Deception technology · RankedHoneyWire
HoneyWire is a distributed deception platform in the deception technology category · honeywire.dev ↗
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%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
No model named it for this buyer.
Why models recommend it
“HoneyWire (Top Recommendation for Pure Open-Source): A free, open-source deception platform designed for quick deployment on Linux hosts.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“The best deception technology platform for a company with a limited budget is HoneyWire, an open-source deception platform”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“OpenCanary and HoneyWire are also recognized as strong, budget-friendly alternatives”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Tightest budget / no budget: OpenCanary + Canarytokens + HoneyWire.”Muse Glimmer 30B · 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 HoneyWire, over the 28 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 18 | Compare → | |
| 21 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 11 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of HoneyWire →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on HoneyWire's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Price stated
- Free and Open Source (AGPLv3)
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Free and Open Source (AGPLv3)
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 28 of the 28 answers that named HoneyWire and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
119 of the 136 domain citations in answers naming HoneyWire came from a third party's page. Seventeen 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 2 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page honeywire.dev 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. Read October 5, 2026.