OpenCanary
Strongest at small business. Thin evidence at enterprise: four labels.
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 canary tokens and one OpenCanary host, because they cost almost nothing and produce alerts you can trust.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For a very limited budget, start with OpenCanary.”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“OpenCanary is the leading open-source network honeypot platform for teams that want low-overhead network-level deception”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“consider OpenCanary or Cowrie on an old server or Raspberry Pi for more comprehensive network deception”DeepSeek V4 Flash · 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 OpenCanary, over the 65 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 56 | 39 | Compare → | |
| 28 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 24 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 24 | 1 | View → | |
| 23 | 0 | View → | |
| 21 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of OpenCanary →
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 61 of the 65 answers that named OpenCanary and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for OpenCanary, so its own site is not marked. Twenty-seven 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |