CrowdStrike Falcon AI vs Darktrace vs Recorded Future vs Vectra AI

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

CrowdStrike Falcon AI AI-native platform that stops breaches across endpoint and cloud Visit Darktrace AI-native cybersecurity platform Visit Recorded Future Real-time threat intelligence platform — now owned by Mastercard. Visit Vectra AI AI-driven attack-signal intelligence Visit
RECATOOLS Score 8.2 / 10 7.4 / 10 7.8 / 10 7.5 / 10
Capability 9 8 9 8
Value for money 6 6 6 6
Ease of use 6 6 6 5
ASEAN readiness 7 7 5 6
API quality 8 5 8 7
Pricing Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise
Free tier Free trial for business evaluation Free trial available Free threat intelligence briefings available Free trial available
Paid from Enterprise custom pricing Enterprise custom pricing Enterprise custom pricing Enterprise custom pricing
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users 23000+ enterprise customers 8000+ enterprise customers 1900+ enterprise customers 1500+ enterprise customers
Founded 2011 2013 2009 2010
Maker George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, Gregg Marston Poppy Gustafsson, Jack Stockdale, others Mastercard (acquired 2024) Hitesh Sheth, Rainer Vehns
Verdict

CrowdStrike Falcon is still the reference point for endpoint security — a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection, with EDR/XDR, identity protection, threat intelligence and managed hunting (Fal...

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 Antigena able to throttle a compromised device automatically. That's g...

Recorded Future remains the dominant enterprise threat-intelligence platform, ingesting open-source, dark-web and technical telemetry to deliver real-time intelligence on threats, vulnerabilities, brands and third partie...

Vectra remains one of the two or three names that matter in network detection and response — a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for NDR for the second year running, placed highest for Ability to Execute. Its beh...

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