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SOAR platforms · October 2026 Edition

Tines vs Swimlane Turbine

Nine of fourteen models named Tines first on the direct prompt; five named Swimlane Turbine. Tines was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and Swimlane Turbine by thirteen and Tines carries 48 labels and Swimlane Turbine 34, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Tines

endorsed leader

Named in two categories this edition.

Swimlane Turbine

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share41%11%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.

Negative rate2%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.

Rank in category#1#3A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.

Labels4834A count; the two differ.

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

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.

TinesFirst choices, of fourteen modelsSwimlane Turbine

Direct95

Paraphrase62

Comparative10

Budget-constrained701 against Tines

Scale-constrained30

Negative20

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, Tines and Swimlane Turbine were named in the same answer sixty-five times, of the 148 answers naming Tines and the 93 naming Swimlane Turbine. In those answers Swimlane Turbine took the first choice four times and Tines twenty-five.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Tines and Swimlane Turbine 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

Tines

Swimlane Turbine

first choice

named as an alternative

argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Tines on the left and Swimlane Turbine on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Tines and Swimlane Turbine stood in it.

Both were the first choice

1 of 14 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.

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

Tines first, Swimlane Turbine an alternative

8 of 14 modelsSwimlane Turbine was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.

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

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

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

Llama 4 MaverickTines

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

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

Swimlane Turbine first, Tines an alternative

4 of 14 modelsTines was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.

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

Grok 4.1 FastSwimlane Turbine alternatives: Microsoft Sentinel, Rapid7 InsightConnect

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

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

Neither was named

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

Perplexity SonarD3 Security Smart SOAR alternatives: ManageEngine Log360, ThreatConnect

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

Tines leads by forty-four points.

Tines#1 of 11

Swimlane Turbine#9 of 11

The full small business standing →

Mid-marketThe figures above

Tines leads by thirty points.

Tines#1 of 11

Swimlane Turbine#3 of 11

The full mid-market standing →

Enterprise

Tines leads by six points.

Tines#3 of 11

Swimlane Turbine#5 of 11

The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Tines

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

“Tines has a free edition, but it allows only 3 live workflows, so it's better for a proof of concept than a full company-wide deployment.” GPT-6 Luna · budget prompt · soft negative

“I recommend starting with Tines if you want rapid implementation and ease of use, or Cortex XSOAR if you need the most comprehensive platform” GLM 4.7 FlashX · direct prompt · first choice

“Best for low-code automation: Tines, for security and operations teams that build orchestration-heavy workflows without heavy scripting.” Muse Glimmer 30B · scale prompt · first choice

“Tines | Analyst-friendly, low-code, strong mid-market fit, median $52K/yr | Teams wanting speed and minimal engineering overhead” DeepSeek V4 Flash · scale prompt · first choice

What the models said about Swimlane Turbine

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

“Start with Swimlane if you want vendor-agnostic, growing SOC focus—it's highlighted in multiple mid-market comparisons for balance.” Grok 4.1 Fast · direct prompt · first choice

“Often highlighted as a strong option for mid-market organizations due to its strong case management, extensive integrations” MiniMax M2.5 · direct prompt · first choice

“I'd lean toward Rapid7 InsightConnect or Swimlane Turbine as they're specifically optimized for mid-market teams” Claude Haiku 4.5 · paraphrase prompt · first choice

Also compared

Tines vs Shuffle Tines vs Torq Tines vs Cortex XSOAR Tines vs Rapid7 InsightConnect Tines vs Microsoft Sentinel Tines vs Splunk SOAR Shuffle vs Swimlane Turbine Swimlane Turbine vs Torq Swimlane Turbine vs Cortex XSOAR Swimlane Turbine vs Rapid7 InsightConnect Swimlane Turbine vs Microsoft Sentinel Swimlane Turbine vs Splunk SOAR All twenty-eight head-to-head pages and the full SOAR standing

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.