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Swimlane vs Torq

Swimlane sells an agentic AI automation platform that puts AI agents to work across the SOC, from customer-defined detections to fully agentic investigations. Torq sells the Torq AI SOC Platform, which turns alerts into action across a security stack. CISO Tribune files both under SOAR and security automation and AI SOC analysts. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Swimlane vs Torq: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
SwimlaneSwimlane sells an agentic AI automation platform that puts AI agents to work across the SOC, from customer-defined detections to fully agentic investigations.swimlane.comTorqTorq sells the Torq AI SOC Platform, which turns alerts into action across a security stack.torq.io
What it sells
  • Swimlane AI SOC[4]Sends each alert to automation, AI-assisted or fully agentic investigation.
  • Phishing Triage[7]Pre-built phishing triage solution on Swimlane Turbine.
  • Torq AI SOC Platform[4][6][9][14]Turns alerts into action across a security stack.
  • Auto Triage[4][6][7]Agentic AI engine that prioritizes threats and separates noise from actual risk.
  • Case Management[4][6][7][10]Native case management with evidence, timelines and case summaries.
  • Torq HyperAgents®[4]A group of autonomous, transparent, and customizable AI Agents.
  • Socrates[4][6][7][10]Natural language-driven agentic AI that autonomously remediates critical threats.
  • Hyperautomation[4][6]Workflow automation using integrations with the security stack.
  • Context Graph[4][7][9]A visual map of the identities, assets, and relationships in an environment.
  • Integrations[4][6]300 pre-built integrations and 4,000+ pre-built steps.
Categories
Headquarters
Denver, United StatesTel Aviv, Israel[3]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2020[2][9]
Ownership and funding
Privately held[3][6][9]Privately held[4][6][9][16]
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
Not stated on its pages
  • July 28, 2026Torq introduced Torq SOC Brain, a new layer of its AI SOC Platform that learns from historical investigations and analyst decisions.[15]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[9]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[16]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
Managed security service providers are a named audience, with pre-built MSSP dashboards for client portfolios and a managed security service provider named as a customer. GRC teams are the stated audience for the Compliance Audit Readiness solution. The pages also describe a healthcare customer where Swimlane closes many daily cases independently and sends the remainder to analysts for review.From its own pages, Torq serves MSSPs and MDRs, which get an omniview across all customer workspaces. MSSPs can extend Torq automation capabilities to customer environments they do not directly manage. Torq offers to provide and sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement when engaging with HIPAA covered entities. Torq dashboards can be tailored to roles such as SOC Manager, CISO or customer. Torq customers include a global analytics company that rebuilt its playbooks with the Torq AI SOC Platform.
Last verified
September 27, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Swimlane and Torq are both filed under SOAR and security automation and AI SOC analysts.
  • Both are privately held.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Swimlane's primary category is SOAR and security automation; Torq's is AI SOC analysts.
  • Swimlane lists Swimlane AI SOC and Phishing Triage. Torq lists Torq AI SOC Platform, Auto Triage, Case Management, Torq HyperAgents®, Socrates and 3 more.
  • Swimlane is headquartered in Denver, United States. Torq is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Torq was founded in 2020.

What it sells: Swimlane

What Swimlane AI SOC does[4]
Swimlane AI SOC takes alerts from SIEM, EDR, and cloud tools, plus the customer's own detection logic. Intelligent routing sends each alert to automation, AI-assisted or fully agentic investigation. Analysts can review, modify or rebuild any AI-generated plan before it executes.
What Phishing Triage does[7]
Swimlane Turbine brings message details, threat intelligence, authentication results, and user context into a single investigation. When phishing is confirmed, automation can help remove related messages, block malicious indicators, revoke sessions, and escalate affected users or endpoints. Higher-impact steps can be routed for analyst approval before execution.

What it sells: Torq

What Torq AI SOC Platform does[4][6][9][14]
The Torq AI SOC Platform unifies visibility and turns alerts into action across a security stack. The Torq AI SOC Platform includes 300 pre-built integrations and 4,000+ pre-built steps. Torq describes the platform as taking action and closing cases across the complete threat management lifecycle.
What Auto Triage does[4][6][7]
Guidance and Rules for Auto Triage can be created with Socrates Builder. Auto Triage adds graph context directly to alerts.
What Case Management does[4][6][7][10]
Case Management is native to the Torq platform and provides a single source of truth with evidence, timelines, and case summaries. Torq case management is built on the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) with automation-first, event-driven workflows.
What Torq HyperAgents® does[4]
Torq HyperAgents is a group of autonomous, transparent, and customizable AI Agents. Torq HyperAgents are given access to the existing tools and steps in the SOC to deliver agentic insights and take action. Agentic runbooks access authorized data and tools, and AI Agents cross-reference historical cases, recognize threat patterns and summarize findings.
What Socrates does[4][6][7][10]
Socrates is described as natural language-driven agentic AI that autonomously remediates critical threats. Socrates coordinates specialized AI Agents and manages cases end-to-end. Socrates handles Tier-1 and Tier-2 tickets as a 24×7 on-call teammate.
What Hyperautomation does[4][6]
Torq Hyperautomation uses integrations with the security stack for workflow automation. Torq fuses agentic reasoning and Hyperautomation, from alert through remediation. AI Agents can be used to build new integrations, workflows, and custom use cases.
What Context Graph does[4][7][9]
Context Graph gives a visual map of the identities, assets, and relationships in an environment. Auto Triage adds graph context directly to alerts.
What Integrations does[4][6]
The Torq AI SOC Platform includes 300 pre-built integrations and 4,000+ pre-built steps. AI Agents can be used to build new integrations, workflows, and custom use cases. Torq uses real-time API monitoring so that automations stay connected when third-party data formats change.

Questions about Swimlane and Torq

What do Swimlane and Torq sell?
Swimlane sells Swimlane AI SOC and Phishing Triage. Torq sells Torq AI SOC Platform, Auto Triage, Case Management, Torq HyperAgents®, Socrates and 3 more.
Are Swimlane and Torq in the same category?
They share SOAR and security automation and AI SOC analysts. Swimlane's primary category is SOAR and security automation and Torq's is AI SOC analysts.
Where are Swimlane and Torq headquartered?
Swimlane is headquartered in Denver, United States. Torq is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
When were Swimlane and Torq founded?
Torq was founded in 2020.
Who owns Swimlane and Torq?
Swimlane is privately held. Torq is privately held.
Who are Swimlane and Torq sold to?
Managed security service providers are a named audience, with pre-built MSSP dashboards for client portfolios and a managed security service provider named as a customer. From its own pages, Torq serves MSSPs and MDRs, which get an omniview across all customer workspaces.
What have Swimlane and Torq announced recently?
July 28, 2026: Torq introduced Torq SOC Brain, a new layer of its AI SOC Platform that learns from historical investigations and analyst decisions.

About Swimlane

Swimlane sells an agentic AI automation platform that puts AI agents to work across the SOC, from customer-defined detections to fully agentic investigations. Swimlane AI SOC uses agentic AI that plans, executes, and documents each investigation, keeping every decision explainable and every action auditable. Swimlane AI SOC takes alerts from SIEM, EDR, and cloud tools, plus detection logic that the customer writes for threats those tools miss. Swimlane AI SOC uses intelligent routing to send each alert to automation, AI-assisted investigation or fully agentic investigation. Swimlane AI SOC sends known alerts to deterministic playbooks and reserves tokens for AI reasoning when unknown alert types occur.[4]

Customer-defined detections in Swimlane AI SOC run organization-specific detection logic against large volumes of data in Turbine. Swimlane AI SOC detects AI risks that vendor tools may not alert on, including local AI model use, unsanctioned AI accounts, sensitive data submitted to AI services, prompt injection, and disabled or bypassed guardrails. Swimlane lets customers write detections for prompt injection, compromised guardrails and runaway AI spend from rogue agents, then route each alert to agentic investigation. Agents in Swimlane AI SOC pull threat data, past cases, and knowledge base articles into each investigation. Analysts can review, modify or rebuild any AI-generated plan in Swimlane AI SOC before it executes. Swimlane AI SOC generates a human-readable reasoning chain for every investigation, exportable for audit.[4]

Swimlane offers a Hero AI playbook generator agent that creates and deploys production-grade playbooks, with clarifying questions and real-time progress updates. Users of all skill levels can create or modify playbooks with natural-language prompts in Swimlane AI SOC. Hero AI generates a live preview of a report or visualization that a user describes in plain language, and the preview can be applied to dashboards or case views. Two-way MCP support lets users connect Cursor or Cloud Code to Swimlane AI SOC and build playbooks, connectors, applications, and widgets.[4]

Turbine Canvas is used to create playbooks, applications, and AI agents with no, low or full code supported by AI. Swimlane Marketplace holds thousands of pre-built playbooks. Swimlane AI SOC lets analysts execute recommended remediation playbooks in a single click. The Swimlane Turbine platform can be customized so that the customer's company name and logo appear first for its clients upon login. Swimlane provides pre-built MSSP dashboards that track portfolio health, caseloads, and analysis productivity across every client.[4]

The Swimlane Compliance Audit Readiness (CAR) Solution, built on Turbine, moves compliance work from manual spreadsheets to a consolidated multi-framework compliance view. The CAR Solution helps GRC teams streamline audits and evidence gathering when managing multiple frameworks. The CAR Solution includes over 30 compliance framework extensions, available in the Swimlane Marketplace. Compliance evidence can be created, stored and monitored from multiple sources and linked to controls. External stakeholders can be assigned as control owners, and evidence requests go to the right person from a central location.[5]

Swimlane offers the Swimlane Vulnerability Response Management (VRM) Solution for risk prioritization and management. Swimlane Intelligence enriches findings with known exploits, CVSS scores, EPSS scores, and 30+ customizable enrichment sources. The Risk Score in VRM consolidates data from CVSS, exploit scores, and asset criticality. The VRM Prioritization Rank uses Swimlane Intelligence to assess risk and prioritize responses, factoring in exceptions to reduce unnecessary alerts. Hero is Swimlane’s private agentic AI companion, used in vulnerability response management. VRM includes a case management application that integrates with ITSM and collaboration tools.

Swimlane Turbine brings message details, threat intelligence, authentication results, and user context into a single investigation. When phishing is confirmed, automation can help remove related messages, block malicious indicators, revoke sessions, and escalate affected users or endpoints. Higher-impact steps can be routed for analyst approval before execution. Swimlane Turbine’s pre-built phishing triage solution combines low-code playbooks, threat intelligence insights and case management applications. Phishing triage groups related messages and reports across users and inboxes so one campaign shows up as a single case.[1][2][4][7][8]

Swimlane on the record

Sources

Swimlane full record

  1. [1]Swimlane turbineSwimlane · swimlane.com · published September 15, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Swimlane secures 45m in funding 20250611Built In Colorado · builtincolorado.com · published June 11, 2025 · Tier B
  3. [3]Agentic AI Security Automation & AI SOC Platform | SwimlaneSwimlane · undated page, accessed October 29, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Swimlane AI SOC: Explainable and Auditable ActionsSwimlane · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Swimlane Turbine for Compliance Audit ReadinessSwimlane · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]AI Automation for Vulnerability Response Management | SwimlaneSwimlane · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
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  9. [9]Swimlane Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & FeaturesG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

Torq full record

  1. [1]Torq seriesdTorq · torq.io · published January 12, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]CompanyTorq · torq.io · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Security startup torq raises cash at 1 2 billion valuationBloomberg · bloomberg.com · published January 11, 2026 · Tier B
  4. [4]Torq AI SOC Platform | AI Agents and Agentic SecOpsTorq · undated page, accessed October 29, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Torq Skull Hoodie – Torq MerchTorq · undated page, accessed October 29, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]The Torq AI SOC PlatformTorq · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Product Updates | Torq AI SOC PlatformTorq · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Torq Integrations | AI SOC and Security Automation IntegrationsTorq · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]About Torq | The Leading AI SOC PlatformTorq · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Torq for MSSPs and MDRsTorq · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Torq Security Hyperautomation vs. Legacy SOAR | TorqTorq · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Torq Hyperautomation vs. Security Workflow Automation Software | TorqTorq · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Security and Compliance | TorqTorq · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]AI SOC Customers | TorqTorq · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Torq Unveils The SOC Brain: The AI SOC That Learns, Not Just Remembers | TorqTorq · published July 28, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Torq AI SOC Platform Reviews & Product DetailsG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

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