Mate SecurityvSwimlane (Turbine)
Mate Security 6.22Swimlane (Turbine) 6.14
Mate Security v Swimlane (Turbine): the totals are 0.08 apart, inside the 0.25 band. They are a band, not a ladder, so read the rows that decide the pair. Rows won: Mate Security 3, Swimlane (Turbine) 4, level 2.
The difference that decides Mate Security v Swimlane (Turbine)
On approvals, Mate documents three autonomy modes: Recommend only, Supervised and Auto-run (vendor claim, score 8.5), while Swimlane has Hero AI ask for confirmation before key actions, per September 2025 coverage (score 6.0). mate.security, read 2026-11-03
Rows with the widest weighted gap: Approvals and human-in-the-loop controls (Mate Security ahead by 2.5), Pricing model and transparency (Mate Security ahead by 2.5), Playbook authoring model (Swimlane (Turbine) ahead by 1.0).
Mate Security v Swimlane (Turbine): the nine rows side by side
Playbook authoring model
weight 14 of 100Mate Security
7.0
Not a playbook builder. Documented answer: a Gamebook describes investigative intent, required evidence, permitted actions and escalation points in plain language; Mate says it tests the description against past cases and runs it in shadow mode before sign-off. Tool contact sits in separate Flows that Mate maintains.
mate.security, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim); mate.security, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim)
Swimlane (Turbine)
8.0Ahead
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 100Mate Security
5.0
Platform page lists ten integration categories (Slack, ticketing, Microsoft identity and mail, cloud risk, email security, threat intel, EDR, Google, identity context) and names Defender and AWS IAM actions. No count.
mate.security, 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 100Mate Security
5.0
No case management product. Documents an investigations dashboard with priority, status and analyst notes and a ticket-context integration.
mate.security, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim)
Swimlane (Turbine)
6.0Ahead
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 100Mate Security
8.5Ahead
Three autonomy modes on the platform page: Recommend only, Supervised (risky changes still ask) and Auto-run under guardrails and audit; Gamebooks define when the agent must escalate, stop or ask for approval.
mate.security, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim); mate.security, 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 100Mate Security
8.0
Agents on a Security Context Graph for triage, investigation, response and hunting. Mate's own figures (98.7 percent accuracy on 7,200 alerts, 97 percent false-positive auto-closure) are unaudited vendor claims; the page does not give who measured. Agents do not hold open access to systems; Flows make the tool calls.
mate.security, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim); siliconangle.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 100Mate Security
3.5Ahead
Platform page and home page do not state deployment model or data residency; a Trust Center and compliance badges are shown.
mate.security, read 2026-11-03
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 100Mate Security
6.0Ahead
A USD 150,000 per 12 months Enterprise tier list price appears on AWS Marketplace with private offers by email; mate.security itself publishes no price.
aws.amazon.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 100Mate Security
5.0
Mate says it translates SOAR playbooks into Gamebooks and its blog cites one unnamed customer's 711 playbooks becoming 10 Gamebooks (vendor claim). The pages name no source platform and no format, and no export of Gamebooks is documented, so the claim sits at the floor of the partial band and the matrix scores it as no documented path.
mate.security, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim); mate.security, 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 100Mate Security
7.0
Independent; SiliconANGLE reports a USD 35M Series A led by Canaan in July 2026 and more than USD 50M raised in total. Founded recently; Gamebooks reached general availability on 2026-08-26.
siliconangle.com, read 2026-11-03
Swimlane (Turbine)
8.0Ahead
Independent; raised USD 45M in June 2025. No acquisition found in the search read.
businesswire.com, read 2026-11-03
The verdict for Mate Security v Swimlane (Turbine), by buyer type
- Microsoft shop
- Mate fits better, because it names Microsoft Defender and Microsoft identity and mail among its integration categories (vendor claim); Swimlane documents nothing for this buyer type on the pages read.
- Splunk shop
- Swimlane fits better, because it names Splunk SOAR as a source and claims up to 90 percent of workflows migrate automatically (vendor claim); Mate claims it translates SOAR playbooks into Gamebooks, naming no source product (vendor claim).
- agent-first
- Mate fits better, because it documents three autonomy modes and Gamebooks that set when agents must escalate, stop or ask for approval (vendor claim); Swimlane routes each alert to automation, AI-assisted or fully agentic investigation (vendor claim).
When to pick each
Pick Mate Security when
Pick Mate when you are agent-first and you want a tool that documents three autonomy modes and Gamebooks that set when agents must escalate, stop or ask for approval (vendor claim).
Pick Swimlane (Turbine) when
Pick Swimlane when you are a Splunk shop and you want a tool that names Splunk SOAR as a source and claims up to 90 percent of workflows migrate automatically (vendor claim).
Moving playbooks between Mate Security and Swimlane (Turbine)
The portability matrix records seven playbook types for each direction it covers. Verdicts are documentation findings, not test results. How the matrix is built.
| Playbook type | Verdict | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Enrichment lookups | rebuild from scratch | Mate says it translates SOAR playbooks into Gamebooks of investigative intent but its page names no source platform or format, so no documented path on 2026-11-03 (vendor claim, unverified). mate.security, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim) |
| Phishing triage | rebuild from scratch | Mate says it translates SOAR playbooks into Gamebooks of investigative intent but its page names no source platform or format, so no documented path on 2026-11-03 (vendor claim, unverified). mate.security, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim) |
| Endpoint containment | rebuild from scratch | Mate says it translates SOAR playbooks into Gamebooks of investigative intent but its page names no source platform or format, so no documented path on 2026-11-03 (vendor claim, unverified). mate.security, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim) |
| Identity actions | rebuild from scratch | Mate says it translates SOAR playbooks into Gamebooks of investigative intent but its page names no source platform or format, so no documented path on 2026-11-03 (vendor claim, unverified). mate.security, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim) |
| Ticketing and case sync | rebuild from scratch | Mate describes Gamebooks as investigation procedures and no page covers case sync, so no documented path on 2026-11-03. mate.security, read 2026-11-03 |
| Custom scripted logic | rebuild from scratch | Mate says "your custom logic stays" after translation but names no source platform, format or mechanism, so no documented path on 2026-11-03 (vendor claim, unverified). mate.security, read 2026-11-03 (vendor claim) |
| Scheduled or batch jobs | rebuild from scratch | Mate describes Gamebooks as investigation procedures and no page covers scheduled or batch jobs, so no documented path on 2026-11-03. mate.security, read 2026-11-03 |
Profiles
Mate Security. Swimlane (Turbine). Alternatives: instead of Mate Security, instead of Swimlane (Turbine).