Recorded Future AI
Mastercard-owned threat intel platform with a genAI analyst layer
Overview
Recorded Future is the largest standalone threat-intelligence vendor (1,900+ clients, government and Fortune 100 customers), now a Mastercard subsidiary since December 2024; its AI module summarizes threats, drafts analyst reports, and answers natural-language questions over its intel feeds.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 12 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Threat monitoring and alert triage
- Malicious site and dark web monitoring
- Brand and credential monitoring
- Everything in Core
- Autonomous threat hunts
- External asset discovery and vuln prioritization
- Everything in Professional
- Vendor risk ratings and continuous monitoring
- Portfolio risk assessment
Use cases
What you can produce with Recorded Future AI
- Natural-language query and summarization over the Intelligence Graph
- Auto-generated analyst-style threat reports
- Dark web, malware infrastructure and brand monitoring
- Third-party and vendor risk scoring (Elite tier)
- SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR and IAM integrations
- Vulnerability prioritization and external attack surface data
ASEAN Perspective
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Recorded Future built its name on breadth — a continuously updated intelligence graph spanning dark web chatter, malware infrastructure, vulnerability data and geopolitical risk. The AI layer is best understood as a faster way into that graph: ask a question in plain English, get a synthesized answer with citations back to source intelligence instead of pivoting through dashboards manually.
Mastercard completed its $2.65 billion acquisition in December 2024; Recorded Future still runs as an independent subsidiary, now feeding Mastercard's fraud and identity business alongside its original security customers. Gartner Peer Insights rates it 4.6 stars across 277 reviews. The tradeoff is standard for premium threat intel: pricing runs roughly $50,000 to $500,000+ a year depending on package, and AI summaries still need analyst verification before driving a high-stakes call.
What people say
Recorded Future sits at the top of the threat-intelligence category by most measures — Gartner Peer Insights scores it 4.6 stars across 277 reviews in the security threat-intelligence market, and the company claims 1,900+ clients across 75 countries, including 45 national governments and more than half the Fortune 100. Reviewers consistently cite breadth of coverage (dark web, malware infrastructure, vulnerability intel, brand and credential monitoring) and integration depth with SIEM, SOAR and EDR tools as the reasons it wins bake-offs against smaller intel vendors.
The AI layer, Recorded Future AI, sits on top of that same intelligence graph rather than being a separate data source. It handles natural-language queries against the platform, auto-generates analyst-style write-ups, and produces risk scores that used to require a human analyst pulling from multiple modules. For teams already paying for the underlying intelligence, this is a genuine time-saver on report-writing and initial triage; it's not something you'd buy Recorded Future for on its own.
Mastercard completed its $2.65 billion acquisition of Recorded Future in December 2024, and as of 2026 the company still operates as an independent subsidiary — its threat intelligence continues serving the original enterprise security customer base while also feeding Mastercard's fraud-prevention and identity products. The two companies have since done joint marketing, title-sponsoring eMerge Americas 2026, which is the clearest public sign of how integrated the businesses are becoming.
Pricing remains fully custom: Recorded Future sells three named packages, Core, Professional and Elite, with Professional adding autonomous threat hunting and vulnerability prioritization on top of Core's monitoring and alerting, and Elite layering on third-party and vendor risk management. None of the three have published list prices; industry estimates put annual contracts anywhere from under $50,000 for a small team on a limited module set to $500,000+ for full enterprise deployments, and multi-year commitments reportedly unlock 15-30% discounts off the standard annual rate.
The honest caveat that applies to any genAI summarization layer: outputs need analyst verification before they drive a real security or fraud decision, and Recorded Future doesn't claim otherwise — the platform positions the AI as an accelerant for trained analysts, not a replacement for them.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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