Why Enterprises Choose Axoflow Platform vs. Cribl
“We’ve delivered countless log management deployments across APAC built on syslog-ng, so when we first saw Axoflow, it immediately felt familiar—but sharper. Having worked closely with Balázs Scheidler for over a decade, we knew anything he put his name behind would be worth serious consideration. What stood out this time was just how much complexity Axoflow removes. It distills decades of operational experience into a solution purpose-built for today’s security teams.”
“Most security platforms claim to be built for the AI era. Very few actually are. What impressed me about Axoflow was how seamlessly it automates the messy, thankless work of preparing data—turning noisy, fragmented streams into something AI can actually reason over. Running an MSSP, I see this data preparation challenge across dozens of client environments daily. I know how much time, budget, and talent that usually takes. Axoflow gets it done in minutes, not months.”
“Security teams are drowning in data and starving for insight. As we move toward more automated, AI-driven workflows, the ability to reliably collect, normalize, and act on security data in real time isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s foundational. Any progress in this space that reduces noise and improves signal fidelity is a big win for modern security operations.”
“There’s no shortage of teams chasing to solve the security data problem. What stood out about Axoflow was their discipline. Instead of overpromising, they built something that actually works — fast to value, lean in architecture, and built to massive scale. That kind of clarity is rare in startups.”
How Axoflow Brings Real Cost Savings
Less Infrastructure Cost
12.5x better performance means drastically fewer servers and less overhead.
Linear Pricing Structure
Unlike Cribl’s complex, consumption-based credit confusion, Axoflow has transparent tiers meaning you keep more of your data reduction savings.
What Reddit Is saying about Cribl pricing
“Cribl would cost us about 10‑20 k more than our SIEM… we might not get the ROI we’re hoping for.”
“I did a model pricing estimate… the price per GB with Cribl came out way higher.”
AI Theater? It’s Still Your Job
Axoflow curates, parses, and routes your data—no copilots, no approvals, no guessing. Cribl’s Copilot promises “human-in-the-loop” oversight—but that just means you’re still doing the work. Whether logic is hand-written or AI-suggested, you still review, test, and maintain it. In contrast, Axoflow takes ownership of the transformation process end-to-end: source-aware, schema-aligned, and production-ready—automatically. What’s more, you still retain control and visibility during the process.
With Axoflow, telemetry from Palo Alto, Okta, CrowdStrike, and hundreds of other data sources doesn’t need new logic. It just works. That’s real automation.
Axoflow vs. Cribl
See full comparison of how Axoflow Platform, an automated alternative to Cribl Stream, stands out in key areas: