# Cyber risk quantification for small business buyers: what AI models recommend, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "cyber risk quantification tool" and as "CRQ platform", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a small B2B company. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/security/cyber-risk-quantification/smb/

**Standing:** FairCRQ leads with 9% of first choices; verdict contested. 55 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FairCRQ | 9% | 0% | 13 |
| 2 | UpGuard | 5% | 0% | 11 |
| 3 | Kovrr | 4% | 35% | 34 |
| 4 | CyberSaint CyberStrong | 4% | 18% | 11 |
| 5 | RiskLens | 4% | 49% | 39 |
| 6 | SAFE Security | 4% | 56% | 34 |
| 7 | Axio | 0% | 48% | 25 |

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: CISA CSET, Maxxsure; alternatives Axio, Cyrisma
- GPT-5.4 mini: ThreatConnect Risk Quantifier; alternatives CISA’s SMB vendor risk templates and spreadsheets
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: FAIR-U; alternatives Black Kite, C-Trust, CISO Assistant, Optro
- Perplexity Sonar: UpGuard; alternatives RiskLens
- Grok 4.1 Fast: LogicGate Risk Cloud; alternatives Bugmetrics, Kovrr, Open FAIR tools, UpGuard
- Mistral Small: LogicGate Risk Cloud, RiskLens; alternatives Kovrr, Qualys TruRisk™
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Resiliently; alternatives CyberAIQ, LogicGate Risk Cloud Quantify, vCISO Lite
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: UpGuard; alternatives Black Kite, Qualys TruRisk, RiskLens
- Kimi K2: Fair TPRM; alternatives CyberAIQ, CyberStackHub
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: FairCRQ; alternatives ComplyJet
- MiniMax M2.5: UpGuard; alternatives BitSight Security Ratings, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Rapid7 InsightVM, RiskLens
- GPT-6 Luna: Derive; alternatives CyberSaint CyberStrong, LogicGate Risk Cloud Quantify
- Muse Glimmer 30B: FairCRQ; alternatives Axio, RiskLens, SAFE Security, UpGuard

## Sources the answers cite

76 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- f6s.com: 34 answers, 61 citations
- kovrr.com: 33 answers, 53 citations
- trycomp.ai: 33 answers, 33 citations
- vcso.ai: 32 answers, 37 citations
- g2.com: 28 answers, 49 citations
- cybersaint.io: 24 answers, 32 citations
- riskpublishing.com: 24 answers, 32 citations
- itechguides.com: 22 answers, 33 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://trycomp.ai/hub/top-risk-management-software (33 answers)
- https://f6s.com/software/category/cyber-risk-quantification (32 answers)
- https://vcso.ai/learn/cyber-risk-quantification-tools-comparison (30 answers)
- https://complyjet.com/blog/best-risk-assessment-tools (22 answers)
- https://riskpublishing.com/best-cyber-risk-quantification-platforms-compar (22 answers)
- https://f6s.com/software/category/cyber-risk-assessment (21 answers)
- https://g2.com/categories/cyber-risk-quantification-crq-tools (20 answers)
- https://itechguides.com/best/cyber-risk-quantification-tools (20 answers)
- https://vcisolite.com/blog/crq-tools-and-platforms-2026 (20 answers)
- https://teramind.co/blog/cyber-risk-assessment-tools (15 answers)

## Warned against

- RiskLens: 19 of 39 labels negative. "What to Avoid: Enterprise FAIR platforms (full RiskLens/Safe implementations) typically require $50K–$250K+ and dedicated analyst headcount—overkill" (Kimi K2, paraphrase prompt)
- Kovrr: 12 of 34 labels negative. "Cyber Insurance Risk Platforms (Avoid) Examples: Citalid, Kovrr (for insurance-aligned use)" (Kimi K2, negative prompt)
- SAFE Security: 19 of 34 labels negative. "Traditional, enterprise-grade CRQ platforms—such as Safe Security (SAFE One), Kovirr, and Axio—are generally not recommended for B2B SMBs." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, paraphrase prompt)
- Axio: 12 of 25 labels negative. "a platform-first FAIR quant tool such as RiskLens/Safe Security SAFE or Axio360 is usually over-engineered for SMBs" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://it-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://it-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, it-ai-index.com.