Elastic Security vs SOC Prime

Elastic Security totals 7.60 and SOC Prime totals 5.11 on the 10 point detection-as-code rubric (sources read 2026-11-03 and 2026-11-04). Elastic Security leads by 2.49 points. The pair turns on rule health: Elastic Security documents it in full, and SOC Prime publishes nothing on it.

The difference that decides this pair

The largest weighted gap on the rubric is rule health: Elastic Security scores 9.0 against 3.0 for SOC Prime, which is 1.08 of the 10 point total.

The pair splits on rule health: Elastic Security shows rule execution status, gap duration and execution time on a Rule Monitoring tab, with no noisy-rule flag for custom rules, and SOC Prime names no noisy, broken, drift or cost feature on the pages read. elastic.co read 2026-11-03 socprime.com read 2026-11-03

Rubric side by side

Elastic Security totals 7.60 and SOC Prime totals 5.11 out of 10.

Rubric criteria for Elastic Security and SOC Prime, scores out of 10. A plus marks a criterion where SOC Prime scores higher, a minus where Elastic Security does.

Marker	Criterion	Weight	Elastic Security	SOC Prime
+	Rule languages and conversion paths	15	7.0	8.0
-	Git-native workflow and CI/CD	18	8.0	4.0
-	Testing	15	7.0	5.0
+	Coverage analytics	12	5.0	6.0
-	Rule health	18	9.0	3.0
-	Versioning and rollback	8	8.0	4.0
-	Content library size and freshness	8	9.0	7.0
-	Pricing transparency	6	8.0	5.0
	Total	100	7.60	5.11

The 33 capabilities as a diff

Read it as a diff from Elastic Security to SOC Prime: 19 of 33 rows differ. A plus marks a row where SOC Prime documents more (2 rows), a minus a row where Elastic Security documents more (17 rows). Rows with no marker match.

Capability rows for Elastic Security and SOC Prime, grouped. Changed rows are shaded and carry a marker.

Marker	Capability	Elastic Security	SOC Prime
Languages
SOC Prime documents more	Sigma native	not documented	partial
SOC Prime documents more	Sigma conversion	not documented	partial
	YARA-L	not documented	not documented
	SPL	not documented	not documented
	KQL	not documented	not documented
Elastic Security documents more	EQL or ES\|QL	documented	not documented
	Python	not documented	not documented
	Visual builder	not documented	not documented
	YARA	not documented	not documented
Elastic Security documents more	Lucene or KQL-like	documented	not documented
Source control and CI
Elastic Security documents more	Git sync	documented	partial
Elastic Security documents more	PR deploy	partial	not documented
Elastic Security documents more	CLI	documented	not documented
Elastic Security documents more	Rule API	documented	not documented
	CI examples	partial	partial
Elastic Security documents more	Env promotion	partial	not documented
Testing
Elastic Security documents more	Unit tests	documented	not documented
Elastic Security documents more	Replay	documented	not documented
Elastic Security documents more	Synthetic events	partial	not documented
	Backtest reports	not documented	not documented
	Test coverage	not documented	not documented
Coverage analytics
Elastic Security documents more	ATT&CK map	documented	partial
Elastic Security documents more	Gap view	documented	partial
	Data sources	partial	partial
Elastic Security documents more	Log source health	partial	not documented
Rule health
	Noisy rules	not documented	not documented
Elastic Security documents more	Broken rules	documented	not documented
Elastic Security documents more	Field drift	partial	not documented
Elastic Security documents more	Rule cost	documented	not documented
Elastic Security documents more	Lifecycle	partial	not documented
Library
	Library count	partial	partial
	Community	partial	partial
	Cadence	partial	partial

documentedpartialnot documented

Sources for the rows that differ

Sigma native (SOC Prime documents more). Elastic Security: not documented, No Sigma rule type on the rule-types page; Sigma not named on pages read elastic.co read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: partial, Prime Detect 'Applies Sigma rules to streaming events' (product page) socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
Sigma conversion (SOC Prime documents more). Elastic Security: not documented, No page read for this platform names this feature dac-reference.readthedocs.io read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: partial, Prime Architect: 'Convert Sigma rules into 48 SIEM and platform languages'; platform page says 65 'Sigma translation languages' (counts differ) socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
EQL or ES|QL (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: documented, Rule types 'Event correlation (EQL)' and 'ES|QL' elastic.co read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: not documented, Product pages read do not name this feature; no documentation portal was readable socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
Lucene or KQL-like (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: documented, 'Custom query' rules match events using KQL or Lucene elastic.co read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: not documented, Product pages read do not name this feature; no documentation portal was readable socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
Git sync (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: documented, DaC reference: 'Git Sync' between local repo and the VCS, using the detection-rules repo dac-reference.readthedocs.io read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: partial, Threat Detection Marketplace: 'Source detection rules into SOC Prime repository or your existing ones' (product page) socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
PR deploy (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: partial, DaC reference describes 'CI/CD Sync via APIs' and peer review practice; no PR-triggered deploy workflow shipped on pages read dac-reference.readthedocs.io read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: not documented, Product pages read do not name this feature; no documentation portal was readable socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
CLI (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: documented, detection_rules CLI: validate-rule, validate-all, kibana import-rules, export-rules raw.githubusercontent.com read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: not documented, Product pages read do not name this feature; no documentation portal was readable socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
Rule API (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: documented, DaC reference: export with the Detection Engine API; kibana import-rules loads rules into Kibana dac-reference.readthedocs.io read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: not documented, Product pages read do not name this feature; no documentation portal was readable socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
Env promotion (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: partial, DaC reference lists 'Pre-Production Testing' and 'Managing multiple rule sets'; no dev/staging/prod promotion flow described dac-reference.readthedocs.io read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: not documented, Product pages read do not name this feature; no documentation portal was readable socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
Unit tests (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: documented, 'Unit testing' sub-component: Python unit tests for rules in the detection-rules repo dac-reference.readthedocs.io read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: not documented, Product pages read do not name this feature; no documentation portal was readable socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
Replay (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: documented, 'Run rules manually' over a specified past time range, tracked in the Manual runs table elastic.co read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: not documented, Product pages read do not name this feature; no documentation portal was readable socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
Synthetic events (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: partial, README lists an 'RTAs' (red team automation) section; generation of test events not described on pages read raw.githubusercontent.com read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: not documented, Product pages read do not name this feature; no documentation portal was readable socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
ATT&CK map (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: documented, 'MITRE ATT&CK coverage' page; custom rules mapped in Advanced settings; threat field in TOML elastic.co read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: partial, Prime Detect: 'Each match carries severity and ATT&CK technique' (product page) socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
Gap view (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: documented, 'MITRE ATT&CK coverage' page: 'Identifying coverage gaps' via light or empty cells elastic.co read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: partial, Threat Detection Marketplace 'SOC Coverage: Track MITRE ATT&CK technique coverage'; 'MITRE ATT&CK Audit' service socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
Log source health (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: partial, Rule execution warning when a rule's index pattern is not found; no per-source health tied to rules elastic.co read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: not documented, Product pages read do not name this feature; no documentation portal was readable socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
Broken rules (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: documented, 'Rule execution status' (succeeded, failed, warning), 'Rule Monitoring' tab, gap duration, 'Fill rule execution gaps' elastic.co read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: not documented, Product pages read do not name this feature; no documentation portal was readable socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
Field drift (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: partial, 'Data Quality dashboard' flags 'unsuccessful mappings' to ECS in indices; no alert tied to rule fields elastic.co read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: not documented, Product pages read do not name this feature; no documentation portal was readable socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
Rule cost (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: documented, 'Execution results' tab shows execution duration; 'Detection rule monitoring dashboard' for performance metrics elastic.co read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: not documented, Product pages read do not name this feature; no documentation portal was readable socprime.com read 2026-11-03.
Lifecycle (Elastic Security documents more). Elastic Security: partial, 'Handle deprecated prebuilt rules' on the Rules page; no lifecycle states for custom rules on pages read elastic.co read 2026-11-03. SOC Prime: not documented, Product pages read do not name this feature; no documentation portal was readable socprime.com read 2026-11-03.

Verdict by buyer type

Which of the two fits each kind of team.

Buyer	Verdict
Microsoft Sentinel estate	SOC Prime is the only one of the pair with any stated route: it claims Sigma translation to dozens of languages and names none; Elastic Security documents no Sentinel path.
Elastic estate	Elastic Security is the better fit: it runs the estate natively and ships a detection_rules CLI for rules as TOML files; SOC Prime claims Sigma translation to dozens of languages and names none.
Splunk estate	SOC Prime is the only one of the pair with any stated route: it claims Sigma translation to dozens of languages and names none; Elastic Security documents no Splunk path.
Google SecOps estate	SOC Prime is the only one of the pair with any stated route: it claims Sigma translation to dozens of languages and names none; Elastic Security documents no Google SecOps path.
a team starting from scratch with Sigma	SOC Prime is the better fit: it claims Sigma conversion to dozens of targets that its pages do not name; Elastic Security documents no Sigma conversion path on the pages read.

When to pick each

Elastic Security: Pick Elastic Security when testing is the deciding need: it ships Python unit tests for rules in the detection-rules repo and can run a rule manually over a past time range. It also leads on CI and deployment.

SOC Prime: Pick SOC Prime when testing matters more to you than testing, where Elastic Security documents more: it says Uncoder AI validates translated rules and describes no replay or unit test method.

Profiles: Elastic Security, SOC Prime. Alternatives: to Elastic Security, to SOC Prime.