# CrowdStrike Falcon alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 408 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where CrowdStrike Falcon holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/crowdstrike-falcon/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud: 64
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud: 43
- MISP: 22
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: 21
- Bitdefender GravityZone: 13
- SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence: 13

## Endpoint protection

**Small business**: 79 of 84 answers did not name CrowdStrike Falcon (CrowdStrike Falcon is #12 of 12 at 0%).

- Microsoft Defender for Cloud: first choice in 35 of those 79
- Huntress Managed EDR: first choice in 12 of those 79
- Bitdefender GravityZone: first choice in 6 of those 79
- Bitdefender GravityZone Small Business Security: first choice in 5 of those 79
- Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security: first choice in 4 of those 79
- Sophos Intercept X: first choice in 4 of those 79
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: first choice in 2 of those 79
- SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint: first choice in 2 of those 79

**Mid-market**: 56 of 84 answers did not name CrowdStrike Falcon (CrowdStrike Falcon is #4 of 11 at 12%).

- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: first choice in 9 of those 56
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud: first choice in 8 of those 56
- Bitdefender GravityZone: first choice in 6 of those 56
- CrowdStrike: first choice in 3 of those 56
- ESET PROTECT: first choice in 3 of those 56
- SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint: first choice in 3 of those 56
- Sophos Intercept X: first choice in 3 of those 56
- Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security: first choice in 1 of those 56

**Enterprise**: 36 of 84 answers did not name CrowdStrike Falcon (CrowdStrike Falcon is #2 of 9 at 35%).

- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: first choice in 10 of those 36
- Microsoft Defender: first choice in 3 of those 36
- CrowdStrike: first choice in 2 of those 36
- SentinelOne Singularity: first choice in 2 of those 36
- Bitdefender GravityZone: first choice in 1 of those 36

## Threat intelligence platforms

**Small business**: 76 of 84 answers did not name CrowdStrike Falcon (CrowdStrike Falcon is #6 of 14 at 4%).

- MISP: first choice in 15 of those 76
- NordStellar: first choice in 9 of those 76
- AlienVault OTX: first choice in 8 of those 76
- SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence: first choice in 6 of those 76
- OpenCTI: first choice in 5 of those 76
- Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud: first choice in 4 of those 76
- CrowdSec: first choice in 3 of those 76
- GreyNoise: first choice in 3 of those 76

**Mid-market**: 79 of 84 answers did not name CrowdStrike Falcon (CrowdStrike Falcon is #13 of 14 at 0%).

- Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud: first choice in 16 of those 79
- MISP: first choice in 7 of those 79
- SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence: first choice in 7 of those 79
- Anomali ThreatStream: first choice in 6 of those 79
- ThreatConnect: first choice in 6 of those 79
- AlienVault OTX: first choice in 3 of those 79
- Cyble Vision: first choice in 3 of those 79
- CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence: first choice in 2 of those 79

**Enterprise**: 82 of 84 answers did not name CrowdStrike Falcon.

- Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud: first choice in 44 of those 82
- Anomali ThreatStream: first choice in 3 of those 82
- ThreatConnect: first choice in 3 of those 82
- CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence: first choice in 2 of those 82
- Cyble Vision: first choice in 1 of those 82
- Dataminr + ThreatConnect: first choice in 1 of those 82
- Flare: first choice in 1 of those 82
- IBM X-Force Exchange: first choice in 1 of those 82

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