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Axiom Team vs IBM Security QRadar comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Axiom Team
Ranking in Log Management
42nd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Data Observability (9th)
IBM Security QRadar
Ranking in Log Management
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
218
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (2nd), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (3rd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (12th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (5th), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (7th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Axiom Team is 0.4%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Security QRadar is 4.5%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Security QRadar4.5%
Axiom Team0.4%
Other95.1%
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2783832 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer 1 at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Logging has reduced costs and now provides fast queries and dashboards for lambda troubleshooting
Axiom Team excels at querying, with a query language that makes it very easy to assemble queries. The platform also makes it simple to create dashboards from logs. Axiom Team dashboards are used to monitor execution time, pricing, and errors. Axiom Team has positively impacted the organization by greatly reducing logging costs.
HarshBhardiya - PeerSpot reviewer
SOC Engineer at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Have managed daily asset and alert monitoring effectively but have encountered limitations with manual processes and interface usability
It's still very manual and doesn't work on its own. It's still in an early stage and not on par where we can consider it a really successful detection system. The accuracy is not there. The UI could be better when compared to Sentinels where we can use flags and tagging. It could be much more user-friendly. IBM Security QRadar has all features and is fully competitive with other SIEM tools, but when it comes to user-friendliness, a new user takes time to get used to it. More intuitive, user-friendly interfaces and more helpful documentation would be beneficial. The query searching and data fetching could be faster. In large to very large organizations with around 5,000 or 6,000 assets or beyond, even with proper configurations and RAM and hardware backing up, the query is fairly slow.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Axiom Team has positively impacted the organization by greatly reducing logging costs."
"Axiom Team has positively impacted my organization mainly in terms of cost, as we have reduced our logging cost by approximately half."
"Overall, IBM QRadar is very good but no product is perfect."
"QRadar's stability is great because it is always live and is always catching and monitoring all the information that we need."
"Improves visibility and has a great new dashboard."
"When you go for this solution, you are paying not only for the product but also for integration, good staff to help you, scalability, and many other things."
"The solution is reliable."
"This is a distributed application, meaning that a customer can stack small and then scale it so that they can expand pretty effectively. You can use, basically, the same product in an SMB or a large enterprise."
"IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics has easy architecture, has a good portfolio and integration."
"IBM QRadar has improved my organization by introducing many functions. It collects logs from all of our systems in the organization and has functioned very well. It alerts and correlates the aggregate events or offenses we receive through all the applications we use."
 

Cons

"Axiom Team can be improved by ingesting logs faster, if possible."
"The solution is expensive compared to other products."
"The solution is difficult to understand in the beginning and has complex management configurations that can be improved."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high. If they could lower it, that would be ideal."
"There are several vulnerabilities that IBM is working with us on."
"The first area for improvement is the cost. It's a little bit too expensive for us."
"The released patch quality is poor. IBM should test those patches on their side, not on the client's side."
"It is good, but when a product doesn't behave in a good manner, it creates confusion. Its behavior isn't consistent."
"IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is good, but I think the functionality should be much more integrated. You should have easy access to the artifacts if you are doing a particular investigation. It's good, but other team solutions like LogRhythm are actually merging the functionality. So, I think that is something IBM can work on."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Licensing can be costly depending on your architecture."
"They can give us some scalability and flexibility on pricing. If its pricing can be reduced, it would help a lot of customers in bringing in a new SIEM environment and grow business in the market. If I start a license today and take around 10,000 EPS, and after a month, there is an increase in the number of clients on my platform, I can increase the number of licenses. I can add 5,000 EPS on a yearly basis."
"As for licensing costs, I haven't seen the exact figures, but it is considered somewhat costly. On a scale from one to ten, where one is very expensive and ten is very cheap, I would rate it a six—it’s costly but worth the money."
"The licensing is also overly complex, as there is a need to buy the work load performance monitoring separately."
"When compared with other SIM solutions, QRadar is considerably less expensive."
"It's free of charge."
"We use QRadar as a managed service and we pay licensing fees to the partner."
"Licensing is very expensive, IBM QRadar is a very expensive solution. If you want to minimize costs then IBM QRadar is not for you."
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Comparison Review

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Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 28, 2015
Qradar vs. ArcSight
Continuing with the SIEM posts we have done at Infosecnirvana, this post is a Head to head comparison of the two Industry leading SIEM products in the market – HP ArcSight and IBM QRadar Both the products have consistently been in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant. Both HP and IBM took over niche SIEM…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
29%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business92
Midsize Enterprise39
Large Enterprise107
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Axiom Team?
Pricing, setup cost, and licensing experience are not available due to lack of access to billing information.
What needs improvement with Axiom Team?
Axiom Team can be improved by ingesting logs faster, if possible.
What is your primary use case for Axiom Team?
Axiom Team is primarily used for logging Lambda functions and searching through those logs. When issues arise, the function logs are examined to determine what went wrong, and Axiom Team effectivel...
What are the biggest differences between Securonix UEBA, Exabeam, and IBM QRadar?
It mostly depends on your use-cases and environment. Exabeam and Securonix have a stronger UEBA feature set, friendlier GUI and are not licensed based on capacity (amount of logs and information in...
What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Security QRadar?
I am overall satisfied with the licensing cost for IBM Security QRadar.
 

Also Known As

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IBM QRadar, QRadar SIEM, QRadar UBA, QRadar on Cloud, IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson
 

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Sample Customers

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Clients across multiple industries, such as energy, financial, retail, healthcare, government, communications, and education use QRadar.
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