Every category where a model named Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud 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	Since September 2026
Threat intelligence platforms	Security operations	12%	2 of 119	44%	54	criticized challenger	▲+3Since September 2026: 9% → 11%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · Threat intel · by segment

Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

4%from 2% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 21 → 9 of 114

Mid-market▲+3Since September 2026: 9% → 11%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

11%from 9% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 5 → 2 of 111

Enterprise▲+8Since September 2026: 61% → 69%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

69%from 61% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 3 pointsRank 1 of 78, unchanged

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
Threat intel	9%	11%	▲+3Since September 2026: 9% → 11%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 5 → 2 of 119

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	1	0	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	2	1	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	4	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	2	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	1	2	5
Mistral Small	2	0	1	1	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	4	6
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	1	1	4
Kimi K2	1	0	0	4	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	0	0	2	4
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	2	0	4
GPT-6 Luna	1	1	1	0	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	0	3	4

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

Direct37 labels18

Paraphrase31 labels13

Comparative37 labels22not counted in share

Budget-constrained21 labels9

Scale-constrained20 labels6

Negative29 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative175 labels in all, every segment counted; 46 of the 69 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.

“For Comprehensive Coverage: If you need to monitor everything from ransomware forums to geopolitical shifts without hiring more analysts, choose Recorded Future.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Threat intel · comparative prompt · first choice

“Best For: Enterprises needing comprehensive, real-time, and automated threat intelligence with broad integration capabilities.” Mistral Small · Threat intel · comparative prompt · first choice

“Recorded Future is the best all-around choice due to its balance of automation, integration, and actionable intelligence” Mistral Small · Threat intel · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Best for: Large enterprises needing massive-scale threat intelligence ... the data-volume benchmark in the industry” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Threat intel · comparative prompt · first choice

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.

“Verdict: Avoid if you have a limited budget or require high-volume, automated ingestion into many disparate tools without manual tuning.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Threat intel · negative prompt · hard negative

“one buyer guide flags "standard" TIPs like Recorded Future as something to avoid in some enterprise-fit comparisons” Perplexity Sonar · Threat intel · negative prompt · hard negative

“recommended to avoid if you have a limited budget or need high-volume, automated ingestion across many tools” Mistral Small · Threat intel · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid pure enterprise like Recorded Future initially—suited for larger teams due to cost.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Threat intel · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud, over the 175 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

ThreatConnect107 of 1756Compare →

Anomali ThreatStream97 of 1758Compare →

MISP78 of 17513Compare →

OpenCTI57 of 1756Not among the top eight

CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence53 of 1753Compare →

Mandiant Threat Intelligence52 of 1750Not among the top eight

Flashpoint Ignite41 of 1751Not among the top eight

Google Threat Intelligence40 of 1750Not among the top eight

AlienVault OTX33 of 17510Compare →

SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence27 of 17510Compare →

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 165 of the 175 answers that named Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

upguard.com77

analyticsinsight.net62

recordedfuture.comYour site55

underdefense.com52

esecurityplanet.com51

it-ai-index.com50

vectra.ai50

learn.g2.com47

cyware.com45

bitsight.com43

477 of the 532 domain citations in answers naming Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

upguard.com/blog/best-threat-intelligence-platforms-and-vendors70

esecurityplanet.com/products/threat-intelligence-platforms51

vectra.ai/topics/threat-intelligence-tools50

learn.g2.com/best-threat-intelligence-tools47

underdefense.com/blog/threat-detection-tools47

analyticsinsight.net/cybersecurity/10-best-threat-intelligence-platforms-in-202645

csoonline.com/article/3984720/threat-intelligence-platform-buyers-guide-how-to-pick-the-be39

cyble.com/knowledge-hub/top-best-threat-intelligence-platforms34

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

recordedfuture.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud takes 12% of first choices and MISP takes 12%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “threat intelligence platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “threat intelligence platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 210 a month (“recorded future intelligence cloud”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 50,278 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 5,343 · 432 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 12,248
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

48 ads · 40 text, 4 image, 4 video · 22 shown in the last 30 days

First shown May 2024, as Recorded Future, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 12 in the year, 36 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

12%

rank 2 of 119 in threat intel

Segment leader

12%

MISP

First choices: 46 across its categories
Named in: 175 answers
Its own site cited: in 165 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on recordedfuture.com

1,810

subdomains included

Content

1,257

counted in the table below

Documentation

348

Product · Integration

28 · 14

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Categories named
Blog	738	undated	SIEM, SOAR
Report or ebook	362	undated	TPRM
News or press	65	undated
Case study	61	undated	MDR
Glossary or explainer	14	undated	Threat intel
Conference or event	7	undated
Comparison	6	undated
Webinar or virtual event	2	undated
Template or tool	1	undated
Podcast or video	1	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page recordedfuture.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.

Names read as Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud; a claim can dispute any of them.

Recorded Future 51Recorded Future (Intel Graph) 1Recorded Future (Intelligence Cloud) 1Recorded Future (now Mastercard) 1

Follow Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: AI-driven defense for evolving threats
recordedfuture.com/platform
For: your organization
recordedfuture.com/platform
Free plan or trial: Take our free maturity assessment recordedfuture.com/platform
Customers named: Citizens Financial GroupCareFirstRivianHome DepotSiemens Energy
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: recordedfuture.com/platform, recordedfuture.com/why-recorded-future, recordedfuture.com/threat-intelligence, recordedfuture.com/building-successful-threat-intelligence-program-recorded-future, recordedfuture.com/products/cyber-operations. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

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 Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud'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 Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud is among the products AI models recommend first in Threat intelligence platforms this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Threat intelligence platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/threat-intelligence-platforms/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/recorded-future-intelligence-cloud--threat-intelligence-platforms-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Threat intelligence platforms, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Threat intelligence platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/threat-intelligence-platforms/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/recorded-future-intelligence-cloud--threat-intelligence-platforms-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Threat intelligence platforms, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Threat intelligence platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.