What is Falco?
Falco is a cloud native security tool that provides runtime security across hosts, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments using eBPF-based monitoring, custom rules, and plugins to deliver real-time alerts for abnormal behavior, security threats, and compliance violations.
What Falco does
The capabilities that matter for cloud security software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- CSPM (posture / misconfig)
- -
- KSPM (Kubernetes posture)
- -
- CWPP (workload protection)
- -
- CIEM (entitlements)
- -
- DSPM (data posture)
- -
- IaC / pipeline scanning
- -
- Agentless scanning
- -
- Runtime protection
- ✓
- Cloud coverage
- Hosts, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments
- Compliance frameworks assessed
- -
- Open-core scanner available
- -
Integrations (3)
Independently observed- GitHub
- Okta
- AWS Cloudtrail
Falco alternatives
Other cloud security software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Falco, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrations | 49 | 12.00 | 589.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 29 | 12.00 | 346.9 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Reliability | 0 | 18.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 40.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing Transparency | 0 | 10.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"cloud_coverage":"Hosts, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments","runtime_protection":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 50 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Model | commercial | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |