Tines vs Torq (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Tines grades higher than Torq: 2.6 against 1.6 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 5, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Tines grades higher on the free plan, features and platforms. They get the same grade on value for money and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Which one is for you
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
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
How we grade them
| 2.6GPATinesGood | 1.6GPATorqWeak | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CThere's no price to judge. The pricing page offers a quote request and nothing else, and what you'd be buying is a platform licence sized in Tines units, 100K a month on Core. Model costs go to your own AI provider on top of whatever the licence comes to. | CNo prices are published; the site directs buyers to request a demo. With nothing on record it sits at C. |
| Free plan and trial | CUnlimited users, spaces and connectors sounds open-handed until you read the next line: 3 live workflows. That's a wall you meet in an afternoon. Then 5,000 Tines units a month, a one-time $50 AI allowance, and no public website URLs allowed. | FNo free plan and no trial are listed, and the site directs buyers to request a demo. |
| Features | ATwo full products, and 3B does things the rest of this category doesn't: every step of a workflow runs in its own sandbox, credentials go in through a proxy so neither the builder nor the AI ever sees them, and generated workflows come with tests and Git branching. Cases handles incidents. | CAI triage, case management, investigation agents, a response agent called Socrates and threat hunting runbooks. It's a narrower job than general automation, and most of it is the vendor's own description. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record, and you start by choosing between two products that work differently. Then connectors to wire up, Tines units to make sense of, and a platform written for security and IT people rather than for anyone who wanders in. | CNo store rating on record. Agents, runbooks and a context model need setting up before they earn their keep. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, with no phone or desktop app on the listing. It makes up for it in what it talks to: Slack, Teams, Jira, Okta, CrowdStrike, ServiceNow, GitHub and Splunk, an API, and coding assistants like Claude Code plugging into 3B. | CWeb only. The listing names no integrations. |
| Best for | security and IT teams automating alerts and tickets | triaging security alerts with AI agents |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Tines and Torq. How we grade
Where they differ
- Tines is self-hostable, according to its own site.
- Tines also covers templates.
- Torq also covers case management.
In commonWebAI featuresWorkflow automationAI agents
At a glance
| Tines | Torq | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Paid |
| Starts at | Not published | Not published |
| Free plan | Explore 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. Tines Stories has its own free Community Edition. | None |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Tines | Torq |
| Price read from | tines.com | Not confirmed |
| Checked | Oct 5, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
Worth knowing
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.
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.
Key features
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.
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.
Plans
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.
Torq
Pricing could not be confirmed. See torq.io.
Ways to pay less
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.
Torq
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Tines or Torq?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Tines publishes no starting price, and Torq has no price we could confirm.
Which has a free plan, Tines or Torq?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only Tines has a free plan. Torq does not.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.