Compare · Huntbase and Tines
Huntbase vs Tines
Last reviewed: October 2026 · All comparisons
01Who each is for
Two tools, two jobs.
Tines
Security and IT teams who want to build workflows, apps and AI agents across any tool with an API, without writing code, in the cloud or self-hosted.
Huntbase
Threat hunting, SOC and IR teams who need to answer open questions across their data and hosts, with an AI partner that shows its work and waits for approval.
02Side by side
How they compare.
- Approach
Tines
Workflow automation. You build stories from actions, triggers and integrations to run a process the same way every time.
Huntbase
Investigation. Hypothesis-driven hunts, alert triage and detection engineering on one data layer.
- Where the data lives
Tines
In the tools a workflow connects. Tines moves data between them, in the cloud or self-hosted.
Huntbase
In your stores. Huntbase queries connected sources in place, or your own Apache Iceberg lake, and normalises results to OCSF.
- Role of AI
Tines
AI actions and agents run inside the workflows you design, on the models you choose.
Huntbase
Scout plans and runs hunt steps, writes queries, and cites the evidence behind every claim.
- Human approval
Tines
You design it. Pages pause a workflow for a person's input or approval.
Huntbase
Built in. Scout waits at your checkpoints, and response actions need two people to sign off.
- Endpoint reach
Tines
Through the EDR and other tools a workflow calls.
Huntbase
Live questions to Windows, macOS and Linux hosts with Endpoint Control (early access).
- Open standards
Tines
Vendor-agnostic: connects to any tool that exposes an API.
Huntbase
OCSF v1.3 schema, Sigma rules, STIX 2.1 and TAXII, CACAO v2 playbooks, and open hunt.md files.
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03When to choose which
Pick by the job in front of you.
Choose Tines if
- You know the process and want it to run the same way every time.
- You need automation across IT and security, not only investigations.
- You want to build your own internal tools and approval flows.
Choose Huntbase if
- The question is open, and the answer is somewhere in your data or on a host.
- You want an AI partner that investigates with you, not a fixed flow.
- You want hunts to turn into tested Sigma detections.
04Working together
Find it in Huntbase. Run the process in Tines.
Huntbase decides what needs doing; Tines is good at doing it the same way every time. Send a confirmed finding or a hunt report from Huntbase to a Tines workflow by webhook (beta), and let your existing ticketing and notification flows take it from there.
Questions
Is Huntbase a SOAR or workflow automation tool?
No. Huntbase is a threat-hunting platform. It finds and explains what is happening across your data and hosts. Workflow tools such as Tines are a good place to run the processes that follow.
Can Huntbase and Tines work together?
Yes. A confirmed finding or hunt report in Huntbase can be sent by webhook (beta) to start a workflow you built in Tines.
How does approval work in Huntbase?
Scout proposes queries and steps and waits for you to run them. Automated hunts run supervised by default. Response actions on hosts, in early access, need two people to sign off.
Your data.
Your knowledge.
Your call.
Hunt across the tools you already run. Sign up and start on your own data, or book a demo and we will walk you through it.
- 01Sign up
- 02Run a guided hunt on the sample workspace, no connector needed
- 03Connect your own sources when you're ready
