Agentic Index
Dropzone AI vs Exaforce (2026)
Dropzone AI and Exaforce both automate alert investigation and both sell through sales, and they disagree on where the data should live. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Exaforce holds its own data layer: four Exabots detect, triage, investigate and respond over telemetry the platform ingests, reasoning through semantic, behavioral and knowledge models, and it is positioned as a counterweight to SIEM cost, with a managed service available. Dropzone overlays the tools a SOC already runs, more than 90 of them, read only by default, and prices by investigation volume. On the grid Dropzone documents more, 11 of 14 against 8, and is Full on its API, deployment and security where Exaforce is None, unknown or Partial; Exaforce is Full on knowledge grounding where Dropzone is Partial. Choose Dropzone to leave your data where it is; choose Exaforce if replacing part of the SIEM is the point.
On the Agentic Index AI SOC ranking, Dropzone AI and Exaforce 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. Dropzone AI and Exaforce 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 Dropzone AI if
- Your SIEM stays and you want an analyst on top of it.
- An API and documented deployment options are requirements; Exaforce is None and unknown there.
- Security and identity controls must be documented in full.
Choose Exaforce if
- Consolidating telemetry into the vendor's data layer could cut SIEM storage and licensing.
- Investigations should reason over a behavioral baseline for every identity and resource.
- A managed detection service from the same vendor is on your shortlist.
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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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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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ExaforceIntegrations & Tool Calling More than 120 integrations ingest and query the customer's sources, and Exabot Respond takes action in them. It quarantines endpoints and emails, isolates hosts, updates security groups, and suspends users, resets MFA and revokes sessions across Okta, Entra ID and AWS, and it acts on tickets in ServiceNow. The count now stands at 130+ integrations across 21 categories, from IaaS, SaaS, identity and code to SIEM, SOAR, MDM, HRIS and crypto infrastructure, and customers can request new ones. Response workflows can also call REST APIs and webhooks and use Perplexity for web search. SourceExaforce, exaforce.com/platform/integrations and /platform/exabot-respond; exaforce.com/platform/exabot-respondread 2026-10-05 |
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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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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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ExaforceWorkflow Orchestration Teams build response workflows in a visual drag and drop builder with nodes for conditions, actions, approvals, AI reasoning, loops and branching, and can mix autonomous and approved steps in one workflow, beside the Detect, Triage, Investigate and Respond Exabots. Deterministic steps sit beside reasoning nodes that interpret context. SourceExaforce, exaforce.com/platform/exabot-respondread 2026-10-05 |
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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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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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ExaforceTriggers & Channel Coverage Detections and alerts from ingested telemetry start triage and investigation without a person asking, and response workflows trigger automatically, on a schedule or manually. Analysts can also start work by asking a hypothesis in plain language, and with the managed MDR option, Exaforce analysts and the Exabots run the SOC around the clock. SourceExaforce, exaforce.com/platform/exabot-respond and exaforce.comread 2026-10-05 |
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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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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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ExaforceKnowledge Grounding & RAG A semantic model builds and maintains relationships between the customer's identities, resources and actions as a living map of the environment, over a data platform that ingests and normalizes the customer's security data, with the customer's business context (org structure, policies, roles) layered in. The knowledge model blends technical expertise, curated outside intelligence and awareness of the environment, drawing on LLM reasoning, past decisions and fixed business rules. The data platform covers cloud, SaaS, identity, code and endpoint data. SourceExaforce, exaforce.com/platform/multi-model-airead 2026-10-05 |
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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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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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ExaforceMemory & State Persistence The knowledge model draws on historic decisions, user confirmations and outcomes, so state carries across investigations, and the semantic model stores context in a structured form. Exaforce sets out no scope or retention period for that store. SourceExaforce, exaforce.com/platform/multi-model-airead 2026-10-05 |
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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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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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ExaforceHuman Oversight & Guardrails Response workflows can require human approval through Slack, Teams or email before an action runs, with timeouts falling back to safe defaults (pause, rollback or limited containment), and Exaforce calls its responses approved and reversible. Ready made prompts ask users and managers to confirm with buttons, timeouts and automatic escalation, and Exabot Respond is sold as automated action with analyst oversight. SourceExaforce, exaforce.com/platform/exabot-respond and exaforce.comread 2026-10-05 |
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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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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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ExaforceSecurity, Identity & Governance Exaforce names SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001, with PCI DSS and HIPAA support and GDPR alignment. It gives no public detail on SSO, SCIM or roles. The product docs sit behind the app login, and the trust center is at trust.exaforce.com. System status is published at exaforcestatus.com. SourceExaforce, exaforce.com/blogs agentic SOC year in review and exaforce.comread 2026-10-05 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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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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ExaforceObservability & Auditability Every decision and approval in a response workflow is fully audited, and the team gets full visibility into every decision and action the Exabots take, with investigations shown in case context and explainable anomaly scores. Results come back as clear summaries with supporting evidence, so analysts and auditors see the reasoning behind each answer. SourceExaforce, exaforce.com/platform/exabot-respond and /platform/multi-model-airead 2026-10-05 |
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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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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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ExaforceDeployment & Data Residency Customers cannot choose a hosting region or run the platform in their own environment, and the login host carries a us label. Self managed means the customer's team runs the SOC on Exaforce's platform, not that the customer hosts the software, and with the managed MDR option Exaforce analysts run it as a 24/7 SOC. The product docs at docs.exaforce.com sit behind the app login, and a trust center runs at trust.exaforce.com. SourceExaforce, exaforce.com and trust.exaforce.comread 2026-10-05 |
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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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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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ExaforcePrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Four named prebuilt agents have separate jobs. Exabot Detect, Exabot Triage, Exabot Investigate and Exabot Respond each do their own stage of SOC work. Exabot Respond comes with playbooks for common scenarios, and new ones can be written in natural language. Exaforce also sells the platform as a managed MDR service. SourceExaforce, exaforce.com and /platform/exabot-respondread 2026-10-05 |
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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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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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ExaforceModel Flexibility & Routing Exaforce combines its own semantic, behavioral and knowledge models with LLMs from providers it does not name, and customers cannot choose the model. The LLMs act as the reasoning layer and take validated entities and calculated scores as input, which Exaforce says keeps them from hallucinating. The behavioral model learns what normal looks like for every entity and produces explainable anomaly scores. SourceExaforce, exaforce.com/platform/multi-model-airead 2026-10-05 |
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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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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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ExaforceAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility There is no public API, SDK or MCP server for the platform, and the product docs at docs.exaforce.com sit behind the app login. Customers who need a source that is not listed can request an integration from the team that builds them. SourceExaforce, exaforce.com/platform/integrationsread 2026-10-05 |
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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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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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ExaforceTesting, Debugging & Optimization The Exabots come with no evaluation harness, scored test cases, quality gate or optimization loop. Exaforce claims 90% fewer false positives, 95% less time to investigate, under 30 minutes from alert to response and more than $600K average savings against a traditional SOC stack. SourceExaforce, exaforce.comread 2026-10-05 |
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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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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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ExaforceBrowser & Computer Use Agents act through integrations, and no Exabot drives a browser, desktop or remote computer. Exabot Investigate hunts without the analyst writing SIEM queries. SourceExaforce, exaforce.comread 2026-10-05 |
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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 |
Not published. Plans are priced by investigation volume through sales. | Contact sales; enterprise contracts, positioned to offset SIEM cost |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
Investigations per year, per AI analyst, sold as an annual subscription. | enterprise contract |
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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 |
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Sales call |
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