VirusTotal Code Insight vs Darktrace vs CrowdStrike Falcon vs Recorded Future
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
VirusTotal Code Insight
Gemini-written explanations of suspicious files, on Google's VirusTota...
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Darktrace
AI-native cybersecurity platform
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CrowdStrike Falcon
AI-native endpoint, identity and cloud security platform
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Recorded Future
Enterprise threat intelligence with AI, now part of Mastercard
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Enterprise | Subscription | Enterprise |
| Free tier | VT Community: free file and URL scanning, the public API and community features | Free, no-obligation 30-day trial | 15-day free trial (Falcon Prevent, Device Control, Express Support), no credit card. Qualifying customers get 50 free Charlotte AI credits a month | Free malware sandbox, browser extension and mobile app; free identity-exposure and maturity assessments; Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel integration trials |
| Paid from | $5,000/year (VT Lite, low API volumes, non-commercial) | Enterprise custom pricing | $59.99/device/year (Falcon Go, billed annually) | Custom quote per package, scaled by organization size (workforce credentials) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | 1m+ daily users | 8000+ enterprise customers | 23000+ enterprise customers | 1900+ enterprise customers |
| Founded | 2023 | 2013 | 2011 | 2009 |
| Maker | Poppy Gustafsson, Jack Stockdale, others | George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, Gregg Marston | Mastercard (acquired 2024) | |
| Verdict | The best free starting point in malware triage, and Code Insight makes it better: a plain-English account of what a script, extension, package or binary does, now extended to AI agent skills. VirusTotal's own research sh... |
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... |
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... |
Recorded Future is one of the most complete threat-intelligence platforms, and independent analysts placed it among the leaders in 2026. It is priced for large organisations, with quotes scaled to workforce size, and its... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.