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Penetration testing as a service · September 2026 Edition

Astra Security vs BreachLock

Zero of twelve models named Astra Security first on the direct prompt; zero named BreachLock. Astra Security was named by twelve of the twelve models and BreachLock by eleven and Astra Security carries 26 labels and BreachLock 30, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Astra Security

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

BreachLock

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share13%9%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%3%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#3A position in a field of 8; printed, not drawn.
Labels2630A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Astra Security reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Cobalt was named alongside these two in eleven of the twelve direct answers. Cobalt vs Astra Security · Cobalt vs BreachLock

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; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the penetration testing as a service page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Astra SecurityFirst choices, of twelve modelsBreachLock
Direct00
Paraphrase31
Comparative40
Budget-constrained331 against BreachLock
Scale-constrained00
Negative00
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Astra Security and BreachLock stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

8 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-5.4 miniCobalt alternatives: Astra Security, HackerOne, Packetlabs, Thoropass Pentesting, UnderDefense, Vumetric
Gemini 3.5 FlashCobalt alternatives: BreachLock, Cybri, NetSPI
Perplexity SonarCobalt alternatives: BreachLock, DeepStrike, Prescient Security, Stingrai, UnderDefense
Grok 4.1 FastPacketlabs alternatives: BreachLock, Cobalt
Mistral SmallCobalt alternatives: BreachLock, Packetlabs, Stingrai
DeepSeek V4 FlashCobalt alternatives: Astra Security, BreachLock, NetSPI, Packetlabs
Kimi K2Cobalt alternatives: BreachLock, NetSPI, UnderDefense
GLM 4.7 FlashXCobalt, NetSPI alternatives: Astra Security, Bishop Fox, BreachLock, Secureworks, Synack

Neither was named

4 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
Llama 4 MaverickCobalt alternatives: DeepStrike, Echelon Cyber
Qwen 3.7 FlashCobalt alternatives: Coalfire, Kforce, Synack, Trustwave
MiniMax M2.5Stingrai alternatives: Cobalt, Invadel

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.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
BreachLock leads by nine points.
BreachLock28%#1 of 6
Astra Security19%#3 of 6
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Astra Security leads at mid-market.
Astra Security13%#2 of 8
BreachLock9%#3 of 8
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: BreachLock leads at enterprise.
BreachLock4%#5 of 9
Astra Security0%#– of 9
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Astra Security

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.

“Astra Security and Cobalt.io are the most recommended due to their affordable pricing, flexible models, and comprehensive coverage” Mistral Small · budget prompt · first choice
“Astra Security is the safest single recommendation from these results because it is repeatedly framed as SMB-friendly” Perplexity Sonar · budget prompt · first choice
“Astra Security is often ranked as the best overall solution, particularly for modern engineering teams.” MiniMax M2.5 · comparative prompt · first choice

What the models said about BreachLock

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of five in this category shown.

“PTaaS from ~$3K-$10K/yr; crowdsourced for value, but less "one-off cheap."” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · soft negative
“consider grey-box testing with a provider like BreachLock, UnderDefense, or Kualitatem, as this approach typically offers the best value for money” Claude Haiku 4.5 · budget prompt · first choice
“likely to be a platform-based provider such as Cobalt or BreachLock, which offer more accessible pricing models” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · first choice
“Astra or BreachLock (the ~$2,000–2,500 sweet spot)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
Also compared
Cobalt vs Astra SecurityCobalt vs BreachLockThe full ptaas standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.