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Secure code training for small business buyers

Asked as “secure code training platform”, and as “developer security training”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 47 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
26%
Contested · Snyk Learn 15%
26SecureFlag15Snyk Learn13SafeStack Academy47others

26% of first choices, contested.

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 a small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01SecureFlag26%6%48accepted challenger
02Snyk Learn15%7%30accepted challenger
03SafeStack Academy13%0%21accepted challenger
04Avatao9%7%27accepted challenger
05Security Journey9%18%33accepted challenger
06Secure Code Warrior4%53%47criticized 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.

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%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative40%
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01SecureFlag26%
02Snyk Learn15%
03SafeStack Academy13%
04Avatao9%
05Security Journey9%
06Secure Code Warrior4%

What 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, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, 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.
Secure Code Warrior
53%
25 of 47 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Secure Code Warrior — ⚠️ High Risk for SMBs ... This is built for enterprise-scale teams with AppSec budgets — not small businesses” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
Security Journey
18%
6 of 33 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“**2. Security Journey** - **Issues reported:** Users have cited a "steep learning curve" due to a lack of hands-on exercises” Mistral Small, negative prompt
SANS
80%
4 of 5 labels negative · 3 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“avoid enterprise-tier secure coding platforms** (like *Secure Code Warrior*, *SANS*, or *Codebashing*)” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt
Veracode
75%
3 of 4 labels negative · 3 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Avoid enterprise platforms like Secure Code Warrior or Veracode unless you have 50+ developers” Kimi K2, direct 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. 1036 links across 146 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · SourceForge49 answers · 110 citations · 12 models
vendor site · RansomLeak45 answers · 45 citations · 11 models
vendor site · G239 answers · 98 citations · 13 models
vendor site · FitGap39 answers · 43 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Security Journey38 answers · 65 citations · 14 models
36 answers · 43 citations · 11 models
31 answers · 36 citations · 10 models
26 answers · 28 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Secure Code Warrior25 answers · 38 citations · 10 models
vendor site · SecureFlag24 answers · 30 citations · 10 models
23 answers · 26 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Top 10 Dev Training19 answers · 22 citations · 8 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 secure code training platform”, “secure code training platform”, “secure code training platforms”. 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
SecureFlag secureflag.com26%1554800935$9488
Snyk snyk.io
Snyk Learn 15%
15%5512,10058161,651 company60
SafeStack Academy safestack.io13%51100921
Avatao9%400
Security Journey securityjourney.com9%11839081,490105
SANS sans.org
SANS Developer Security Awareness Training 4%
4%4201,0002,165,150703,543 company81
Secure Code Warrior securecodewarrior.com4%1491,000222,80272
Hacksplaining hacksplaining.com2%9
PortSwigger Web Security Academy portswigger.net2%131,000489,623
OWASP resources2%

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 21 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (blog.secureflag.com, gartner.com, securecodewarrior.com, securityjourney.com). The first result for “best secure code training platform” is safestack.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 secure code training platform for a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which developer security training would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top secure code training platforms for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best secure code training platform for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a secure code training platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which secure code training platforms should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Secure Code Warrior
Three alternativesAvatao, Kontra, Security Journey
OWASP TrainingChanged
Three alternativesPluralsight, SANS OnDemand Courses, Udemy
Code Review Lab
Two alternativesRansomLeak, Secure Code Warrior
SafeStack Academy
Three alternativesAvatao, HackEDU, Snyk Learn
no first choiceagainst: SecureFlag, Snyk Learn
GPT-5.4 miniSecureFlag
Two alternativesCodebashing, Secure Code Warrior
no first choiceChangedSecure Code Warrior
Three alternativesSANS Developer Security Training, SecureFlag, Security Journey
SecureFlag
Two alternativesOWASP Secure Coding Dojo, ThreatCanvas
no first choiceagainst: Secure Code Warrior
Gemini 3.5 FlashSecureFlag
Five alternativesAppSecEngineer, OWASP Secure Coding Dojo, SafeStack Academy, Secure Code Warrior, Semgrep Academy
SafeStack AcademyChanged
Three alternativesAppSecEngineer, SecureFlag, Snyk Learn
SecureFlag
Four alternativesAppSecEngineer, SafeStack Academy, SecDim, Snyk Learn
The Linux Foundation & OpenSSF: LFD121
Four alternativesHacksplaining, OWASP Juice Shop, PortSwigger Web Security Academy, Snyk Learn
against: Codebashing, SANS, Secure Code Warrior
Snyk Learn
Four alternativesAppSecEngineer, SecureFlag, Security Journey, Wizer
against: Secure Code Warrior
against: LinkedIn Learning, OWASP Foundation, OpenText Fortify, PortSwigger Web Security Academy, SANS Developer Security Training, Secure Code Warrior, Snyk Learn, Veracode
Perplexity SonarSnyk Learn
Three alternativesCodebashing, Secure Code Warrior, Veracode Security Labs
SecureFlag, Security JourneyChanged
Three alternativesMicrosoft’s DevSecOps training guidance, SANS Developer Security Training, Veracode Developer Training
Snyk Learn
Five alternativesAvatao, Secure Code Warrior, SecureFlag, Security Journey, Veracode Security Labs
Secure Code Warrior
One alternativeVeracode Developers Training
no first choiceagainst: Checkmarx Codebashing, Cybrary, Pluralsight, Veracode Security Labs
Grok 4.1 FastSecureFlag
Two alternativesSecure Code Warrior, Snyk Learn
Top 10 Dev TrainingChanged
Three alternativesAvatao, Practical DevSecOps, SecureFlag
against: KnowBe4, SANS Developer Awareness, Security Journey
Codebashing, SecureFlag
Two alternativesAvatao, Immersive Labs
against: Secure Code Warrior
Snyk Learn
Four alternativesHacksplaining, OWASP resources, SafeStack Academy, SecureFlag
against: Secure Code Warrior, Veracode
no first choice
Three alternativesSecure Code Warrior, SecureFlag, Security Journey
against: Secure Code Warrior
Mistral SmallAvatao, SecureFlag
Two alternativesCMD+CTRL Training, Checkmarx Codebashing
SANS Developer Security Awareness TrainingChanged
Two alternativesFitGap, Security Journey
Snyk Learn, Wizer
Two alternativesAvatao, SecureFlag
Snyk Learn
Two alternativesHacksplaining for Teams, SecureFlag Secure Coding Training
no first choiceagainst: Secure Code Warrior, Security Journey
DeepSeek V4 FlashSecurity Journey
Three alternativesSecure Code Warrior, SecureFlag, Snyk Learn
SecureFlagChanged
Three alternativesHackTheBox Academy, PortSwigger Web Security Academy, SANS Securing Web Applications
against: Secure Code Warrior
Snyk Learn
Four alternativesAvatao, Secure Code Warrior, SecureFlag, Security Journey
SecureFlag
One alternativeSafeStack Academy
against: Secure Code Warrior
SecureFlag
Three alternativesHacksplaining, SafeStack Academy, Security Journey
against: Secure Code Warrior
against: Black Duck Polaris Platform, Checkmarx Codebashing, SANS, Secure Code Warrior, Security Journey, Veracode Security Labs
Llama 4 MaverickAvatao
Two alternativesSecure Code Warrior Learning Platform, Wizer
no first choiceChangedno first choiceSnyk Learn
Two alternativesHacksplaining for Teams, SecureFlag Secure Coding Training
no first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashSecurity Journey
One alternativeAvatao
against: Secure Code Warrior
AvataoChanged
Two alternativesAnagram Security, SecureFlag
SecureFlag
Three alternativesImmersive Labs, Kontra, SANS Security Awareness
Avatao
Five alternativesCodeReview Lab, DVWA, OWASP, SecureFlag, WebGoat
no first choiceagainst: Avatao, Black Duck, Secure Code Warrior
Kimi K2SafeStack Academy
Four alternativesAvatao, Security Journey, Snyk Learn, Wizer
against: Secure Code Warrior, Veracode
SafeStack AcademyHeld
Two alternativesSecureFlag, Semgrep Academy
against: Avatao, Secure Code Warrior
SecureFlag
Two alternativesKontra, SafeStack Academy
against: Secure Code Warrior
Hacksplaining
One alternativeWizer
against: Checkmarx Codebashing, Kontra, SANS, Secure Code Warrior
SecureFlag
Three alternativesAvatao, Secure Code Warrior, Security Journey
against: Codebashing, KnowBe4, Kontra, SANS, Secure Code Warrior, Security Journey
GLM 4.7 FlashXSafeStack Academy
Four alternativesAvatao, Kontra, SecureFlag, Security Journey
OWASPChanged
Four alternativesOffensive360 - Secure Coding Fundamentals, Pluralsight - Security Champion for Developers, SANS Institute - Developer Security Awareness Training, Veracode Security Labs
Hacksplaining for Teams, Secure Code Warrior
Three alternativesCheckmarx Codebashing, Kontra, Veracode Security Labs
PortSwigger Web Security Academy
Three alternativesOWASP Secure Coding Dojo, SafeStack Academy, Snyk Learn
against: Secure Code Warrior, SecureFlag, Security Journey
no first choiceagainst: Secure Code Warrior
MiniMax M2.5SafeStack Academy
Two alternativesSecureFlag, Security Journey
SANS Developer Security Awareness TrainingChanged
Two alternativesSecure Code Warrior, Security Journey
SecureFlag
Three alternativesHacksplaining for Teams, Secure Code Warrior, Security Journey
Cybrary, OWASP resources
Three alternativesHacksplaining, PentesterLab, SecureFlag
no first choiceagainst: Secure Code Warrior, Security Journey
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 01:04yes98 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 01:29yes35 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-05 01:22yes1729 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-05 00:40yes163 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-05 01:44yes2210 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-05 00:45yes54 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 22:38yes2130 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-05 00:41yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-05 01:41yes936 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-05 00:24yes1026 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-05 01:27yes2287 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 23:04yes2330 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-05 00:31no04 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 00:15no05 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 22:38yes1424 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-05 00:45yes183 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-05 00:20yes219 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 22:50yes53 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-05 01:16yes2434 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 22:32yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-05 00:14yes934 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-05 00:39yes1917 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-05 01:14yes1430 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-05 00:25yes524 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-05 00:23yes99 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 00:56yes45 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 23:23yes2126 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-05 00:25yes195 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-05 00:36yes2111 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-05 00:13yes2312 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-05 00:14yes2138 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-05 01:55yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 22:17yes2242 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-05 00:13yes2438 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-05 00:48yes1922 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 22:42yes1215 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-05 01:25yes97 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 01:22yes25 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-05 00:17yes2030 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-05 01:46yes152 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 22:57yes187 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 22:53yes53 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-05 00:44yes2140 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-05 00:06yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 23:59yes1022 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-05 01:30yes2344 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-05 00:37yes24242 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-05 00:32yes518 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-05 00:03no06 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 01:37no07 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-05 00:40yes1226 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 23:12yes165 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-05 01:08yes137 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-05 01:11no06 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 23:53yes2252 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-05 01:40yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-05 01:46yes528 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 23:52yes2326 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-05 01:57no054 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 23:25yes513 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-05 01:42yes159 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 01:08yes35 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-05 01:52yes1729 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-05 01:46yes183 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-05 01:31yes238 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 23:10yes54 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-05 01:14yes1946 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-05 01:48yes52 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-05 01:08yes1552 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 23:54yes2344 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 22:14yes2335 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-05 00:07yes1937 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
Checkmarx read as Checkmarx Codebashing
SafeStack read as SafeStack Academy
SafeStack (by NINJIO) read as SafeStack Academy
Veracode Secure Code Training read as Veracode Security Labs
Veracode Training read as Veracode Security Labs
Unresolved, counted raw
CodeReview Lab
CodeSecure
Free interactive secure coding exercises on GitHub
HackTheBox Academy
LinkedIn Learning
Linux Foundation LFD121 (Developing Secure Software)
Microsoft’s DevSecOps training guidance
Mozilla Observatory
OWASP Security Training for SOC 2
OWASP Top 10 Proactive Controls
OWASP.org
Offensive360 - Secure Coding Fundamentals
PentesterLab
Pluralsight - Security Champion for Developers
PortSwigger labs
RansomLeak Training Application Security
SANS Developer Awareness
SANS Institute - Developer Security Awareness Training
SANS Institute's Developer Security Awareness Training
SANS Institute's Hands-on Developer Security Training
SANS OnDemand Courses
SANS Securing Web Applications
SecureCodeCards
The Linux Foundation & OpenSSF: LFD121 ("Developing Secure Software")
ThreatCanvas
Veracode Developer Enablement eLearning
Veracode Developers Training
Veracode's Developers Training
VulnLearn
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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