Agentic Index
AirMDR vs Dropzone AI (2026)
Both triage everything and they differ on whether humans supervise, at 6 and 7.5 of 14. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Dropzone investigates every alert in under ten minutes over your existing stack, at a published 36,000 dollars a year for 4,000 investigations, software only. AirMDR pairs a virtual analyst triaging 95 percent of alerts in under five minutes across all volume around the clock with a human expert team that supervises, validates and escalates, plus 240 plus integrations, and has a free plan. AirMDR's human supervision layer is the difference, and its free plan makes it unusually easy to test.
On the Agentic Index AI SOC ranking, neither AirMDR nor Dropzone AI clears the bar, which asks for all five investigation loop capabilities documented in full. AirMDR does not document observability and auditability in full; Dropzone AI does not document workflow orchestration in full. 24 of the 94 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. AirMDR 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 969 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose AirMDR if
- Human supervision of the agent's findings is what makes you comfortable acting on them.
- A free plan lets you evaluate the triage quality at no cost.
- You want managed detection and response, not software your team runs.
Choose Dropzone AI if
- Documented coverage is broader and published per investigation pricing is rare here.
- You have analysts and want them supplied with investigations, not supervised by a vendor.
- Roughly nine dollars per investigation is directly comparable to your own analyst cost.
| At a glance | AirMDR | Dropzone AI |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Security / SOC agent | Security / SOC agent |
| Entry price | Free plan; paid tiers not public | $36,000 per year for 4,000 investigations (about $3,000 per month); larger volumes via sales |
| Free / trial | Always-free plan: 100% alert triage, quick setup, no credit card | Proof of value evaluations through sales; no self serve trial |
| Pricing confidence | public partial | public partial |
| Feature | A AirMDR |
D Dropzone AI |
|---|---|---|
| Action & orchestration | ||
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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. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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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. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Knowledge & context | ||
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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. |
Partial | Partial |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
No / Not documented | Partial |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
No / Not documented | Partial |
| Solution readiness | ||
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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. |
Partial | Partial |
| Platform extensibility | ||
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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. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
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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. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
| Specialist automation | ||
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing | A AirMDR |
D Dropzone AI |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Free plan; paid tiers not public | $36,000 per year for 4,000 investigations (about $3,000 per month); larger volumes via sales |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, partial | Public, partial |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
alert volume and scope of MDR service coverage | usage (investigations per year) |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
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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