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the budget-neutral swap

Two Products. One Renewal Budget.

As of August 2026, yes. D3 prices the full agentic SOC, with a complete SOAR underneath it, against the SOAR renewal quote you were already going to sign. You get two products on one contract, one console, and one audit trail. Your budget line already exists and it is already approved.

Morpheus is the accountable agentic SOC platform. The agentic layer investigates the alert. The SOAR layer executes the response. Both run under the same approval gates and write to the same audit trail, so one agreement covers work that used to take two. That is what consolidation is worth.

Bring the renewal quote and your monthly alert volume. Best timed six to nine months before your renewal date.

what you get

Two Products, One Contract, One Audit Trail

The full agentic SOC

The full SOAR underneath

The migration harness

The no-code playbook builder

What consolidation changes

Two contracts become one. Two renewal cycles become one. Two audit trails become one. Procurement reviews a single vendor, security operates a single console, and the auditor reads a single record of what happened, who approved it, and why.

The Renewal Moment: The Budget Already Exists.

Most security teams do not go shopping for an agentic SOC. A quote lands, and the question opens on its own.

At renewal, the money is already in the plan. The line item exists, finance has approved it, and nobody has to build a new business case to spend it. Twelve months later the same decision needs net-new budget in a cycle that has already been allocated, and it competes with every other request on the roadmap. Moving at renewal is the least expensive version of this decision for exactly that reason.

Renewal is also the one point in the contract where you control the calendar. You set the start date, the migration window, and the overlap period where both platforms run while playbooks are validated. Once the renewal is signed, you are planning around a term you no longer control.

The operational argument points the same direction. Migration is easier while the current playbooks are still supported and the people who wrote them are still on the team. Automation that runs every day is straightforward to port. Automation nobody has opened in two years turns into archaeology.

The real competitor here is inertia. Renewing takes one signature and no meetings, which is why most teams do it. That is a defensible choice in a busy quarter. It is worth making that choice deliberately, with the comparison in front of you.

Two versions of the same renewal date

You are going to spend the money either way. The only open question is what the money buys.

Renew As-Is

One product, one more year

The queue stays the size it is today. Playbook maintenance stays with the same two people who already carry it. When the agentic triage conversation comes back around, and it will, it arrives as a second contract stacked on top of this one.

Swap At Renewal

Two products, same budget line

Agentic triage and the SOAR arrive together on one contract and one audit trail. Once the response layer is live, contained incidents close at 18 minutes MTTR vs 4 to 6 weeks.

Same date, same approval, same signature. What differs is the scope of what you own the morning after.

qualification

What Qualifies

What your account team looks at

Qualification turns on facts you already have in front of you. Most of it comes off the renewal quote and a single number from your SIEM.

  • You are inside the renewal window on an existing SOAR or security automation contract.
  • You can share the renewal quote or the current contract value with your account team.
  • You have a monthly alert volume and an approximate playbook count. A rough count is enough to start.
  • You are consolidating, so investigation and response land on one agreement.
  • You have an executive sponsor who approves at the same level that approves the renewal.
  • You can run the migration as a scoped program with named owners on both sides.

Before you ask

Scope, timing, and commercial terms are set in your agreement and confirmed in writing by your account team. This page describes the shape of the offer. Your specific agreement will confirm what applies to your program.

the money

Your Expected Cost, in One Line

The formula

Platform Subscription + User Licenses = Your Expected Cost

Two inputs set the number. The Platform Subscription covers the platform. User Licenses cover the people who log in. Together they are Your Expected Cost, and both are written into the agreement before anyone signs it.

The AI is in the platform price, not on a usage meter. Investigation is what the platform does for a living, so the reasoning work sits inside the subscription. Your finance team forecasts one number.

The $0.97 Standard is the public benchmark for what an investigated alert should cost a security program. Use it the way you would use any benchmark, as a reference point when you compare what you pay this year against what you would pay next year.

Under standard Morpheus pricing, the target for a budget-neutral swap is parity with the renewal you were already funding. Your specific agreement will confirm the sizing for your alert volume and your user count. Bring the quote to the call and the comparison takes twenty minutes.

faqs

Frequently Asked Questions

The questions buyers actually ask about the offer, the contract, and the money.

Bring the Renewal Quote.

Twenty minutes with someone who has run this math before. Best timed six to nine months out, while you still control the calendar.