1 category · Ranked42Crunch
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| API security platforms | Security operations | 8% | 4 of 93 | 3% | 31 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated 42Crunch across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Pricing is the most accessible among dedicated platforms: a free tier for individual developers, a single user plan starting at $7.50 per month” Claude Haiku 4.5 · API security · budget prompt · first choice
“Best overall budget-conscious choice: 42Crunch if you want to start smaller and keep costs more predictable.” GPT-5.4 mini · API security · budget prompt · first choice
“42Crunch: Often recommended for its affordability and robust API security features.” Mistral Small · API security · budget prompt · first choice
“Need pre-release security? → 42Crunch” Qwen 3.7 Flash · API security · comparative prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“42Crunch reviewers specifically call out that inaccurate contracts reduce effectiveness, and that deployment/orchestration can add overhead.” GPT-5.4 mini · API security · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as 42Crunch, over the 86 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and 42Crunch was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 81 of the 86 answers that named 42Crunch and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
298 of the 298 domain citations in answers naming 42Crunch came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
42crunch.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, 42Crunch takes 8% of first choices and Aikido Security takes 12%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 320 a month (“42crunch”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 4 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 380 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 182 · 7 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 905
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 13 across its categories
- Named in
- 86 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 81 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 20 | undated | |||
| News or press | 9 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | 0 | 2024-07-01 | ||
| Comparison | 3 | 0 | 2024-06-07 | DAST | |
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 0 | 2024-12-10 | ||
| Report or ebook | 2 | undated | |||
| Case study | 1 | undated |
Most recent
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page 42crunch.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.
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The company
42Crunch is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI Security Platform for MCP
- For
- enterprises
- Price stated
- Enterprise Pricing 42crunch.com/pricing.html
- Free plan or trial
- Free trial 42crunch.com
- Certifications
- ISO 27001
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, hosting, customers
What 42Crunch's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: 42crunch.com, 42crunch.com/pricing.html, 42crunch.com/platform-overview.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when 42Crunch's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as 42Crunch, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for 42Crunch by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where 42Crunch is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name 42Crunch, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.