Swimlane Reviews & Product Details

Swimlane automates the work security teams hate. As the leader in agentic AI security automation, Swimlane unifies operations across the SOC and beyond with its platform, Swimlane Turbine. The problem is real: over three million SecOps roles sit unfilled, and analysts drown in alerts while juggling 30+ disconnected tools, each with its own schema and quirks. Meanwhile, the average breach now costs $4.5 million. Swimlane closes that gap. Swimlane Hero AI, embedded within the Turbine platform, turns natural-language prompts into automated investigations and responses, cutting MTTR by 75%. Analysts trigger remediation with one click, backed by NIST-aligned case management. Turbine Canvas lets teams build playbooks and agents with no, low, or full code, so automation doesn't wait on a developer's calendar. The Swimlane Marketplace adds a growing library of agents, integrations, and playbooks, built on demand at no cost, ending vendor lock-in for good. Under the hood, Swimlane's Active Sensing Fabric ingests data at scale, pushing capability beyond traditional SOAR. Cloud-native architecture backs it up: one customer runs 25 million automated actions a day at 75,000 actions per minute. That's not a demo number. That's production. Analysts get customizable dashboards and AI-augmented reporting that turn raw activity into KPIs executives actually read, proving ROI without a translation layer. The market has taken notice. Independent evaluations against 15+ competitors all point the same direction: Swimlane leads. Inc. named it Best in Business. Customers at Northern Power, Toshiba, Weedmaps, and InComm Payments back that up, citing customizable playbooks, dashboards, and a professional services team that shows up when it counts. Swimlane doesn't just orchestrate security tasks. It gives every security function, from vulnerability management to compliance to business continuity, a way to move faster than the threats they're chasing.

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English

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Best-of-Breed

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Time to Implement

5 months

Return on Investment

19 months

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What is Swimlane, and what problem is it built to solve?

Swimlane is a security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) platform built to help organizations make security operations more efficient. Its low-code platform automates and streamlines security processes, reducing manual workload and supporting faster responses to potential threats.

What languages does Swimlane support?

Swimlane supports 1 language: English.

What company sizes and industries is Swimlane the best fit for?

Swimlane is most represented among mid-market organizations, with small businesses and enterprises also represented. The industries with the strongest representation include:

Company size — Mid-market: Organizations with 51–1,000 employees.
Industry — Information technology and services: Teams working across IT and security operations.
Industry — Computer and network security: Security-focused organizations and teams.

What customer support options does Swimlane provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

Swimlane offers chat support and 24/7 live-rep support. The support experience is described as helpful and responsive, with hands-on guidance valued during setup and issue resolution; some users also encounter slower responses or support needs around upgrades.

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Wasiim G.

Analyste en sécurité de l'information

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/15/2025

"Powerful SOAR Platform with Strong Reporting but Complex Setup"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Swimlane?

Swimlane SOAR provides robust reporting and case management features that make incident tracking and auditing much more streamlined. The dashboards and metrics offer valuable visibility into SOC efficiency, helping to measure response times, case resolution and analyst workload. For our POC in the context of building a SOC, these capabilities have been particularly insightful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swimlane?

The initial deployment and playbook design are resource-intensive and demand skilled engineering expertise. Connectors and APIs require frequent updates. Additionally, poorly tuned or over-automated playbooks risk escalating false positives into automated actions. These challenges became evident during our POC phase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Swimlane solving and how is that benefiting you?

Swimlane is helping us automate and orchestrate repetitive SOC tasks such as alert triage, enrichment and case tracking. Instead of hiring a team of analysts and having them spending excessive time on manual data gathering or repetitive response steps, playbooks streamline these processes and ensure consistency. The centralized case management also improves visibility across incidents, making reporting much more efficient. The main benefit seen during the POC has been a reduction in analyst workload and faster incident handling, while also providing metrics and dashboards to track overall SOC performance. For us, in the context of building a SOC, Swimlane is providing both operational efficiency and governance-level visibility via Reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maguire S.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/31/2023

"I have used swimlane as an analyst and have had a little experience working with the backend."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Swimlane?

I like how customizable the tool is and how easy it is to adjust it to your liking. I have ran into a lot of problems with the tools I use to perform my job but have never been able to fix it but with Swimlane, I can easily go in and adjust specific items with ease to perform most efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swimlane?

Swimlane has been slow at times with working through tasks and will sometimes go out while doing my everyday work. This isnt too frequent but can be annoying at times when I have to catchup after the downtime and make up the work on the time I lost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/30/2023

"Powerful Automation with Swimlane"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Swimlane?

Swimlane provides us with a comprehensive view of our entire toolset. With Python, we can creatively brainstorm solutions to problems that were previously unfeasible without the flexibility Swimlane provides. This enables us to respond quickly to various operational issues, compliance problems, and security incidents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swimlane?

We utilize the original Swimlane Platform, which is built around Python. To leverage Swimlane to its fullest potential, having a Python developer to assist with implementation and customization is recommended. While Swimlane offers out-of-the-box integrations, tailoring them to your specific needs is necessary. Swimlane provides professional services to assist with it all. It's worth noting that Swimlane Turbine is a low-code solution that isn't dependent on Python development experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Swimlane solving and how is that benefiting you?

High Mean-Time to Resolution Metric (MTTR):

The primary goal we achieve with Swimlane is the reduction of the Mean-Time to Resolution metric. We can efficiently bring in detections, correlate them into incidents, identify and enrich organizational assets, enhance indicators of compromise with both open and closed-source threat intelligence, address alert tuning requirements, and respond to and remediate incidents when required. By consolidating all relevant information in one place for our analysts and eliminating the need to switch between multiple tools, we effectively reduce the Mean-Time to Resolution metric. This solution addresses several challenges encountered in our Security Operations Center, including dealing with alert fatigue, reducing user errors with data entry, and accelerating the resolution of incidents.

Synchronizing our Alerting Toolset:

When an incident is closed out in Swimlane, it automatically closes all alerts associated with the incident generated by their respective tools. This automation reduces the need for manual intervention and ensures our toolset maintains accurate information. For senior leadership, this provides accurate vendor-specific dashboards based on different tool-specific metrics. For our analysts, it provides a method to locate incidents in Swimlane based on comments left in other tools.

Synchronizing our Threat Intelligence:

When actionable threat intelligence becomes available, we utilize Swimlane to synchronize indicators of compromise with our toolset. This proactive approach detects and prevents activity in our EDR, NDR, SIEM, ESG, etc., based on findings from our own incidents as well as open and closed-source threat intelligence providers. Our analysts can focus on the current alerts and incidents rather than manual tasks like updating lists of indicators. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Security and Investigations

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/26/2023

"Security automation is the way"

5/5

What do you like best about Swimlane?

It's a 'when there's a will, there's a way' type of product. What you want to achieve can be done using it. We use it to automate repetitive tasks, perform automated rapid response on security alerts and incidents, and centralize the majority of security operations through it. It saves a lot of time and hours for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swimlane?

There isn't much we dislike about it except for the update/upgrade process. It's a bit more involved than other products where you just click on upgrade and you are done. But this is just a very minor dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Swimlane solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are a small team and not staffed 24/7. Swimlane saves us hours since we are able to automate a lot of processes that would otherwise consume a lot of our team's time. We are also able to rapidly respond to security alerts through automation as well. The time between discovery and response gets cut down to minutes when it comes to certain alerts/incidents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Patrick B.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/31/2023

"Reliable and intuitive SOAR platform."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Swimlane?

I love the personalization Swimlane offers and how robust it is for each user. I am able to set up my own reports and it works with our SIEM, Elastic, flawlessly. Support from Swimlane is always prompt and we rarely have downtime that significantly affects our work. Any bugs found can be reported and new features are constantly being developed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swimlane?

Initially, there can be a lot going on and it can be confusing until you get comfortable with Swimlane and setting it up in your environment. The process is well worth it and you learn a great deal about the SOAR from the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fraser Y.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/31/2023

"Unlimited Security Automation"

5/5

What do you like best about Swimlane?

Swimlane is extremely easy to learn and the low-code automation allows for seemingly endless automation opportunities across the entire security landscape. The Swimlane platform can integrate with any tool or IT product to enhance the business and provide security monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swimlane?

Swimlane's UI could use some work. It needs a refresh to look less bland and given a more modern look. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Swimlane solving and how is that benefiting you?

Swimlane automates repetitive tasks and saves Security Analysts tons of time so that they don't have to spend all day doing manual tasks. Alerts can be automatically enriched with threat intelligence information from multiple platforms giving users better insights. Automated Incident Response actions provide instant remediation to stop threats as soon as they happen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Luis Armando M.

Pre sales and Implementation Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/22/2023

"Swimlane is a Powerfull SOAR tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Swimlane?

Swimlane lets you create a playbook easily and integrate with almost every integration, security appliance, cloud, security validations, communication, mail, etc. hundreds of technologies that you can get and send data to improve your playbooks. Integration is fast and easy to create, config, and use. The web interface helps to understand all you need to create, maintain and reuse your application base to new playbooks or improve the existents with new features using a low-code approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swimlane?

Could be complex to maintain the infrastructure if you use existing clusters with Kubernetes and some skills are needed but support helps to solve always on time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/20/2023

"Easy SOC Automation"

5/5

What do you like best about Swimlane?

Capability to create new workflows and automations on the fly to resolve niche or one off issues in dealing with Alert triage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swimlane?

Slight learning curve. Starting from scratch is a bit of an undertaking but documentation and support supplement the issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris S.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/19/2023

"Great product and team"

5/5

What do you like best about Swimlane?

I like that it gives you the capability to develop your own solution and the customer success team is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swimlane?

Marketplace is outside of Swimlane itself Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Curtis P.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/22/2023

"Increased Efficiency"

5/5

What do you like best about Swimlane?

The low code solution has allowed our team to develop the platform into what our team needs. We have been able to leverage automation to scale our business in a way that keeps our staffing down even while increasing the variety of services being offered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swimlane?

The UI design could use some polishing to look less industrial. The overall look does tend to appear boxy and rigid. Outside of the UI, the platform is phenomenal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Swimlane solving and how is that benefiting you?

Swimlane is solving the problem of repetitive tasks and actions that analysts would normally need to perform manually. It is also allowing us to leverage API calls with other tools to respond without having to provision access for each person on our team in the customer's environment and tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.