# Threat intelligence platforms for small business buyers: what AI models recommend, September 2026

Gane Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "threat intelligence platform" and as "cyber threat intelligence feed and platform", six framings each, to twelve models with search on, on behalf of a small B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/security/threat-intelligence-platforms/2026-09/smb

This is the permanent record of the September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/security/threat-intelligence-platforms/smb/index.md

**Standing:** NordStellar leads with 19% of first choices; verdict contested. 47 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [NordStellar](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/nordstellar/index.md) | 19% | 7% | 27 |
| 2 | [MISP](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/misp/index.md) | 17% | 12% | 32 |
| 3 | [AlienVault OTX](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/alienvault-otx/index.md) | 9% | 0% | 19 |
| 5 | [VirusTotal](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/virustotal/index.md) | 4% | 0% | 15 |
| 6 | [CrowdStrike Falcon](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/crowdstrike-falcon/index.md) | 4% | 18% | 11 |
| 7 | [OpenCTI](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/opencti/index.md) | 4% | 32% | 19 |
| 10 | [ThreatConnect](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/threatconnect/index.md) | 4% | 68% | 22 |
| 11 | [SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/socradar-extended-threat-intelligence/index.md) | 2% | 0% | 16 |
| 12 | [Abuse.ch](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/abuse-ch/index.md) | 2% | 0% | 15 |
| 21 | [Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/recorded-future-intelligence-cloud/index.md) | 2% | 67% | 33 |
| 22 | [GreyNoise](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/greynoise/index.md) | 0% | 4% | 24 |
| 107 | [Anomali ThreatStream](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/anomali-threatstream/index.md) | 0% | 65% | 23 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 107 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: no first choice
- GPT-5.4 mini: Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud; alternatives CloudSEK, Cyble Vision, GreyNoise, SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: CrowdStrike Falcon, Huntress; alternatives Flare, GreyNoise, LevelBlue Open Threat Exchange, SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence
- Perplexity Sonar: NordStellar; alternatives CloudSEK, GreyNoise
- Grok 4.20: VirusTotal; alternatives Amazon GuardDuty, GreyNoise, NordStellar
- Mistral Small: NordStellar
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: CrowdStrike Falcon, NordStellar; alternatives CrowdSec, GreyNoise, Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence
- Llama 4 Maverick: NordStellar; alternatives CrowdStrike Falcon, Pyrra
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: NordStellar; alternatives Amazon GuardDuty, CrowdStrike Falcon, ISMalicious, Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Kimi K2: SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence; alternatives GreyNoise, MISP, Pulsedive
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: NordStellar; alternatives CrowdStrike Falcon, Cyble Vision, Deepinfo, GreyNoise
- MiniMax M2.5: NordStellar; alternatives Rapid7 Threat Command, ZeroFox Intelligence

## Sources the answers cite

63 of 72 answers came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- learn.g2.com: 36 answers, 37 citations
- b2breviews.com: 36 answers, 36 citations
- upguard.com: 34 answers, 37 citations
- sourceforge.net: 31 answers, 35 citations
- esecurityplanet.com: 26 answers, 26 citations
- vectra.ai: 24 answers, 24 citations
- cyware.com: 21 answers, 31 citations
- spotsaas.com: 20 answers, 27 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://b2breviews.com/threat-intelligence-platforms (36 answers)
- https://learn.g2.com/best-threat-intelligence-tools (36 answers)
- https://upguard.com/blog/best-threat-intelligence-platforms-and-vendors (33 answers)
- https://sourceforge.net/software/threat-intelligence/for-small-business (27 answers)
- https://esecurityplanet.com/products/threat-intelligence-platforms (26 answers)
- https://vectra.ai/topics/threat-intelligence-tools (24 answers)
- https://spotsaas.com/list/threat-intelligence-software/for-small-business (19 answers)
- https://topbusinesssoftware.com/categories/threat-intelligence/small-business-orgs (18 answers)
- https://us.fitgap.com/search/threat-intelligence-software/small-business (14 answers)
- https://analyticsinsight.net/cybersecurity/best-threat-intelligence-platforms (12 answers)

## Warned against

- Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud: 22 of 33 labels negative. "purchasing a traditional, enterprise-grade Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) like Recorded Future, Mandiant (Google Cloud), or ThreatConnect is almost always a mistake" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, direct prompt)
- Anomali ThreatStream: 15 of 23 labels negative. "Avoid "Big" TIPs initially: Traditional heavyweights like Recorded Future, Anomali, or ThreatConnect are powerful but expensive and complex." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, comparative prompt)
- ThreatConnect: 15 of 22 labels negative. "Avoid "Big" TIPs initially: Traditional heavyweights like Recorded Future, Anomali, or ThreatConnect are powerful but expensive and complex." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, comparative prompt)
- Mandiant Threat Intelligence: 8 of 9 labels negative. "Premium pricing (e.g., $60K–$1.5M/year ...); geared toward large-scale analysis, not lean teams." (Grok 4.20, negative prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, September 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.