Every category where a model named Acunetix for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Penetration testing as a service	Security operations	0%	30 of 76	33%	6	under 10 labels · led by Cobalt at 44%
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	49 of 80	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Acunetix yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Acunetix across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct5 labels2

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative8 labelsNone

Budget-constrained7 labels2

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“If your main concern is web applications, Acunetix is a strong contender.” Mistral Small · PTaaS · budget prompt · alternative

“Start with automated tools like Acunetix for continuous scanning” Kimi K2 · PTaaS · budget prompt · alternative

“targets small businesses with automated scanning capabilities” MiniMax M2.5 · PTaaS · comparative prompt · alternative

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.

“but it is more of a web app security product than a full manual pentest firm” Perplexity Sonar · PTaaS · budget prompt · soft negative

“though these are more DAST tools than true manual pentests” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PTaaS · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Acunetix, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Acunetix was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cobalt17 of 253Not in the top three

BreachLock14 of 253Not in the top three

Astra Security11 of 259Not in the top three

Bugcrowd10 of 254Not in the top three

Intruder8 of 250Not in the top three

Synack5 of 250Not in the top three

Invicti4 of 250Not in the top three

NetSPI4 of 250Not in the top three

Qualys4 of 250Not in the top three

Terra Security3 of 251Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Acunetix. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 22 of the 25 answers that named Acunetix and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

techrepublic.com22

deepstrike.io16

terra.security16

synack.com13

underdefense.com13

stingrai.io9

objectstorage.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com8

softwaresecured.com8

g2.com7

getastra.com7

119 of the 119 domain citations in answers naming Acunetix came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

techrepublic.com/article/best-penetration-testing-companies22

terra.security/blog/top-10-penetration-testing-as-a-service-ptaas-providers16

synack.com/blog/best-penetration-testing-companies12

underdefense.com/blog/penetration-testing-services12

deepstrike.io/blog/top-penetration-testing-as-a-service-ptaas10

deepstrike.io/blog/top-penetration-testing-companies9

objectstorage.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com/n/idjn99rg9axo/b/it-services/o/com-nyc-listicle8

softwaresecured.com/post/top-10-penetration-testing-vendors8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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