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Alternatives to Falco
23 cybersecurity tools sit alongside Falco in this directory. Below is what separates each from Falco on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 23
- With a free tier
- 2
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Falco starts at
- Free
Why people look past Falco
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Falco entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is only one tier
Falco publishes a single plan, Falco (open source) at Free. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Cloud-native runtime security platform with real-time detection and response
- No free tier, where Falco has one.
- Sold on a Custom pricing based on number of hosts, events processed, or time series data model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
Cloud and AI security platform unifying code, cloud, and runtime protection.
- No free tier, where Falco has one.
- Sold on a quote model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
Developer-first security platform
- Publishes an entry price of $25/month, where Falco does not.
- Sold on a freemium model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
- 4 tiers to Falco's 1.
Free TOTP two-factor authentication app that gained optional cloud sync in 2023
- Sold on a Free, no in-app purchases model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
Real-time transaction fraud and financial crime detection for banks and payment processors
- No free tier, where Falco has one.
- Sold on a quote model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
Workforce and customer authentication from a certificate authority
- No free tier, where Falco has one.
- Publishes an entry price of $2/month, where Falco does not.
- Sold on a Per user per month model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
- 2 tiers to Falco's 1.
Every Falco alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falco (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | |
| SysdigIf you want the commercial platform from Falco’s creators, with storage, console, triage and response included rather than assembled | On request | Custom pricing based on number of hosts, events processed, or time series data | - | vs Falco |
| WizIf your priority is agentless cloud posture and risk prioritisation across accounts rather than per-node kernel detection | On request | Quote | - | vs Falco |
| SnykIf the risk you are actually managing is vulnerable dependencies and images before deployment rather than behaviour at runtime | Free, then $25/month | Freemium | 4 | vs Falco |
| Google Authenticator | Free | Free, no in-app purchases | 1 | vs Falco |
| Feedzai | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Falco |
| Entrust Identity as a Service | $2/month | Per user per month | 2 | vs Falco |
| Featurespace ARIC Risk Hub | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Falco |
| Dahua Technology | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Falco |
| Genetec Security Center | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Falco |
| Envysion | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Falco |
| IDnow | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Falco |
| Delinea | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Falco |
| DTiQ | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Falco |
| Hanwha Vision | On request | One-time purchase | 1 | vs Falco |
| BeyondTrust | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Falco |
| HID Global | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Falco |
| Fenergo | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Falco |
| iDenfy | On request | Per verification | 1 | vs Falco |
| March Networks | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Falco |
| Jumio | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Falco |
| Eagle Eye Networks | On request | Per camera per month | 1 | vs Falco |
| Camio | $4.99/month | Per camera per month | 2 | vs Falco |
| Beyond Identity | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Falco |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Falco badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (2)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Snyk , Free, then $25/month
- Google Authenticator , Free
What you would be giving up
Falco is most often brought in for a platform team that needs to know when a shell is opened inside a production container, which image scanning cannot detect because it happens at runtime, a regulated business required to evidence host and container intrusion detection on kubernetes nodes for an audit, a security team wanting a vendor-neutral detection layer whose rules they can read and modify rather than a black-box agent, a cluster where a compromised dependency might write to sensitive paths or open unexpected outbound connections, and only kernel-level visibility will catch it. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Falco is broadly right and the question is cost, the Falco pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Cybersecurity category lists everything the directory holds, and best cybersecurity tools ranks them.
Falco runs on linux, kubernetes, self-hosted. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Falco alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Falco?
- 23 other cybersecurity tools are listed in this directory, led by Sysdig, Wiz, Snyk, Google Authenticator. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Falco?
- 2 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Snyk, Google Authenticator.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Falco?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Falco?
- Falco is most often brought in for a platform team that needs to know when a shell is opened inside a production container, which image scanning cannot detect because it happens at runtime, a regulated business required to evidence host and container intrusion detection on kubernetes nodes for an audit, a security team wanting a vendor-neutral detection layer whose rules they can read and modify rather than a black-box agent, a cluster where a compromised dependency might write to sensitive paths or open unexpected outbound connections, and only kernel-level visibility will catch it. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Falco?
- None of the cybersecurity tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Falco alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Cybersecurity, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Falco against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Falco covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every cybersecurity tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Cybersecurity category, 23 tools beside Falco. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.