2 categories · RankedIRONSCALES
IRONSCALES is an AI email security platform that stops phishing, business email compromise, account takeover and deepfakes across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace · ironscales.com ↗
Strongest at small business. Ranked 12 of 74 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is first at 43%.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is first at 45%. 2 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Proofpoint Email Protection is first at 41%.
Why models recommend it
“Best overall customer satisfaction / AI-native mailbox protection: IRONSCALES. High willingness to recommend and rapid API deployment.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Direct question · first choice
“I'd suggest starting with either IRONSCALES or Check Point/Avanan”MiniMax M2.5 · Direct question · first choice
“Start with Proofpoint, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, or IRONSCALES”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“Top Recommendation: IRONSCALES”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
“significant drop in recommendation confidence (from 9% to 2%)... indicating potential issues with performance, reliability, or user satisfaction”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as IRONSCALES, over the 72 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | 21 | Compare → | |
| 51 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 47 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 42 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 36 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 36 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 3 | View → |
What the models named instead of IRONSCALES →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on IRONSCALES's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Enterprises, MSPs & MSSPs
- Price stated
- Pricing
- Starting price
- 3.11
- Free plan or trial
- Free Trial
- Certifications
- ISO 27001, ISO 42001, SOC 2 Type II
- Customers named
- Telit, Keelings, Interlaced, Dynacomm, CyberScope, Sentry Cyber, CloudTech24
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 66 of the 72 answers that named IRONSCALES and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
168 of the 188 domain citations in answers naming IRONSCALES 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 493 | 12 | 2026-09-23 | Email security, Awareness training | |
| News or press | 263 | 1 | 2026-08-12 | Email security, SIEM | |
| Glossary or explainer | 153 | 4 | 2026-09-23 | Email security, MFA | |
| Report or ebook | 57 | 1 | 2026-07-14 | Awareness training | |
| Case study | 31 | 2 | 2026-08-12 | ||
| Comparison | 23 | 4 | 2026-09-13 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 14 | 0 | 2026-04-11 | Email security | |
| Conference or event | 5 | 1 | 2026-08-31 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | 0 | 2025-02-19 | Email security | |
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-23Hidden text css evasion ai email filters blog
- 2026-09-23Text salting glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-13Huntress comparison
- 2026-09-13Sublime security comparison
- 2026-09-10Cisco ironport comparison
- 2026-08-31Conference brochure lure sustained personalized mail merge campaign conference or event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page ironscales.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.