Comparison

Elastic Security vs Wazuh

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
Wazuh46
Score
vioscaleAI score
Elastic Security56 / 100medium · 72%
Wazuh46 / 100medium · 62%
Pricing
Free tier
Elastic Security✓
Wazuh✓
Model
Elastic Securitycommercial
Price level
Elastic Securitylow
Wazuhfree
Transparent
Elastic Security✗
Wazuh✗
Integrations
Count
Elastic Security400
Wazuh3
Reliability
Status page
Elastic Security✓
Wazuh–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Elastic Security18,551
Wazuh0
Github stars
Elastic Security78,268
Wazuh17,232
Activity
Commits last 30d
Elastic Security100
Wazuh100
Release
Cadence days
Elastic Security–
Wazuh18
History
Elastic Security20 items
Language
Primary
Elastic SecurityJava
WazuhC++
Market
Content
Faq
Elastic Security6 items
Wazuh7 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✓
Wazuh✓
SOAR (playbooks / automated response)
Elastic Security✓
Wazuh✓
Detection
UEBA (behavioural analytics)
Elastic Security✓
Wazuh✓
Built-in threat intelligence
Elastic Security✓
Wazuh✓
ML / anomaly detection
Elastic Security✓
Wazuh✓
MITRE ATT&CK detection mapping
Elastic Security✗
Wazuh✓
Ops
Case / incident management
Elastic Security✓
Wazuh✓
Pricing
Pricing basis
Elastic SecurityIngest GB/day
Wazuh-
Deployment
Deployment
Elastic SecurityHybrid
WazuhHybrid
Integration
Connector / content-pack breadth
Elastic Security26+ integrations including security tools (Slack, Jira, PagerDuty, ServiceNow),
WazuhCloud and endpoint integrations including AWS services and threat intelligence f
Licensing
Open-core available
Elastic Security✓
Wazuh✓

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

Wazuh

A unified security solution that monitors, detects, and responds to threats across endpoints, networks, cloud workloads, and infrastructure through integrated threat analysis and automated response capabilities.

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 ↗

Wazuh

Open sourceFree tier
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✓
Wazuh✓
macOS
Elastic Security✗
Wazuh✓
Windows
Elastic Security✗
Wazuh✓
Linux
Elastic Security✗
Wazuh✓
CLI
Elastic Security✓
Wazuh✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Elastic Security✓
Wazuh✓
Self-hosted
Elastic Security✓
Wazuh✓
On-premise
Elastic Security✓
Wazuh✓
Hybrid
Elastic Security✓
Wazuh✓
Air-gapped
Elastic Security✓
Wazuh✗

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • Slack

Elastic Security

Leader
28 total - 27 not shared
  • 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
  • Unstructured.io
  • +3 more
Independently observed

Wazuh

7 total - 6 not shared
  • Amazon Security Lake
  • AWS Inspector
  • AWS SQS
  • ESET PROTECT Hub
  • VirusTotal
  • Maltiverse
Independently observed
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