Cowrie
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Thinkst Canary is first at 53%.
Thinkst Canary is first at 56%.
Acalvio ShadowPlex is first at 61%.
Why models recommend it
“Start with Canarytoken (low overhead, immediate value) combined with Cowrie (captures useful threat intel).”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Cowrie emulates SSH/Telnet for capturing attacker commands and malware. Both are free, community-supported, and lightweight.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Best for SSH and Telnet deception: Cowrie. The de facto standard for shell interaction logging.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Paraphrase question · alternative
“The de facto standard SSH/Telnet honeypot. Excellent logging and malware capture.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Avoid as primary solutions. They are easily fingerprinted by modern attackers, offer low interaction, and lack automation/AI.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Free, but requires more manual setup and management”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cowrie, over the 30 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 6 | View → | |
| 22 | 14 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 5 | View → | |
| 12 | 2 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 2 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Cowrie →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 27 of the 30 answers that named Cowrie and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for Cowrie, so its own site is not marked. Nine were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |