VirusTotal AI vs CrowdStrike Falcon AI vs Darktrace vs Recorded Future
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
VirusTotal AI
Google's threat analysis service with AI-powered code explanation and...
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CrowdStrike Falcon AI
AI-native platform that stops breaches across endpoint and cloud
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Darktrace
AI-native cybersecurity platform
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Recorded Future
Real-time threat intelligence platform — now owned by Mastercard.
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Free tier | Free file and URL scanning via web | Free trial for business evaluation | Free trial available | Free threat intelligence briefings available |
| Paid from | $200/month (API) | Enterprise custom pricing | Enterprise custom pricing | Enterprise custom pricing |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | 1m+ daily users | 23000+ enterprise customers | 8000+ enterprise customers | 1900+ enterprise customers |
| Founded | 2004 | 2011 | 2013 | 2009 |
| Maker | Google (Chronicle) | George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, Gregg Marston | Poppy Gustafsson, Jack Stockdale, others | Mastercard (acquired 2024) |
| Verdict | VirusTotal remains the reference point for multi-engine scanning — 70-plus antivirus engines over the largest crowd-sourced malware corpus — with Gemini-powered Code Insight explaining in plain English what suspicious sc... |
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... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.