

Cyware scores 7.24 and Swimlane 6.14 on the nine published criteria, a gap of 1.10 points. The deciding row is hosting and residency: Cyware scores 7.0 against 3.0 for Swimlane. Cyware is a threat-intelligence-led SOAR; Swimlane is a low-code SOAR with Hero AI agents. Every score rests on pages read on 2026-11-03.

The difference that decides Cyware v Swimlane (Turbine)

On hosting and residency, Cyware runs cloud to on-prem through lightweight integrator agents, with fully on-prem Respond unconfirmed (vendor claim, score 7.0), while Swimlane has nothing on deployment or residency in the pages read on 2026-11-03 (score 3.0). cyware.com, read 2026-11-03

Rows with the widest weighted gap: Integration count and depth documented (Cyware ahead by 3.5), Hosting and data residency options (Cyware ahead by 4.0), Approvals and human-in-the-loop controls (Cyware ahead by 2.0).

Cyware v Swimlane (Turbine): the nine rows side by side

Playbook authoring model

weight 14 of 100

Cyware

8.5Ahead

Drag-and-drop designer, low-code Python editor and 150+ playbook templates; AI playbook builder, code generator and run-log debugger.

cyware.com, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim)

Swimlane (Turbine)

8.0

Low-code drag-and-drop Canvas plus Python (inputs, AI-generated Python, file transforms) and HTTP calls to any API without a connector.

swimlane.com, read 2026-11-03

Integration count and depth documented

weight 14 of 100

Cyware

8.5Ahead

400+ tool integrations by webhook, API and prebuilt connector (vendor claim).

cyware.com, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim)

Swimlane (Turbine)

5.0

No count published; page says 'infinite integrations', which is not a number. Supports third-party MCP server tools.

swimlane.com, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim)

Case management and collaboration

weight 8 of 100

Cyware

7.0Ahead

Cyware Respond is sold as case management and incident response; details not read on a Cyware docs page.

cyware.com, read 2026-11-03

Swimlane (Turbine)

6.0

Case management is listed as part of Turbine with no detail on the page read.

swimlane.com, read 2026-11-03

Approvals and human-in-the-loop controls

weight 12 of 100

Cyware

8.0Ahead

Approve and run critical automation decisions from the enterprise mobile app; playbook version control with audit trails.

cyware.com, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim)

Swimlane (Turbine)

6.0

Hero AI asks for user confirmation before key actions (September 2025 coverage); the Swimlane page names 'guardrails' but no approval workflow.

swimlane.com, read 2026-11-03 (search summary only); siliconangle.com, read 2026-11-03 (search summary only)

Agentic or AI features that are documented

weight 12 of 100

Cyware

8.0

AI playbook builder, code generator and run-log debugger on Orchestrate; Agentic AI Fabric announced 2026-03-18 across threat intel and response.

cyware.com, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim); cyware.com, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim)

Swimlane (Turbine)

8.0

Hero AI agents, a Playbook Generator and an Agent Builder; agents can replace several deterministic steps inside a playbook (January 2026).

siliconangle.com, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim) (search summary only); swimlane.com, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim) (search summary only)

Hosting and data residency options

weight 8 of 100

Cyware

7.0Ahead

Cloud-to-on-prem hybrid through lightweight integrator agents that avoid exposing internal networks. Respond's fully on-prem status unconfirmed.

cyware.com, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim)

Swimlane (Turbine)

3.0

Not found in the pages read on 2026-11-03. Deployment model and data residency are not on the page read.

swimlane.com, read 2026-11-03

Pricing model and transparency

weight 8 of 100

Cyware

4.0Ahead

A pricing page exists; the product page lists no price.

cyware.com, read 2026-11-03

Swimlane (Turbine)

3.5

No price. Page offers 'up to a year free' without terms.

swimlane.com, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim)

Migration tooling and import or export formats

weight 14 of 100

Cyware

5.0

The Orchestrate product page lists "import/export playbooks" (vendor claim) and names no file format and no source platform, so under the printed rule the row sits at 5.0, the same as an unnamed translation claim.

cyware.com, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim)

Swimlane (Turbine)

6.0Ahead

Swimlane's migration page, read 2026-11-03, names Cortex XSOAR, Splunk SOAR, D3 Security and FortiSOAR as sources and claims up to 90 percent of workflows migrate automatically (vendor claim, marketing page, no method). The platform exports a .ssp solution package. A competitor says Swimlane's schema-held rules do not port, a claim about a rival.

swimlane.com, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim); swimlane.com, read 2026-11-03

Ownership stability

weight 10 of 100

Cyware

8.0

Independent; no 2026 acquisition found. SOAR is one product line inside a threat-intelligence-led company.

cyware.com, read 2026-11-03 (search summary only)

Swimlane (Turbine)

8.0

Independent; raised USD 45M in June 2025. No acquisition found in the search read.

businesswire.com, read 2026-11-03

The verdict for Cyware v Swimlane (Turbine), by buyer type

Microsoft shop
Cyware fits better, because it announced a Microsoft partnership on 2025-10-22 under which Sentinel ingests Cyware threat intelligence (vendor claim); Swimlane documents nothing for this buyer type on the pages read.
regulated or air-gapped
Cyware fits better, because it reaches on-prem tools through lightweight integrator agents that avoid exposing internal networks (vendor claim); Swimlane documents nothing for this buyer type on the pages read.
leaving a legacy SOAR
Swimlane fits better, because it claims up to 90 percent of workflows migrate automatically (vendor claim); Cyware's page lists import/export playbooks and names no source platform or format (vendor claim).

When to pick each

Pick Cyware when

Pick Cyware when you are a Microsoft shop and you want a tool that announced a Microsoft partnership on 2025-10-22 under which Sentinel ingests Cyware threat intelligence (vendor claim).

Pick Swimlane (Turbine) when

Pick Swimlane when you are leaving a legacy SOAR and you want a tool that claims up to 90 percent of workflows migrate automatically (vendor claim).

Profiles

Cyware. Swimlane (Turbine). Alternatives: instead of Cyware, instead of Swimlane (Turbine).