Best Cybersecurity AI tools

13 cybersecurity tools, ranked by our score. Our top pick is Darktrace, followed by Wiz and CrowdStrike Charlotte. If you want to start without paying, look at Snyk, Socket. Every score is our own judgement of how well a tool does the job, and you can read how we score on the blog.

1. Darktrace: Self-learning AI that detects and responds to cyber threats across your network. Paid. Solthar Score 87/100.
2. Wiz: Cloud security that shows the actual attack path rather than ten thousand alerts. Paid. Solthar Score 87/100.
3. CrowdStrike Charlotte: Security analyst copilot across endpoint telemetry. Paid. Solthar Score 84/100.
4. Abnormal Security: Catches business email compromise by modelling how your staff normally write. Paid. Solthar Score 83/100.
5. Snyk: Finds and fixes vulnerabilities in code and dependencies. Freemium. Solthar Score 83/100.
6. Microsoft Security Copilot: Incident investigation assistant across Microsoft security tools. Paid. Solthar Score 82/100.
7. Orca Security: Agentless cloud security covering workloads, data and identity in one pass. Paid. Solthar Score 82/100.
8. SentinelOne Purple: Endpoint protection with a natural-language threat hunting console. Paid. Solthar Score 82/100.
9. Vectra AI: Detects attacker behaviour inside the network rather than matching signatures. Paid. Solthar Score 81/100.
10. Cyera: Finds sensitive data across your cloud and tells you who can reach it. Paid. Solthar Score 80/100.
11. Socket: Catches malicious dependencies before they reach your build. Freemium. Solthar Score 80/100.
12. Torq: Security automation that runs the response playbook without a human copying values. Paid. Solthar Score 79/100.
13. Dropzone AI: An AI analyst that triages SOC alerts so humans see only what matters. Paid. Solthar Score 78/100.

Head-to-head comparisons

• Darktrace vs Wiz
• Darktrace vs Orca Security
• Orca Security vs Wiz