Every category where a model named Aikido Security 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
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	6%	5 of 53	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 43%
Software composition analysis	Developer platform	5%	5 of 49	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Trivy at 40%
Static application security testing	Developer platform	4%	5 of 47	0%	16	accepted challenger
Cloud-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	4%	4 of 57	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 46%
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	2%	11 of 78	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	24 of 80	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%
Attack surface management	Security operations	0%	93 of 104	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 59%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Aikido Security 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 Aikido Security across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	3	0	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	7	4	0	0	11
Perplexity Sonar	0	5	0	0	5
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	1	0	3
Mistral Small	0	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	2	2	0	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	5	0	7
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	1	0	4
Kimi K2	0	1	1	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	2	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

Direct36 labels12

Paraphrase24 labels9

Comparative46 labels9not counted in share

Budget-constrained31 labels15

Scale-constrained15 labels5

Negative22 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative174 labels in all, every segment counted; 41 of the 54 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.

“Modern, developer-friendly platforms tailored for mid-market (500-person) companies looking for bundled SCA, SAST, and secrets scanning without enterprise bloat.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SCA · scale prompt · first choice

“one of the strongest options for small to mid-sized engineering teams that want thorough coverage without managing a dozen point solutions” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CSPM · direct prompt · first choice

“Choose Aikido Security if you want an affordable, polished SaaS that secures both your cloud and your application code” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CSPM · budget prompt · first choice

“If you have a small team but lack a dedicated security specialist, Aikido is likely your best commercial choice.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CSPM · budget 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.

“good ratings, but G2 notes pricing can be challenging for micro businesses due to upgrade costs” GPT-5.4 mini · ASM · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Aikido Security, over the 174 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Aikido Security was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wiz59 of 1748Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud57 of 17415Not in the top three

Semgrep48 of 17421Not in the top three

Orca Security43 of 1742Not in the top three

Prisma Cloud39 of 1741Not in the top three

Trivy35 of 1745Not in the top three

SonarQube34 of 1743Not in the top three

Checkmarx One30 of 1746Not in the top three

Veracode30 of 1744Not in the top three

Snyk Code29 of 1746Not 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 Aikido Security. 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 138 of the 174 answers that named Aikido Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aikido.devYour site71

expertinsights.com64

g2.com55

cyberpress.org52

cybersecuritynews.com45

gbhackers.com44

appsecsanta.com37

ox.security33

sourceforge.net31

endorlabs.com28

389 of the 460 domain citations in answers naming Aikido Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/cnapp-platforms-by-business-size-231

zeropath.com/blog/best-sast-tools26

gbhackers.com/best-cnapp-compared25

aikido.dev/blog/top-cloud-native-application-protection-platforms-cnapp24

ox.security/blog/static-application-security-sast-tools23

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-cloud-native-application-protection-platfo21

corgea.com/learn/best-sast-tools20

pixee.ai/blog/best-sast-tools-202620

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Aikido Security

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

Aikido 17Aikido Container Security 1

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