Rapid7 InsightIDR vs Splunk User Behavior Analytics comparison

Rapid7 InsightIDR vs. Splunk User Behavior Analytics

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Categories and Ranking

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

7th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (15th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (22nd), Threat Deception Platforms (4th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (16th)

Splunk User Behavior Analytics

Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) category, the mindshare of Rapid7 InsightIDR is 5.6%, down from 10.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk User Behavior Analytics is 6.0%, down from 9.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Splunk User Behavior Analytics	6.0%
Rapid7 InsightIDR	5.6%
Other	88.4%

User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

Featured Reviews

SohailHyder

Head of Cyber Security at Super Secure

Has supported compliance needs for mid-sized organizations but lacks customization and advanced integration

If we pitch Rapid7 InsightIDR against solutions such as SIEMs from Splunk or LogRhythm, it is not as customizable as a SIEM solution is. This is where it can improve if we keep in front the feature sets of a complete SIEM solution. Most common in the market is QRadar, but it is depleting now. It has been taken over by some other products such as Splunk and LogRhythm. If we compare these things with Rapid7 InsightIDR, then there are definitely some gaps that need to be filled. Data retention is also one concern because Rapid7 InsightIDR is cloud-based and operates on a subscription model. Whatever data you want to retain, it has to be paid for separately or it has a cost. Other solutions that are on-premises can have their own infrastructure or they provide some data retention for a month or in some capacity-wise, they provide that solution to them which makes them more attractive.

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Siva Kuppala

Enterprise Architect at Wipro Limited

Offers intuitive deployment with strong customer support and advanced analytics features

There are improvements that could be made to Splunk User Behavior Analytics as any product will have advantages and disadvantages. Scalability is one consideration. For example, the advantages include rapid auto scaling to meet demand. A disadvantage is that it can lead to cost overrun if not properly factored or governed. The speed of deployment offers faster provisioning as an advantage, but it can require substantial automation skills and infrastructure as code expertise, which can be challenging. Cloud provides major operational benefits such as agility, automation, resilience, and global access when setting up on Cloud. However, it introduces challenges such as cost control, complexity, and vendor dependency. For example, global reach allows deployment of apps and services closer to users worldwide, but data sovereignty concerns exist and region selection must align with compliance requirements.

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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

"User behavioral analytics allows us to pinpoint abnormal or suspicious behavior among millions of events every day."

"The incident case management is the most valuable feature. Even though there's always something I find I would like to add to that feature, the ability to quickly sort through all the logs, network and endpoint data, etc., and add it to an incident case as part of the investigation, is nice. Having it automatically timeline that additional data into the original incident timeline, and correlate it to other notable events and activities on the network, results in a huge improvement in our overall confidence that we've quickly traced down the right source of an issue."

"I rate Rapid7 nine out of 10 for affordability"

"The technical support is a solid 10 out of 10 as they take the time to answer any questions or problems which may arise in a reasonable time frame."

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

"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."

"I definitely recommend Rapid7 InsightIDR."

"The solution is very stable and works very well for what I need it to do."

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"The most valuable feature is the ability to search through a large amount of data."

"Features like alerts and auto report generation are valuable."

"The best features in Splunk User Behavior Analytics include anomaly detection, behavioral profiling, and risk scoring and prioritization functionality."

"Splunk is more user-friendly than some competing solutions we tried."

"The solution is fast, flexible, and easy to use."

"It is a solution that helps test and measure customer satisfaction."

"The dashboards are one of the very core functions of Splunk User Behavior Analytics; they are very good in dashboarding, and the dashboards themselves are nice, very good, and very helpful."

"Splunk User Behavior Analytics is known for its advanced analytics and data correlation capabilities, which help in detecting patterns, anomalies, and security threats."

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Cons

"The APIs can be further improved in Rapid7."

"Cloud risk assessment is one area where I think they need a lot of improvement."

"Currently, it lacks the functionalities provided by Rapid7's User Behavior Analytics (UBA)."

"Inability to get access to compliance reports within the solution."

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

"I would like to see more development in InsightIDR towards building their SIEM solution and converting it to XDR."

"The main problem lies in the processes within the client's operating systems."

"The product allows us to make only 30 custom rules."

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"I would like improved downward integration with other tools such as McAfee and other GCP solutions."

"In the future I would like to see simplified statistics and analytical threats."

"We'd like the ability to do custom searches."

"The ability to do more complicated data investigation would be a welcome addition for pros, though the functionality now gives most people what they need."

"The price of Splunk UBA is too high."

"The initial setup was complex because some of the configurations that we required needed customization."

"It would be good if the solution had an analytics tool that allowed us to analyze the data without writing specific queries."

"Enhancing the storage model that they are using is necessary."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"The pricing of the solution depends on the user. But there is a yearly licensing cost."

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

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

"Rapid7 InsightIDR's pricing is reasonable but we have challenges with the Minimum Order Quantity. It is not reasonable for customers who have less than one hundred devices. If they can reduce Minimum Order Quantity, it is good. You have to pay around 5000-6000 dollars per year for the product. The pricing includes maintenance and support costs."

"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."

"The team is very willing to work with companies. My suggestion is to call the Rapid7 sales department and see how they can help."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR is a cheaply priced product. On a scale of one to ten, where one is very expensive, and ten is very cheap, I rate the product's price at seven or eight."

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"Pricing varies based on the packages you choose and the volume of your usage."

"The licensing costs is around 10,000 dollars."

"My biggest complaint is the way they do pricing... You can never know the pricing for next year. Every single time you adjust to something new, the price goes up. It's impossible to truly budget for it. It goes up constantly."

"There are additional costs associated with the integrator."

"I hope we can increase the free license to be more than 5 gig a day. This would help people who want to introduce a POC or a demo license for the solution."

"I am not aware of the price, but it is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	12

Questions from the Community

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 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...

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

The product pricing is very cheap.

What do you like most about Splunk User Behavior Analytics?

The solution's most valuable feature is Splunk queries, which allow us to query the logs and analyze the attack vectors.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk User Behavior Analytics?

Splunk User Behavior Analytics is a premium product. Compared to all other products in the market, it is the most expensive one in all aspects including professional service and licenses, even the ...

What needs improvement with Splunk User Behavior Analytics?

Splunk User Behavior Analytics is still an immature product, so it still needs some R&D to be able to be mature in the market. The prediction, algorithms, and ML codes behind Splunk User Behavi...

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Also Known As

InsightIDR

Caspida, Splunk UBA

Overview

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.

Rapid7

Splunk User Behavior Analytics is a behavior-based threat detection is based on machine learning methodologies that require no signatures or human analysis, enabling multi-entity behavior profiling and peer group analytics for users, devices, service accounts and applications. It detects insider threats and external attacks using out-of-the-box purpose-built that helps organizations find known, unknown and hidden threats, but extensible unsupervised machine learning (ML) algorithms, provides context around the threat via ML driven anomaly correlation and visual mapping of stitched anomalies over various phases of the attack lifecycle (Kill-Chain View). It uses a data science driven approach that produces actionable results with risk ratings and supporting evidence that increases SOC efficiency and supports bi-directional integration with Splunk Enterprise for data ingestion and correlation and with Splunk Enterprise Security for incident scoping, workflow management and automated response. The result is automated, accurate threat and anomaly detection.

Splunk

Sample Customers

Liberty Wines, Pioneer Telephone, Visier

8 Securities, AAA Western, AdvancedMD, Amaya, Cerner Corporation, CJ O Shopping, CloudShare, Crossroads Foundation, 7-Eleven Indonesia

Rapid7 InsightIDR vs. Splunk User Behavior Analytics