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Atomic Red Team

17Judge labels
0First choices
3Negative labels
7 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
6 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Atomic Red Team was named 6 times in BAS, where Cymulate led with 24%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In bas · 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 Atomic Red Team 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Breach and attack simulationSecurity operations0%21 of 740%6under 10 labels · led by Cymulate at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Atomic Red Team 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 Atomic Red Team across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna01001
Muse Glimmer 30B01001

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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labelsNone
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Extremely lightweight; you just download the scripts and run them directly on target machines to test your alerts.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · BAS · budget prompt · alternative
“look at mid-market options like Cymulate or open-source frameworks (e.g., Atomic Red Team, Infection Monkey)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · BAS · negative prompt · alternative
“Atomic Red Team is Red Canary's free library of small, focused tests mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques” Muse Glimmer 30B · BAS · budget prompt · alternative
“Lightweight scripts for ATT&CK validation; pairs well with Caldera for basics” Grok 4.1 Fast · BAS · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Atomic Red Team, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Atomic Red Team was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Infection Monkey11 of 175Not among the top eight
Cymulate11 of 171Not among the top eight
Picus Security Validation Platform11 of 170Not among the top eight
SafeBreach9 of 170Not among the top eight
MITRE Caldera7 of 173Not among the top eight
Horizon3.ai NodeZero6 of 173Not among the top eight
AttackIQ6 of 170Not among the top eight
AttackIQ Flex5 of 173Not among the top eight
OpenBAS4 of 172Not among the top eight
Pentera4 of 170Not 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 Atomic Red Team. 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 17 of the 17 answers that named Atomic Red Team and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startupstash.com10
picussecurity.com8
esecurityplanet.com7
peerspot.com6
thectoclub.com6
adaptivesecurity.com5
atomicredteam.ioYour site5
g2.com5
guideflow.com5
guptadeepak.com5

Fifty-seven of the sixty-two domain citations in answers naming Atomic Red Team came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

atomicredteam.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Atomic Red Team takes 0% of first choices and Cymulate takes 24%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “breach and attack simulation platform”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “breach and attack simulation platforms”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
880 a month (“atomic red team”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
15 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 388 a month
Searches its site ranks for
172 · 15 in the top three
Sites linking to it
613
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
0%
rank 21 of 74 in BAS
Segment leader
24%
Cymulate
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
17 answers
Its own site cited
in 17 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.

Names read as Atomic Red Team

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Atomic Red Team; a claim can dispute any of them.
Atomic Red Team (by Red Canary) 1

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The company

Atomic Red Team is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
An open source library of tests designed to test your organization's security controls.
For
security teams
Free plan or trial
free and open source tools atomicredteam.io
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Atomic Red Team's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: atomicredteam.io. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

  • where Atomic Red Team 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 Atomic Red Team, 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.
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A verification link goes to your work email; an address at atomicredteam.io is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.