Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 57 → 14 of 66
Aqua · 5 categories · RankedAqua Security
226Judge labels
21First choices
57Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
5Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
22% in Container security for enterprise buyers
Rank 5 of 77 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 59 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Aqua Security →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business14 of 74
1%51 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market5 of 77
8%59 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise3 of 84
22%65 labels
accepted challenger
In container security · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Container and Kubernetes security | Cloud and infrastructure | 8% | 5 of 77 | 20% | 59 | accepted challenger | ▼−12Since September 2026: 18% → 6%, −12 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Cloud-native application protection | Cloud and infrastructure | 4% | 5 of 70 | 17% | 12 | accepted challenger | ▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Cloud security posture management | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 24 of 80 | 29% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 37% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Data security posture management | Security operations | 0% | 91 of 105 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview at 18% | |
| Software composition analysis | Developer platform | 0% | 36 of 50 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Trivy at 31% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Aqua Security moved past the floor in one of five categories: Container security, −12 points to 6%. It held within the floor in the other four.
Best category · Container security · by segment
Mid-market▼−12Since September 2026: 18% → 6%, −12 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 18% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 1 pointRank 2 → 7 of 68
Enterprise▼−4Since September 2026: 29% → 25%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
25%from 29% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 1 of 71, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Container security | 18% | 6% | ▼−12Since September 2026: 18% → 6%, −12 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. | Moved past the floor | Rank 2 → 5 of 77 |
| CNAPP | 0% | 5% | ▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 14 → 5 of 70 |
| CSPM | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 21 → 24 of 80 |
| DSPM | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 91 of 105, unchanged |
| SCA | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 36 of 50, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Aqua Security across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Aqua Security across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 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
Direct40 labels8
Paraphrase35 labels8
Comparative55 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained29 labels2
Scale-constrained33 labels3
Negative34 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative226 labels in all, every segment counted; 21 of the 26 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.
“Full lifecycle CNAPP for containers. "Aqua Security secures containerized applications across the full lifecycle, from CI/CD pipeline through production runtime."” Muse Glimmer 30B · Container security · comparative prompt · first choice
“Aqua Security - a CNAPP that secures containerized and cloud-native applications from development through runtime.” Llama 4 Maverick · CNAPP · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I would recommend Sysdig or Aqua Security as your Kubernetes security tool” Mistral Small · Container security · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend Aqua Security as your primary Kubernetes security platform” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Container security · 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.
“CSPM feels secondary to its container-security core, and the UI leans technical, which can be a hurdle for GRC stakeholders” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CSPM · negative prompt · soft negative
“In March 2026 Aqua Security’s Trivy open source vulnerability scanner was compromised in a multi-stage supply chain attack.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Container security · negative prompt · soft negative
“Complex initial setup — deployment can be challenging... High pricing — can become expensive at scale” Kimi K2 · Container security · negative prompt · soft negative
“such as Orca Security and Aqua Security provide basic features but leave significant gaps in coverage” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DSPM · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Aqua Security, over the 226 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Aqua Security, over the 226 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Aqua 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 199 of the 226 answers that named Aqua Security and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cyberpress.org124
gbhackers.com88
portainer.io77
esecurityplanet.com75
expertinsights.com70
thectoclub.com70
g2.com69
cybersecuritynews.com61
peerspot.com53
wiz.io50
737 of the 737 domain citations in answers naming Aqua Security came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
aquasec.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Aqua Security takes 8% of first choices and Trivy takes 22%.ShowHide
Search and answers
aquasec.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Aqua Security takes 8% of first choices and Trivy takes 22%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “container security platform”
2
Position for “container security platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 880 a month (“aqua security”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 32 a month
- Its company's site
- aquasec.com shared with Aqua's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 7,831 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 5,310 · 113 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 6,257
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
8%
rank 5 of 77 in container security
Segment leader
22%
Trivy
- First choices
- 21 across its categories
- Named in
- 226 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 199 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 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 Platform 1Aqua Security / Trivy 1Aqua Security Platform 1
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The company
Aqua is the company behind Aqua Security.ShowHide
The company
Aqua is the company behind Aqua Security.
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Company records- Also from Aqua
- Aqua Security Trivy
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Cloud Native Security, Container Security & Serverless Security
- For
- security professionals
- Price stated
- The Aqua integration with the AWS Security Hub is free to use and does not require any changes to an existing Aqua license. blog.aquasec.com/aqua-aws-security-hub
- Free plan or trial
- The Aqua integration with the AWS Security Hub is free to use. blog.aquasec.com/aqua-aws-security-hub
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Aqua Security's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: blog.aquasec.com/aqua-aws-security-hub, blog.aquasec.com/top-5-aqua-security-blogs, blog.aquasec.com/aqua-security-cco-sharon-eilon, blog.aquasec.com/aqua-cspm-google-cloud-security, blog.aquasec.com/aqua-security-splunk-integration. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Aqua Security by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Aqua 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 Aqua 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.