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Cloud-native application protection · September 2026 Edition

Wiz vs Orca Security

Seven of twelve models named Wiz first on the direct prompt; three named Orca Security. Both were named by all twelve models and Wiz carries 55 labels and Orca Security 40, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Wiz

endorsed leader

Named in six categories this edition.

Orca Security

accepted challenger

Named in five categories this edition.

First-choice share46%16%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate18%5%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.
Labels5540A 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 nine of the twelve direct answers. Wiz vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud · Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Orca Security

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve 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 twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
WizFirst choices, of twelve modelsOrca Security
Direct731 against Wiz
Paraphrase123
Comparative82
Budget-constrained113 against Wiz · 2 against Orca Security
Scale-constrained31
Negative116 against Wiz
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

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

Wiz first, Orca Security an alternative

7 of 12 modelsOrca Security was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniWiz alternatives: Sysdig Secure
Perplexity SonarWiz alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig
Mistral SmallMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Wiz alternatives: Orca Security, Sysdig Secure
DeepSeek V4 FlashWiz alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security
Qwen 3.7 FlashWiz alternatives: Aikido Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security
Kimi K2Wiz alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security
GLM 4.7 FlashXMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Wiz alternatives: Orca Security, Prisma Cloud, Rapid7 InsightCloudSec, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, Sysdig

Orca Security first, Wiz an alternative

3 of 12 modelsWiz was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Orca Security alternatives: Prisma Cloud, Sysdig
Gemini 3.5 FlashOrca Security alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Sysdig Secure, Upwind, Wiz
Grok 4.1 FastOrca Security alternatives: Aqua Security, FortiCNAPP, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Sysdig, Wiz

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
MiniMax M2.5Microsoft Defender for Cloud alternatives: Orca Security, Wiz

Neither was named

1 of 12 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
Wiz leads by six points.
Wiz8%#3 of 10
Orca Security2%#7 of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Wiz leads by thirty points.
Wiz46%#1 of 11
Orca Security16%#3 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Wiz leads by forty-one points.
Wiz49%#1 of 9
Orca Security8%#4 of 9
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.

“Orca/Wiz | $7K+/mo (small) | Agentless full CNAPP | Avoid for tight budgets” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · hard negative
“Extremely popular, pioneered the agentless graph-based approach, and offers great UX. It is incredibly easy to use but tends to be on the pricier end” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“Market leader by adoption ... Choose Wiz or Orca if you need fast, comprehensive visibility across multi-cloud with minimal operational overhead” Kimi K2 · comparative 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. Three of three in this category shown.

“often out of reach because they typically require high annual contract minimums” Gemini 3.5 Flash · budget prompt · soft negative
“Very strong on data security posture management (DSPM) and attack path analysis, often highly competitive on pricing for mid-market companies.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“Choose Wiz or Orca Security if you have a multi-cloud footprint, want immediate visibility without installing agents” Gemini 3.5 Flash · comparative prompt · first choice
Also compared
Wiz vs Microsoft Defender for CloudMicrosoft Defender for Cloud vs Orca SecurityThe full CNAPP standing

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