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SOAR platforms · October 2026 Edition

Microsoft Sentinel vs Splunk SOAR

Zero of fourteen models named Microsoft Sentinel first on the direct prompt; zero named Splunk SOAR. Both were named by all fourteen models and Microsoft Sentinel carries 39 labels and Splunk SOAR 61, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Microsoft Sentinel

accepted challenger

Named in ten categories this edition.

Splunk SOAR

criticized challenger

Named in two categories this edition.

First-choice share2%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.

Negative rate8%44%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.

Rank in category#7#8A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.

Labels3961A count; the two differ.

The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Microsoft Sentinel reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Tines was named alongside these two in eleven of the fourteen direct answers. Tines vs Microsoft Sentinel · Tines vs Splunk SOAR · Shuffle vs Microsoft Sentinel

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the SOAR platforms page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.

Microsoft SentinelFirst choices, of fourteen modelsSplunk SOAR

Direct005 against Splunk SOAR

Paraphrase114 against Splunk SOAR

Comparative021 against Microsoft Sentinel

Budget-constrained001 against Microsoft Sentinel · 3 against Splunk SOAR

Scale-constrained002 against Splunk SOAR

Negative001 against Microsoft Sentinel · 13 against Splunk SOAR

Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk SOAR were named in the same answer 108 times, of the 389 answers naming Microsoft Sentinel and the 197 naming Splunk SOAR. In those answers Splunk SOAR took the first choice eight times and Microsoft Sentinel seven.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk SOAR stood in it.

Model	Direct	Paraphrase	Comparative	Budget-constrained	Scale-constrained	Negative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk SOAR

first choice

named as an alternative

argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Microsoft Sentinel on the left and Splunk SOAR on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk SOAR stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

11 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.

Claude Haiku 4.5Swimlane Turbine, Torq alternatives: Cortex XSOAR, FortiSOAR, Splunk SOAR, Tines

GPT-5.4 miniTines, Torq alternatives: Cortex XSOAR, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk SOAR

Grok 4.1 FastSwimlane Turbine alternatives: Microsoft Sentinel, Rapid7 InsightConnect

Mistral SmallSwimlane Turbine, Torq alternatives: Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk SOAR, Tines

DeepSeek V4 FlashTines alternatives: Microsoft Sentinel, Rapid7 InsightConnect, Swimlane Turbine

Qwen 3.7 FlashTines alternatives: Microsoft Sentinel, Swimlane Turbine

Kimi K2Tines alternatives: Microsoft Sentinel, Rapid7 InsightConnect, Swimlane Turbine, Torq

GLM 4.7 FlashXCortex XSOAR, Tines alternatives: Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk SOAR, Swimlane Turbine

MiniMax M2.5Swimlane Turbine alternatives: FortiSOAR, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk SOAR, Torq

GPT-6 LunaTines alternatives: Cortex XSOAR, Microsoft Sentinel's built-in automation, Splunk SOAR

Muse Glimmer 30BSwimlane Turbine, Tines, Torq alternatives: Cortex XSOAR, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk SOAR

Neither was named

3 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.

Gemini 3.5 FlashTines alternatives: BlinkOps, Radiant Security, Swimlane Turbine, Torq

Perplexity SonarD3 Security Smart SOAR alternatives: ManageEngine Log360, ThreatConnect

Llama 4 MaverickTines

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.

Small business

Microsoft Sentinel leads by five points.

Microsoft Sentinel#4 of 11

Splunk SOAR#7 of 11

The full small business standing →

Mid-marketThe figures above

Level: the same share of first choices.

Microsoft Sentinel#7 of 11

Splunk SOAR#8 of 11

The full mid-market standing →

Enterprise

The order flips: Splunk SOAR leads at enterprise.

Splunk SOAR#2 of 11

Microsoft Sentinel#4 of 11

The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Microsoft Sentinel

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about Splunk SOAR

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.

“avoid: ... Splunk SOAR: Only makes financial and operational sense if your company is already heavily standardized on Splunk” Gemini 3.5 Flash · direct prompt · hard negative

“Integration with Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) is described as "hacky" and problematic” Mistral Small · negative prompt · hard negative

“these are generally not recommended for mid-sized organizations” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“Cortex XSOAR and Splunk SOAR are repeatedly positioned as top-tier enterprise platforms” Perplexity Sonar · comparative prompt · first choice

“I'd usually recommend Splunk SOAR if you already have a heterogeneous security stack” GPT-5.4 mini · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Splunk SOAR leads in the number of connectors and actions” Mistral Small · comparative prompt · first choice

Also compared

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Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.