--- title: CrowdSec Reviews meta\_title: 'CrowdSec Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 88 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how CrowdSec works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.7 review\_count: 88 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Network Security url: https://www.g2.com/categories/network-security --- # CrowdSec Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by CrowdSec but has limited features. Are you part of the CrowdSec team? [Upgrade your plan](https://my.g2.com/crowdsec/upgrade?utm_campaign=s3&utm_medium=claim-popup&utm_source=g2) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! CrowdSec is an open-source security stack that detects aggressive behaviors and prevents them from accessing your systems. Its user-friendly design and ease of integration into your current security infrastructure offer a low technical entry barrier and a high-security gain. Once an unwanted behavior is detected, it is automatically blocked. The aggressive IP, scenario triggered and the timestamp is sent for curation, to avoid poisoning & false positives. If verified, this IP is then redistributed to all CrowdSec users running the same scenario. By sharing the threat they faced, all users are protecting each other. * * * Seller [CrowdSec](https://www.g2.com/sellers/crowdsec) Discussions [CrowdSec Community](https://www.g2.com/products/crowdsec/discuss) Languages Supported English, French Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Jean Devaux Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement \<1 month ### Return on Investment 7 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/crowdsec/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection Platform") CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection Platform 4.6/5(441) ](https://www.g2.com/products/crowdstrike-falcon-endpoint-protection-platform/reviews) [ ![Netgate pfSense](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Netgate pfSense") Netgate pfSense 4.7/5(326) ](https://www.g2.com/products/netgate-pfsense/reviews) [ ![Sophos Endpoint](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sophos Endpoint") Sophos Endpoint 4.7/5(837) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sophos-endpoint/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/crowdsec/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 88 real user reviews. Implementation Time \<1 month Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Pramod s.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Pramod s.") PS Pramod s. Cyber Security Expert Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/5/2026 "Crowdsec best endpoint in SMB" 5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? CrowdSec stands out for its community-driven threat intelligence and its collaborative approach to security. It automatically detects malicious activity, such as brute-force attacks, and shares anonymized threat data with the global CrowdSec network so organizations can benefit from a stronger, collective defense. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? The effectiveness of certain protections also depends on the quality and volume of community-contributed threat intelligence. In addition, organizations that need robust enterprise reporting, compliance features, or more advanced centralized management may find that some capabilities are not yet as mature as those provided by larger commercial security platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? This solution has reduced security incidents, eased the workload on our IT team, improved server and application availability, and strengthened our overall security posture—all without requiring significant additional investment in security infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile RB Rei B. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/7/2023 "It's a real life-saver in terms of hosting stuff" 5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? What I love about it is it's open source nature. By parsing logs you can block bad actors just like you would with fail2ban - but with grok patterns which are way easier to write and implement. New parsers are easily constructed and it's really easy to keep a ton of bad traffic out of your network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? A bad thing about it is that you'd have to get a premium subscription in case you want more 'signals' than you share. Mostly ssh and http scenarios do although cover most of your bases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? Crowdsec itself saves me a lot of CPU load by keeping nasty IP addresses at bay. I had a 15% load decrease on the hypervisor which may not sound like much. In my case it was around the CPU power that a complete Linux VM would need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Samuel L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Samuel L.") SL Samuel L. Senior Solutions Consultant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/13/2023 "Fantastic software with affordable options including free. Extremely extensive library of modules." 4.5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? It's free and given I have two start ups in pre-seed round that is a god send. It is fantastic software that I use on all my servers. From basic ssh bouncers to more complex strategies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? The UI is really nice, but things can get a bit hairy when you start deploying more complicated bouncers. It's no longer a click and deploy experience and many bouncers I use are community submitted so documentation is hit or miss. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? It is serving as a augmentation to the base firewall and also as an IDS system for all my servers. It is easy to use that dashboard to quickly get a glance at all my nodes and their security status. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![Verified User in Computer & Network Security](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer & Network Security") AC Verified User in Computer & Network Security Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/6/2023 "Simple, yet powerful tool." 5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? Ease of use: One of the things that CrowdSec does great is its simplicity. Within a few minutes, I can install CrowdSec, configure it and install a bouncer to protect my servers against cyber attacks. Flexibility: CrowdSec is highly flexible in how it can remediate attacks. Many solutions will respond to an attack with a hard firewall block, while firewall blocks are an effective measure, it's false positive prone. CrowdSec allows you to apply the least restrictive remediation against an attack or go as aggressive as you like. Crowdsourced Threat Intelligence: Cyber attacks are getting increasingly sophisticated, easy to carry out and widespread, traditional methods of detecting malicious IP addresses are no longer effective. CrowdSec's solution to this is a collaboration with everybody from hobbyists and small businesses to large-scale enterprises like Google, Microsoft and Netflix. When everybody bands together, we can better understand the threat landscape and introduce strong security controls that work for everybody. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? Scenarios mainly focus on scanners/brute force attacks: Many collections and scenarios only protect against brute force attacks, security scanners or bots scanning the internet. I'm not saying not to have scenarios against scanners and brute force attacks, but many of these attacks are harmless for a well-configured and up-to-date server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? It's a plug-and-play solution that gives me a great deal of control over responding to cyber threats with next to no false positives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![AJ T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "AJ T.") AT AJ T. Founder, Digital Marketing Automation Specialist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/6/2023 "Great addition to secure your web applications" 4.5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? Relatively easy to set up on individual servers and provides excellent front-line protection for web applications, including WordPress. It also integrates with self-hosted software like AdGuard Home. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? I don't particularly appreciate that they hide their costs if you want more than two IP block lists. I've contacted them several times to get a price but have never heard back. The integration with OPNsense is lackluster and can be improved as there isn't much you can configure via the GUI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? CrowdSec blocks "bad actors" IP addresses and helps block anyone trying to brute force their way into your application or server. It provides more confidence in terms of security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Joshua W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Joshua W.") JW Joshua W. Systems Support Engineer II Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/6/2023 "CrowdSec is user friendly tool to protect your servers and devices from common attack vectors." 5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? The integration into systems is one of the best features of CrodSec. All you have to do is click "Add Instance" and follow the prompts. In most cases, it's copying a shell command to download and install the agent and bouncer to your server or device. I also love that you can sign up for a free account to get basic coverage to hobbyist servers and devices (like me). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? There is nothing that I can think of initially that I dislike about CrowdSec. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? CrowdSec is helping to secure my Linux servers on Linode, where I host my website and projects. It provides me better piece of mind knowing that common threats are being mitigated without much manual intervention on my part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Silvio M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Silvio M.") SM Silvio M. Founder, Lead Programmer Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/8/2023 "An useful instrument for cybersecurity" 4.5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? - Easy to use. - Many possibilities to integrate it, defining golang bouncer scripts. - Collaborative cyber threat intelligence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? - It should offer Crowdsec Web Panel, also as self-hosted service, on the server where Crowdsec is installed. - Missing the ability to use custom blocklists in Web Panel, with the possibility to enable only two blocklists for free users. - A map summarizing the attacks collected and custom alert filters would be appreciated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps me to detect and manage intrusions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite NK Navaneeth K. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/6/2023 "Best Plateform for Crowd Security" 5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? I like the fact that I can connect all of my servers to the centralized dashboard and see what is happening with them all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? I find that some of our services do not have official collections and parsers and we often have to write custom solutions for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? We used to get a lot of SSH bruteforce attempts along with several bogus HTTP requests. We were able to mitigate them using CrowdSec. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite JL Joe L. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/7/2023 "Easy to install and configure crowd powered fail2ban" 4.5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? Simple to install and configure. Web gui shows useful stats and lookup for bad ip addresses. Running CrowdSec will help add to the community block list Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? The most useful blocklist like the VPN list is paywalled. Pricing is a mystery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? Blocks most bots and bad actors on all services on the server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Miroslav G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Miroslav G.") MG Miroslav G. ☑ Linux/Windows System Administrator Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/7/2023 "A simple yet brilliant idea." 5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? Simple installation and usage. Supports most applications from the start. A web (cloud) console. Ability to import more IPs to block and export. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? The console has little control over the agents. I'd like it to be more usable. Ability yo control more aspects of the agent. Ability to customize block lists (for example ability to download from specific source) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? Managing blocklists via a simple interface and providing basic security abilities for free. Creating a blocklists for firewalls like pfSense, Fortigate and such. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ## Questions about CrowdSec? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about CrowdSec ](https://www.g2.com/products/crowdsec/discussions/new) GU Guest User What are the benefits and drawbacks of using CrowdSec for cybersecurity, and what do you recommend for improvement? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-benefits-and-drawbacks-of-using-crowdsec-for-cybersecurity-and-what-do-you-recommend-for-improvement) GU Guest User • Last activity almost 3 years ago What is CrowdSec used for? 0 Upvotes 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-crowdsec-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/crowdsec/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement \<1 month ### Return on Investment 7 months ### Average Discount 7% [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/crowdsec/pricing) CrowdSec Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_8d31602793a3055a5482a48147140ea9/wazuh.png "Product Avatar Image") Wazuh 4.5/5(70) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/crowdsec-vs-wazuh) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_78b1b52c363e5cd2e421b6545c0c15da/netgate-pfsense.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Netgate pfSense 4.7/5(326) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/crowdsec-vs-netgate-pfsense) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_56db399f44b6fabb7c667f09bc770579/crowdstrike-falcon-endpoint-protection-platform.png "Product Avatar Image") CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint... 4.6/5(441) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/crowdsec-vs-crowdstrike-falcon-endpoint-protection-platform) ##### ##### CrowdSec Features Orchestration Security Workflow Automation Deployment Information Proactive Alerts Intelligence Reports Personalization Endpoint Intelligence Administration Administration Console - API / integrations Logging and Reporting [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/crowdsec/features) ##### Categories on G2 [Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)](https://www.g2.com/categories/endpoint-detection-response-edr)[Firewall Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/firewall-software)[Threat Intelligence](https://www.g2.com/categories/threat-intelligence) [Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)](https://www.g2.com/categories/endpoint-detection-response-edr)[Firewall Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/firewall-software)[Threat Intelligence](https://www.g2.com/categories/threat-intelligence)[Container Security](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-security-tools)[Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)](https://www.g2.com/categories/security-orchestration-automation-and-response-soar)[Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)](https://www.g2.com/categories/intrusion-detection-and-prevention-systems-idps) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);) ##### Explore More [Recommend best corporate password management tool](https://www.g2.com/discussions/recommend-best-corporate-password-management-tool)[Which financial audit software prevents missed control testing deadlines through automated task management and escalation?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-financial-audit-software-prevents-missed-control-testing-deadlines-through-automated-task-management-and-escalation%20)[What are the best owned media platforms for independent creators building audiences without losing ownership?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-best-owned-media-platforms-for-independent-creators-building-audiences-without-losing-ownership) [Which is the best AI legal assistant for law firms?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-is-the-best-ai-legal-assistant-for-law-firms)[What unified workspace tool combines chat, files, and project management so a team stops switching between apps throughout the day?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-unified-workspace-tool-combines-chat-files-and-project-management-so-a-team-stops-switching-between-apps-throughout-the-day%20)[What's the best SAP provider for company software needs](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-s-the-best-sap-provider-for-company-software-needs) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)