28 categories · RankedCrowdStrike
CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity platform covering endpoint protection and detection and response, cloud security posture management, container and Kubernetes security, and attack surface management · crowdstrike.com ↗
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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.
Huntress Managed EDR is first at 83%.
Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response is first at 31%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is first at 33%.
Why models recommend it
“SentinelOne Complete (with Vigilance MDR) or CrowdStrike Falcon (with Falcon Complete MDR) represent the safest, lowest-friction, and most reliable choices.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“Often considered the "gold standard" for threat intelligence. It consistently ranks highest for its ability to detect advanced threats”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“Choose CrowdStrike or SentinelOne if you want authorized, autonomous containment on a single-vendor endpoint platform you already run.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · first choice
“CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch or Expel MDR are top recommendations due to their proven track records”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Lacework, and CrowdStrike at the start”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“The lesson isn't necessarily to avoid CrowdStrike, but to recognize that AI-augmented platforms can still fail through conventional software update mechanisms”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“Treat acquired offerings—such as Bionic/CrowdStrike, Dazz/Wiz, and similar platform integrations—with caution until the vendor demonstrates a stable roadmap”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“The Big Iron (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Palo Alto): These are excellent but expensive. They offer top-tier protection but higher administrative overhead.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Scale-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as CrowdStrike, over the 356 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 73 | 20 | View → | |
| 46 | 1 | View → | |
| 44 | 13 | View → | |
| 39 | 6 | View → | |
| 36 | 9 | View → | |
| 33 | 0 | View → | |
| 32 | 1 | View → | |
| 28 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 28 | 0 | View → | |
| 27 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of CrowdStrike →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on CrowdStrike's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- small and medium businesses
- Price stated
- Free; $7.99 per device, billed monthly; $14.99 per device, billed monthly; $19.99 per device, billed monthly; $59.99 per device, billed annually; $99.99 per device, billed annually; $184.99 per device, billed annually
- Starting price
- 7.99
- Free plan or trial
- Try for 15 days; Free; No credit card required
- Certifications
- SOC 2, C5, CSA STAR, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 42001, ISO 22301, PCI DSS
- Customers named
- Travel + Leisure, TaylorMade Golf, the ALDO Group, Intel Corporation, Commercial Bank of California, CBC, Montage Health, Target
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 302 of the 356 answers that named CrowdStrike and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
451 of the 506 domain citations in answers naming CrowdStrike came from a third party's page. Fifty-five 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 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 18 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 24 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 13 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 3,995 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 750 | 16 | 2026-09-21 | ||
| News or press | 713 | 28 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Case study | 479 | 16 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Podcast or video | 231 | 0 | 2026-03-24 | ||
| Comparison | 169 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 103 | 0 | 2026-05-07 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 20 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 10 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 7 | 0 | 2026-03-05 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Crowdstrike named leader proactive security platforms news or press
- 2026-09-24Solarig case study
- 2026-09-21Forrester wave proactive security platforms q3 2026 report or ebook
- 2026-09-17Forrester wave external threat intelligence q3 2026 report or ebook
- 2026-09-17Crowdstrike named leader external threat intelligence news or press
- 2026-09-16Efg holding case study
Events in person
- October 27, 2026 to October 29, 2026it-sa Expo&CongressNürnberg · exhibits
- August 30, 2026 to September 1, 2026CrowdStrike Day Zero 2026 Threat Research SummitVirgin Hotel Las Vegas, Las Vegas · hosted
- June 9, 2026CrowdTour FrankfurtFrankfurt · hosted
- April 14, 2026CrowdTour WienWien · hosted
As the event pages on crowdstrike.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page crowdstrike.com 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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.