# Elastic Security vs Splunk Enterprise Security

| Attribute | Elastic Security | Splunk Enterprise Security |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 56.2 (72% (medium)) | 56.3 (30% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 18,551 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 78,268 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under SIEM & SOAR Software.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing","question":"What is Elastic Security?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elastic Security offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing","question":"Is Elastic Security free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elastic Security supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing","question":"What platforms does Elastic Security support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Elastic Security can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing","question":"Can Elastic Security be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 26 integrations for Elastic Security, including Slack, Jira, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, IBM Resilient, xMatters and OpenAI, plus 18 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing","question":"What does Elastic Security integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed ISO 27001 and GDPR for Elastic Security. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elastic Security not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/trust/faq","question":"What security certifications does Elastic Security have?","confidence":0.7}]` | `[{"answer":"An integrated security operations platform combining SIEM, SOAR, and behavior analytics capabilities with AI-driven threat detection and automated response. It enables security teams to reduce false alerts, accelerate investigations, and respond faster to threats across their infrastructure. It is indexed under SIEM & SOAR Software.","source":"https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/pricing.html","question":"What is Splunk Enterprise Security?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Splunk Enterprise Security offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/pricing.html","question":"Is Splunk Enterprise Security free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Splunk Enterprise Security. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/pricing.html","question":"What platforms does Splunk Enterprise Security support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Splunk Enterprise Security can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/pricing.html","question":"Can Splunk Enterprise Security be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 12 integrations for Splunk Enterprise Security, including Amazon CloudWatch, ConnectWise Automate, Datadog, Google Stackdriver, Honeybadger, Hubot, Loadster and New Relic, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/pricing.html","question":"What does Splunk Enterprise Security integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Splunk Enterprise Security is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/pricing/faqs.html","question":"Where is Splunk Enterprise Security available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"siem":true,"soar":true,"ueba":true,"deployment":"hybrid","ml_detection":true,"threat_intel":true,"pricing_basis":"ingest_gb","case_management":true,"connector_breadth":"26+ integrations including security tools (Slack, Jira, PagerDuty, ServiceNow), ","open_core_available":true,"mitre_attack_mapping":false}` | `{"siem":true,"soar":true,"ueba":true,"deployment":"hybrid","ml_detection":true,"threat_intel":true,"case_management":true,"connector_breadth":"2,000+ integrations via Splunkbase","open_core_available":false,"mitre_attack_mapping":true}` |
| integrations.count | 400 | 2,000 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"IBM Resilient"},{"name":"xMatters"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Google Vertex AI"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure AI"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"LlamaIndex"},{"name":"Jina AI"},{"name":"IBM watsonx"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"Aryn"},{"name":"Tableau"},{"name":"Apache Spark"},{"name":"Elasticsearch-Hadoop"},{"name":"Unstructured.io"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud"},{"name":"Aryn.ai"},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker JumpStart"}]` | `[{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"ConnectWise Automate","native":true,"category":"it_operations","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Datadog","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Stackdriver","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Honeybadger","native":true,"category":"apm","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Hubot","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Loadster","native":true,"category":"testing","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"New Relic","native":true,"category":"apm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Observium","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Opsview","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Pingdom","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Prometheus","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Cisco","native":true},{"name":"Amazon S3","native":true}]` |
| language.primary | Java | - |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T11:06:59.285Z","freeTrialDays":14}` | `{"type":"subscription","sourceUrl":"https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/pricing.html","retrievedAt":"2026-09-22T14:46:28.169Z","freeTrialDays":14}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | unknown |
| pricing.transparent | no | no |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.5","date":"2026-10-06T14:01:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.8","date":"2026-10-06T14:01:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.23","date":"2026-10-06T14:01:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.23"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.22","date":"2026-09-23T15:20:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.22"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.4","date":"2026-09-15T18:19:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.7","date":"2026-09-15T18:19:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.3","date":"2026-09-03T10:08:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.6","date":"2026-09-01T12:51:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.21","date":"2026-09-01T12:53:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.21"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.2","date":"2026-08-20T16:44:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.1","date":"2026-08-11T17:58:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.5","date":"2026-08-11T17:57:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.20","date":"2026-08-11T18:24:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.20"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.0","date":"2026-08-04T11:46:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.4","date":"2026-07-21T12:56:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.8","date":"2026-07-21T12:56:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.19","date":"2026-07-21T13:28:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.19"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.18","date":"2026-06-30T16:43:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.18"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.7","date":"2026-06-30T16:47:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.3","date":"2026-06-30T14:30:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.3"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 5.6 | - |
| security.trust_center | https://www.elastic.co/legal/ethics-and-compliance | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":45,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.elasticsearch%3Aelasticsearch&per_page=100","last_12m":2,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | - |

## Capabilities (SIEM & SOAR Software)

| Capability | Elastic Security | Splunk Enterprise Security |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| SIEM (log correlation & detection) | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOAR (playbooks / automated response) | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Detection** |  |  |
| UEBA (behavioural analytics) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in threat intelligence | ✓ | ✓ |
| ML / anomaly detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| MITRE ATT&CK detection mapping | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| Case / incident management | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Pricing** |  |  |
| Pricing basis | Ingest GB/day | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Hybrid | Hybrid |
| **Integration** |  |  |
| Connector / content-pack breadth | 26+ integrations including security tools (Slack, Jira, PagerDuty, ServiceNow), | 2,000+ integrations via Splunkbase |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Open-core available | ✓ | ✗ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-20T03:56:35.278Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*