Every category where a model named Astra 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
Penetration testing as a service	Security operations	13%	2 of 76	0%	26	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Astra 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 Astra 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	1	3
Mistral Small	3	0	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	2	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1	2
Kimi K2	1	1	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	2	1	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

Direct12 labels4

Paraphrase14 labels4

Comparative18 labels8not counted in share

Budget-constrained10 labels6

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative56 labels in all, every segment counted; 14 of the 22 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.

“Astra Security and Cobalt.io are the most recommended due to their affordable pricing, flexible models, and comprehensive coverage” Mistral Small · PTaaS · budget prompt · first choice

“Astra Security is the safest single recommendation from these results because it is repeatedly framed as SMB-friendly” Perplexity Sonar · PTaaS · budget prompt · first choice

“Astra Security is often ranked as the best overall solution, particularly for modern engineering teams.” MiniMax M2.5 · PTaaS · comparative prompt · first choice

“Astra and Cobalt are especially well-regarded for their integration capabilities and scalability” Mistral Small · PTaaS · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Astra Security, over the 56 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Astra Security was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cobalt44 of 5613Compare →

BreachLock39 of 565Compare →

Intruder22 of 562Not in the top three

NetSPI18 of 566Not in the top three

Synack18 of 561Not in the top three

Bishop Fox15 of 560Not in the top three

Bugcrowd14 of 561Not in the top three

Acunetix11 of 560Not in the top three

HackerOne11 of 560Not in the top three

UnderDefense10 of 560Not 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 Astra 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 48 of the 56 answers that named Astra Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

techrepublic.com36

deepstrike.io32

synack.com29

terra.security26

underdefense.com25

getastra.com22

stingrai.io20

cybri.com19

g2.com19

softwaresecured.com19

247 of the 247 domain citations in answers naming Astra Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

techrepublic.com/article/best-penetration-testing-companies35

synack.com/blog/best-penetration-testing-companies27

terra.security/blog/top-10-penetration-testing-as-a-service-ptaas-providers26

underdefense.com/blog/penetration-testing-services21

deepstrike.io/blog/top-penetration-testing-as-a-service-ptaas18

deepstrike.io/blog/top-penetration-testing-companies18

softwaresecured.com/post/top-10-penetration-testing-vendors16

clutch.co/it-services/cybersecurity/penetration-testing13

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Astra Security

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

Astra 5Astra Pentest 1Astra Pentest (PTaaS) 1Astra Security (Astra Pentest) 1

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