Microsoft Sentinel alternatives

4 tools to consider instead of Microsoft Sentinel, shown against it.

Microsoft Sentinel IBM QRadar Exabeam Google Security Operations Wazuh
Vendor Microsoft Corporation IBM Exabeam, Inc. Google LLC Wazuh, Inc.
Pricing model Usage-based Quote only Quote only Quote only Open source + paid options
Free tier No No No No Yes
Deployment Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted
Open source No No No No Yes (GPL-2.0)
Best for Organizations already on Azure/Microsoft 365 wanting a natively integrated, elastically scaled SIEM. Large enterprises and MSSPs with mature SOC processes built around correlation rules and offense management. SOC teams prioritizing behavioral anomaly detection over hand-written correlation rules. Organizations wanting Google-scale log retention and curated threat intelligence built into their SIEM. Security teams and MSSPs wanting a fully open-source SIEM/XDR without per-GB licensing costs.
Pricing

Analytics tier bills per GB ingested/day (pay-as-you-go or discounted commitment tiers up to 52% off); a separate Data Lake tier bills per GB for low-cost long-term storage. No flat dollar figures are published; use Microsoft's calculator for a region-specific rate.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

Quoted per events-per-second (EPS) or flow capacity; no published self-serve pricing.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Custom-quoted, typically scaled by data volume or monitored identities; no published self-serve pricing.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Typically sold as an annual ingest-volume commitment; no public self-serve per-GB rate card found.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

The core platform is free and open source; the vendor sells an optional managed cloud tier and paid support contracts.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Features
  • Analytics and Data Lake ingestion tiers for cost-tiered retention
  • Prebuilt connectors for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Defender and third-party sources
  • AI-assisted investigation via Copilot for Security
  • Automated response playbooks (SOAR)
  • User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA)
  • Commitment-tier discounts up to 50,000GB/day
  • Real-time correlation rules across log and network flow data
  • User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA)
  • Integrated SOAR case management and playbooks
  • Network flow analysis alongside log data
  • SaaS or on-premises appliance deployment
  • Threat intelligence feed integration
  • User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) baselining
  • Smart Timelines that auto-assemble related events
  • Prebuilt threat detection content and use-case coverage
  • Case management and investigation workflows
  • Can layer analytics on top of an existing SIEM (Fusion)
  • Cloud-native, SaaS-delivered
  • High-volume log ingestion with long retention at flat rates
  • Built-in Mandiant and VirusTotal threat intelligence
  • Gemini-assisted investigation and detection authoring
  • YARA-L based detection rule language
  • SOAR case management (via integrated Chronicle SOAR)
  • Petabyte-scale search performance
  • Host-based intrusion detection and log analysis
  • File integrity monitoring
  • Vulnerability detection against installed software
  • Compliance reporting (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, NIST)
  • Agent-based architecture across Linux, Windows, macOS
  • SIEM and XDR use cases on the same open-source stack

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