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	Since September 2026
Dynamic application security testing	Developer platform	12%	3 of 58	13%	39	accepted challenger
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	67 of 77	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 30%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
API security platforms	Security operations	0%	59 of 93	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12%
Penetration testing as a service	Security operations	0%	36 of 82	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cobalt at 45%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

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 and per category, 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. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	2	0	1	4
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	2	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	2	0	0	3
Grok 4.20	0	3	1	1	5
Mistral Small	0	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	1	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	1	2	6
Kimi K2	0	2	2	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	1	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	2	0	4
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	2	0	0	3

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

Direct25 labels4

Paraphrase26 labels9

Comparative30 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained14 labels3

Scale-constrained11 labelsNone

Negative19 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative125 labels in all, every segment counted; 16 of the 19 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.

“my recommendation is Acunetix if you want a strong balance of broad web scanning, automation, and mid-market fit” Perplexity Sonar · DAST · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“For a B2B company specifically, I'd lean toward Acunetix due to its strong API security testing capabilities” MiniMax M2.5 · DAST · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“If you want one name: Acunetix by Invicti is the safest recommendation for most mid-market B2B companies.” GPT-5.4 mini · DAST · direct prompt · first choice

“My Top Pick: Start with a trial of Acunetix.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DAST · paraphrase 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.

“excellent for complex web applications with 12,000+ vulnerability types, but has a premium price and potential for false positives” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DAST · comparative prompt · soft negative

“The Verdict: Use with caution. It is a popular commercial tool, but it is notorious for being "noisy."” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DAST · negative prompt · soft negative

“Legacy versions struggle with SPAs, CAPTCHAs, and complex auth, leading to shallow coverage and noise.” Grok 4.20 · DAST · negative prompt · soft negative

“Older on-prem versions require substantial maintenance and often flag low-risk issues as medium/high.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DAST · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Acunetix, over the 125 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.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

OWASP ZAP74 of 12521Compare →

Invicti64 of 12523Compare →

Burp Suite55 of 1253Compare →

StackHawk42 of 1259Compare →

Intruder33 of 12512Compare →

Rapid7 InsightAppSec29 of 1250Not among the top eight

Astra Security22 of 1255Not among the top eight

HCL AppScan21 of 1250Not among the top eight

Veracode DAST20 of 1251Not among the top eight

Checkmarx One20 of 1250Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 113 of the 125 answers that named Acunetix and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

getastra.com72

beaglesecurity.com55

stackhawk.com55

aikido.dev47

aimultiple.com43

escape.tech41

securityboulevard.com39

invicti.com38

checkmarx.com35

augmentcode.com33

458 of the 458 domain citations in answers naming Acunetix came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

getastra.com/blog/dast/tools63

stackhawk.com/blog/dynamic-application-security-testing-tools-comparison52

aikido.dev/blog/top-dynamic-application-security-testing-dast-tools38

aimultiple.com/dast-tools37

augmentcode.com/tools/best-dast-tools-for-enterprise-security33

getautonoma.com/blog/dast-tools30

softwaretestinghelp.com/dynamic-application-security-testing-dast-software30

checkmarx.com/learn/dast/dast-tools-key-features-and-12-solutions-to-know-in-202626

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

acunetix.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Acunetix takes 12% of first choices and OWASP ZAP takes 29%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “dast tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “dast tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 880 a month (“acunetix”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 43 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 15,291 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 3,750 · 212 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 6,968
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

32 ads · 32 text · 10 shown in the last 30 days

First shown January 2023, as Invicti Security Corp, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 19 in the year, 13 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

12%

rank 3 of 58 in DAST

Segment leader

29%

OWASP ZAP

First choices: 16 across its categories
Named in: 125 answers
Its own site cited: in 113 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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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Addresses on acunetix.com

2,650

subdomains included

Content

1,421

counted in the table below

Documentation

978

Product · Integration

13 · 1

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	848	1	2026-09-07	WAF, SOAR
Webinar or virtual event	163	5	2026-09-24
News or press	132	1	2026-08-03	WAF
Conference or event	123	0	2021-10-20
Report or ebook	74	0	2020-10-08	WAF, ASM
Case study	29	0	2022-10-24
Glossary or explainer	27	0	2024-07-25	SCA
Comparison	23	0	2025-05-05
Template or tool	1	undated
Podcast or video	1	0	2016-03-29

Most recent

2026-09-24V26 9 1 24 sep 2026 webinar or virtual event
2026-09-10V26 9 0 10 sep 2026 webinar or virtual event
2026-09-07Agentic pentesting tools blog
2026-08-27V26 8 1 27 august 2026 webinar or virtual event
2026-08-13V26 8 0 13 august 2026 webinar or virtual event
2026-08-03Acunetix is now invicti web api news or press

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page acunetix.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name WAF (10); 0 name its categories the models place it in. 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 September 29, 2026.

Names read as Acunetix

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Acunetix; a claim can dispute any of them.

Acunetix (by Invicti) 3Acunetix (now Invicti) 2Acunetix by Invicti 2Acunetix (Luminate) 1Acunetix (by Invicti Security) 1Acunetix (by Invulner/Lansweeper) 1Acunetix / Invicti 1Acunetix Free 1Invicti / Acunetix by Invicti 1Invicti/Acunetix 1

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The company

Acunetix is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: an end-to-end web security scanner that offers a 360 view of an organization’s security
acunetix.com
For: your security team
acunetix.com/product
Free plan or trial: Get a demo acunetix.com
Certifications: No certifications1 sales & 1 technical certification2 sales & 2 technical certifications
Customers named: TasheelUS Air ForceMiles TechnologiesEBSCO Information ServicesNPG, LLCWestonFoods (Canada)Arkas Holding SAVermont Systems
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, integrations, hosting

What Acunetix's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: acunetix.com, acunetix.com/product, acunetix.com/case-studies, acunetix.com/partners. 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 Acunetix'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 Acunetix, 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 Acunetix by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Acunetix 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 Acunetix, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Acunetix is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Acunetix is among the products AI models recommend first in Dynamic application security testing this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.