Swimlane vs Tines (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Swimlane if

• Fits if you run a security operations team that wants playbooks and cases in one place
• Works for teams that want AI to decide how deep each alert gets investigated

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want general business automation, as it's aimed at security work
• Skip it if you need a price: none is published and the pricing address returns not found
• Tight if you want to try before a sales call, since no free plan or self-serve trial is listed
• Watch out: the pages don't say whether cloud, private or on-premises deployment is offered

Pick Tines if

• Fits if your security team wants alert intake, triage and remediation automated
• Works for organizations that need a self-hosted, on-prem or hybrid deployment

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want to see a price before talking to sales, because paid plans are by quote
• Tight if you're staying free, with 3 live workflows, 5,000 Tines units a month and no public website URLs
• Watch out: paid plans have you bring your own AI model, so token costs go to your provider on top of the license
• Watch out: units used past your allowance are billed as overage, after a one-month grace period for new customers
• Not for you if you only need a couple of personal automations, since paid plans are platform licenses

Swimlane

• No pricing is published and the usual pricing address returns not found; the main call to action is Request a Demo.
• It is built for security operations work, not general business automation.
• The pages we read do not mention a free plan or a self-serve trial.
• Whether a cloud, private or on-premises deployment is offered was not stated on the pages we read.

Tines

• Paid prices are not published: the pricing page only offers a quote request, and plans are sold as platform licenses.
• The free Explore edition stops at 3 live workflows and 5,000 Tines units a month, and does not allow public website URLs.
• Paid plans use a bring-your-own-model approach, so LLM token costs are paid to your own AI provider.
• Tines units used beyond the plan allowance are billed as overage, after a one-month grace period for new customers.

Swimlane

Turbine Canvas playbooks

A low-code studio for building playbooks and agents, with a headless option that creates playbooks from natural-language prompts over two-way MCP.

AI SOC routing

An intelligent routing layer sends each alert to a deterministic playbook, an AI-assisted investigation or a fully agentic one, based on risk and context.

Case management

A customizable, AI-driven case management application for incident response, with routing that sets how deep each investigation goes.

Marketplace connectors

Swimlane Marketplace lists pre-built connectors, playbooks, agents and dashboard widgets, including AWS services and Fortinet products.

Further products

Separate products cover vulnerability response management, compliance audit readiness and business continuity management.

Tines

Storyboard

In Tines Stories, workflows are assembled by placing and connecting actions on a canvas: Webhook, HTTP request, Receive email, Send email, Event Transform, Condition and AI Agent.

Prompt-to-code building in Tines 3B

You describe a process in plain language and 3B writes the workflow as code, proposing tests as it goes. Git integration and branching are standard, and coding assistants such as Claude Code can connect.

Isolated runs and hidden credentials

Each step of a 3B workflow runs in its own sandbox, and credentials are injected through a proxy so that secrets are never shown to the builder or the AI, or stored in the code.

Cases and Workbench

Tines Stories includes Cases for case and incident management and Workbench, an AI copilot. The free Community Edition allows up to 20 Workbench messages a day across the tenant.

Autofix and Autotune

Autofix suggests repairs for anomalies and likely breaks in a workflow. Autotune proposes reliability, performance and clarity improvements on a branch you review before it goes live.

Monitoring and AI spend

Dashboards show workflow performance, spend across LLM providers and models, who has access to which connectors and spaces, duplicate workflows and estimated savings.

Swimlane

Pricing could not be confirmed. See swimlane.com.

Tines

• Explore$0

  Free edition of Tines 3B: unlimited users, spaces and connectors, 3 live workflows, 5,000 Tines units a month and a one-time $50 AI allowance.

• CoreCustom

  Paid Tines 3B license on a multi-tenant stack with 100K Tines units a month, unlimited workflows and your own AI model.

• ScaleCustom

  A dedicated stack for larger deployments, with 300K Tines units a month.

• PowerCustom

  A premium dedicated stack for the highest volumes, with 900K Tines units a month.

Swimlane

No public discounts listed.

Tines

• Startups

  Startup Program for Tines Stories

  Tines offers a heavily discounted, fully featured Tines Stories tenant to startups with under 100 employees, under 5 years old and under $50M raised. Services companies are excluded.