- Primary focus
- Search operational data and investigate security events
- Deployment
- Self-hosted / Web
- Source model
- Other license
- Pricing model
- paid
- API available
- Yes
- Windows desktop
- Yes
- Mobile app
- Not specified
- Overview
- Splunk offers a data platform for search and analysis, with a separate Enterprise Security product for SecOps.

| Attribute | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overview | |||
| Primary focus | Search operational data and investigate security events | Security investigation on searchable event data | Elastic's managed Elasticsearch platform for search, observability and security |
| Deployment | Self-hosted / Web | Self-hosted | Self-hosted |
| Source model | Other license | Open source | Other license |
| Pricing model | paid | freemium | paid |
| API available | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows desktop | Yes | Not specified | Not specified |
| Mobile app | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Overview | Splunk offers a data platform for search and analysis, with a separate Enterprise Security product for SecOps. | Elastic Security brings SIEM and endpoint signals onto the Elasticsearch platform. | Elastic Cloud is Elastic's hosted Elasticsearch service, offered as fully managed Serverless or resource-based Hosted deployments across AWS, GCP and Azure, covering search, observability and SIEM/security use cases. |
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- Primary focus
- Security investigation on searchable event data
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Open source
- Pricing model
- freemium
- API available
- Yes
- Windows desktop
- Not specified
- Mobile app
- Not specified
- Overview
- Elastic Security brings SIEM and endpoint signals onto the Elasticsearch platform.
- Primary focus
- Elastic's managed Elasticsearch platform for search, observability and security
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Other license
- Pricing model
- paid
- API available
- Yes
- Windows desktop
- Not specified
- Mobile app
- Not specified
- Overview
- Elastic Cloud is Elastic's hosted Elasticsearch service, offered as fully managed Serverless or resource-based Hosted deployments across AWS, GCP and Azure, covering search, observability and SIEM/security use cases.
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