Every category where a model named Aqua 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
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	18%	1 of 78	15%	52	accepted challenger
Cloud-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	16 of 57	26%	19	criticized challenger
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	21 of 53	29%	7	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 43%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Aqua 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 Aqua 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	0	1	2	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1	2	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	5	1	0	6
Perplexity Sonar	1	3	2	1	7
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	2	2	3	10
Mistral Small	3	0	4	1	8
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	3	4	9
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	4	0	6
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	2	1	2	7
Kimi K2	2	2	1	1	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	1	2	1	6
MiniMax M2.5	2	1	3	0	6

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

Direct39 labels12

Paraphrase28 labels8

Comparative53 labels17not counted in share

Budget-constrained26 labels3

Scale-constrained27 labels2

Negative35 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative208 labels in all, every segment counted; 25 of the 44 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.

“I'd suggest Aqua Security if you want comprehensive full-lifecycle coverage, or Sysdig Secure if runtime detection and Kubernetes security are priorities” MiniMax M2.5 · Container security · direct prompt · first choice

“Best for full lifecycle security, from build to runtime... often considered a benchmark for container security platforms.” Mistral Small · Container security · comparative prompt · first choice

“Sysdig or Aqua Security are the top commercial choices due to their balance of features, scalability, and support” Mistral Small · Container security · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Aqua and Sysdig remain the leaders for pure, container‑specific security across the full lifecycle.” MiniMax M2.5 · Container security · comparative 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.

“I'd flag Lacework/FortiCNAPP and Aqua as the two with the most documented dissatisfaction” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CNAPP · negative prompt · hard negative

“Aqua Security: Low customer recommendation (61% willingness per Techzine reviews). Complaints include incomplete risk correlation and weaker runtime protection” Grok 4.1 Fast · CNAPP · negative prompt · soft negative

“Aqua has deep container expertise but: Requires integration with separate platforms... Pricing scales significantly by node count” Kimi K2 · Container security · negative prompt · soft negative

“reviewers note complexity, onboarding/tuning/scaling friction, and limitations in static image scanning in some deployments” GPT-5.4 mini · CNAPP · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Aqua Security, over the 208 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Aqua Security was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Prisma Cloud151 of 20810Not in the top three

Wiz140 of 20833Not in the top three

Sysdig102 of 2084Not in the top three

Falco89 of 20815Not in the top three

Sysdig Secure82 of 20810Compare →

Trivy77 of 20828Compare →

Snyk75 of 20810Not in the top three

Kubescape59 of 20815Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud55 of 20811Not in the top three

Orca Security43 of 2088Not 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 Aqua 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 180 of the 208 answers that named Aqua Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com146

cyberpress.org145

cybersecuritynews.com110

decryptiondigest.com88

expertinsights.com81

ox.security60

checkmarx.com45

sentinelone.com43

gartner.com35

softwareadvice.com35

788 of the 788 domain citations in answers naming Aqua Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/container-security-by-business-size-295

gbhackers.com/best-container-security-compared92

decryptiondigest.com/blog/guide-finding-best-container-security-tools62

cybersecuritynews.com/best-container-security-tools52

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-container-security-tools52

ox.security/blog/container-security-solutions-in-202643

gbhackers.com/best-kubernetes-security-compared35

softwareadvice.com/container-security35

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Aqua Security

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

Aqua 17Aqua CNAPP 1Aqua Platform 1Aqua Secure 1

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