IBM vs SentinelOne

IBM — Application · Public · $216.6B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  SentinelOne — Application · Public · $7.5B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

IBM Guardium AI Security and Singularity Cloud Security do comparable work on data security and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to detect and respond to security threats; smaller scale (public).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

4 of 21 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

4 of 21 capabilities — Shares data analysis, data security, guardrails and safety and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application, data service and platform.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — SentinelOne: $7.5B market cap, against IBM's $216.6B market cap.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldIBMSentinelOne
Market cap$216.6B$7.5B SentinelOne has 29× smaller
Employees264,3002,900 SentinelOne has 91× fewer
Founded19112013 102 yrs later
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAPI service, Agent platform, Application, Data service, Developer tool, PlatformAI agent, Application, Data service, Platform
HeadquartersArmonk, USAMountain View, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Data analysisData securityGuardrails and safetyThreat detection and response

Not verified for SentinelOne · 17

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingCode generationCode reviewCode searchCustomer supportDocument extractionEvaluation and observabilityModel inferenceModel trainingKnowledge retrievalSpeech to textText generationText to speechVector searchVoice agentWorkflow automation

Recorded for IBM. SentinelOne’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

SentinelOne has no capability IBM lacks, among the 4 recorded here.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

IBM

Application

IBM Guardium AI SecurityApplication

Protects enterprise data across AI agents, applications and endpoints against agentic-AI, regulatory and post-quantum risks.

IBM InstanaApplication

Full-stack application and infrastructure observability powered by agentic AI, including automatic discovery/mapping of GenAI workflows and AI-driven Smart Alerts to reduce alert fatigue.

IBM Robotic Process AutomationApplication

AI-driven robotic process automation for building intelligent bots that automate business processes, with AI-embedded resilience built into the RPA runtime.

IBM SPSS ModelerApplication

Visual data-science and machine-learning platform for building predictive models, with advanced algorithms, model deployment and open-source framework integration.

IBM Watson DiscoveryApplication

Document intelligence platform using OCR, NLP enrichments (entity/sentiment/emotion/category extraction) and LLM integration to automate information discovery from enterprise documents.

Platform

IBM ConcertPlatform

An agentic AI IT-operations platform that unifies observability, optimization and automated remediation across applications, infrastructure and networks.

IBM watsonx.aiPlatform

Studio for building, tuning and deploying model-based applications on IBM and third-party foundation models.

IBM watsonx.governancePlatform

A governance platform providing real-time visibility, policy enforcement and accountability tracking for AI models and agents across the AI lifecycle.

Data service

IBM watsonx.dataData service

An open hybrid data lakehouse including a built-in Milvus vector database that unifies data access and automates governance for AI and analytics workloads.

SentinelOne

Application

Prompt SecurityApplication

Discovers and governs employee and developer use of AI services, redacts sensitive data in prompts, controls autonomous agents and MCP servers, and defends custom AI applications against prompt injection, jailbreaks and data poisoning.

Singularity Cloud SecurityApplication

Cloud-native application protection platform that defends production workloads, cloud and AI infrastructure and the data stores feeding models, detecting and responding to threats autonomously across the cloud estate.

Singularity EndpointApplication

AI-powered endpoint security that combines endpoint protection, detection and response, and automated remediation and rollback in a single agent across Windows, macOS, Linux and cloud workloads.

Singularity IdentityApplication

Identity-security module of the Singularity Platform that protects against credential misuse and identity-based attacks.

Singularity MobileApplication

On-device mobile threat defense for iOS, Android and ChromeOS that stops phishing, malware and risky apps with an on-device model and needs no cloud connection to detect.

Wayfinder TDRApplication

Managed AI-assisted threat detection and response (MDR-style) service delivered by SentinelOne's global services team.

Platform

Singularity AI SIEMPlatform

A security information and event management platform that ingests and normalizes cloud, identity, endpoint and third-party telemetry, correlates signals into incidents via Purple AI, and executes containment from the investigation console.

Singularity PlatformPlatform

Umbrella platform that runs SentinelOne's endpoint, cloud, identity and mobile protection on one agent and console with autonomous detection, response and rollback; the modules a buyer licenses are recorded separately.

Data service

Singularity AI Data PipelinesData service

A security telemetry pipeline service that filters low-value logs, normalizes heterogeneous sources into OCSF, and enriches events before they reach a SIEM, built on technology from SentinelOne's acquisition of Observo AI.

No counterpart

IBM sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for SentinelOne yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

IBM Watson Natural Language UnderstandingAPI service

Deep-learning text analytics service extracting entities, sentiment, emotion, concepts, semantic roles and custom classifications from unstructured text.

IBM Watson Speech to TextAPI service

A speech recognition API that converts audio into real-time or batch text for transcription, captioning and voice-analytics use cases.

IBM Watson Text to SpeechAPI service

A text-to-speech API that converts text into multilingual synthesized speech using neural voices.

Agent platform

IBM Watson AssistantAgent platform

A conversational AI platform for building customer-support chatbots and virtual assistants deployed across voice and digital channels.

IBM watsonx OrchestrateAgent platform

Platform for building and running AI agents that call enterprise applications on a user's behalf.

Developer tool

IBM BobDeveloper tool

An AI coding agent that automates planning, code generation, review and verification across the software development lifecycle, including IBM Z mainframe modernization workflows.

IBM watsonx Code Assistant for ZDeveloper tool

A generative AI assistant for IBM Z mainframe application discovery, code generation, refactoring and modernization.

SentinelOne sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for IBM yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

AI agent

Purple AIAI agent

An agentic AI security analyst embedded in the Singularity Platform that auto-triages alerts, runs investigations and threat hunts, and recommends or executes response actions over OCSF-normalized SentinelOne and third-party telemetry.