Comparison

Elastic Security vs IBM QRadar

No leader: the top candidate IBM QRadar has only 0.16 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Elastic Security56
IBM QRadar59
Score
vioscaleAI score
Elastic Security56 / 100medium · 72%
IBM QRadar59 / 100low · 16%
Pricing
Free tier
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar–
Model
Elastic Securitycommercial
IBM QRadaropen_source
Price level
Elastic Securitylow
IBM QRadar–
Transparent
Elastic Security✗
IBM QRadar–
Integrations
Count
Elastic Security400
IBM QRadar700
Security
Disclosure policy
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar✓
Gdpr
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar✓
Iso27001
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar–
Scorecard
Elastic Security5.6
IBM QRadar–
Reliability
Status page
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Elastic Security18,551
IBM QRadar–
Github stars
Elastic Security78,268
IBM QRadar–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Elastic Security100
IBM QRadar–
Release
History
Elastic Security20 items
IBM QRadar–
Language
Primary
Elastic SecurityJava
IBM QRadar–
Market
Availability
IBM QRadar–
Content
Faq
Elastic Security6 items
IBM QRadar5 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for siem & soar software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
SIEM (log correlation & detection)
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar✓
SOAR (playbooks / automated response)
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar✗
Detection
UEBA (behavioural analytics)
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar✓
Built-in threat intelligence
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar✓
ML / anomaly detection
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar-
MITRE ATT&CK detection mapping
Elastic Security✗
IBM QRadar-
Ops
Case / incident management
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar✓
Pricing
Pricing basis
Elastic SecurityIngest GB/day
IBM QRadar-
Deployment
Deployment
Elastic SecurityHybrid
IBM QRadarOn-prem
Integration
Connector / content-pack breadth
Elastic Security26+ integrations including security tools (Slack, Jira, PagerDuty, ServiceNow),
IBM QRadar700 prebuilt integrations and partner extensions
Licensing
Open-core available
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Elastic Security

A security operations platform combining SIEM and XDR capabilities with built-in AI-driven automation and threat analysis. Autonomous agents handle detection and investigation workflows, while analysts focus on verification and decision-making.

Independently observed

IBM QRadar

IBM QRadar SIEM is a security operations platform that centralizes data from security tools and IT systems, detects threats in real time, supports regulatory compliance, and streamlines investigation and response workflows to reduce operational costs.

Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar–
CLI
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar✗
Self-hosted
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar✗
On-premise
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar✓
Hybrid
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar✗
Air-gapped
Elastic Security✓
IBM QRadar✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Elastic Security

28 total
  • Slack
  • Jira
  • Microsoft Teams
  • PagerDuty
  • ServiceNow
  • IBM Resilient
  • xMatters
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Google Vertex AI
  • Microsoft Azure AI
  • Cohere
  • Mistral
  • Hugging Face
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • Jina AI
  • IBM watsonx
  • NVIDIA
  • Aryn
  • Tableau
  • Apache Spark
  • Elasticsearch-Hadoop
  • +4 more
Independently observed

IBM QRadar

3 total
  • SIGMA
  • QRadar SOAR
  • QRadar EDR
Independently observed
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Elastic Security or IBM QRadar: which one depends on you

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Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.