Comparison

Elastic Security vs Rapid7 InsightIDR

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
Rapid7 InsightIDR38
Score
vioscaleAI score
Elastic Security56 / 100medium · 72%
Rapid7 InsightIDR38 / 100medium · 73%
Pricing
Free tier
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✗
Model
Elastic Securitycommercial
Rapid7 InsightIDRquote
Price level
Elastic Securitylow
Rapid7 InsightIDRunknown
Transparent
Elastic Security✗
Rapid7 InsightIDR✗
Integrations
Count
Elastic Security400
Rapid7 InsightIDR7
Security
Disclosure policy
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✓
Gdpr
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✓
Hipaa
Elastic Security–
Rapid7 InsightIDR✓
Iso27001
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR–
Pci
Elastic Security–
Rapid7 InsightIDR✓
Scorecard
Elastic Security5.6
Rapid7 InsightIDR–
Reliability
Status page
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Elastic Security18,551
Rapid7 InsightIDR–
Github stars
Elastic Security78,268
Rapid7 InsightIDR–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Elastic Security100
Rapid7 InsightIDR–
Release
History
Elastic Security20 items
Rapid7 InsightIDR–
Language
Primary
Elastic SecurityJava
Rapid7 InsightIDR–
Content
Faq
Elastic Security6 items
Rapid7 InsightIDR7 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✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✓
SOAR (playbooks / automated response)
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✓
Detection
UEBA (behavioural analytics)
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✗
Built-in threat intelligence
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✓
ML / anomaly detection
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✓
MITRE ATT&CK detection mapping
Elastic Security✗
Rapid7 InsightIDR-
Ops
Case / incident management
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✓
Pricing
Pricing basis
Elastic SecurityIngest GB/day
Rapid7 InsightIDRPer-asset
Deployment
Deployment
Elastic SecurityHybrid
Rapid7 InsightIDRCloud
Integration
Connector / content-pack breadth
Elastic Security26+ integrations including security tools (Slack, Jira, PagerDuty, ServiceNow),
Rapid7 InsightIDREnterprise security tools, cloud platforms, IT service management
Licensing
Open-core available
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✗

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

Rapid7 InsightIDR

A comprehensive platform combining exposure and vulnerability management with security automation to help organizations identify risks and coordinate rapid response across cloud infrastructure, on-premises systems, and applications.

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 ↗

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Usage-based

Usage-based pricing scaled by asset types and capabilities; request demo for specific rates

  • Surface CommandContact sales
    • Asset discovery & unified inventory (CAASM)
    • Internal + external attack surface visibility (EASM)
    • Asset context, enrichment & relationships (asset graph)
    • Blast radius analysis
    • Exposure Management dashboard & remediation hub
    • +1 more
  • Exposure Command EssentialsContact sales
    • Everything in Surface Command
    • Vulnerability management: agent-based and network scanning across hybrid environments
    • Risk-based prioritization with threat-aware scoring
    • Policy & configuration assessment
    • Remediation workflows, SLAs & reporting
    • +2 more
  • Exposure Command UltimateContact sales
    • Everything in Essentials
    • Multi-cloud & container security (AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s)
    • Cloud posture & compliance (CIS + frameworks)
    • Attack path analysis & contextual risk prioritization
    • Real-time cloud visibility & threat detection
    • +4 more
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✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✓
CLI
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✓
Self-hosted
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✗
On-premise
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✗
Hybrid
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✗
Air-gapped
Elastic Security✓
Rapid7 InsightIDR✗

Integrations

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

In common (2)
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow

Elastic Security

Leader
28 total - 26 not shared
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • PagerDuty
  • 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
  • Unstructured.io
  • Alibaba Cloud
  • +2 more
Independently observed

Rapid7 InsightIDR

7 total - 5 not shared
  • Microsoft Defender
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
Independently observed
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