Abnormal AI vs CrowdStrike Falcon vs Darktrace
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Abnormal AI
Behavioural AI email security, now stretching to identity and AI
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CrowdStrike Falcon
AI-native endpoint, identity and cloud security platform
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Darktrace
AI-native cybersecurity platform
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Subscription | Enterprise |
| Free tier | — | 15-day free trial (Falcon Prevent, Device Control, Express Support), no credit card. Qualifying customers get 50 free Charlotte AI credits a month | Free, no-obligation 30-day trial |
| Paid from | Quoted on request, no public price list | $59.99/device/year (Falcon Go, billed annually) | Enterprise custom pricing |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | 2000+ enterprise customers | 23000+ enterprise customers | 8000+ enterprise customers |
| Founded | 2018 | 2011 | 2013 |
| Maker | Evan Reiser, Sanjay Jeyakumar | George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, Gregg Marston | Poppy Gustafsson, Jack Stockdale, others |
| Verdict | Abnormal remains the reference point for API-based, behavioural email security: it deploys into Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace without touching mail flow, and it is built to catch the socially engineered messages that... |
CrowdStrike Falcon remains a reference point for endpoint security, with EDR, threat intelligence and hunting, and managed detection (Falcon Complete) on one sensor. Charlotte AI is now an agentic analyst, and the March... |
Darktrace still does what it always did well: build a live behavioural model of each network and flag anomalies that signature-based tools miss, with autonomous response able to throttle a compromised device automaticall... |
| Full review → | Full review → | Full review → |
Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.