Epirus vs CrowdStrike

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

CrowdStrike leads in AI visibility (85 vs 47)

Epirus

ChallengerDefense / Space

Directed Energy / Counter-Drone

Raised $250M Series D (Mar 2025). $43.6M Army follow-on contract. Leonidas Gen 2 autonomous high-power microwave counter-drone system completing Army testing Feb 2026. GD partnership for HPM on autonomous vehicles.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
C47
Category Rank
#1 of 1
AI Consensus
57%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
46
Perplexity
42
Gemini
44

About

Epirus develops Leonidas — a high-power microwave (HPM) directed energy system for counter-drone operations — which uses pulsed microwave energy to defeat drone swarms by disrupting electronics simultaneously across multiple targets. The company raised $250 million in Series D financing and secured a $43.6 million Army follow-on contract, with Leonidas Gen 2 completing Army testing in February 2026 and the Gen 2 Autonomous Ground Vehicle variant unveiled at Global Force 2026 in March 2026 through a partnership with General Dynamics.

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CrowdStrike

LeaderSecurity

Endpoint Security

CrowdStrike (CRWD) reported $3.95B ARR in FY2025 (ended Jan). Revenue $3.74B, up 29% YoY. Market cap ~$85B. 8,600+ employees. Austin, TX. AI-native cybersecurity platform. Charlotte AI for threat detection.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A85
Category Rank
#1 of 2
AI Consensus
54%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
93
Perplexity
78
Gemini
82

About

CrowdStrike is an AI-native cybersecurity company founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Gregg Marston and headquartered in Austin, Texas, that built the endpoint detection and response (EDR) category and has since expanded into the broadest cloud-native cybersecurity platform in the industry. The company was founded on the insight that traditional antivirus software — signature-based, retrospective, and endpoint-isolated — could not keep pace with sophisticated adversaries operating at machine speed. CrowdStrike's founding architecture, the Falcon platform, was designed cloud-native from day one: a single lightweight agent on the endpoint feeding a cloud-based AI that learns from trillions of security events across every customer simultaneously. The company trades on Nasdaq under the ticker CRWD.\n\nThe CrowdStrike Falcon platform consolidates more than 28 security modules across endpoint security, identity threat protection, cloud security, next-gen SIEM and log management, threat intelligence, and managed detection and response — all delivered through a single agent and unified console. The AI at the platform's core, Charlotte AI, provides conversational security operations, automated investigation, and AI-generated threat summaries that reduce analyst workload. CrowdStrike's threat intelligence team, Adversary Intelligence, tracks and names nation-state and criminal threat actors globally, giving customers predictive insight into campaigns before they hit their environments.\n\nCrowdStrike reported $3.95 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR) for FY2025 and total revenue of $3.74 billion, up 29% year over year, with a market capitalization of approximately $85 billion. The company has 8,600+ employees and counts a substantial share of the Fortune 500 and global governments as customers. Despite the July 2024 sensor update incident that caused a significant IT outage affecting millions of Windows systems globally, CrowdStrike's customer retention remained strong — a testament to the platform's depth of integration and the switching costs built into its consolidated architecture.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

47
Overall Score
85
#1
Category Rank
#1
57
AI Consensus
54
up
Trend
stable
46
ChatGPT
93
42
Perplexity
78
44
Gemini
82
55
Claude
95
58
Grok
93

Capabilities & Ecosystem

Capabilities

Only Epirus
Directed Energy / Counter-Drone
Only CrowdStrike
Endpoint Security
CrowdStrike is classified as company.

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