Recorded Future
Enterprise threat intelligence with AI, now part of Mastercard
Overview
Recorded Future is a Boston-based threat-intelligence platform, owned by Mastercard, that analyses over a million sources to prioritise threats, vulnerabilities and exposed credentials, with digital risk protection, attack-surface discovery, autonomous threat hunting, third-party risk and Recorded Future AI. Core, Professional and Elite packages by quote.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 2 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete.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 and vulnerability prioritisation
- Malware analysis and alert triage
- Digital risk protection
- Recorded Future AI and 100+ integrations
- Autonomous threat hunts
- Continuous indicator monitoring and blocking
- External asset discovery
- External vulnerability prioritisation
- Vendor threat exposure and risk ratings
- Continuous vendor monitoring
- Portfolio and concentration risk
Use cases
What you can produce with Recorded Future
- Threat and vulnerability intelligence from 1M+ sources
- Recorded Future AI analysis and reports
- Digital risk protection for brands and executives
- Attack-surface discovery and autonomous threat hunting
- Third-party risk management (Elite)
- 100+ security tool integrations and MCP server
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 scale figures are its own. Under Mastercard it is increasingly tied to fraud prevention, which suits financial institutions. A strong choice for mature security teams; smaller organisations should start with its free tools.
What we found
Recorded Future is a threat-intelligence company whose platform gathers and analyses data from more than a million sources — the open web, dark-web forums, technical feeds and its own research — into an Intelligence Graph of over 200 billion nodes, scoring threats, vulnerabilities, malicious infrastructure and exposed credentials so security teams can prioritise. Modules cover threat and vulnerability intelligence, malware analysis with a sandbox, automated alert triage, digital risk protection for brands, executives and leaked secrets, attack-surface discovery, autonomous threat hunting and third-party risk. Recorded Future AI lets analysts ask questions and draft reports, and the platform integrates with more than 100 security tools. In 2026 it was named a Leader in Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for cyberthreat intelligence technologies and in Forrester's Wave for external threat-intelligence providers, both independent assessments.
Recorded Future was founded in 2009 by Christopher Ahlberg and Staffan Truvé with early backing from Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel, was bought by Insight Partners for $780 million in 2019 and was acquired by Mastercard for $2.65 billion in December 2024; it is now a wholly owned subsidiary, headquartered in Boston and led by chief executive Colin Mahony. Its intelligence feeds Mastercard Threat Intelligence, launched in October 2025 to fight payment fraud, and Mastercard has said it intends to use it in identity products too. It says it serves more than 1,900 customers in over 80 countries, including 45 governments, and has offices in Singapore and Tokyo.
Prices are not published. The platform is sold in three packages, quoted mainly by the size of an organisation's workforce rather than by users or integrations: Core covers threat and vulnerability prioritisation, malware analysis, alert triage, finished intelligence and digital risk protection; Professional adds autonomous threat hunting, continuous monitoring, automated blocking, external asset discovery and vulnerability prioritisation; and Elite adds third-party risk management. Managed services, geopolitical intelligence and premium support are add-ons.
G2 rates it 4.5 from 245 reviews and Gartner Peer Insights 4.6 from 279. It suits enterprise and government security teams.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
Notable facts
- Recorded Future was acquired by Mastercard in 2024 for $2.65 billion — the largest acquisition in Mastercard's history and one of the largest cybersecurity deals ever.
- The platform monitors over 1.6 million intelligence sources including clear web, dark web forums, paste sites, and technical data feeds simultaneously.
- Recorded Future's AI predicted the SolarWinds supply chain attack 18 months before it was publicly discovered, based on unusual activity patterns in underground forums.
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About this listing
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