Exabeam vs Rapid7 InsightIDR comparison

Exabeam and Rapid7 are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Exabeam is ranked #18 with an average rating of 7.3, while Rapid7 is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.1. Exabeam holds a 1.4% mindshare in SIEM, compared to Rapid7’s 2.6% mindshare. Additionally, 73% of Exabeam users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Rapid7 users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Exabeam and Rapid7 InsightIDR are both prominent security information and event management (SIEM) solutions. Rapid7 InsightIDR seems to have the upper hand due to its holistic capabilities and perceived value.

Features: Exabeam is praised for its automated incident response, behavior analytics, and strong feature set. Rapid7 InsightIDR stands out for its comprehensive threat detection, user behavior analytics, and broader threat detection capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Exabeam users highlight the need for more intuitive reporting tools, enhanced integration capabilities, and better data visualization options. Rapid7 InsightIDR users call for better data visualization options, more seamless integrations, and enhanced reporting tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Exabeam is appreciated for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. Rapid7 InsightIDR also receives positive feedback for deployment but has mixed reviews regarding customer service responsiveness.

Pricing and ROI: Exabeam users report favorable pricing models and reasonable ROI. Rapid7 InsightIDR is considered more expensive, but users feel the investment is justified by its rich features and effectiveness in threat management.

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Categories and Ranking

Exabeam

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

18th

Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

2nd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Incident Response (5th), Threat Intelligence Platforms (12th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (12th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (9th)

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

14th

Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (25th), Threat Deception Platforms (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Exabeam is 1.4%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rapid7 InsightIDR is 2.6%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

Stephen-Armstrong

Cyber Security Analyst at Capgemini

The SIEM provides a user-friendly UI experience

When events come into the system, the dashboard categorizes them by the highest risk score, not when they appear on the system. When you've got multiple ongoing incidents you can only see the highest risk score at the top of the list rather than the most recent detection. Exabeam's reporting dashboard could have included a filtering option to filter by the most recent detection.

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Asim Naeem

Principal IT Security & Compliance at IBEX Holdings Ltd

Providing comprehensive insight into alerts while working towards AI enhancement

I definitely recommend Rapid7 InsightIDR. It is becoming better, with improvements being continuously made to the product. Right now, I do not have any advice about Rapid7 for other users because every organization or user has different criteria or multiple use cases, so I refrain from commenting on that. I rate the overall solution seven out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The platform is not extremely expensive compared to its direct competitors; I would rate its pricing around six out of ten."

"Exabeam Fusion SIEM has a good performance and more advantages than traditional solutions."

"Exabeam includes machine learning features and out-of-the-box rules that we rely on."

"The most valuable feature of Exabeam is the timeline creation based on log sources, which helps in security investigations."

"The setup is not difficult. It was easy."

"Timeline based analysis; good platform support"

"I have customers that like the EUBA functionality of it. The solution has the ability to build a session, basically. It pulls a lot of information together, for example, everything a user does in a specific timeframe. It's quite helpful."

"The solution's automation capabilities are great."

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"Very intuitive and easy to set up."

"The web interface is great — very useful and user-friendly."

"If you were on other solutions, you would notice that they use agents from third-party, from open-source, from a native OS, or from other tools. Here, however, it is an agent from Rapid7 itself. This adds to the solution's overall capabilities."

"The alerting to drive investigations and remediation has been its most valuable feature."

"The log aggregation and storage provided by InsightIDR has shown no issues with scalability; aggregating over one hundred millions events daily."

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten. As a cloud tool, the product is highly scalable."

"The UI is very good."

"It improved my organization by building a security alerting program."

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Cons

"We had a large volume right from the beginning and they weren't quite prepared for that. That's something that they should think about when it comes to customers that have a large volume to start off with."

"We still have questions surrounding hardware deployment."

"Exabeam should be a bit faster, especially in loading and vulnerability scanning."

"Updating the new release of Exabeam Fusion SIEM takes time and slows our performance."

"One area that needs improvement is interacting with Exabeam's API. There was a headache regarding the API; the documentation wasn't clear, and the syntax wasn't very precise."

"The initial setup of Exabeam Fusion SIEM is complex because it needs to integrate with the SIEM solution, but after this is complete it is straightforward."

"I believe if it were more flexible it would be a better product."

"We use the on-prem Exabeam product and face limitations using the web UI and administration of custom models and rules."

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"One thing that springs to mind is easier API integration with ITSMs. We are evaluating a new ITSM and I would like to have InsightIDR create a ticket when an attack is identified, and the ticket would be closed in InsightIDR when the ITSM resolution is completed. This would take out the "single point of failure" we currently have, if the email recipient is somehow absent, in recording the risk appetite for the incident and the actions taken to mitigate or not."

"InsightIDR's integration with other solutions could be improved. Also, I'd like more control from the portal over what's happening on the endpoint side. For example, when I see an attack on an endpoint, I want to be able to stop it from the portal."

"The interface for doing investigation needs to be enhanced with minor improvements that would make it more useful."

"InsightIDR is only available in a cloud version. Some of our customers prefer an on-prem solution because they want to manage the security within their environment."

"The dashboard is an area that could be simplified."

"The ability to tune the collector for custom logs would greatly help."

"I would like the ability to adjust the threshold of certain existing alerts. Currently the only option is to change the notifications or create my own alert."

"The APIs can be further improved in Rapid7."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The platform is not extremely expensive compared to its direct competitors; I would rate its pricing around six out of ten."

"Exabeam is not a cheap solution."

"They have a great model for pricing that can be based either on user count or gigabits per day."

"There is an annual license required to use Exabeam Fusion SIEM. The price of the solution should be reduced."

"The solution is expensive."

"Exabeam Fusion SIEM's pricing is reasonable."

"I rate Rapid7 InsightIDR's price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"The solution has a mid-range price point in the market"

"It is a reasonably priced solution."

"I am sure that there are cheaper products out there, but none that meet so many of our needs whilst maintaining stability and usability."

"Licensing is straightforward. If, for some reason, you don’t meet the minimum licensing requirements, there is a third-party managed service that can help."

"Licensing is by endpoint and amount of retention time (at least ours is). Default retention was one year, but we are able to push the retention further if needed. There's also a provide-your-own-S3 option for longer retention if you don't want to pay for the additional retention years in your Rapid7 agreement."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR's pricing is reasonable."

"Accurately predict your licensing counts as this is a subscription based product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

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Questions from the Community

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...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Exabeam Fusion SIEM?

I do not have much information about the pricing. However, I am aware that Exabeam is cheaper than Palo Alto based on discussions in meetings.

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What needs improvement with Exabeam Fusion SIEM?

We use the on-prem Exabeam product and face limitations using the web UI and administration of custom models and rules. I have explored the SaaS version; it offers many new features. We are conside...

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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...

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What do you like most about Rapid7 InsightIDR?

During simulations or demonstrations, the tool generates alerts, providing details such as the specific application, its origin, and potential threats. For instance, it can identify if an applicati...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rapid7 InsightIDR?

The product pricing is very cheap.

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Overview

Exabeam Fusion is a cloud-delivered solution that that enables you to:

-Leverage turnkey threat detection, investigation, and response
-Collect, search and enhance data from anywhere
-Detect threats missed by other tools, using market-leading behavior analytics
-Achieve successful SecOps outcomes with prescriptive, threat-centric use case packages
-Enhance productivity and reduce response times with automation
-Meet regulatory compliance and audit requirements with ease

Exabeam

Parsing hundreds of trivial alerts. Managing a mountain of data. Manually forwarding info from your endpoints. Forget that. InsightIDR instantly arms you with the insight you need to make better decisions across the incident detection and response lifecycle, faster.

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Sample Customers

Hulu, ADP, Safeway, BBCN Bank

Liberty Wines, Pioneer Telephone, Visier

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