Agentic Index
Exaforce vs Simbian (2026)
Both automate the operations centre with agent teams, at 8 and 9.5 of 14. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Simbian runs operations, threat hunting and penetration testing agents over a shared Context Lake with a reported 92 percent auto resolution, closing an offensive to defensive loop. Exaforce runs its own agent approach to alert handling at scale. Simbian documents more and publishes a number, which in this lane is rare enough to weigh; Exaforce is worth evaluating on how its agents handle your specific alert mix rather than on documented breadth.
On the Agentic Index AI SOC ranking, neither Exaforce nor Simbian clears the bar, which asks for all five investigation loop capabilities documented in full. Exaforce does not document workflow orchestration in full, nor human oversight and guardrails; Simbian does not document observability and auditability in full, nor human oversight and guardrails. 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. Exaforce and Simbian 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 Exaforce if
- You want to evaluate on your own alert mix rather than on documented coverage.
- A narrower focus on alert handling suits an operations centre with other tooling in place.
- You are comfortable running a bake off rather than buying on published evidence.
Choose Simbian if
- Documented coverage is broader and a published resolution rate is the evidence you want.
- Threat hunting and penetration testing alongside operations is the scope.
- A shared context layer across all three functions is the architecture.
| At a glance | Exaforce | Simbian |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Security / SOC agent | Security / SOC agent |
| Entry price | Contact sales; enterprise contracts, positioned to offset SIEM cost | Contact sales; enterprise contracts by agent scope |
| Free / trial | Enterprise evaluations through sales; no self serve trial | Enterprise evaluations through sales; no self serve trial |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | contact only |
| Feature | E Exaforce |
S Simbian |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Partial | Partial |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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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 | 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 | 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. |
Partial | 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 | Full / Explicit |
| 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 | E Exaforce |
S Simbian |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Contact sales; enterprise contracts, positioned to offset SIEM cost | Contact sales; enterprise contracts by agent scope |
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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 | enterprise contract (by agent scope) |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | Low 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 |
Simbian's 92 percent auto resolution figure is vendor reported without published methodology. Ask what counts as auto resolved and what the false negative rate is on the remainder.
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