--- title: Agentic SOC architecture: Specialized agents cut costs... description: Elastic InfoSec's production agentic SOC data from 36,822 real conversations shows specialized agents cost 5.7x less than a single agent with skills for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-soc-architecture-specialized-agents-cut-costs-5-7x-elastic-security-labs-pix1hwemu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Agentic SOC architecture: Specialized agents cut costs 5.7x — Elastic Security Labs | daily.dev og:description: Elastic InfoSec's production agentic SOC data from 36,822 real conversations shows specialized agents cost 5.7x less than a single agent with skills for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-soc-architecture-specialized-agents-cut-costs-5-7x-elastic-security-labs-pix1hwemu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PIx1hweMU.png og:image:alt: Agentic SOC architecture: Specialized agents cut costs 5.7x — Elastic Security Labs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Agentic SOC architecture: Specialized agents cut costs 5.7x — Elastic Security Labs **[Elastic Security Labs](https://daily.dev/sources/elastic-security-labs)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Elastic InfoSec's production agentic SOC data from 36,822 real conversations shows specialized agents cost 5.7x less than a single agent with skills for automated alert triage ($0.69 vs $3.42 per Windows endpoint investigation). The cost gap stems from LLM call count: a skill-delegated agent makes 12 calls vs 4 for an inline-methodology agent, because on-demand skill loading triggers extra deliberation steps that each pay the full growing conversation-history cost. A matched test also found the specialized agent traced process ancestry 100% of the time vs 50% for the skill-delegated approach. The post provides a decision framework: use specialized agents for high-volume automated triage (cost control, reproducibility, auditability), use a single agent with skills for analyst-led interactive investigation where mid-conversation pivots are needed, and run both in the same deployment when your SOC does both. A consumption API endpoint lets teams measure per-agent token costs against their own alert mix before committing to an architecture. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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