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Index › Vendors › AlienVault Open Threat Exchange · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

AlienVault Open Threat Exchange

5Judge labels

2First choices

1Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. AlienVault Open Threat Exchange was named 2 times in Threat intel, where NordStellar led with 13%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business15 of 122

under the label threshold

Mid-market17 of 128

under the label threshold

Enterprise96 of 105

under the label threshold

In threat intel · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named AlienVault Open Threat Exchange for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Threat intelligence platforms	Security operations	2%	17 of 128	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by NordStellar at 13%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for AlienVault Open Threat Exchange yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated AlienVault Open Threat Exchange across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labels2

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“I'd recommend starting with AlienVault Open Threat Exchange (OTX) as your primary threat intelligence feed” Grok 4.1 Fast · Threat intel · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“AlienVault OTX for broad, community-driven IoC feeds” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Threat intel · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as AlienVault Open Threat Exchange, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AlienVault Open Threat Exchange was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

MISP5 of 52Not in the top three

Recorded Future3 of 50Not in the top three

Abuse.ch2 of 50Not in the top three

ThreatConnect2 of 50Not in the top three

Maltiverse1 of 51Not in the top three

AbuseIPDB1 of 50Not in the top three

CISA AIS1 of 50Not in the top three

CISA Cyber Hygiene Services1 of 50Not in the top three

CISA KEV1 of 50Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon Go1 of 50Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named AlienVault Open Threat Exchange. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 4 of the 5 answers that named AlienVault Open Threat Exchange and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

github.com4

b2breviews.com3

cyware.com3

defend.network3

3university.io2

analyticsinsight.net2

brocent.com2

comparitech.com2

esecurityplanet.com2

g2.com2

Twenty-five of the twenty-five domain citations in answers naming AlienVault Open Threat Exchange came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

b2breviews.com/threat-intelligence-platforms3

defend.network/compare/threat-intelligence-tools.html3

github.com/hslatman/awesome-threat-intelligence3

3university.io/learn/threat-intelligence-tools2

brocent.com/pricing/nordstellar2

comparitech.com/net-admin/best-threat-intelligence-feeds2

learn.g2.com/best-threat-intelligence-tools2

malware.news/t/top-10-best-free-cyber-threat-intelligence-sources-and-tools-in-2025/913342

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as AlienVault Open Threat Exchange

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as AlienVault Open Threat Exchange; a claim can dispute any of them.

AlienVault Open Threat Exchange (OTX) 2

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when AlienVault Open Threat Exchange's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as AlienVault Open Threat Exchange, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at alienvault.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.