Agentic Index
Dropzone AI vs UnderDefense (2026)
Both handle tier one and two alert work and they differ on whether people come with it, at 7.5 and 8.5 of 14. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Dropzone is software: every alert investigated in under ten minutes over your existing stack, at 36,000 dollars a year for 4,000 investigations. UnderDefense pairs an agentic platform with a human led managed detection service, where agentic teammates autonomously handle around eighty percent of tier one and two work, delivering full incident context in two minutes and containment within five, from roughly eleven to fifteen dollars per asset monthly. Buy the tool, or buy the outcome with analysts attached.
On the Agentic Index AI SOC ranking, UnderDefense clears the bar and Dropzone AI does not. UnderDefense documents all five investigation loop capabilities 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. Dropzone AI and UnderDefense 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 Dropzone AI if
- You have a security operations team and want to make it faster, not replace it.
- Per investigation pricing models cleanly against your alert volume.
- Software you run yourself keeps the investigation logic inside your control.
Choose UnderDefense if
- Documented coverage is broader and you do not have a twenty four hour team.
- Containment within five minutes is an outcome commitment, not a capability claim.
- Per asset pricing suits an estate where alert volume is unpredictable.
| At a glance | Dropzone AI | UnderDefense |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Security / SOC agent | Security / SOC agent |
| Entry price | $36,000 per year for 4,000 investigations (about $3,000 per month); larger volumes via sales | Free sign-up; MDR from roughly $11-$15 per asset/month (vendor guidance) |
| Free / trial | Proof of value evaluations through sales; no self serve trial | Freemium sign-up with core features |
| Pricing confidence | public partial | self serve partial |
| Feature | D Dropzone AI |
U UnderDefense |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
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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. |
Partial | 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. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit | 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. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
| 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 | Full / Explicit |
| 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 | D Dropzone AI |
U UnderDefense |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
$36,000 per year for 4,000 investigations (about $3,000 per month); larger volumes via sales | Free sign-up; MDR from roughly $11-$15 per asset/month (vendor guidance) |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, partial | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
usage (investigations per year) | per asset per month for MDR, plus scope of services selected |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | High variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tierTrial
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Free tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Sales call |
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