G2 Vendor Directory

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security vs. Calico

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

by CrowdStrike

Calico

by Tigera

Overall rating4.54.5
Review count22542
Ease of use9.08.7
Ease of setup9.08.7
Quality of support9.19.3
Meets requirements9.29.4
NPS73.73271959.52381
Small Business18.8%28.6%
Mid-Market33.2%35.7%
Enterprise48.0%35.7%
Total page views1,406348
Total LLM citations14,6941,115

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Crowdstrike Falcon Cloud Security is the only CNAPP to stop breaches in the cloud Built for today’s hybrid and multi-cloud environments, Falcon Cloud Security protects the entire cloud attack surface - from code to runtime - by combining continuous agentless visibility with real-time detection and response. At runtime, Falcon Cloud Security delivers best-in-class cloud workload protection and real-time cloud detection and response (CDR) to stop active threats across hybrid environments.

Pros

  • Security
  • Cloud Security
  • Detection Efficiency
  • Vulnerability Detection
  • Ease of Use
  • Cloud Management

Calico

The Calico platform, built on the most trusted open-source technologies in Kubernetes — Calico Open Source, Istio, Envoy, and eBPF — provides a single management plane for secure networking and observability for AI workloads. It can be deployed as Calico Cloud, a fully-managed SaaS platform, or Calico Enterprise, a self-managed platform. Calico works with popular managed Kubernetes services such as AKS, EKS, and GKE, as well as self-managed Kubernetes distributions including Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE/Rancher, VMware Tanzu, and Mirantis.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Security
  • Customer Support
  • Policy Management
  • Features
  • Visibility