Every category where a model named AttackIQ Flex 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
Breach and attack simulation	Security operations	7%	6 of 74	20%	10	accepted challenger

Movement

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	1	1	1	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0	0

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

Direct5 labels3

Paraphrase3 labels1

Comparative3 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained13 labels7

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative6 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 16 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.

“Top Pick: AttackIQ Flex ... arguably the best option for companies with limited budgets” DeepSeek V4 Flash · BAS · budget prompt · first choice

“If your budget is limited, AttackIQ Flex is the strongest "start small" option I found” GPT-5.4 mini · BAS · budget prompt · first choice

“AttackIQ Flex offers the best value with its free tier and pay-as-you-go options” Kimi K2 · BAS · budget prompt · first choice

“Best starting point for a limited budget: AttackIQ Flex.” GPT-6 Luna · BAS · budget 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.

“If you need Remediation, be cautious about platforms like AttackIQ Flex or basic entry-level tiers if they don't push findings directly into your remediation backlog.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · BAS · negative prompt · soft negative

“AttackIQ Flex—if you need cross-platform endpoint coverage. AttackIQ’s current product page says Flex currently supports Windows.” GPT-6 Luna · BAS · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as AttackIQ Flex, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AttackIQ Flex was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cymulate18 of 301Compare →

Picus Security Validation Platform17 of 300Compare →

SafeBreach11 of 300Not among the top eight

Pentera10 of 300Compare →

Infection Monkey8 of 304Not among the top eight

Atomic Red Team5 of 300Not among the top eight

Horizon3.ai NodeZero5 of 300Compare →

NodeZero4 of 302Compare →

AttackIQ4 of 301Compare →

Mandiant Security Validation4 of 300Not 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 AttackIQ Flex. 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 30 of the 30 answers that named AttackIQ Flex and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guptadeepak.com17

startupstash.com17

attackiq.comYour site16

guideflow.com15

cymulate.com13

g2.com12

perkinssecurity.com11

us.fitgap.com11

sourceforge.net10

picussecurity.com9

115 of the 131 domain citations in answers naming AttackIQ Flex came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-breach-attack-simulation-tools-202617

startupstash.com/best-breach-and-attack-simulation-tools17

attackiq.com/products/flex16

guideflow.com/blog/breach-and-attack-simulation-software14

perkinssecurity.com/index-289.html11

us.fitgap.com/search/breach-and-attack-simulation-bas-software7

cymulate.com/cymulate-vs-competitors/attackiq-vs-safebreach-vs-cymulate6

techtarget.com/searchsecurity/tip/Pros-and-cons-of-breach-and-attack-simulation-tools6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

attackiq.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, AttackIQ Flex takes 7% of first choices and Cymulate takes 24%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “breach and attack simulation platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “breach and attack simulation platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 10 a month (“attackiq flex”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 1,414 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 516 · 25 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,711
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

60 ads · 59 text, 1 image · 11 shown in the last 30 days

First shown March 2025, as AttackIQ, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 45 in the year, 15 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 6 of 74 in BAS

Segment leader

24%

Cymulate

First choices: 11 across its categories
Named in: 30 answers
Its own site cited: in 30 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 attackiq.com

2,010

subdomains included

Content

880

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

91 · 4

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
News or press	533	4	2026-09-23	SIEM, EDR
Report or ebook	97	4	2026-09-25
Webinar or virtual event	80	3	2026-07-23	SIEM
Glossary or explainer	68	0	2025-05-20	GRC
Podcast or video	44	0	2020-07-01
Case study	27	0	2021-01-25
Blog	18	2	2026-09-22	SIEM
Conference or event	6	0	2026-06-09
Comparison	6	0	2025-07-25
Template or tool	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-25Most wanted report or ebook
2026-09-23Attackiq ava agentic os named ai powered enterprise agent solution of the year news or press
2026-09-22Attackiq names dave mihelcic field cto federal blog
2026-09-11Attacklq enterprise exposure management module blog
2026-08-10Forward deployed engineering report or ebook
2026-08-04Disa selects attackiq news or press

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page attackiq.com 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 September 29, 2026.

Follow AttackIQ Flex

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.

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The company

AttackIQ Flex is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Run On-Demand Exposure Validation
attackiq.com
Free plan or trial: Try It Free attackiq.com/tag/compliance
Certifications: CertifiedPreferredPremier
Customers named: Dimensional Fund AdvisorsU.S. Federal Government
Not stated on the pages read: Who it is for, price, starting price, integrations, hosting

What AttackIQ Flex's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: attackiq.com, attackiq.com/tag/compliance, attackiq.com/platform, attackiq.com/customers, attackiq.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

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

where AttackIQ Flex 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 AttackIQ Flex, 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.