Exabeam New-Scale Fusion Outpaces Splunk: Six Ways to Compare and Evaluate

Not every security information and event management (SIEM) solution is built for modern security operations. While Splunk is widely recognized for log management, many security teams find it costly to maintain and resource-intensive to tune—especially when trying to detect advanced threats. From modular pricing to AI-driven investigation workflows, Exabeam New-Scale Fusion offers a smarter, more efficient way to detect, investigate, and respond to attacks.

Here are six ways Exabeam outpaces Splunk—and why teams are making the switch or choosing to augment.

1. Predictable Costs That Scale With You

Splunk’s cloud workload pricing model is complex and often unpredictable. Costs can spike based on ingestion, storage, compute, and added modules. Exabeam offers modular pricing with advanced analytics, automation, and threat intelligence included—avoiding the need to license key capabilities separately. Customers consistently report lower total cost of ownership, especially as data volumes and detection complexity increase.

2. Less Tuning, More Doing

With Splunk, getting value requires constant scripting, tuning, and maintenance. Behavioral analytics and SOAR capabilities are sold separately, increasing cost and complexity.

Exabeam delivers prebuilt correlation rules, behavioral models, and threat intelligence that are ready to deploy—no custom development needed.

3. Built-In Machine Learning and Behavioral Analytics

Splunk’s user behavior analytics (UBA) is limited and typically requires separate licensing and setup. Detection for insider threats and lateral movement is sparse and not fully integrated.

Exabeam uses machine-learned threat detection to baseline user, device, and entity behavior. When something deviates from the norm, Exabeam assigns contextual risk scores and automatically builds an investigation timeline, surfacing threats that traditional tools often miss.

4. Native Cloud Scalability

Splunk Cloud is a hosted version of its on-prem architecture, and customers often experience slow queries, system downtime, and scale limitations under high EPS loads. New-Scale Fusion is cloud native and optimized for high performance, supporting up to 2 million EPS with real-time parser tuning and built-in service health dashboards. With silent log source monitoring and cloud collector filtering, it adapts to your scale without compromising performance or visibility.

5. AI That Drives Outcomes, Not Just Queries

Splunk AI Assistant helps translate natural language to SPL but isn’t embedded in Splunk Enterprise Security, limiting day-to-day utility.

Exabeam Nova, a multi-agent security AI assistant, is fully embedded across the New-Scale Platform. Exabeam Nova includes six specialized agents that support both frontline analysts and security leaders. From natural language search and threat visualization to real-time posture reporting and strategic recommendations, Exabeam Nova helps teams detect, investigate, and respond faster and more clearly. There are no usage-based limits, separate licenses, or bolt-on integrations—just unified, actionable AI for the entire security operations center (SOC).

6. Strategic Visibility With Outcomes Navigator

Security teams often struggle to understand whether their current SIEM is detecting what really matters. Splunk offers Security Essentials (SSE) to help map detections to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK^®, but it provides only indirect visibility into exposure and offers minimal alignment to business risk.

Outcomes Navigator, powered by Exabeam Nova, gives security leaders always-on visibility into their program maturity. It maps real-time log activity and detections to ATT&CK and strategic TDIR use cases, identifies coverage gaps, and delivers prioritized, business-aligned recommendations, without requiring custom dashboards or manual reporting. It’s the industry’s first built-in posture assessment tool tailored for CISOs, helping them prove value, justify investments, and close gaps with confidence.

Conclusion

Splunk may have pioneered log search, but Exabeam is redefining security operations. With machine-learned detection, AI-guided workflows, and a transparent pricing model, Exabeam helps analysts detect what others miss while giving security leaders the visibility to improve and demonstrate value.

Whether you’re ready to replace Splunk or looking to enhance it, Exabeam offers a path forward.

Download the full comparison guide to see why Exabeam New-Scale Fusion is the smarter choice.

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