Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 46 → 44 of 44
3 categories · RankedBlack Duck
143Judge labels
13First choices
49Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
23% in SCA for enterprise buyers
Rank 18 of 50 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 32% of its 38 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Black Duck →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business49 of 49
0%25 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market18 of 50
0%38 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise1 of 56
23%60 labels
accepted challenger
In sca · 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software composition analysis | Developer platform | 0% | 18 of 50 | 32% | 38 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Static application security testing | Developer platform | 0% | 19 of 71 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Semgrep at 36% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Secure code training | Developer platform | 0% | 93 of 97 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by SecureFlag at 26% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Black Duck held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · SCA · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 11 → 17 of 43
Enterprise▲+3Since September 2026: 19% → 22%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
22%from 19% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 1 → 2 of 47
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCA | 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 11 → 18 of 50 |
| SAST | 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 27 → 19 of 71 |
| Secure code training | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 93 of 97, 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 Black Duck 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 Black Duck 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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
Direct29 labels8
Paraphrase5 labelsNone
Comparative39 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained21 labels3
Scale-constrained21 labels2
Negative28 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative143 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 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.
“Leader in Forrester and Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security” Grok 4.20 · SCA · comparative prompt · first choice
“Choose Black Duck if deep license compliance, regulatory reporting, and comprehensive supply chain visibility are your top priorities.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SCA · comparative prompt · alternative
“Black Duck is best for enterprises in highly regulated industries where compliance and governance are especially important.” Muse Glimmer 30B · SCA · comparative prompt · alternative
“Consider Black Duck or FOSSA only if license compliance or regulatory requirements are the primary driver.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SCA · direct 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.
“Tools/Approaches to Be Cautious About ... Black Duck (Synopsys) ... Slow scanning ... Complicated pricing” Kimi K2 · SCA · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid high-end like Synopsys or Checkmarx Codebashing ($1K+/user or bundled).” Grok 4.20 · Secure code training · budget prompt · hard negative
“Caution: Licensing Accuracy & Usability... often criticized for generating unmanageable volumes of noise and requiring heavy manual triage” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SCA · negative prompt · soft negative
“you do not need a high-end enterprise Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tool (like Black Duck, Mend, or Sonatype)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SCA · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Black Duck, over the 142 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Black Duck was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Black Duck, over the 142 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Black Duck 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 Black Duck. 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 137 of the 142 answers that named Black Duck and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com80
sonatype.com76
mend.io63
checkmarx.com62
endorlabs.com59
aikido.dev47
appsecsanta.com46
blackduck.comYour site44
expertinsights.com43
g2.com39
515 of the 559 domain citations in answers naming Black Duck came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
blackduck.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Black Duck takes 0% of first choices and Trivy takes 31%.ShowHide
Search and answers
blackduck.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Black Duck takes 0% of first choices and Trivy takes 31%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “software composition analysis tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “software composition analysis tools”
4
- Searches for its name, Google
- 33,100 a month (“black duck”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3,087 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 76,259 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 9,204 · 606 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 11,332
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 18 of 50 in SCA
Segment leader
31%
Trivy
- First choices
- 13 across its categories
- Named in
- 142 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 137 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on blackduck.com
2,296
subdomains included
Content
1,173
counted in the table below
Documentation
115
Product · Integration
31 · 1
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 843 | 11 | 2026-09-23 | SCA, SAST | |
| Report or ebook | 204 | 2 | 2026-08-07 | SCA, SAST | |
| Glossary or explainer | 69 | 0 | 2026-05-08 | IaC, SAST | |
| Case study | 32 | 2 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| Comparison | 12 | 0 | 2026-03-03 | SCA, SAST | |
| Podcast or video | 6 | 0 | 2024-02-21 | ||
| Template or tool | 4 | 0 | 2020-04-21 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | 2 | 2026-09-22 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-25Securing ai generated code static analysis case study
- 2026-09-23Top 10 free hacking tools for penetration testers blog
- 2026-09-23Polaris september 2026 update blog
- 2026-09-22Are you ready cra reporting webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-22Thankyou webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-21Hidden costs ai security programs blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page blackduck.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.
Names read as Black Duck
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Black Duck; a claim can dispute any of them.
Black Duck (Synopsys) 10Black Duck SCA 5Synopsys Black Duck 4Black Duck (by Synopsys) 2Synopsys 2Black Duck (formerly Coverity / Synopsys Software Integrity Group) 1Black Duck SCA (Synopsys) 1Coverity/Black Duck 1Synopsys (Polaris/Fortify) 1
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The company
Black Duck is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Black Duck is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Black Duck delivers True Scale Application Security — SAST, SCA, DAST, and AI-powered AppSec — to help security and development teams detect vulnerabilities, manage open source license risk, and secure the software supply chain.
- For
- security and development teams
- Customers named
- FPT Software
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Black Duck's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: blackduck.com, blackduck.com/platform/demo.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Black Duck by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Black Duck 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 Black Duck, 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.