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Threat intelligence platforms · Ranked

VirusTotal

VirusTotal is a threat intelligence platform used for ad-hoc analysis and lookups · virustotal.com ↗

#4Best rank (small business)
12/14Models named it
4First choices
3Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inThreat intelligence platforms #4 small business
What AI models recommend

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.

Small business
Asked for a small B2B company
#4 of 126 named for small business
Share of first picks7%

MISP is first at 19%.

Mid-market
Asked for a mid-market B2B company
Thin evidence 5 labels, under the 10-label minimum, so not ranked
Share of first picks0%

MISP is first at 21%.

Enterprise
Asked for an enterprise B2B company
Thin evidence 1 label, under the 10-label minimum, so not ranked
Share of first picks0%

Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud is first at 62%.

Why models recommend it

“paired with free OSINT tools such as VirusTotal, AlienVault OTX, or AbuseIPDB”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Freemium | Budget-conscious teams needing basic threat intelligence”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Free tier has usage limits; best used as a supplementary tool”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative

What gives them pause

“Using VirusTotal's standard upload flow for confidential material... Don't upload proprietary files, customer data, or sensitive URLs unless you're authorized to share them.”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
“Mandiant and VirusTotal were folded into Google Threat Intelligence”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as VirusTotal, over the 29 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

ProductNamed togetherPicked instead
Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud
200View →
MISP
177View →
OpenCTI
115View →
ThreatConnect
110View →
AlienVault OTX
103View →
Amazon GuardDuty
100View →
CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence
90View →
Anomali ThreatStream
80View →
SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence
63View →
NordStellar
62View →

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

The sites and pages the answers that named VirusTotal came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 29 answers that named VirusTotal and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

spotsaas.com22
softwareadvice.com15
b2breviews.com13
comparitech.com7
cyble.com7
g2.com7
reddit.com7
gane.ai/indexpublisher (Gane)6
vectra.ai6
cotocus.com5

Eighty-nine of the ninety-five domain citations in answers naming VirusTotal came from a third party's page. Six 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

spotsaas.com/list/threat-intelligence-software/for-small-business22
softwareadvice.com/security/threat-intelligence-comparison/small-business14
b2breviews.com/threat-intelligence-platforms13
cyble.com/knowledge-hub/top-best-threat-intelligence-platforms7
comparitech.com/net-admin/best-threat-intelligence-platforms6
gane.ai/index/it/security/threat-intelligence-platforms/smb6
vectra.ai/topics/threat-intelligence-tools6
g2.com/categories/threat-intelligence/small-business5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on VirusTotal across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2001001
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.501001
GPT-6 Luna00011
Muse Glimmer 30B00011

What it publishes

Addresses on virustotal.com
459
subdomains included
Content
420
counted in the table below
Documentation
6
Product · Integration
0 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog41822026-08-11
Case study102025-10-21
Conference or event102025-09-05

Most recent

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page virustotal.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.