Swimlane vs Torq (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 Torq if

• Fits if you run a security operations team buried in alerts and false positives
• Works for teams that want AI to write up evidence and a timeline for each case

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want general business or personal automation, as it's aimed at security operations
• Skip it if you need a price: none is published and the vendor's pricing address returns not found
• Tight if you want to test it first, because no free plan or trial is listed
• Watch out: the pages we read name no integrations, so you can't check it fits your tools

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.

Torq

• No prices are published; the site directs buyers to request a demo.
• It is aimed at security operations, not general business or personal automation.
• The vendor's own pricing address returns a page-not-found error.

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.

Torq

Auto triage

AI agents de-duplicate events and filter false positives, giving verdicts that the vendor says are grounded in your team's past decisions.

Case management

Cases are created, assigned and managed from one place, which the vendor describes as the single source of truth for an incident.

AI investigation

Specialized AI agents take on repetitive investigation work and record evidence, timelines and recommended actions for review.

Response with Socrates

Socrates is a natural-language agent that can remediate threats autonomously or with a human overseeing the action.

Threat hunting runbooks

Agentic runbooks access authorized data and tools, compare findings with historical cases and summarize what they find.

Reporting and context model

A context model records each verdict, exception and override, and reporting tools keep stakeholders informed.

Swimlane

Pricing could not be confirmed. See swimlane.com.

Torq

Pricing could not be confirmed. See torq.io.