Every category where a model named APIsec 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
API security platforms	Security operations	0%	24 of 93	12%	8	under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12%

Movement

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

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	2
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	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained8 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“APIsec offers deeper business-logic pentesting with a free tier for public APIs” Muse Glimmer 30B · API security · budget prompt · alternative

“or APIsec or Beagle Security if you need something more cost-effective” Kimi K2 · API security · direct prompt · alternative

“APIsec: Another cost-effective choice for automated security testing.” Mistral Small · API security · budget prompt · alternative

“Best Value Mid-Market Option” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API security · direct 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.

“APISec reviews mention complex setup, cluttered results, and unclear prioritization for smaller teams.” GPT-5.4 mini · API security · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as APIsec, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and APIsec was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

42Crunch13 of 202Not among the top eight

Salt Security11 of 201Not among the top eight

StackHawk10 of 201Not among the top eight

OWASP ZAP7 of 204Not among the top eight

Akamai API Security7 of 200Not among the top eight

Beagle Security6 of 200Not among the top eight

Cloudflare API Shield6 of 200Not among the top eight

Imperva API Security6 of 200Not among the top eight

Wallarm API Security6 of 200Not among the top eight

Zuplo5 of 204Not 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 APIsec. 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 20 of the 20 answers that named APIsec and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

radware.com16

learn.g2.com13

g2.com12

zuplo.com12

beaglesecurity.com10

getastra.com10

akamai.com8

axis-intelligence.com8

expertinsights.com8

indusface.com8

105 of the 105 domain citations in answers naming APIsec came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

learn.g2.com/best-api-security-tools13

zuplo.com/learning-center/best-api-security-tools-202612

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/api-security-platforms11

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/choosing-api-security-solutions9

axis-intelligence.com/best-api-security-tools-2026-tested-guide8

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-api-security-tools8

beaglesecurity.com/blog/article/best-api-security-solutions-enterprises.html6

g2.com/categories/api-security6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

apisec.ai is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, APIsec takes 0% of first choices and Aikido Security takes 12%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “api security platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “api security platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 210 a month (“apisec”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 4 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 995 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 578 · 18 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 819
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 24 of 93 in API security

Segment leader

12%

Aikido Security

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 20 answers
Its own site cited: in 20 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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Addresses on apisec.ai

126

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

12 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Categories named
Blog	53	undated	API gateways
Conference or event	6	undated
Comparison	1	undated
Template or tool	1	undated
Glossary or explainer	1	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page apisec.ai 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.

Names read as APIsec

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

APISec 1

Follow APIsec

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

APIsec is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: The AI-based AppSec platform. Application Exploit Validation.
apisec.ai
For: organizations securing applications
apisec.ai
Price stated: Start free apisec.ai
Free plan or trial: No credit card. Run your first test in minutes. apisec.ai
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What APIsec's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: apisec.ai. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

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 APIsec'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 APIsec, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where APIsec 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 APIsec, 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.