Zero of fourteen models named GitHub Advanced Security first on the direct prompt; zero named Checkmarx One. GitHub Advanced Security was named by eleven of the fourteen models and Checkmarx One by fourteen and GitHub Advanced Security carries 16 labels and Checkmarx One 44, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in five categories this edition.
Named in four categories this edition.
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 static application security testing page.
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, GitHub Advanced Security and Checkmarx One were named in the same answer thirty-eight times, of the 125 answers naming GitHub Advanced Security and the 270 naming Checkmarx One. In those answers Checkmarx One took the first choice seven times and GitHub Advanced Security three.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
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| 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 | ||||||
| Kimi K2 | ||||||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | ||||||
| MiniMax M2.5 | ||||||
| GPT-6 Luna | ||||||
| Muse Glimmer 30B |
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.
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.
“GHAS is sold as an add-on license that can be quite expensive for a mid-sized B2B budget.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Top Recommendation: GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS)” Kimi K2 · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“GitHub Advanced Security / CodeQL if your company is deeply GitHub-native and wants SAST in the same platform.” Muse Glimmer 30B · comparative prompt · alternative
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of six in this category shown.
“What I'd Avoid for Mid-Market: Checkmarx and Veracode are powerful but typically start at $60K–$100K+/year” Kimi K2 · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“be especially cautious with legacy configurations of Checkmarx, Fortify/OpenText, and SonarQube for security use cases unless they are heavily tuned” Muse Glimmer 30B · negative prompt · soft negative
“Legacy enterprise | Checkmarx, Veracode, Fortify | Deep compliance... unless you have specific compliance requirements that mandate legacy tools” Kimi K2 · scale prompt · soft negative
“Checkmarx One (Gartner/Forrester Leader): Enterprise-grade with deep dataflow/taint analysis... Checkmarx for banks” Grok 4.1 Fast · comparative prompt · first choice
“an enterprise-grade scanner (like Checkmarx or Fortify) for nightly full-scan reports and compliance auditing.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · comparative prompt · first choice
“Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for 7 consecutive years... Best For: Large enterprises, portfolio-level governance” Kimi K2 · comparative prompt · first choice
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.