6 categories · Named, not rankedOSSEC
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. OSSEC has 6.
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“Open-source alternatives like OSSEC or custom scripts exist but require heavy expertise (not ideal for limited budgets/staff)”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“can be cobbled together at near-zero cost, but they require significant in-house expertise, ongoing maintenance”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as OSSEC, over the 11 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 2 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on OSSEC's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- individuals and small teams looking for a basic HIDS framework and core ruleset
- Price stated
- free
- Free plan or trial
- free, open-source host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS)
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 11 of the 11 answers that named OSSEC and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty of the thirty domain citations in answers naming OSSEC 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 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 44 | 3 | 2026-08-25 | Logs |
Most recent
- 2026-08-25Release ossec 4 3 0 blog
- 2026-08-05Release ossec 4 2 0 blog
- 2026-07-01Release ossec 4 1 0 blog
- 2026-03-30Pci as a service blog
- 2026-03-23Release ossec 4 0 0 blog
- 2026-03-22Ossec fim as a service blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page ossec.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. Read September 29, 2026.