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Gophish vs TheHive comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Gophish
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
TheHive
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
38th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of Gophish is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TheHive is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Gophish0.2%
TheHive0.2%
Other99.6%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

JC
Administrador de sistemas informaticos en red at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Phishing awareness campaigns have improved training impact but still need smarter automation
I think Gophish could be improved with more automation, for instance. It is great that you can create templates, schedule them, and do everything you want in Gophish, but it would be nice to have a small integrated AI model with which you could create email templates and phishing templates. It would be nice if Gophish implemented artificial intelligence. I wish Gophish could provide more support and be more advanced and that they continue developing it because it seems that Gophish does not get many updates, and I think they need to implement more features. It is great because it is free, but it needs more features. It would be cool if there was an artificial intelligence model that could create phishing campaigns or templates or email templates for you integrated within Gophish. I would rate it a seven. It is quite good and free software, but it needs more substance. It also depends on the number of clients a company has; it may be necessary to launch Gophish in a staggered way, which I also think is a drawback Gophish has. The issue is that if there are many people being targeted, for example, 5,000 employees in a company and you send 5,000, it may be that sending so many messages gets blocked by the security systems companies have. I think that Gophish could also improve the message sending flows. I gave it a seven because there are things to improve and it is not perfect. As I said before, it would be nice if templates could be created with AI, integrated into Gophish using an API with Gemini or ChatGPT or whichever, but the point is that it would be nice if the sending flows at large scale were better managed. When you send a phishing campaign to 5,000 people, you have to send it in sections in a staggered way, for example: to these 5,000 people it is going to be sent between eight in the morning and four in the afternoon. If you send them all at once, the phishing may get blocked and then the campaign has no effect. I would like it if Gophish implemented more improvements because they are needed, as it is kind of a bit stagnant. I hope that in the future they add more improvements including creating personalized templates with artificial intelligence and improving the message sending flows.
Karsh Trivedi - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at Payatu
Automation has transformed incident response and case management has boosted daily productivity
TheHive is actually quite beautiful and very optimized. If I had to improve anything, I would say that it could improve costing. TheHive is pretty expensive right now. With a low number of users, it works for how the business runs, but I feel that it is pretty expensive when you want to go for the commercial versions, which is where people might not want to go with it. Cost is the only downside, but it is the major downside. I would like to share an incident with you about a recent meeting I had with a client regarding TheHive. The only trigger that they had not to go with TheHive was the cost. Everything looked very good and was very fine, but the costing part was hard. The costing part was something that made them hold off on TheHive and choose a different solution. Over the years, TheHive has improved significantly in how the platform is used and how cases are managed. One good feature that I appreciated when I moved from TheHive 4 to TheHive 5 was the dark mode. When Strange Bee did the rebranding and made it a closed-source product, they added the dark mode feature, which I need because I am not good with light screens. TheHive was the only tool having only white mode capabilities. Once they added it, they have improved a lot. Many connectors are added, and many more integrations are possible now with TheHive. Basically, the appearance, performance, and integrations have improved a lot over the years.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Gophish has positively impacted my organization by helping my team reach our goals."
"Gophish has had a positive impact on my organization, as I noticed that since I used Gophish for the benefit of several clients, the maturity level of my clients was increasing."
"Gophish, despite being a free tool, fits very well because it has all the features we need, from creating landing pages and creating the email to tracking the click traffic and the ingestion of information."
"Gophish has positively impacted my organization by increasing awareness among my employees."
"Regarding my use of Gophish in this academic context, I found it extremely easy to use; you do not need to be a technical person with special skills to be able to handle it."
"Using Gophish has helped me reduce my efforts and make more requests, allowing me to conduct many more phishing attacks in a shorter period."
"Gophish is stable and very reliable, and it has never let us down."
"Gophish has positively impacted my organization by making it very easy to set up and start phishing campaigns."
"TheHive has positively impacted my organization because before that, we did not have a good solution to register the tickets."
"The people at TheHive have made it very customizable, flexible, and very security-centric, as they understand what a particular incident responder or security team needs and provide it quite well."
"TheHive has positively impacted our organization because it is a free solution."
 

Cons

"Although the tool is very good, I think there could be some improvements, especially when it comes to leveraging AI for testing and also when it comes to the expansion beyond email phishing."
"I would rate it a seven. It is quite good and free software, but it needs more substance."
"I think Gophish could be improved with a user-level function, meaning if the person is strong or weak, we send more or fewer awareness emails, and rely on real attacks in order to be able to create a template by itself."
"I believe Gophish can be improved by adding new features based on attack types in the future, particularly for new zero-day attacks, and incorporating AI-based tools to enhance analyzing and automation."
"Currently, we do not think Gophish requires much improvement other than a better graphical user interface."
"The feature of actually taking the website's source code might be something which is not so ethical, because you're copying from the main website even though you're learning."
"I do not really have any improvements in mind at the moment, but offering ready-made templates that we could use or examples of emails that we could directly use would be beneficial."
"I believe that Gophish can be improved by increasing the number of possible integrations."
"I would rate it a seven because I think the design could be better in TheHive."
"TheHive can be improved because if you want to use it in a small or medium company, it will be really good, but for a really huge company like mine was, I believe that at least on the free version, you will have big issues regarding performance because the solution is not built for a huge company like mine was."
"Cost is the only downside, but it is the major downside."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
25%
Manufacturing Company
11%
University
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
28%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Media Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise9
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Gophish?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing shows that the setup cost is not very high; Gophish is completely free, as it is an open-source tool.
What needs improvement with Gophish?
I believe Gophish can be improved in a few areas. First, the user interface could be made more modern and beginner-friendly. The current setup is simple, but for a new user, campaign creation, land...
What is your primary use case for Gophish?
My main use case for Gophish is to run a phishing awareness campaign inside an organization in a safe and controlled way. For example, instead of waiting for a real attacker to send a fake email to...
What needs improvement with TheHive?
I would rate it a seven because I think the design could be better in TheHive. The graphics need improvement. When I used TheHive, the platform did not have AI governance and security options yet, ...
What is your primary use case for TheHive?
My main use case for TheHive is to work in our incident response team, where we manage the incident response process inside TheHive and alerts as well. A specific example of how TheHive fits into m...
What advice do you have for others considering TheHive?
I rate TheHive an eight on a scale of one to ten. I choose the number eight because it is a really good solution if you know how to configure it and if you know how to measure the infrastructure ne...
 

Overview

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