Orca Security vs Aqua Security
Four of fourteen models named Orca Security first on the direct prompt; one named Aqua Security. Orca Security was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Aqua Security by eight and Orca Security carries 57 labels and Aqua Security 12, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in eleven categories this edition.
Named in five categories this edition.
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
Orca SecurityFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAqua Security
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Orca Security and Aqua Security were named in the same answer seventy-six times, of the 427 answers naming Orca Security and the 226 naming Aqua Security. In those answers Aqua Security took the first choice seven times and Orca Security eleven.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Aqua Security first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Orca Security on the left and Aqua Security on the right.The direct prompt
Orca Security first, Aqua Security not the choice
4 of 14 modelsAqua Security was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Aqua Security first, Orca Security not the choice
1 of 14 modelsOrca Security was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.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.Neither was named
3 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.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
Orca Security16%#3 of 12Aqua Security0%#– of 12Orca Security19%#3 of 11Aqua Security4%#5 of 11Orca Security7%#4 of 11Aqua Security0%#10 of 11What 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 Aqua Security
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“Aqua Security - a CNAPP that secures containerized and cloud-native applications from development through runtime.” Llama 4 Maverick · paraphrase prompt · first choice
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.