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September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 · The permanent record of that edition, superseded since. The current standing is on the category page →
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Dynamic application security testing for enterprise buyers

Asked as “DAST tool”, and as “dynamic web application security scanner”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 52 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each. Added to the September 2026 Edition; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories: how the two compare.
Standing · first-choice share
62%
Clear leader
62Invicti12Burp Suite DAST04Burp Suite23others

62% of first choices, clear leader.

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.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Invicti62%10%63endorsed leader
02Burp Suite DAST12%0%12accepted challenger
03Veracode DAST4%14%36accepted challenger
04HCL AppScan4%14%28accepted challenger
05Burp Suite4%52%23criticized challenger
06Rapid7 InsightAppSec2%7%28accepted challenger
07Burp Suite Enterprise Edition2%0%12accepted challenger
08Checkmarx One2%21%19accepted challenger
09StackHawk2%25%16criticized challenger
10Acunetix2%35%23criticized challenger
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
14OWASP ZAP0%76%21criticized challenger
13Bright Security0%10%10accepted challenger
11Checkmarx DAST0%5%20accepted challenger
12OpenText Fortify WebInspect0%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 product page.

One product takes 62% of first choices here, so the chart would put thirteen markers in one corner and one at the far edge. The two measurements it plots are columns in the standing above: share, and the negative label rate. Four products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category.

What they warned about

Seven of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Mistral Small, Qwen 3.7 Flash, 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.
Burp Suite
52%
12 of 23 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Per-user pricing ($49k/year for enterprise edition caps at 1,000 users) — becomes extremely costly at thousands of users” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
OWASP ZAP
76%
16 of 21 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“OWASP ZAP (Unmanaged) ... often inadequate as the *sole* solution for enterprise-wide automated testing” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Invicti
10%
6 of 63 labels negative · 6 of 12 models
“Claims 99.98% accuracy, but **independent benchmarks measured 23% false-positive rate** — the highest among tested enterprise tools” Kimi K2, negative prompt
Acunetix
35%
8 of 23 labels negative · 5 of 12 models
“Older generations of Acunetix or AppScan (prior to major JS engine upgrades) ... Traditional DAST tools often fail to render JavaScript” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt

What they cite

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

Sites the answers cite

77 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1119 links across 193 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Invicti52 answers · 113 citations · 14 models
vendor site · Augment Code49 answers · 51 citations · 12 models
41 answers · 45 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Aikido40 answers · 51 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Beagle Security32 answers · 46 citations · 11 models
vendor site · StackHawk32 answers · 36 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Checkmarx29 answers · 39 citations · 12 models
28 answers · 29 citations · 11 models
25 answers · 25 citations · 9 models
vendor site · CyberPress24 answers · 33 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Escape21 answers · 26 citations · 9 models
19 answers · 21 citations · 11 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.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best dast tool”, “dast tool”, “dast tools”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Invicti invicti.com62%13790,5008354,568$5024
Burp Suite DAST12%17013
Veracode veracode.com
Veracode DAST 4%
4%484,40019412,543 company17
HCL AppScan hcl-software.com4%542601349,66738
Burp Suite4%12,100681
Rapid7 parent site
Rapid7 InsightAppSec 2%
2%5014,800798
Burp Suite Enterprise Edition2%301
Checkmarx checkmarx.com
Checkmarx One 2%, Checkmarx DAST 0%
2%245260354,982 company613
Aikido aikido.dev
Aikido Security 2%
2%3422,400516,442 company$936120
StackHawk stackhawk.com2%142590108,45886

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 21 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (checkmarx.com, escape.tech, stackhawk.com). The first result for “best dast tool” is snyk.io.

How 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.
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ModelDirect“What is the best DAST tool for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which dynamic web application security scanner would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade DAST tools and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best DAST tool for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a DAST tool. What should we look at?”Negative“Which DAST tools should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Burp Suite DAST, Invicti
Three alternativesAcunetix, OX Security, StackHawk
no first choiceChangedCheckmarx DAST, Invicti
Three alternativesBurp Suite DAST, StackHawk, Veracode DAST
Invicti
One alternativeEscape
no first choiceagainst: Checkmarx One, Micro Focus Fortify WebInspect
GPT-5.4 miniInvicti
One alternativeBurp Suite Enterprise Edition
against: Acunetix
InvictiHeld
Two alternativesBurp Suite Enterprise Edition, Checkmarx DAST
against: OWASP ZAP
Acunetix, Invicti, Rapid7 InsightAppSec
Three alternativesBurp Suite Enterprise Edition, Checkmarx DAST, Detectify
against: OWASP ZAP
Burp Suite, Burp Suite DAST, Invicti
Two alternativesBlack Duck Continuous Dynamic, OpenText
against: OWASP ZAP
no first choiceagainst: Acunetix, Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Qualys Web Application Scanning, StackHawk
Gemini 3.5 FlashInvicti
Four alternativesBurp Suite Enterprise Edition, Escape, StackHawk, Veracode DAST
InvictiHeld
Five alternativesBurp Suite Enterprise Edition, Checkmarx DAST, Escape, HCL AppScan, StackHawk
Invicti
Five alternativesCheckmarx DAST, HCL AppScan, PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise Edition, Rapid7 InsightAppSec, Veracode DAST
Burp Suite DAST
Three alternativesCheckmarx One, GitLab Ultimate, OWASP ZAP
against: Invicti, Rapid7 InsightAppSec, StackHawk, Veracode DAST
no first choiceagainst: Acunetix, Detectify, HCL AppScan, Intruder, Nikto, OWASP ZAP, OpenText
Perplexity SonarInvicti
Two alternativesCheckmarx DAST, Veracode DAST
InvictiHeld
Two alternativesOpenText Fortify WebInspect, Veracode DAST
Invicti
Five alternativesAikido Security, Bright Security, Checkmarx One, Rapid7 InsightAppSec, Veracode DAST
HCL AppScan, Invictiagainst: Burp Professional, Checkmarx One, Veracode DASTno first choiceagainst: Burp Suite, Detectify, Intruder, OWASP ZAP
Grok 4.1 FastInvicti
Two alternativesBurp Suite Enterprise Edition, Checkmarx DAST
InvictiHeld
Four alternativesOpenText Fortify WebInspect, Qualys Web Application Scanning, Rapid7 InsightAppSec, Veracode DAST
against: Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP
Invicti, Veracode DAST
Five alternativesBlack Duck, Checkmarx One, HCL AppScan, PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise Edition, Rapid7 InsightAppSec
against: OWASP ZAP
PortSwigger's Burp Suite
Two alternativesInvicti, Veracode DAST
against: Acunetix, Checkmarx One, OWASP ZAP, Rapid7 InsightAppSec
Invicti
Two alternativesAikido Security, Beagle Security
against: Acunetix, Burp Suite, Fortify WebInspect, Invicti, OWASP ZAP, Veracode DAST
Mistral SmallInvicti
Four alternativesAcunetix, Bright Security, Burp Suite, Rapid7 InsightAppSec
Acunetix, InsightAppSecChanged
Three alternativesCheckmarx DAST, Snyk, Veracode DAST
Burp Suite Enterprise Edition, Invicti
Two alternativesAcunetix, Bright Security
Invicti, Rapid7 InsightAppSec
One alternativeBurp Suite Enterprise Edition
no first choiceagainst: Invicti
DeepSeek V4 FlashInvicti
Three alternativesBurp Suite, Checkmarx One, Veracode DAST
against: Acunetix, Qualys Web Application Scanning
InvictiHeld
Two alternativesBurp Suite DAST, HCL AppScan
Invicti
Six alternativesBurp Suite, Checkmarx DAST, HCL AppScan, OpenText Fortify WebInspect, Rapid7 InsightAppSec, Veracode DAST
HCL AppScan
Four alternativesAikido Security, Checkmarx One, Invicti, Qualys Web Application Scanning
against: Bright Security, Burp Suite, Rapid7 InsightVM, StackHawk, Tenable
no first choiceagainst: StackHawkagainst: Acunetix, Burp Suite, Checkmarx DAST, OWASP ZAP, Veracode DAST
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choiceInvictino first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashCheckmarx One, Veracode DAST
Four alternativesContrast Security, Invicti, PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise, Rapid7 InsightAppSec
Invicti, Veracode DASTChanged
Two alternativesAcunetix SaaS, PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise Edition
Burp Suite Enterprise Edition
Four alternativesContrast Security, Fortify WebInspect, Invicti, Rapid7 InsightAppSec
Burp Suite Enterprise Editionagainst: Checkmarx One, Contrast Security, HCL AppScan, Invicti, Veracode DASTno first choiceagainst: Acunetix, AppScan, Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Standard Qualys WAS, Tenable Nessus, Tenable.io Basic Modules
Kimi K2Invicti
Two alternativesBurp Suite, HCL AppScan
InvictiHeld
Two alternativesCheckmarx One, Veracode DAST
against: Burp Suite
Invicti
Five alternativesBurp Suite, Checkmarx DAST, HCL AppScan, Rapid7 InsightAppSec, Veracode DAST
Invicti
Three alternativesAcunetix, Checkmarx One, Tenable
against: Snyk
Invicti
Four alternativesBright Security, Checkmarx DAST, Rapid7 InsightAppSec, StackHawk
against: HCL AppScan, Invicti, Qualys WAS
GLM 4.7 FlashXBurp Suite, Invicti
One alternativeHCL AppScan
InvictiChanged
One alternativeHCL AppScan
Invicti, Veracode DAST
Five alternativesBright Security, Burp Suite, HCL AppScan, OX Security, OpenText Fortify WebInspect
against: OWASP ZAP
StackHawk
One alternativeSnyk
against: Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Tenable Web App Scanning
no first choicenothing named
MiniMax M2.5Aikido Security, Invicti
One alternativeInsightAppSec
InvictiChanged
Two alternativesAcunetix, HCL AppScan
Invicti
Four alternativesAcunetix, Checkmarx DAST, Fortify WebInspect, Qualys WAS
Burp Suite DAST, Invictino first choiceagainst: Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Qualys WAS
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The 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-4-5-202510012026-10-05 01:02yes99 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 00:33yes24 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 22:09yes926 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-05 00:15yes234 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 23:31yes2212 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 23:26yes106 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 22:23yes2337 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-05 00:46yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 23:04yes1039 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-05 00:53yes1521 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-05 01:12yes2432 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-05 01:21yes919 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-05 00:01no04 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 01:49yes25 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-05 01:28yes1129 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-05 01:36yes193 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-05 00:06yes2210 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-05 00:00yes148 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-05 01:08yes2235 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-05 01:08yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-05 01:47no030 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-05 01:50yes1844 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 23:31yes18130 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-05 01:39yes1041 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-05 01:33yes1610 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 00:26yes77 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 23:00yes1629 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 23:20yes186 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-05 01:38yes2311 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 22:58yes2317 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 23:26yes2065 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-05 00:58yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 23:11no030 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-05 01:50yes1829 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-05 01:13yes2377 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-05 00:02yes2045 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 22:46yes189 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 00:40yes44 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-05 00:05yes1425 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-05 01:50yes303 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 22:47yes1912 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-05 00:20yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-05 00:25yes2445 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-05 00:40yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-05 00:16yes2596 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-05 01:34yes2430 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-05 01:13yes2056 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-05 01:29yes2074 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 23:59yes1514 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 01:24no010 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-05 01:35yes628 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-05 01:48yes184 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-05 01:25yes1410 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-05 01:07no08 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-05 00:41yes2269 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 22:13yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-05 00:48no031 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-05 01:02yes2144 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 22:52no021 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-05 00:20yes916 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-05 01:03yes189 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 22:40yes36 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 23:22yes1122 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-05 00:27yes354 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-05 01:54yes1810 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-05 00:57yes1611 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-05 01:40yes2543 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-05 01:01yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-05 01:16yes852 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 22:40yes1629 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-05 01:42yes2277 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 23:54yes1336 s

Normalization in this category

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

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Category-scoped readings
Aikido read as Aikido Security
Astra read as Astra Security
Checkmarx read as Checkmarx One
Checkmarx (Checkmarx One platform) read as Checkmarx One
OpenText WebInspect read as OpenText Fortify WebInspect
OpenText WebInspect (Fortify) read as OpenText Fortify WebInspect
OpenText WebInspect (ex-Micro Focus) read as OpenText Fortify WebInspect
Qualys read as Qualys Web Application Scanning
Qualys Web App Scanning read as Qualys Web Application Scanning
Rapid7 read as Rapid7 InsightAppSec
Veracode read as Veracode DAST
Veracode (Application Protection Platform) read as Veracode DAST
Veracode Dynamic Analysis read as Veracode DAST
Unresolved, counted raw
Acunetix SaaS
BlackDuck Continuous Dynamic
Burp Professional
Fortify ScanCentral DAST
Micro Focus Fortify WebInspect
NTT Application Security (formerly WhiteHat)
OpenText Dynamic Application Security Testing
OpenText Fortify DAST
Standard Qualys WAS
Tenable.io Basic Modules
WebInspect
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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