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Black Duck Coverity

26Judge labels
0First choices
5Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in SAST for enterprise buyers
Rank 17 of 47 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 4 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In sast · 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 Black Duck Coverity 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 rateLabelsQuadrant
Static application security testingDeveloper platform0%17 of 470%4under 10 labels · led by Semgrep at 47%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Black Duck Coverity 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 Black Duck Coverity across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative14 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 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.

“Coverity and Fortify are legacy heavyweights” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SAST · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for C/C++: Coverity” GPT-5.4 mini · SAST · comparative 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 Black Duck Coverity, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Black Duck Coverity was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Checkmarx One26 of 2612Not in the top three
Semgrep24 of 266Not in the top three
SonarQube24 of 260Not in the top three
Snyk Code22 of 263Not in the top three
OpenText Fortify22 of 260Not in the top three
Veracode17 of 262Not in the top three
CodeQL11 of 260Not in the top three
HCL AppScan8 of 261Not in the top three
Veracode Static Analysis7 of 262Not in the top three
Aikido Security7 of 260Not 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 Black Duck Coverity. 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 24 of the 26 answers that named Black Duck Coverity and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

appsecsanta.com18
augmentcode.com17
zeropath.com16
corgea.com15
aikido.dev12
pixee.ai12
checkmarx.com10
cycode.com10
dev.to9
endorlabs.com8

127 of the 127 domain citations in answers naming Black Duck Coverity came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Black Duck Coverity

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Black Duck Coverity; a claim can dispute any of them.
Coverity 1Synopsys Coverity 1
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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at blackduck.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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