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Comparison

Elastic Security vs Splunk Enterprise Security

No leader: the top candidate Splunk Enterprise Security has only 0.30 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.

Elastic Security full profile →Splunk Enterprise Security full profile →
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Elastic Security56
Splunk Enterprise Security56
Score
vioscaleAI score
Elastic Security56 / 100medium · 72%
Splunk Enterprise Security56 / 100low · 30%
Pricing
Free tier
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
Model
Elastic Securitycommercial
Splunk Enterprise Securitycommercial
Price level
Elastic Securitylow
Splunk Enterprise Securityunknown
Transparent
Elastic Security✗
Splunk Enterprise Security✗
Integrations
Count
Elastic Security400
Splunk Enterprise Security2,000
Security
Disclosure policy
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
Gdpr
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security–
Iso27001
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security–
Scorecard
Elastic Security5.6
Splunk Enterprise Security–
Trust center
Elastic Securityhttps://www.elastic.co/legal/ethics-and-compliance
Splunk Enterprise Security–
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Elastic Security18,551
Splunk Enterprise Security–
Github stars
Elastic Security78,268
Splunk Enterprise Security–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Elastic Security100
Splunk Enterprise Security–
Release
History
Elastic Security20 items
Splunk Enterprise Security–
Language
Primary
Elastic SecurityJava
Splunk Enterprise Security–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Elastic Security6 items
Splunk Enterprise Security6 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✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
SOAR (playbooks / automated response)
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
Detection
UEBA (behavioural analytics)
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
Built-in threat intelligence
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
ML / anomaly detection
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
MITRE ATT&CK detection mapping
Elastic Security✗
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
Ops
Case / incident management
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
Pricing
Pricing basis
Elastic SecurityIngest GB/day
Splunk Enterprise Security-
Deployment
Deployment
Elastic SecurityHybrid
Splunk Enterprise SecurityHybrid
Integration
Connector / content-pack breadth
Elastic Security26+ integrations including security tools (Slack, Jira, PagerDuty, ServiceNow),
Splunk Enterprise Security2,000+ integrations via Splunkbase
Licensing
Open-core available
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✗

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

Splunk Enterprise Security

Splunk Enterprise Security combines security analytics, automated response, behavioral analytics, and machine learning to enable comprehensive threat detection and faster investigation and response across security operations.

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

Free tier14-day trial
as of verify ↗

Splunk Enterprise Security

Subscription14-day trial
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✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
CLI
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
Self-hosted
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
On-premise
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
Hybrid
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓
Air-gapped
Elastic Security✓
Splunk Enterprise Security✓

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

Splunk Enterprise Security

14 total
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • ConnectWise Automate
  • Datadog
  • Google Stackdriver
  • Honeybadger
  • Hubot
  • Loadster
  • New Relic
  • Observium
  • Opsview
  • Pingdom
  • Prometheus
  • Cisco
  • Amazon S3
Independently observed
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Elastic Security or Splunk Enterprise Security: which one depends on you

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