Palo Alto Networks vs Sama

Palo Alto Networks — Application · Public · $302.9B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Sama — Infrastructure · Private · 1 of 1 figure sourced

Relationship

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

Aligned comparison

FieldPalo Alto NetworksSama
Size$302.9B mkt capnot disclosed
Employees16,068—
Founded20052008 3 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryApplicationInfrastructure
Stack layerApplication, PlatformData service, Platform
HeadquartersSanta Clara, USASan Francisco, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Data analysisEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyWorkflow automation

Not verified for Sama · 3

Agent orchestrationData securityThreat detection and response

Recorded for Palo Alto Networks. Sama’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Palo Alto Networks · 1

Data labelling

Recorded for Sama. Palo Alto Networks’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

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

Palo Alto Networks

Platform

Cortex XDRPlatform

Endpoint detection and response platform marketed as "the foundation of the AI-driven SOC," with an AI agent assistant (Cortex AgentiX) for investigation and response.

Cortex XSIAMPlatform

An AI-driven security operations platform that unifies SIEM, SOAR and detection-and-response data with automation and AI agents to run a security operations centre.

Precision AIPlatform

Palo Alto Networks' proprietary AI system combining machine learning, deep learning and generative AI to automate threat detection, prevention and remediation across its Strata, Prisma Cloud and Cortex security platforms.

Prisma AIRSPlatform

An AI security platform that discovers, scans and protects AI models, agents, applications and data against runtime and posture threats.

Prisma AIRS AI GatewayPlatform

Runtime gateway component of Prisma AIRS that inspects and governs traffic to and from AI models and agents.

Strata Cloud ManagerPlatform

"The first AI-powered, unified solution for network security management and operations," with an AI assistant (Strata Copilot) and purpose-built AI agents for policy optimization, threat detection and remediation.

Sama

Platform

Sama PlatformPlatform

Sama's data annotation and validation platform, combining annotation tooling, SamaAssure quality assurance, SamaHub project management and reporting, and SamaIQ analytics, with a REST API and CLI for pipeline integration.

No counterpart

Palo Alto Networks sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Sama yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Application

AI Access SecurityApplication

A cloud-delivered service within Prisma SASE that discovers shadow AI usage and applies access controls and data loss prevention to generative AI applications.

Sama sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Palo Alto Networks yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Data service

Sama AnnotateData service

Sama Annotate is Sama's enterprise data annotation offering, delivering image, video and 3D point cloud labeling through a full-time in-house annotation workforce working on the Sama Platform, with CLI and API access for automated data workflows.

Sama CurateData service

Sama Curate is a data curation offering that uses filtering and curation algorithms to suggest which assets in a raw dataset should be labeled, so teams annotate only the data most likely to improve an ML model.

Sama GenAIData service

Sama GenAI supplies human-generated training and evaluation data for foundation models, covering model validation and fact checking, instruction following, preference ranking, image and video captioning, creative writing, synthetic data creation and RAG evaluation.

Sama ValidateData service

Sama Validate is a managed human-in-the-loop service in which trained reviewers inspect and correct a customer's model predictions across image, video and 3D point cloud data and report where the model performs well or poorly.