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Alternatives to Silent Eight
22 cybersecurity tools sit alongside Silent Eight in this directory. Below is what separates each from Silent Eight on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 22
- With a free tier
- 1
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Silent Eight starts at
- On request
Why people look past Silent Eight
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Silent Eight entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Silent Eight carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 1 of the 22 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Silent Eight publishes a single plan, Iris at On request. 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.
Financial crime, risk and compliance suite for regulated institutions
Priced and rated the same as Silent Eight on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Entity resolution and network analytics for financial crime investigation
Priced and rated the same as Silent Eight on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Free TOTP two-factor authentication app that gained optional cloud sync in 2023
- Can be used without paying; Silent Eight cannot.
- Sold on a Free, no in-app purchases model rather than quote.
Real-time transaction fraud and financial crime detection for banks and payment processors
Priced and rated the same as Silent Eight on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Workforce and customer authentication from a certificate authority
- Publishes an entry price of $2/month, where Silent Eight does not.
- Sold on a Per user per month model rather than quote.
- 2 tiers to Silent Eight's 1.
Adaptive behavioural analytics for payment fraud and financial crime
Priced and rated the same as Silent Eight on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Every Silent Eight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silent Eight (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| NICE ActimizeNICE Actimize if you need the detection layer itself rather than automation of its output | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| QuantexaQuantexa where the requirement is investigative context on complex alerts rather than volume disposition | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| Google Authenticator | Free | Free, no in-app purchases | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| Feedzai | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| Entrust Identity as a Service | $2/month | Per user per month | 2 | vs Silent Eight |
| Featurespace ARIC Risk Hub | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| Dahua Technology | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| Genetec Security Center | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| Envysion | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| IDnow | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| Delinea | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Silent Eight |
| DTiQ | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| Hanwha Vision | On request | One-time purchase | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| BeyondTrust | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| HID Global | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| Fenergo | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| iDenfy | On request | Per verification | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| March Networks | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| Jumio | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| Eagle Eye Networks | On request | Per camera per month | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
| Camio | $4.99/month | Per camera per month | 2 | vs Silent Eight |
| Beyond Identity | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Silent Eight |
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 Silent Eight badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (1)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Google Authenticator , Free
What you would be giving up
Silent Eight is most often brought in for a bank whose level one screening team spends most of its time closing obvious false name matches, a payments institution with alert volumes growing faster than it can recruit and train analysts, a compliance function asked by a regulator to demonstrate consistency of alert decisions across offshore teams, an institution that has just tightened screening thresholds after an enforcement action and cannot staff the resulting alert increase. 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 Silent Eight is broadly right and the question is cost, the Silent Eight 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.
Silent Eight runs on web, linux. 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 Silent Eight alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Silent Eight?
- 22 other cybersecurity tools are listed in this directory, led by NICE Actimize, Quantexa, Google Authenticator, Feedzai. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Silent Eight?
- 1 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Google Authenticator.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Silent Eight?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Silent Eight?
- Silent Eight is most often brought in for a bank whose level one screening team spends most of its time closing obvious false name matches, a payments institution with alert volumes growing faster than it can recruit and train analysts, a compliance function asked by a regulator to demonstrate consistency of alert decisions across offshore teams, an institution that has just tightened screening thresholds after an enforcement action and cannot staff the resulting alert increase. 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 Silent Eight?
- 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 Silent Eight 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 Silent Eight against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Silent Eight 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, 22 tools beside Silent Eight. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.