Agentic Index
7AI vs Dropzone AI (2026)
7AI and Dropzone AI both take alerts from detection through investigation and both sell through sales, and they split the work differently. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
7AI sends each alert to a swarm, more than sixty specialized agents across endpoint, identity, cloud, email and network working in parallel, from a company founded by the Cybereason co founders; it also sells through AWS Marketplace, and its managed service is priced separately. Dropzone sends each alert to one AI analyst that overlays more than 90 tools, read only by default, with a threat hunter beside it, priced by investigation volume. On the grid Dropzone documents more, 11 of 14 against 8.5, and is Full on its API, deployment and security where 7AI is None or Partial; 7AI is Full on knowledge grounding where Dropzone is Partial. Choose 7AI for parallel specialist agents; choose Dropzone for documented controls and an open API.
On the Agentic Index AI SOC ranking, 7AI and Dropzone AI both clear the bar: each documents all five investigation loop capabilities in full. 23 of the 85 vendors in the lane clear it. See the AI SOC ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. 7AI and Dropzone AI are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 955 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose 7AI if
- You want specialist agents per domain working the same alert at once.
- Grounding across endpoint, identity, cloud, email and network context matters; 7AI is Full on knowledge and Dropzone Partial.
- Buying through AWS Marketplace simplifies procurement.
Choose Dropzone AI if
- An API, deployment options and security controls must be documented in full.
- One analyst overlay on your existing stack, read only by default, is the design you want.
- Investigation volume pricing is easy to forecast.
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
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7AIIntegrations & Tool Calling The platform ingests alerts from the customer's existing stack across endpoint, identity, cloud, email, network and threat intelligence, with named sources including CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, AWS, Splunk and Wiz. It acts back through those tools with built in response actions to isolate hosts, revoke sessions, reset passwords and quarantine files. Source7ai.com/platform and platform/responseread 2026-08-30 |
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Dropzone AIIntegrations & Tool Calling Dropzone has more than 90 integrations across SIEM, EDR, cloud, identity and email, read only by default. Response Actions run Python that the customer writes in an isolated container with stored secrets injected, to notify external systems, trigger remediation and apply policy actions. Sourcedocs.dropzone.ai/platform/settings/response-actionsread 2026-09-28 |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
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7AIWorkflow Orchestration The platform runs the security operations lifecycle as one system, covering detection, investigation, response and hunting. Response adds a visual Workflow Designer where customers compose multi step response with If / Else, Switch and For Each branching, steps that wait for approval, versioning, publishing and a full execution history. Workflows start the moment an investigation completes or a case changes. Source7ai.com/platform and platform/responseread 2026-09-29 |
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Dropzone AIWorkflow Orchestration Beyond the agent's own multi step investigation, customers configure what follows it. Response Automations fire on more than 50 triggers, among them an investigation completing with a given status, and run the customer's own code, and versioned custom strategies set priority rules and investigation questions. Sourcedocs.dropzone.ai/platform/settings/response-actionsread 2026-09-28 |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
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7AITriggers & Channel Coverage Every alert from every connected source across endpoint, identity, cloud, email, network and threat intelligence starts the agents on its own, around the clock. Workflows also start when an investigation completes or a case changes state, and threat intelligence drives hunts. Source7ai.com/platform and platform/responseread 2026-08-30 |
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Dropzone AITriggers & Channel Coverage Every alert the connected tools raise starts an investigation, hunts run on a schedule and on new CVEs and campaigns, and response automations fire on more than 50 system triggers. Sourcedropzone.airead 2026-09-28 |
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
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7AIKnowledge Grounding & RAG Enterprise Insights builds a customer context graph applied to every case. Skills let teams encode their own environment knowledge and tradecraft as reference documents and checklists that agents follow, and Federated SIEM queries the customer's security data where it lives. Agents enrich each alert from this grounding plus threat intelligence. Source7ai.com/platform/enterprise-insights, platform/skills, platform/federated-siemread 2026-08-30 |
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Dropzone AIKnowledge Grounding & RAG Investigations query the customer's own tools live through the integrations, and analysts set custom strategies and define normal behavior. Context Memory serves as the persistent store, and no separate maintained index over the customer's documents is described. Sourcedocs.dropzone.ai/platform/settings/custom-strategiesread 2026-09-28 |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
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7AIMemory & State Persistence Cases persist from open through closed with full context, and the Enterprise Insights context graph is applied to every case. The agentic flywheel feeds response and hunt outcomes back into detection. This is case and environment state, not a separate agent memory layer. Source7ai.com/platform and platform/enterprise-insightsread 2026-08-30 |
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Dropzone AIMemory & State Persistence Context Memory holds institutional facts across investigations. The agent writes to it when analysts change a conclusion, users add notes directly, and it can be reached through the API. Its scope and lifetime are not stated, and Dropzone only advises cleaning it up from time to time. Sourcedocs.dropzone.ai/platform/context-memoryread 2026-09-28 |
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
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7AIHuman Oversight & Guardrails Response has explicit approval gates. 7AI proposes the exact containment actions and the customer approves what executes. Some steps can be approved in advance, humans on the loop is the stated operating model, workflow branches can wait for approval, and every action is recorded in an audit log. Source7ai.com/platform/response and platform/investigationsread 2026-08-30 |
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Dropzone AIHuman Oversight & Guardrails Analysts approve or reopen each investigation in the product and from Slack (/dzapprove, /dzreopen), access to the customer's tools is read only by default, and response actions run only where the customer has configured them. Sourcedocs.dropzone.ai/integrations/tools/slack-chatopsread 2026-09-28 |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
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7AISecurity, Identity & Governance A completed SOC 2 Type II audit, conducted by Decrypt Compliance, covers the AICPA security and confidentiality categories. Access is limited on a need to know basis, and systems are tested regularly. The report is confidential and available on request, and there is no trust center, pen test, SSO or RBAC information. Source7ai.com/securityread 2026-08-30 |
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Dropzone AISecurity, Identity & Governance Access is managed with roles and permissions, and SAML SSO works through Okta, Google Workspace or Microsoft Entra. Dropzone holds SOC 2 Type 2, following a Type 1 audit by Sensiba, and runs a trust center at trustcenter.dropzone.ai. Sourcedropzone.ai/security-privacy-trustread 2026-09-28 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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7AIObservability & Auditability The agentic report opens every investigation step to show each agent's mission, the tools it ran, the exact request and response, and why it concluded what it did. Each finding maps to its artifact, an entity graph supports pivoting, and every remediation action has a full audit log, so a team can reconstruct why the agent acted, not only what it did. Source7ai.com/platform/investigations and platform/responseread 2026-08-30 |
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Dropzone AIObservability & Auditability Each investigation produces an evidence backed report that shows the agent's reasoning, and every response action's output, errors and execution status are logged for auditing. Sourcedocs.dropzone.ai/platform/settings/response-actionsread 2026-09-28 |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
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7AIDeployment & Data Residency 7AI is delivered as SaaS at app.sevenai.com and can be bought through AWS Marketplace. Federated SIEM queries the customer's security data where it already lives instead of centralizing it, but there is no self hosting, VPC or region selection. Source7ai.com/platform/federated-siem and 7ai.com/securityread 2026-08-30 |
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Dropzone AIDeployment & Data Residency Each customer gets a dedicated tenant in its own AWS subnet, normally in us-west-2, with optional regional deployments and in-region EU deployment on request for GDPR. The Enterprise plan includes a dedicated single tenant environment. Sourcedropzone.ai/security-privacy-trustread 2026-09-28 |
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
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7AIPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs There are more than sixty purpose built agents, specialized by domain across endpoint, identity, cloud, email and network. A Skills library holds reusable investigation and hunting strategies that can be toggled on or off, some generated by 7AI from the customer's environment, and runbooks codify procedures for common incident types. Source7ai.com/platform/skills and platform/responseread 2026-08-30 |
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Dropzone AIPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Two agents ship, each doing its own job, the AI SOC Analyst for alert investigation and the AI Threat Hunter for hypothesis driven hunts, with prebuilt hunt packs such as APT29. An AI Threat Intel Analyst is planned. Sourcedropzone.airead 2026-09-28 |
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
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7AIModel Flexibility & Routing The glossary defines a 7AI agent as a cloud based LLM, a mission and tools. That confirms LLM use, but no provider is named and no routing is described. Source7ai.com/glossaryread 2026-08-30 |
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Dropzone AIModel Flexibility & Routing Dropzone runs on several named LLM services, including Anthropic, Azure OpenAI and Perplexity, and chooses among them itself. Customers cannot choose the model. Sourcedropzone.ai/security-privacy-trustread 2026-09-28 |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
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7AIAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Customers build on 7AI through Skills, plain markdown investigation strategies with relevance rules, and custom response Workflows composed in a visual designer with no scripting. Both live in product configuration screens, and there is no public API, SDK, webhooks or MCP server. Source7ai.com/platform/skills and platform/responseread 2026-08-30 |
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Dropzone AIAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Developers get a REST API under /app/api/v1 with Api-Key authorization that covers investigations, bulk feedback, user notes, context memory, custom strategies, response actions and system events, with an OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec and a Swagger UI in the product. Sourcedocs.dropzone.ai/apiread 2026-09-28 |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
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7AITesting, Debugging & Optimization The platform surfaces detection tuning recommendations for review and scores ATT&CK coverage, Security Posture scores the customer's posture against frameworks, and skills can be kept as drafts before publishing. These tune the customer's detection setup, and none of them tests, debugs or evaluates the agents. Source7ai.com/platform and platform/security-postureread 2026-08-30 |
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Dropzone AITesting, Debugging & Optimization Analysts record feedback on investigations singly or in bulk and can reopen a conclusion, reviewing the agent's output after the fact. There is no evaluation harness, scored test set or gate before a strategy change goes live. Sourcedocs.dropzone.ai/apiread 2026-09-28 |
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
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7AIBrowser & Computer Use Agents act through API level integrations with the customer's existing endpoint, identity, email and cloud tools, not by operating software through a browser. There is no browser or computer use capability. Source7ai.com/platform/responseread 2026-08-30 |
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Dropzone AIBrowser & Computer Use The agent queries the customer's tools through their APIs, and driving a browser, desktop or remote computer is not described. Sourcedropzone.airead 2026-09-28 |
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Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Contact sales; enterprise contracts, AWS Marketplace procurement available | Not published. Plans are priced by investigation volume through sales. |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
enterprise contract | Investigations per year, per AI analyst, sold as an annual subscription. |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Low variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tierTrial
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No free tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Sales call |
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