Agentic Index
Prophet Security vs Simbian (2026)
Prophet Security and Simbian both pursue the autonomous SOC through enterprise contracts, with different centers of gravity: Prophet anchors on investigation quality, plan and execute reasoning without playbooks, transparent evidence chains, and threat hunting included, ranked at the top of independent autonomy evaluations, while Simbian anchors on organizational context, its Context Lake feeding SOC, Threat Hunt, and Pentest agents that learn your SOPs and environment, with strong reported auto resolution rates in production. Prophet is the strongest pure investigation engine; Simbian is the broader agent suite that grounds decisions in your institutional knowledge.
| At a glance | Prophet Security | Simbian |
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| Category | Security / SOC agent | Security / SOC agent |
| Entry price | Contact sales; enterprise contracts, no public rates | Contact sales; enterprise contracts by agent scope |
| Free / trial | Proof of value evaluations through sales; no self serve trial | Enterprise evaluations through sales; no self serve trial |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | contact only |
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| 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 | 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. |
Full / Explicit | 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. |
Full / Explicit | 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. |
Full / Explicit | 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. |
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 | 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
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| Pricing |
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Contact sales; enterprise contracts, no public rates | 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 |
Low 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 |
Choose Prophet Security if
- Investigation autonomy and explainability lead your evaluation scorecard.
- Vendor agnostic orchestration across your existing tools is the architecture.
- You want the platform independent testing ranks highest on reasoning depth.
Choose Simbian if
- Your SOPs and institutional knowledge should drive agent decisions.
- Offensive validation feeding defensive agents is a differentiator you value.
- Multiple agent types under one contract consolidates the roadmap.