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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 19, 2025

Recorded Future and IntSights compete in the threat intelligence platform category. Recorded Future has the upper hand in pricing options, while IntSights is preferred for feature richness, justifying its higher cost.

Features: Recorded Future offers extensive data collection, integration capabilities, and industry-specific actionable intelligence. IntSights focuses on proactive threat hunting, external threat monitoring, and is ideal for organizations prioritizing external threat coverage.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Recorded Future provides a straightforward deployment with personalized customer support, facilitating quicker adaptation. IntSights offers seamless integration, supported by an intuitive setup that reduces implementation time. Both platforms provide strong customer service, but IntSights's streamlined integration is seen as more efficient for faster deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Recorded Future delivers competitive pricing with strong ROI, thanks to flexible subscription plans tailored to diverse organizational needs. IntSights requires a higher upfront setup cost but offers robust features justifying the investment for organizations focused on comprehensive threat intelligence. IntSights's larger initial investment leads to attractive long-term ROI for companies prioritizing detailed threat insights.

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Categories and Ranking

IntSights

Ranking in Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP)

36th

Ranking in Digital Risk Protection

13th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Recorded Future

Ranking in Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP)

2nd

Ranking in Digital Risk Protection

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) category, the mindshare of IntSights is 0.7%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Recorded Future is 12.6%, down from 19.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Recorded Future	12.6%
IntSights	0.7%
Other	86.7%

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Roy

Security Specialty at Personal

Great at showcasing vulnerabilities, excellent at providing alerts, and offers very good technical support

You need to know how to work with your assets and put the right items in place. The solution still has false positives, The solution is pretty expensive :O) We did have a few bugs in the beginning, when we first used the solution. However, those have since been resolved. I would like it if there was more visibility and insights about what's going on with ransomware all over the internet. IntSights is not 100% following the critical ransomware and the critical items over the internet. However, everyone is afraid to get hit by ransomware. They are not there yet in terms of really covering that style of attack. I'd like to see more from them.

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Dr. Merrick Watchorn

Chief Executive Officer at The Watchorn Innovation Group, Inc. (TWIGI)

Traceless online searches, stable, and scalable

There is a semantic oncology dynamic relationship between how the MIGR Tech framework needs more data infusion enrichment capabilities. To be clear, what the vendor is doing is of a high standard, and my only critique is that they need to make new enhancements. I am aware that the vendor is making a concerted effort to add additional information to their repository, and it is something they actively do. The vendor has publicly stated that they will work on this, and I always pay attention to make sure they adhere to that. This does not change over time. The export feature of the recording needs to stop being so restricted. When they record in order to save themselves by operations, I would expect that as a super user, if I asked to download the dataset I'm looking for, I would not be limited in my data downloads. One of the cool things is, let's say we do our entire research and we want to save all of the materials that were returned, and that special custom search that we made, we can export that into a CSV file. The problem is it gets restricted. So sometimes when I say it's restricted, we don't get all the data that we saw online. So then we have to go and manually search for the specific thing we're looking for. I would like to have the URI and whatever value set that I search off, and for the NLP package to not be stripped out. It's like saying I want to do a Pcap analysis. Don't strip out the Pcap when I asked to see Pcap. That's what they're doing. They do this for many different reasons. One of them is, imagine if everyone downloaded datasets that are very large and it brings the whole system down.

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Pros

"It's great at alerting users to attempts at phishing and suspicious domains."

"Has the ability to conduct and build any query without limitations."

"The intel that they were providing us over the emails was very good. If it found any hashtag in our organization's name on the dark web, a rogue IP, or a marketplace, it would send us an email and notify us that this is being mentioned, and if we want, they can take some action."

"The tool can integrate with a lot of security control and proactive protection devices."

"The most valuable features of Recorded Future are the useful alerts it provides. If we are monitoring a domain, the solution will provide us with an alert in a prompt manner. It is simple for clients to receive alerts. The advanced search is useful for more accurate filter results."

"It can collect data from various sources, including social media and the dark web."

"The most valuable feature of Recorded Future is how it detects everything regarding our domain."

"Recorded Future has some important strengths. It has a long history of success in the market and is known for excellent threat intelligence. Its team is skilled at using AI to search for and report on threats. For many years, it was seen as the best in the industry."

"As a threat intelligence tool, it's very helpful."

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Cons

"The solution still has a lot of false positives."

"The solution could improve in reducing the false positives. However, most of the other tools on the market have false positives. If they enhance their data algorithm, it could improve the accuracy of results and minimize false positives. Identifying patterns of false possibilities can aid in developing better reporting features that could potentially eliminate them in the future. This recording feature tool could benefit from adopting similar techniques utilized by other tools to enhance its functionality. By doing so, it could minimize the need for manual efforts in distinguishing true positives from false positives, ultimately reducing the workload."

"The solution would benefit from introducing automation."

"The product gives many false positives. If someone talks about the brand or organization name in the public domain over chats or blocks, it gets highlighted. It may not necessarily be a threat but still gets highlighted which increases the false positive count."

"It sometimes detects false positives and reduces the overall accuracy of the system."

"At present, my clients need to be trained by me or another organization on how to use Recorded Future and how to get the best out of it as an analyst, engineer, and administrator. It would be better if clients could directly learn these things without having to go through me or other organizations."

"While I don't think the tool is weak, its position isn't as dominant as it once was. Other companies like CrowdStrike and Mandiant are now challenging them in many areas. One downside is that Recorded Future can be complex for customers to use and understand. This isn't easy for clients to navigate."

"We can get the data of different malware active throughout the globe, but it would be good if we can do sandboxing of a file. For example, on Any Run, we can perform sandboxing of malware along with their intel about a particular file or hash. It would be great if they have a feature like that."

"When you add one website to Recorded Future, it should automatically call all other websites and social media platforms."

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"There appear to be up to five different levels, with the most expensive version costing around $95,000 to $105,000 a year for subscription services."

"The price of the solution is worth it. The overall performance of the solution outweighs the cost."

"The biggest disadvantage of Recorded Future is the cost here in Eastern Europe. The solution is correctly priced for big companies who have the money to invest in such solutions. Also, the solution is useless on its own, which means that you have to invest in other solutions with which Recorded Future can be integrated. At present, Recorded Future can cost 60,000 euros per year. I am able to offer my clients a 5% to 10% discount, but in this region, the cost is still prohibitive even with the discount. If Recorded Future were more flexible in terms of price, there would be better sales opportunities in Europe and Eastern Europe, in particular, because we have more small- and medium-sized companies here."

"I would rate the solution’s pricing a seven out of ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

20%

Educational Organization

12%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	9

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What do you like most about Recorded Future?

The most valuable feature of Recorded Future is how it detects everything regarding our domain.

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I am not the person responsible for purchases, but it's known that Recorded Future is expensive, with a personal rating of eight for cost.

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What needs improvement with Recorded Future?

Their research capabilities and the human aspect should be more effective. The Insikt Group covers a narrow range of areas, which doesn't reflect my needs. Their research should be wider and more i...

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Overview

IntSights is the only all-in-one external threat intelligence and protection platform, purpose-built to neutralize threats outside the wire. With the IntSights solution suite, cybersecurity teams worldwide are equipped with the tools they need to detect, assess, and mitigate threats externally from the source, well-before before they reach the perimeter.

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Recorded Future is a powerful and effective cyber threat intelligence (CTI) platform that aims to empower administrators to protect their organizations from threats, both known and unknown. The machine learning engine that Recorded Future utilizes can process the same amount of data that 9,000 analysts working five days a week, eight hours a day for an entire year can process. It simplifies threat detection and remediation so that organizations can focus on other tasks.

Recorded Future Benefits

Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by choosing to deploy Recorded Future include:

Quick threat identification and resolution. The suite of threat detection and resolution features that Recorded Future provides enables users to find and react to threats faster than users who employ their competitors. Organizations can identify 22 times more threats 10 times faster than they would have been able to with any other solution. They can also resolve these threats 63% faster than they were able to before.

Access far-reaching deep insights. Recorded Future gives users the ability to expand their vision beyond that which is immediately visible to them. They can set Recorded Future to detect issues that originate outside of the immediate vicinity of their network. Organizations can utilize machine learning to analyze for links between themselves and the dark web. This provides users insights as to what their vulnerabilities are and gives them insights that they can use to remediate any issues that have arisen or will arise.

Customization. Organizations can integrate Recorded Future with a wide variety of other security tools. If the organization feels that Recorded Future is lacking the capability that they need, then it can expand its toolbox by combining it with other solutions. Additionally, users can easily create dashboards and modify them to best meet their objectives as their needs change.

Recorded Future Features

Some of the many features Recorded Future offers include:

Vulnerability scanning tools. Recorded Future is built with the ability to scan for, identify, and score potential vulnerabilities in real time. It searches a wide variety of sources for information on the risks that an organization faces. This information is analyzed and scored for severity in real time. These tools enable users to prioritize the most severe threats over those issues that will only be nuisances.

Threat authentication. Users can set security protocols that Recorded Future leverages to reduce false positives. It has tools that compare the detected threats against the organization’s protocols. This allows the system to notify administrators whether they are looking at an actual threat or simply a mistake that the system initially misidentified.

Attack surface intelligence. Organizations gain the ability to see the points of vulnerability that would normally be invisible to them and would only be visible to outside attackers. This tool fully exposes the environment that surrounds their network. Everything from historical data going as far back as 10 years to real-time information is gathered so that administrators can create the best possible security strategy for their organization.

Reviews from Real Users

Recorded future is a solution that stands out when compared to its top competitors. Two major advantages it offers are the threat research tools that it provides and the threat monitoring capabilities that it enables users to leverage.

A security operations lead at a comms service provider writes, “Recorded Future covers a lot of different use cases. For example, we are using it for threat intelligence research. We do use the tool to make active research on what is found around the threat. We look at patterns, for example, and see what can be elaborated on from that.”

They also write, “We can also use it for active monitoring in the customer interface. We can monitor the business side of a campaign. We can monitor for specific threats or market activity on the dashboard. We can develop queries to run in a continuous mode in order to get the best reviews.”

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