Panther vs QRadar: Features, Performance & Cost Comparison | Panther

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Panther vs. QRadar

Feature	Panther	QRadar
Pricing	No ingest tax	EPS/flow licensing costs
Onboarding to First Alert	First alerts fast with OOTB rules	Complex deployment
Rule management	Git-native, Dev & UI	Manual configuration and separate SOAR
Operational Overhead	Serverless, zero admin	Heavy manual tuning
Coverage at Scale	Ingest broadly without punitive cost	EPS/FPM licensing limits
Log Retention & Storage	12-month retention included	Hardware-dependent storage scaling
Speed of Detection	Low-latency, real-time streaming analysis	Resource-intensive processing

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