3 categories · RankedWireshark
Wireshark is a packet-level network analysis tool used for on-demand troubleshooting and forensics · wireshark.org ↗
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.
Sophos NDR is first at 16%.
Vectra AI Platform is first at 24%.
Vectra AI Platform is first at 24%.
Why models recommend it
“Budget-conscious: Start with Wireshark + ntopng combination”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Use Wireshark on a SPAN/mirror port, Nmap, or Angry IP Scanner for asset inventory and basic anomaly detection.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Keep Wireshark as your free troubleshooting companion for when you need to inspect individual packets.”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Stick to established community standards like Nmap, Wireshark, Angry IP Scanner”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Wireshark is not an automated, continuous monitoring system, but rather an essential deep-packet inspection tool”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · warning
“excellent for deep protocol inspection but is not a practical continuous monitoring platform by itself”Perplexity Sonar · Paraphrase question · warning
“too large for basic, manual monitoring (like just using Wireshark or simple ping scripts)”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Scale-constrained question · warning
“Requires expertise to use effectively, not ideal for continuous monitoring”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Wireshark, over the 42 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 9 | View → | |
| 14 | 4 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 13 | 2 | View → | |
| 9 | 3 | View → | |
| 8 | 2 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 2 | View → | |
| 5 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Wireshark's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- professionals worldwide
- Free plan or trial
- free and open source
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 28 of the 42 answers that named Wireshark and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ninety-six of the ninety-six domain citations in answers naming Wireshark 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 334 | undated | |||
| Blog | 86 | 0 | 2025-01-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 5 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2025-01-01Those arent packets blog
- 2024-08-01Whats new in wireshark 4 4 blog
- 2024-01-01From network packets to log data how logray built upon falcos foundation blog
- 2023-09-01The evolution of system introspection from bpf to wireshark to falco blog
- 2023-07-01Wireshark is 25 blog
- 2023-03-01Announcing the wireshark foundation blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page wireshark.org 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 October 5, 2026.