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Euna Solutions vs Falco

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Euna Solutions

Government

Budgeting, procurement, grants and payments software for the public sector, formerly GTY Technology

From
On request
Free plan
No
Full reviewWebsite
Falco logo

Falco

Cybersecurity

CNCF-graduated runtime threat detection for Linux and Kubernetes using eBPF

From
Free
Free plan
Yes
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Only Falco has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
  • Each has a real cost: Euna Solutions the suite is assembled from six or more separate acquisitions and integration between modules is still being completed, so a buyer purchasing two modules should ask precisely what data passes between them today rather than on the roadmap.; Falco falco detects and alerts but does not block; stopping an attack requires wiring up Falco Talon or your own response tooling, so out of the box a confirmed detection still means a human intervening after the fact.
  • They diverge on capability: Euna Solutions covers Euna Budget, Falco covers eBPF kernel instrumentation.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Euna Solutions and Falco actually diverge.

Attributes where Euna Solutions and Falco differ
AttributeEuna SolutionsFalco
Starting priceOn requestFree
Pricing modelquoteOpen source, no licence fee
Free tierNoYes
PlatformsWebLinux, Kubernetes, Self-hosted
CategoryGovernmentCybersecurity

Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Euna Solutions

  • Euna Budget
  • Euna Procurement
  • Euna Grants
  • Euna Payments
  • Euna Special Education
  • Transparency portals
  • Workflow automation

Only in Falco

  • eBPF kernel instrumentation
  • System call rules engine
  • Container and Kubernetes context
  • Default rule set
  • Falcosidekick
  • Falco Talon
  • Plugins framework
  • DaemonSet deployment

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Euna Solutions

  • A county administering federal grant funds that must produce subrecipient monitoring and reporting an auditor will acceptnot Falco
  • A city whose budget process runs on a chain of spreadsheets that nobody can reconcile before the council meetingnot Falco
  • A school district needing sealed electronic bidding with scored evaluation and an audit trailnot Falco
  • A jurisdiction wanting a public transparency portal for budget and spending without building onenot Falco

Falco

  • 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 runtimenot Euna Solutions
  • A regulated business required to evidence host and container intrusion detection on Kubernetes nodes for an auditnot Euna Solutions
  • A security team wanting a vendor-neutral detection layer whose rules they can read and modify rather than a black-box agentnot Euna Solutions
  • A cluster where a compromised dependency might write to sensitive paths or open unexpected outbound connections, and only kernel-level visibility will catch itnot Euna Solutions

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Euna Solutions

  • The suite is assembled from six or more separate acquisitions and integration between modules is still being completed, so a buyer purchasing two modules should ask precisely what data passes between them today rather than on the roadmap.
  • No pricing is published at any level and terms are typically multi-year, so budgeting the true cost requires obtaining peer jurisdiction contracts, which is possible but slow.
  • Individual modules face specialists with deeper functionality, so a jurisdiction buying only procurement or only budgeting may get less capability than from a single-product vendor at similar cost.
  • Ownership has changed twice in six years, from a SPAC to private equity, and further change is plausible, which creates roadmap uncertainty over the length of a typical multi-year public sector contract.
  • Grant management depth is oriented to United States federal and state programmes, which makes the product close to useless to public bodies outside that funding system.

Falco

  • Falco detects and alerts but does not block; stopping an attack requires wiring up Falco Talon or your own response tooling, so out of the box a confirmed detection still means a human intervening after the fact.
  • The default rule set is noisy in real clusters and generates a large volume of benign matches from normal operational activity; without weeks of tuning, alert fatigue sets in and the team stops reading the feed, which is the usual failure mode.
  • There is no storage, console, search or case management in the project, so a working detection capability means also running Falcosidekick, an event store, a dashboard and alert routing, all of which you build, host and maintain.
  • The modern eBPF driver requires kernel 5.8 or later; older hosts fall back to the legacy probe or the kernel module, which brings driver-building against kernel headers and the operational fragility that comes with it on every kernel upgrade.
  • Per-node syscall instrumentation carries measurable CPU overhead on busy hosts, and the cost scales with syscall volume rather than with cluster size, so the noisiest and most performance-sensitive workloads are exactly the ones that feel it most.

Pricing, plan by plan

Euna Solutions

On request
  • Euna Solutions$undefined/year
    • Modules licensed individually: Budget, Procurement, Grants, Payments
    • Priced by jurisdiction size, modules and users
    • Annual subscription with multi-year terms common

Falco

Free
  • Falco (open source)Free
    • Apache 2.0 licence, CNCF graduated project
    • eBPF and kernel module drivers
    • Full rules engine and default rule set

Which should you pick?

Choose Euna Solutions if

  • You need euna budget.
  • You also want euna procurement.
Euna Solutions review

Choose Falco if

  • You need ebpf kernel instrumentation.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Linux, Kubernetes, Self-hosted.
  • You also want system call rules engine.
Falco review

Questions people ask

Is Euna Solutions or Falco better?
Neither clearly leads. Euna Solutions starts at On request and Falco at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Euna Solutions or Falco?
Falco has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at On request for Euna Solutions and Free for Falco.
Does Euna Solutions or Falco run on more platforms?
Euna Solutions runs on Web. Falco runs on Linux, Kubernetes, Self-hosted.
Can I use Falco for free?
Yes. Falco has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Euna Solutions starts at On request.
What is Euna Solutions best used for?
Euna Solutions is most often used for a county administering federal grant funds that must produce subrecipient monitoring and reporting an auditor will accept, a city whose budget process runs on a chain of spreadsheets that nobody can reconcile before the council meeting, a school district needing sealed electronic bidding with scored evaluation and an audit trail, a jurisdiction wanting a public transparency portal for budget and spending without building one. Of those, a county administering federal grant funds that must produce subrecipient monitoring and reporting an auditor will accept and a city whose budget process runs on a chain of spreadsheets that nobody can reconcile before the council meeting are not what Falco is typically brought in for.
What can Euna Solutions do that Falco cannot?
Euna Solutions covers Euna Budget, Euna Procurement, Euna Grants, Euna Payments. Falco covers eBPF kernel instrumentation, System call rules engine, Container and Kubernetes context, Default rule set.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Euna Solutions: Is this the same company as GTY Technology?

Yes. GTY Technology rebranded to Euna Solutions in 2023. The individual products came from acquisitions including Bonfire, Questica, eCivis and CityBase.

Falco: Does Falco block attacks?

No. It detects and emits events. Response requires Falco Talon or your own automation on top.

Euna Solutions: Which product was Bonfire?

Bonfire is now Euna Procurement. Questica became Euna Budget and eCivis became Euna Grants. Ask which underlying codebase a demo is showing.

Falco: Is Falco owned by Sysdig?

Sysdig created and open sourced it, but it graduated within the CNCF in February 2024, so governance sits with the foundation rather than the vendor.

Euna Solutions: What does it cost?

Not published. Modules are quoted individually by jurisdiction size and users, usually on multi-year terms and often available through cooperative purchasing contracts.

Falco: What does it cost?

The project is Apache 2.0 with no licence fee. The cost is the storage, routing, tuning and staff time needed to make its output useful.

Euna Solutions: Do the modules actually share data?

Partially, and it varies by pair. Get the specific integration between the modules you are buying demonstrated on real data before signing.

Falco: What kernel version do I need?

Kernel 5.8 or later for the default modern eBPF driver. Older hosts need the legacy eBPF probe or the kernel module.

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