--- 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(440) ](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) ![Jérôme P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jérôme P.") JP Jérôme P. Formateur Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/20/2021 "innovative and very promising project" 5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? open-source, innovative, proactive and a very good technical team. Available on very much system.This Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? I do not see what could not please me in this project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? This project allows me to detect attacks and protect several assets while reacting globally against these attacks without disrupting the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic JC Joseph C. Technical Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/20/2021 "Firewall by the Crowd for the crowd" 5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? The mission of the product is to provide a free firewall for the community, and it is feature-packed and tutorials are easy to follow to install and configure the product. It provides protection as well as threat intelligence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? It is currently available only for the Linux platform and not for windows evrionment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec: Crowdsec would meet and exceed your expectations from an EDR tool. Give it a try and experience for your selves the threat landscape and the detection capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? It provides for a crowd-based security and the ability to configure once and not worry about reconfiguration. The agents are quick, and we can improve the security posture of Linux environments much better. Advanced threat intelligence in a world filled with cyber-attacks, it provides the peace of mind we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Jean Devaux of CrowdSec [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/crowdsec-review-4878401/official_response/edit) Hello Joseph, We are happy to read that our tool provides you with security and peace of mind. Making the product compatible with more OS such as Windows and MacOS is on our top-priority list, and all of this will be possible within a few months from now. We will make sure to share the news widely at release time! Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/29/2021 "Adding security layers to public facing servers at scale" 5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? Crowdsec is very fast to add to existing servers, smooth wizard (or silent install) that will enable protections for the workloads at install time, for example ssh/myql protection, simple install to add bouncers and additional watchers, this will help end customers to have a more secure server while still allowing public access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? Nothing to dislike about CrowdSec. The team is straightforward to work with, solid documentation and growing features set at a high frequency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? Getting to actionable data, CrowdSec will filter out know bad actors and keep expanding the block lists, and given we can see what's being blocked we can use data to search for places where the IP might have succeeded, and with SIEMS being busy removing hundreds of thousands of lines of noise will enable teams hunting in the log files to hunt more efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/29/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Sacha M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sacha M.") SM Sacha M. CTO Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/25/2021 "After discovering Crowdsec, I can hardly imagine a world without it" 4.5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? Crowdsec allows you to block a list of malicious IPs, updated in real time, and fed automatically by the analysis of your logs but also by the community. And it's free and open source! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? Not much! As a growing open source technology, it's developing very quickly... so you have to keep an eye on it to not get left behind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? I can mitigate bots attacks and crawlers traffic by defining specific and complex rules, and avoiding false positives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Jean Devaux of CrowdSec [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/crowdsec-review-5077879/official_response/edit) Thank you for being part of our community Sacha! Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Vincent A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vincent A.") VA Vincent A. Manager, Application Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/1/2022 "Real time enterprise tool that gives you clear metrics with details" 4.5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? Comprehensive information across enterprise platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? I would say the downtime it requires to clear payment issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? The precise ability to detect actual intrusion to machine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Jean Devaux of CrowdSec [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/crowdsec-review-5310137/official_response/edit) Hi Vincent. Thank you so much for your review. Our tool is open source and free, hence no required payment. 2/1/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") UT Verified User in Telecommunications Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/3/2021 "Crowdsec - High Performance Multilayer Security" 4/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? Crowdsec is best suit to run seamlessly on virtual machines, bare-metal servers, containers or can be called directly from your code through API. It is an open-source end-point detection and response software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? Although being a good product, it is lessly marketed. It needs to be more brought to the open source market. There are more similar products which are given more push.. Also crowdsec currently cannot be put on all kinds of IT hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec: This product is highly recommended considering its features and ease of use. It also open-source and gives lot of advantages when working with APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? Crowdsec provides open-source, free, security engine which helps to block and detect attacks depending on security logs. Crowdsec then shares the address details (IP address details) to the larger community. It can be put on web servers which are frequently exposed to frequent DDOS attacks, etc. Easy usage - It can be deployed and alerts can be monitored from a single console Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Jean Devaux of CrowdSec [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/crowdsec-review-4907488/official_response/edit) Hi there. Many thanks for your comment. We are doing our best to make our product as visible as possible to open-source communities and help the greater number with their security. We are working to find new ways to spread the word continuously. When it comes to hardware integration, it's a wide topic and we are taking steps to make it more compatible. Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Thomas S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Thomas S.") TS Thomas S. CEO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/30/2021 "THE cybersecurity solution for DevOps" 5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? It allows DevOps to improve security automation A tool that you can "fire & forget" The open-source model Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? I cannot comment here, nothing to dislike so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec: Open-source. It provides additional security. It would be a shame not to take advantage of it. The larger the community, the more relevant the tool will be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? I can plug the solution and let it do its job without having to worry. It protects my sites very efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Manuel D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Manuel D.") MD Manuel D. CEO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/4/2021 "Collaborative security at its best" 5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? What I like about Crowdsec is how easy it is to set up the solution. The documentation is well done, and the tool is open source. The collaborative aspect is essential because it allows better prevention of security risks. Moreover, the local API and the bouncers' mode of operation make the tool very flexible for any project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? I think it still lacks a bit of diversity on bouncers and ready-made collections. But that doesn't block anything as everyone is free to create their bouncers and collections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? With Crowdsec, I solved 2 types of problems: 1/ The automation of the blocking of malicious attacks and IPs. 2/ Anticipation of attacks thanks to crowdsourcing. So a time saver for me and a great security for my server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Jean Devaux of CrowdSec [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/crowdsec-review-4842352/official_response/edit) Hi Manuel, We appreciate your feedback. We, as well as the user community, keep releasing new bouncers and collections which can be found on our Hub. Much more will be added in the coming weeks and months! [See how CrowdSec improved](https://hub.crowdsec.net/) Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/21/2021 "The best tool for safeguard your Data." 4.5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? One of the best end to endpoint security solution by providing multipayer protection to protect your data and business. Ease of use, we don't need anyone certified who can run this for you. You can run it yourself and utliise all the benefits easily. Great analytics capabilities for the decision making purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? Everthing has pro and cons but I think I dont have one for this. May be a better UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec: Great security tool to avoid attacks and save your data, ease of use so you can save money Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? End-to-end protection to avoid Ransome attacks.started using recently. Benefits have been tremedous. easy to install wihtour prior knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Mickael O.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mickael O.") MO Mickael O. Co-fondateur Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/6/2021 "A real protection for my servers" 5/5 What do you like best about CrowdSec? I used to love Fail2ban and I love even more what the team has been able to achieve with CrowdSec. It is easy to install and deploy. The mitigation part through bouncers, standalone software pieces, is also very handy and can be integrated within your applicative stacks. Also, native packages are now available for most platforms (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS etc). Not to mention that you can access it for free. A great way to strengthen your security in a blink of an eye. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CrowdSec? Nothing, I love it all. The team is easy to reach and the tool is working extremely well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you? I use it to protect my servers and sites against bad behaviors and pretty much all kinds of attacks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Jean Devaux of CrowdSec [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/crowdsec-review-4844943/official_response/edit) Thanks Mickael! Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ## 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(440) [ 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)[Threat Intelligence](https://www.g2.com/categories/threat-intelligence)[Firewall Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/firewall-software) [Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)](https://www.g2.com/categories/endpoint-detection-response-edr)[Threat Intelligence](https://www.g2.com/categories/threat-intelligence)[Firewall Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/firewall-software)[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 [Best platform for integrating various business apps](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-s-the-best-platform-for-integrating-various-business-apps)[Which financial aid software platforms have strong customer support for families having difficulty with online applications?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-financial-aid-software-platforms-have-strong-customer-support-for-families-having-difficulty-with-online-applications)[What is the most affordable visual collaboration software for SMBs?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-most-affordable-visual-collaboration-software-for-smbs) [Which contact center payments solutions reduce setup burden and agent training without complexity?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-contact-center-payments-solutions-reduce-setup-burden-and-agent-training-without-complexity)[Affordable fleet management software for new businesses](https://www.g2.com/discussions/affordable-fleet-management-software-for-new-businesses)[best compensation management software](https://www.g2.com/discussions/need-help-what-s-the-best-compensation-management-software-solution) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)