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Cloud-native application protection · October 2026 Edition

Wiz vs Orca Security

Eleven of fourteen models named Wiz first on the direct prompt; four named Orca Security. Both were named by all fourteen models and Wiz carries 70 labels and Orca Security 57, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Wiz

endorsed leader

Named in sixteen categories this edition.

Orca Security

accepted challenger

Named in eleven categories this edition.

First-choice share37%19%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate19%14%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#3A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels7057A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Wiz reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Microsoft Defender for Cloud was named alongside these two in eight of the fourteen direct answers. Wiz vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud · Wiz vs Aikido Security · Wiz vs Aqua 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.
WizFirst choices, of fourteen modelsOrca Security
Direct114
Paraphrase84
Comparative71
Budget-constrained008 against Wiz · 5 against Orca Security
Scale-constrained65
Negative205 against Wiz · 3 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, Wiz and Orca Security were named in the same answer 365 times, of the 743 answers naming Wiz and the 427 naming Orca Security. In those answers Orca Security took the first choice twenty-five times and Wiz 108.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Wiz and Orca Security stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
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
Wiz Orca Security first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Wiz on the left and Orca Security on the right.

The direct prompt

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

Both were the first choice

2 of 14 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.
Mistral SmallOrca Security, Wiz alternatives: FortiCNAPP, Sysdig Secure
Muse Glimmer 30BOrca Security, Wiz alternatives: Rapid7 InsightCloudSec

Wiz first, Orca Security an alternative

9 of 14 modelsOrca Security was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Wiz alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security
GPT-5.4 miniMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Wiz alternatives: Sysdig Secure
Perplexity SonarWiz alternatives: Prisma Cloud, Rapid7 InsightCloudSec, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, Sysdig Secure
Grok 4.20Wiz 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
MiniMax M2.5Aqua Security, Wiz alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Cloud
GPT-6 LunaWiz alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security

Orca Security first, Wiz an alternative

2 of 14 modelsWiz was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Gemini 3.5 FlashOrca Security alternatives: Upwind, Wiz
Kimi K2Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security alternatives: Rapid7 InsightCloudSec, Wiz

Neither was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice

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
Orca Security leads by seven points.
Orca Security16%#3 of 12
Wiz9%#4 of 12
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Wiz leads at mid-market.
Wiz37%#1 of 11
Orca Security19%#3 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Wiz leads by forty-one points.
Wiz48%#1 of 11
Orca Security7%#4 of 11
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Wiz

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

“Options to Avoid on a Tight Budget - Wiz — Starts around ~$100K/year; way too expensive” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: Enterprise-heavy like Wiz/Prisma (quote-based, often $20K–$100K+/year)” Grok 4.20 · budget prompt · hard negative
“Wiz (Overall Leader) ... Wiz is the CNAPP market leader, and its Security Graph provides genuinely differentiating features with unmatched time-to-value.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · first choice

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
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.