3 categories · Named, not rankedCrowdSec
CrowdSec is an open-source security tool that serves as an alternative to Fail2ban and is listed among threat intelligence platforms and web application firewalls · crowdsec.net ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. CrowdSec has 6.
Why models recommend it
“Self-hosted CrowdSec - If you have technical resources”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Best Open-Source / Self-Hosted: CrowdSec”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“CrowdSec — Best Free/Open-Source Option”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Best Open-Source Option: CrowdSec”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as CrowdSec, over the 13 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 5 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on CrowdSec's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- SOC
- Price stated
- Starting at $2k/month for SMB; Starting at $1900/month for SMB; IP Reputation API access from $49/month for 5000 queries; Local CTI replication from $9K/month; Emergency bug fixes $1K/month; Premium service and support $1K/month
- Starting price
- $49/month
- Free plan or trial
- Try it for free
- Integrations
- 13
- Customers named
- Crédit Mutuel, ScaleCommerce, Le Monde, Trinaps, Region Östergötland
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 13 of the 13 answers that named CrowdSec and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifty-four of the fifty-four domain citations in answers naming CrowdSec came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 222 | 8 | 2026-09-21 | WAF | |
| Glossary or explainer | 19 | 0 | 2025-04-16 | WAF | |
| Comparison | 6 | 1 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Report or ebook | 3 | 0 | 2025-02-12 | ||
| News or press | 3 | 0 | 2024-07-01 | ||
| Case study | 2 | 0 | 2025-03-25 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Crowdsec vs suricata do you need both for linux servers comparison
- 2026-09-21Tanstack supply chain attaque analyse blog
- 2026-09-18Tanstack supply chain attack analysis blog
- 2026-09-17CrowdSec Statement: Source Code Exposure in May 2026 blog
- 2026-09-08Nginx bot protection crowdsec blog
- 2026-09-01Crowdsec 1 8 waf bot detection kubernetes blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page crowdsec.net exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name WAF (17); 0 name its categories the models place it in. Read September 29, 2026.