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Index › Vendors › CrowdSec · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

CrowdSec

6Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

2Categories

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. CrowdSec was named 2 times in DDoS and 1 other category, where Cloudflare led with 93%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market40 of 51

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In ddos · 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 CrowdSec 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
DDoS protection	Network and edge	0%	40 of 51	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 93%
Threat intelligence platforms	Security operations	0%	45 of 128	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by NordStellar at 13%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CrowdSec 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 CrowdSec across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
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	0	0
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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 label1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

“one of the more affordable options, especially for smaller businesses” Claude Haiku 4.5 · 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.

“self-hosting cannot protect you from massive volumetric attacks” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDoS · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CrowdSec, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrowdSec was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cisco Talos3 of 60Not in the top three

NordStellar2 of 62Not in the top three

MISP2 of 61Not in the top three

ThreatConnect2 of 61Not in the top three

AWS WAF2 of 60Not in the top three

GreyNoise2 of 60Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence2 of 60Not in the top three

Recorded Future2 of 60Not in the top three

Cloudflare1 of 61Not in the top three

Cloudflare WAF1 of 61Not 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 CrowdSec. 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 5 of the 6 answers that named CrowdSec and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

esecurityplanet.com3

stellarcyber.ai3

thectoclub.com3

b2breviews.com2

comparitech.com2

cyware.com2

expertinsights.com2

g2.com2

learn.g2.com2

shadowdragon.io2

Twenty-three of the twenty-three domain citations in answers naming CrowdSec came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

esecurityplanet.com/products/threat-intelligence-platforms3

stellarcyber.ai/learn/top-threat-intelligence-platforms3

thectoclub.com/tools/best-threat-intelligence-solutions3

b2breviews.com/threat-intelligence-platforms2

cyware.com/blog/top-threat-intelligence-platforms-and-solutions2

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

shadowdragon.io/resources/best-threat-intelligence-platforms2

sourceforge.net/software/threat-intelligence/for-small-business2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 crowdsec.net is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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