Most security teams without an agentic SOC believe in the value. They just have no line item for it. When budgets get built, “agentic SOC” isn’t a category anyone allocated for last year, so the project gets parked until the next planning cycle, and then the one after that. The capability loses to the calendar.
You don’t need a new line item. You already have one. It’s called SOAR, and it comes up for renewal on a schedule you can see coming.
The renewal is the only moment the budget is open
The renewal reflex is to re-buy the tool you have. Same SOAR, new term, done. But a renewal is also the one moment when that budget is open for decision. The money is allocated, the approval path is clear, and nobody has to fight for fresh spend. The question worth asking in that moment: could this same spend buy us more than the SOAR we have?
With a modern agentic SOC, it can. Morpheus is a modern deterministic SOAR and an agentic SOC on one engine, and it’s priced at or under what you pay for a SOAR today. So the reframe is concrete. Fund a modern SOAR plus an agentic SOC from the line item you were about to spend on a renewal. The budget already exists. It’s just labeled “SOAR.”
A budget reframe, not a free product
Morpheus comes in at or under your current SOAR spend, and because it’s both things on one engine, the agentic capability comes with the budget you already have. Nothing here is free, and we won’t say it is. You get more from the same number, which at renewal time is the version of “more” you can act on.
Why predictable pricing makes the swap possible
The pricing model is what holds the reframe together. A lot of AI-driven tools meter their AI by usage, so the more your team uses it, the higher the bill. That turns next quarter’s AI spend into a number you can’t forecast, which is fatal to a clean budget swap. Morpheus puts the AI in the price. Attack Path Discovery and the Reasoning Graph were engineered over two years to use fewer tokens, so we absorb that cost and quote one predictable number. Adoption doesn’t move it. You can take that number to finance and defend it, which is what a reallocation requires.
There’s also the fear that “agentic SOC” means a big, disruptive project with a re-platform attached. It doesn’t. Morpheus replaces only the orchestration and investigation layer and runs across your existing SIEM, EDR, and identity tools. D3 migrates your playbooks and integrations for free on a 60-day plan. Time it to the renewal and the reframe rides a decision you’re already making.
The TCO calculator exists to make this concrete against your real contract. Put in what you pay for your SOAR today and model a modern SOAR plus an agentic SOC against it. The point is to show that the budget conversation you assumed you’d have to open next year is one you can close at your next renewal.
Your next SOAR renewal date is already on a calendar somewhere. That’s the meeting where this gets decided, so bring the number to it.
Book a Morpheus demo to model a modern SOAR plus an agentic SOC against your current SOAR spend.
Morpheus pricing is token-inclusive and quoted as one number for the term. Where that number lands depends on your environment and is confirmed with D3 directly. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
