3 categories · RankedSucuri
Sucuri is a website security service that combines a firewall with malware scanning, monitoring and protection, including DDoS mitigation, for websites · sucuri.net ↗
Why models recommend it
“Starts at ~$199/year for basic plans; strong for website-focused protection”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Affordable managed WAF/DDoS service, with malware monitoring and cleanup”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“For WordPress sites, Sucuri offers good value”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Best for WordPress & CMS Websites: Sucuri”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Sucuri is consistently flagged as a service to avoid due to negative reviews and poor performance”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Pricing starts higher than Cloudflare’s free tier. More expensive for heavy traffic.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · warning
“its DDoS protection has notable weaknesses... it's not a dedicated DDoS provider”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Sucuri, over the 49 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 41 | View → | |
| 34 | 0 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Sucuri's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- small businesses, web professionals and enterprise organizations
- Price stated
- Basic Platform $229/yr; Pro Platform $339/yr; Business Platform $549/yr; Junior Dev $999.98/yr; Multi-Site & Custom Plans Price upon request; Basic Firewall $9.99/mo; Pro Firewall $19.98/mo
- Starting price
- 9.99
- Free plan or trial
- 30-DayGuarantee
- Customers named
- WPBeginner, iThemes, Yoast, Pepper IT, ITW Consulting, Emphaysis Software, Webhosting.net Inc, WP Maintain
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 41 of the 49 answers that named Sucuri and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
137 of the 137 domain citations in answers naming Sucuri 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 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 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 | 1 | 2 |
| 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 | 2,979 | 18 | 2026-09-01 | WAF, CDN | |
| Glossary or explainer | 246 | 2 | 2026-08-01 | WAF, Cloud hosting | |
| Report or ebook | 61 | 0 | 2026-06-23 | WAF | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 46 | 0 | 2026-01-05 | CDN, WAF | |
| Case study | 29 | 0 | 2024-02-26 | ||
| Comparison | 19 | 0 | 2026-01-15 | WAF | |
| Conference or event | 4 | 0 | 2015-07-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | 0 | 2025-03-15 | ||
| Podcast or video | 2 | 0 | 2020-05-01 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-01Wordpress security plugins how to choose the right one blog
- 2026-09-01Wordpress security plugins how to choose the right one blog
- 2026-08-01Upgrading how you sign in to your sucuri account blog
- 2026-08-01How to create a secure wordpress staging site beginners guide blog
- 2026-08-01The illusion of a lock how ai is changing the speed and scale of hands on wordpress vulnerability research blog
- 2026-08-01What is a website attack surface a beginners guide to reducing risk glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page sucuri.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name WAF (37); 8 name its categories the models place it in. 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.