RUNREVEAL VS. ELASTIC
One platform. One price. AI included.
RunReveal brings native pipelines, the Autonomous SOC Agent, and BYO-LLM support in every contract. No gated AI tiers, no separate infrastructure bill, no acquired tooling still being stitched together.
You get the full platform from day one.
World-class security teams trust RunReveal
Why modern security teams choose RunReveal as their AI-native SIEM.
Elastic is powerful technology. But turning a general-purpose search platform into a functioning security program takes engineering time, operational overhead, and ongoing maintenance that most security teams can't afford.
Predictable costs, finally
No usage-based billing across ingestion, compute, storage, and egress. No feature tiers that gate the capabilities you actually need.
One price that covers the full platform — pipelines, AI, and all.
Pipelines without Logstash
Enrich, filter, normalize, and drop data before it hits storage. All native, all included.
No Logstash to configure, no ingest pipeline JSON to write, no separate infrastructure to manage.
No data warehouse required
RunReveal can deploy as SaaS. No Elasticsearch clusters to tune, no shards to manage.
Built on ClickHouse, queries are faster at scale, and the entire backend is included in the platform.
What sets RunReveal apart from Elastic
RunReveal is a modern, AI-native SIEM platform and a direct alternative to Elastic. Where Elastic requires assembling and maintaining a general-purpose stack, RunReveal gives you a complete security platform with storage-based pricing.
Storage-Based Pricing Model
AI Included in Base Price
Native Pipeline Management
SQL Query Language
Native Sigma Detections
Data Backend
Time to Value
Deployment Options
Support Model
What our Customers are saying
We've seen how dedicated the RunReveal staff are to solving these problems. How receptive they are to making changes from actual product users. The amount of transparency with RunReveal is the highest I've had with any vendor.
Geoff Goldsmith
Sr. Security Engineer
Data collection isn't the goal, detection is. Pipelines let us enrich what we need and cut what we don't, so we're not buried under terabytes of irrelevant logs.
Dave Green
Threat Detection & Response Lead
I can add a new [source], write the detection, read queries, find the data that I want, and wire it up to get alerts for it, all within an hour or two. Pretty great compared to existing tool stacks that would be weeks or more.
Travis McPeak
Security Lead
Where Elastic gets complicated
Usage-based pricing across ingestion, compute, storage, and egress
One price — storage-based, AI included, no compute or egress fees
Pipelines require Logstash or custom ingest pipeline configuration
Pipelines natively included — filter, drop, enrich
AI capabilities locked behind Enterprise tier
Autonomous SOC Agent included in every plan, BYO-LLM supported
Multiple query languages — EQL, ES|QL, KQL, Query DSL
Standard SQL — one language, zero learning curve
Sigma detections need conversion before they run
Native Sigma Streaming — community rules work out of the box
Cluster tuning, shard management, and upgrade planning required
Fully managed — no clusters, no shards, no upgrade planning
General-purpose platform — you're building the SIEM yourself
Purpose-built SIEM — detection, pipelines, and AI in one product
Weeks of setup before your first detection
Live in days — connect sources and start detecting
FAQs
Questions we hear from Elastic Teams
Everything you’re likely wondering before making the switch.