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Container and Kubernetes security

Asked as “container security platform”, and as “Kubernetes security tool”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 49 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Aqua Security
Contested
18% of first choices, contested.
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By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small businessTrivy28%ContestedStanding →Mid-marketAqua Security18%ContestedThis pageEnterpriseAqua Security29%ContestedStanding →

01The standing

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. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Aqua Security18%15%52accepted challenger
02Trivy16%5%39accepted challenger
03Sysdig Secure16%7%29accepted challenger
04Sysdig12%17%29accepted challenger
05Falco10%4%47accepted challenger
06Kubescape10%4%27accepted challenger
07Wiz4%29%38criticized challenger
08SUSE NeuVector2%4%24accepted challenger
09Snyk2%17%23accepted challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
12Prisma Cloud0%37%43criticized challenger
10Snyk Container0%0%13accepted challenger
11Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes0%0%10accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.
Head to head
Aqua Security vs TrivyAqua Security vs Sysdig SecureTrivy vs Sysdig Secure

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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01Aqua Security18%
02Trivy16%
03Sysdig Secure16%
04Sysdig12%
05Falco10%
06Kubescape10%
07Wiz4%
08SUSE NeuVector2%
09Snyk2%
10Snyk Container0%
11Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes0%
12Prisma Cloud0%

02What they warned about

One of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Prisma Cloud
37%
16 of 43 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“**Avoid Prisma Cloud** if you are a small team or lack dedicated DevOps/SRE resources to configure a complex policy engine.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Wiz
29%
11 of 38 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Avoid big CNAPPs like Palo Alto Prisma or Wiz unless you need broader cloud workload coverage.” Grok 4.1 Fast, direct prompt
Aqua Security
15%
8 of 52 labels negative · 7 of 12 models
“Aqua has deep container expertise but: Requires integration with separate platforms... Pricing scales significantly by node count” Kimi K2, negative prompt
Snyk
17%
4 of 23 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“**Avoid Snyk** if you have strict rate limits on Docker Hub or are sensitive to high false-positive rates.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

63 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 733 links across 168 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

gbhackers.com
47 answers · 56 citations · 10 models
cyberpress.org
41 answers · 55 citations · 10 models
cybersecuritynews.com
30 answers · 34 citations · 10 models
decryptiondigest.com
28 answers · 31 citations · 9 models
expertinsights.com
vendor site · Expert Insights24 answers · 25 citations · 9 models
checkmarx.com
vendor site · Checkmarx19 answers · 24 citations · 9 models
ox.security
19 answers · 22 citations · 8 models
sentinelone.com
vendor site · SentinelOne16 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
minimus.io
14 answers · 20 citations · 7 models
portainer.io
vendor site · Portainer12 answers · 12 citations · 7 models
softwareadvice.com
12 answers · 12 citations · 7 models
appsecsanta.com
11 answers · 17 citations · 7 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

gbhackers.com/best-container-security-compared
37 answers · 10 models
cyberpress.org/container-security-by-business-size-2
32 answers · 10 models
decryptiondigest.com/blog/guide-finding-best-container-security-tools
23 answers · 9 models
expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-container-security-tools
23 answers · 9 models
cybersecuritynews.com/best-container-security-tools
17 answers · 9 models
gbhackers.com/best-kubernetes-security-compared
14 answers · 9 models
cyberpress.org/kubernetes-security-by-business-size-2
12 answers · 10 models
softwareadvice.com/container-security
12 answers · 7 models
checkmarx.com/learn/container-security/10-container-security-tools-to-know-…
11 answers · 7 models
ox.security/blog/container-security-solutions-in-2026
11 answers · 6 models

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best container security platform for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which Kubernetes security tool would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top container security platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best container security platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a container security platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which container security platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceKubescapeChanged
Four alternativesAqua Security, Calico, Falco, Sysdig
no first choiceFalco
Two alternativesSUSE NeuVector, Sysdig
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniSysdig Secure
One alternativePrisma Cloud / Prisma AIRS
KubescapeChanged
Two alternativesKyverno, Trivy
no first choice
Three alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Microsoft Defender for Containers, Sysdig Secure
ARMO Platform, Chainguard, Falco
One alternativeTrivy
against: Orca, Sysdig Secure, Wizno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashAikido Security
Two alternativesSnyk Container, Sysdig Secure
against: WizSysdig SecureChanged
Five alternativesARMO Platform, Falco, Kubescape, Kyverno, Trivy
against: Open Policy Agent/Gatekeeper, Orca Security, WizWiz
Three alternativesAqua Security, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig Secure
against: SnykSUSE NeuVector
Five alternativesARMO Platform, Falco, Kubescape, Snyk Container, Trivy
against: Prisma Cloud, Sysdig Secure, WizOrca Security, Wiz
Five alternativesARMO Platform, Aqua Security, Datadog Cloud Security Management, Snyk, Sysdig
against: Anchore Engine, Carbon Black, Clair, Docker Bench for Security, Elastic’s "Defend for Containers", Prisma Cloud, SUSE NeuVector
Perplexity SonarWiz
Three alternativesAikido Security, Aqua Security, Sysdig
Sysdig SecureChanged
Three alternativesAqua Security, Falco, Kubescape
Aqua Security, Sysdig Secure
Five alternativesOX Security, Orca Security, Prisma Cloud, Snyk Container, Wiz
Trivy
Four alternativesFalco, Kubescape, SUSE NeuVector, TigerGate
against: Aqua Security, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig, Wizno first choiceagainst: Clair, Falco, Grype, Tetragon, Trivy
Grok 4.1 FastAqua Security
Five alternativesAikido Security, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, Snyk, Sysdig, Uptycs
against: Prisma Cloud, WizFalco, KubescapeChanged
Five alternativesARMO Platform, Aqua Security, Kyverno/OPA-Gatekeeper, Sysdig Secure, Trivy
Aqua Security
Six alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Prisma Cloud, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
against: Falco, Kubescape, TrivyTrivy
Five alternativesCalico, Falco, Harbor, Kubescape, SUSE NeuVector
against: SnykAqua Security
Six alternativesOrca, Prisma Cloud, Snyk, Sysdig Secure, Tenable, Wiz
against: Aqua Security, JFrog Artifactory, Prisma Cloud
Mistral SmallAqua Security, Sysdig
One alternativeWiz
Aqua Security, SysdigHeld
Two alternativesFalco, Kubescape
Aqua Security
Four alternativesPrisma Cloud, SUSE NeuVector, Snyk, Sysdig
Trivy
Three alternativesCalico, Falco, Kubescape
no first choiceagainst: Aqua Security, Microsoft, Prisma Cloud, Snyk, Sysdig, Trend Micro
DeepSeek V4 FlashSnyk, Sysdig Secure
Three alternativesAqua Security, Falco, Trivy
Sysdig SecureChanged
Four alternativesCalico, Falco, Kubescape, Trivy
against: Aqua Security, Prisma Cloud, WizAqua Security
Five alternativesPrisma Cloud, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, Snyk, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
Trivy
Five alternativesAikido Security, Calico, Falco, Kubescape, Snyk
no first choice
Two alternativesFalco, Trivy
against: Aqua Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Minimus, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig
Llama 4 MaverickSysdig
Four alternativesAqua Security, Orca, Trend Micro, Wiz
Falco, KubescapeChanged
Five alternativesARMO Platform, Aqua Security, Datadog Cloud Security Management, RAD Security, Sysdig
no first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashAqua Security
Three alternativesRed Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, Snyk, Sysdig Secure
Aqua Security, SysdigChanged
Three alternativesFalco, Kubescape, Trivy
Snyk
Three alternativesAqua Security, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig
Trivy
Four alternativesCheckov, Falco, Kubescape, Wazuh
no first choiceagainst: Aqua Security, Bridgecrew, Datadog Cloud Security Management, ELK Stack, Prisma Cloud, Qualys, Splunk, Sslabs, Tenable
Kimi K2Aqua Security, Sysdig Secure
Six alternativesFalco, Orca Security, SUSE NeuVector, Snyk Container, Trivy, Wiz
KubescapeChanged
Four alternativesAqua Security, Falco, Sysdig Secure, Trivy
against: Prisma Cloud, WizAqua Security, Sysdig
Six alternativesFalco, Prisma Cloud, SUSE NeuVector, Snyk, Trivy, Wiz
Falco, Trivy
Three alternativesGrype + Syft, Kube-bench, Kubescape
no first choiceagainst: Aqua Security, Prisma Cloud, Wiz
GLM 4.7 FlashXAqua Security, Sysdig
One alternativeSnyk
against: Prisma CloudSysdig SecureChanged
Four alternativesAqua Security, Falco, Kubescape, Trivy
Aqua Security, Prisma Cloud
Eight alternativesFalco, JFrog Xray, Kubescape, SUSE NeuVector, Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure, Trivy, Wiz
Trivy
Four alternativesARMO Platform, Falco, Kubescape, SUSE NeuVector
against: Aqua Security, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig, Trend Micro Cloud Oneno first choiceagainst: Anchore Community, Clair, Google Cloud Container Security, Microscanner, Prisma Cloud, Snyk, Sysdig
MiniMax M2.5Aqua Security, Sysdig Secure
Three alternativesFalco, SUSE NeuVector, Trivy
against: WizSysdigChanged
Four alternativesAqua Security, Falco, Kubescape, Prisma Cloud
Aqua Security, Sysdig Secure
Six alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon, Google Cloud Container Security, Microsoft Defender for Containers, Prisma Cloud, Snyk Container, Wiz
Trivy
Two alternativesAnchore, TigerGate
no first choiceagainst: Wiz
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 14:05no05 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 09:43yes412 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 12:36yes2421 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:30yes206 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 09:32yes1812 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 10:46yes55 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 09:25yes1516 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 10:37yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 09:58yes864 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 13:43yes847 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 09:29yes17119 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 12:22yes1234 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 13:24yes1510 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 11:01yes35 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:52yes923 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:44yes186 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 10:56yes3018 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 10:51yes56 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 11:09yes712 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 12:39yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 09:48yes545 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 09:44yes718 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 09:46yes14276 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 11:15yes936 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:15yes1511 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 13:44yes410 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:53yes1834 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:10yes2012 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 12:45yes2419 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 12:07yes56 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 13:06yes2648 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 10:15yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 11:48no040 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 09:41yes855 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:34yes987 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 09:50yes885 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 11:21yes98 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 10:45yes36 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 12:45yes1726 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:50yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 11:23yes3016 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 13:56yes88 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 14:14yes917 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 14:01yes54 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:50no032 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 09:40yes919 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 12:24yes2831 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 10:07yes1033 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 13:42no08 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 09:29no08 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 13:07yes630 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:52yes207 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 13:08yes1415 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 13:32no010 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 13:51yes1016 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 12:16yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 12:34no036 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 12:30yes1533 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:59yes9116 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 11:37yes918 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:09yes1017 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 13:10no05 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 12:41yes1729 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 11:38yes207 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 09:44yes2111 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 13:38yes58 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 11:03yes2826 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 10:06yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 09:58no048 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 10:59yes2936 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 10:47yes30126 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 10:09yes1840 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
Aikido read as Aikido Security
Aqua read as Aqua Security
Aqua Platform read as Aqua Security
Datadog read as Datadog Cloud Security Management
Palo Alto (Prisma) read as Prisma Cloud
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security read as Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (RHACS) read as Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (RHACS, powered by StackRox) read as Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
SentinelOne read as SentinelOne Singularity
Unresolved, counted raw
Anchore Community
Anchore Engine
Docker Bench for Security
Elastic’s "Defend for Containers" (D4C)
GitLab Container Scanning
Guardicore
JFrog Artifactory (with Xray for security)
Kyverno/OPA-Gatekeeper
Microscanner
Minimus
Open Policy Agent/Gatekeeper
Prisma Cloud / Prisma AIRS
Sslabs
Tracee
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.

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