Comparison

Elastic Security vs Microsoft Sentinel

On the evidence we track, Elastic Security leads this comparison with a composite score of 56/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Elastic Security56
Microsoft Sentinel36
Score
vioscaleAI score
Elastic Security56 / 100medium · 72%
Microsoft Sentinel36 / 100medium · 63%
Pricing
Free tier
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel✗
Model
Elastic Securitycommercial
Microsoft Sentinelquote
Price level
Elastic Securitylow
Microsoft Sentinelunknown
Transparent
Elastic Security✗
Microsoft Sentinel✗
Integrations
Count
Elastic Security400
Microsoft Sentinel–
Security
Disclosure policy
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel–
Gdpr
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel✓
Iso27001
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel✓
Scorecard
Elastic Security5.6
Microsoft Sentinel–
Trust center
Microsoft Sentinel–
Reliability
Status page
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Elastic Security18,551
Microsoft Sentinel–
Github stars
Elastic Security78,268
Microsoft Sentinel–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Elastic Security100
Microsoft Sentinel–
Release
History
Elastic Security20 items
Microsoft Sentinel–
Language
Primary
Elastic SecurityJava
Microsoft Sentinel–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Elastic Security6 items
Microsoft Sentinel6 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✓
Microsoft Sentinel✓
SOAR (playbooks / automated response)
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel-
Detection
UEBA (behavioural analytics)
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel-
Built-in threat intelligence
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel-
ML / anomaly detection
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel✓
MITRE ATT&CK detection mapping
Elastic Security✗
Microsoft Sentinel-
Ops
Case / incident management
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel✓
Pricing
Pricing basis
Elastic SecurityIngest GB/day
Microsoft Sentinel-
Deployment
Deployment
Elastic SecurityHybrid
Microsoft SentinelCloud
Integration
Connector / content-pack breadth
Elastic Security26+ integrations including security tools (Slack, Jira, PagerDuty, ServiceNow),
Microsoft Sentinel-
Licensing
Open-core available
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel-

What each one is

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

Elastic Security

Leader

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

Microsoft Sentinel

A security information and event management system that enables organizations to identify threats across their infrastructure, respond to security incidents quickly, and reduce operational costs through integrated data storage and AI-powered threat detection.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Elastic Security

Leader
Free tier14-day trial
as of verify ↗

Microsoft Sentinel

Quote-based
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel✓
CLI
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel✓
Self-hosted
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel✗
On-premise
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel✗
Hybrid
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel✗
Air-gapped
Elastic Security✓
Microsoft Sentinel✗

Integrations

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

Elastic Security

Leader
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

Microsoft Sentinel

Not documented yet.

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