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Cloud-native application protection · October 2026 Edition

Orca Security vs Aikido Security

Four of fourteen models named Orca Security first on the direct prompt; zero named Aikido Security. Orca Security was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Aikido Security by nine and Orca Security carries 57 labels and Aikido Security 10, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Orca Security

accepted challenger

Named in eleven categories this edition.

Aikido Security

accepted challenger

Named in eleven categories this edition.

First-choice share19%6%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate14%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#4A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels5710A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Orca Security reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Wiz was named alongside these two in thirteen of the fourteen direct answers. Wiz vs Orca Security · Wiz vs Aikido Security · Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Orca Security

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the cloud-native application protection page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Orca SecurityFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAikido Security
Direct40
Paraphrase41
Comparative10
Budget-constrained035 against Orca Security
Scale-constrained50
Negative003 against Orca Security
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Orca Security and Aikido Security were named in the same answer sixty-one times, of the 427 answers naming Orca Security and the 342 naming Aikido Security. In those answers Aikido Security took the first choice thirty times and Orca Security three.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Orca Security and Aikido Security stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Orca Security Aikido Security first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Orca Security on the left and Aikido Security on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Orca Security and Aikido Security stood in it.

Orca Security first, Aikido Security not the choice

4 of 14 modelsAikido Security was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Gemini 3.5 FlashOrca Security alternatives: Upwind, Wiz
Mistral SmallOrca Security, Wiz alternatives: FortiCNAPP, Sysdig Secure
Kimi K2Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security alternatives: Rapid7 InsightCloudSec, Wiz
Muse Glimmer 30BOrca Security, Wiz alternatives: Rapid7 InsightCloudSec

Neither was the first choice, one was named

6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Wiz alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security
Grok 4.1 FastWiz alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, Sysdig Secure
DeepSeek V4 FlashWiz alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, Sysdig Secure
Qwen 3.7 FlashWiz alternatives: Orca Security, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud
GLM 4.7 FlashXWiz alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security
GPT-6 LunaWiz alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security

Neither was named

4 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Wiz alternatives: Sysdig Secure
Perplexity SonarWiz alternatives: Prisma Cloud, Rapid7 InsightCloudSec, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, Sysdig Secure
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
MiniMax M2.5Aqua Security, Wiz alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Aikido Security leads by fourteen points.
Aikido Security29%#1 of 12
Orca Security16%#3 of 12
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Orca Security leads at mid-market.
Orca Security19%#3 of 11
Aikido Security6%#4 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Aikido Security is not named for this buyer.
Orca Security7%#4 of 11
Aikido Security—not named
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Orca Security

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of four in this category shown.

“Avoid enterprise vendors (Wiz, Orca, Prisma Cloud) initially” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · hard negative
“Median contract is ~$95K/year; no free tier, quote-only pricing” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“The Best Overall Fit: Orca Security ... widely considered the most practical and efficient choice for mid-market B2B organizations.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · direct prompt · first choice
“Orca Security has been more flexible than Wiz on pricing for mid-market organizations (under 2,000 cloud resources)” Muse Glimmer 30B · direct prompt · first choice

What the models said about Aikido Security

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.