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	Since September 2026
Application security posture management	Developer platform	37%	1 of 70	9%	35	endorsed leader
API security platforms	Security operations	12%	1 of 93	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12%
Cloud-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	6%	4 of 70	0%	10	accepted challenger	▲+3Since September 2026: 4% → 7%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Static application security testing	Developer platform	2%	8 of 71	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by Semgrep at 36%	▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Dynamic application security testing	Developer platform	2%	10 of 58	0%	11	accepted challenger
Software composition analysis	Developer platform	2%	12 of 50	17%	6	under 10 labels · led by Trivy at 31%	▼−2Since September 2026: 5% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	13 of 77	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by Trivy at 22%	▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	16 of 80	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 37%	▼−6Since September 2026: 6% → 0%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Attack surface management	Security operations	0%	91 of 100	67%	3	under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 49%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
AI security platforms	Security operations	0%	147 of 233	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11%
Penetration testing as a service	Security operations	0%	57 of 82	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cobalt at 45%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	3	3	0	1	7
GPT-5.4 mini	1	2	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	6	5	2	0	13
Perplexity Sonar	5	0	2	1	8
Grok 4.20	1	3	2	0	6
Mistral Small	2	4	2	0	8
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	2	1	1	7
Llama 4 Maverick	3	1	4	0	8
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	5	0	1	7
Kimi K2	3	5	2	0	10
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	1	1	4
MiniMax M2.5	1	2	2	0	5
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	0	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	4	3	1	8

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

Direct72 labels36

Paraphrase51 labels27

Comparative68 labels27not counted in share

Budget-constrained77 labels38

Scale-constrained30 labels8

Negative44 labels12not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative342 labels in all, every segment counted; 109 of the 148 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.

“Aikido Security - an all-in-one ASPM platform with native scanning for IaC, SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, secrets detection, and CSPM.” Llama 4 Maverick · ASPM · direct prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend Aikido Security if you want the best balance of API discovery, protection, and operational simplicity in one platform.” Perplexity Sonar · API security · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Aikido Security is an all-in-one ASPM platform designed especially for startups and mid-sized development teams” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ASPM · budget prompt · first choice

“For a small company that wants one affordable, mostly all-in-one AppSec platform, I'd start with Aikido.” GPT-6 Luna · ASPM · 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.

“Users note the lack of advanced features in Aikido Security, such as dark mode and in-depth analysis options, and find the pricing structure expensive for micro businesses” Muse Glimmer 30B · ASPM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Users report lack of advanced features (e.g., no dark mode, limited deep-analysis options). May not scale well for complex enterprise needs.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ASPM · negative prompt · soft negative

“best for smaller teams or simpler environments, less ideal as the primary pick for a typical mid-market company” Perplexity Sonar · ASPM · direct prompt · soft negative

“be wary of smaller vendors (like Aikido) that promise enterprise features but lack the depth” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ASM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Aikido Security, over the 342 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.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wiz92 of 34210Compare →

Microsoft Defender for Cloud62 of 34218Compare →

Orca Security61 of 3423Compare →

Snyk60 of 3427Compare →

Checkmarx One52 of 3424Not among the top eight

Prisma Cloud51 of 3421Not among the top eight

Semgrep44 of 34218Not among the top eight

ArmorCode42 of 3422Compare →

Jit40 of 3422Compare →

Cycode ASPM39 of 3420Compare →

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 Aikido Security. 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 342 of the 342 answers that named Aikido Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aikido.devYour site202

expertinsights.com169

g2.com148

appsecsanta.com122

checkmarx.com90

cyberpress.org89

cycode.com83

sourceforge.net77

guideflow.com76

orca.security70

924 of the 1,126 domain citations in answers naming Aikido Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-application-security-posture-management-as65

cycode.com/blog/best-application-secuirty-posture-management-tools56

guideflow.com/blog/aspm-software45

expertinsights.com/devsecops/the-top-application-security-posture-management-aspm-tools40

aikido.dev/pricing39

orca.security/resources/blog/best-aspm-tools39

gartner.com/reviews/market/application-security-posture-management-aspm-tools38

aikido.dev/blog/top-7-aspm-tools35

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Aikido Security stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “aspm platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “aspm platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 2,400 a month (“aikido security”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 51 a month
Its company's site: aikido.dev shared with Aikido's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site: about 6,442 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 2,506 · 89 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 6,314
Paid Google search: 3 searches its ads show for, about 14 clicks and $936 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 80 text, 38 video, 2 image · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown January 2024, as Aikido Security, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 102 in the year, 18 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

37%

rank 1 of 70 in ASPM

First choices

109

across its categories

Named in: 342 answers
Its own site cited: in 342 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.

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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The company

Aikido is the company behind Aikido Security.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Cloud-based CyberSecurity Platform
aikido.dev/use-cases/cybersecurity
For: developers
aikido.dev/use-cases/cybersecurity
Price stated: Predictable pricing; straightforward tiered plans with feature bundles. Transparent pricing, no surprises. aikido.dev/use-cases/cybersecurity
Starting price: Starts at $50/pentest aikido.dev/comparison/aikido-vs-novee-security
Free plan or trial: Start for Free; No CC required aikido.dev/use-cases/cybersecurity
Certifications: SOC 2 CompliantISO 27001 CompliantISO 42001 CompliantFedRAMP ImplementingSOC 2ISO 27001ISO 42001FedRAMP
Hosting: EUUS
Customers named: SupermetricsGEAn8nVismaTechDivisionFaspayPetroseaDental Intelligence
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations

What Aikido Security's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: aikido.dev/use-cases/cybersecurity, aikido.dev/comparison/aikido-vs-novee-security, aikido.dev/comparison/aikido-vs-contrast-security, help.aikido.dev/getting-started/core-functionalities/aikido-security-checks, help.aikido.dev/aikido-device-protection/miscellaneous-aikido-endpoint/endpoint-information-for-support. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Aikido Security by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Aikido Security 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 Aikido Security, 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 Aikido Security 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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Application security posture management

AI models recommend Aikido Security first in Application security posture management 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.

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API security platforms

AI models recommend Aikido Security first in API security platforms 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.

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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.