Index › Vendors › Brakeman · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Brakeman

15Judge labels

0First choices

5Negative labels

6 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.

Standing

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Brakeman was named 6 times in SAST, where Semgrep led with 47%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business16 of 43

under the label threshold

Mid-market16 of 47

under the label threshold

Enterprise42 of 43

under the label threshold

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 Brakeman 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
Static application security testing	Developer platform	0%	16 of 47	17%	6	under 10 labels · led by Semgrep at 47%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained9 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 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.

“A language-specific linter (Bandit, gosec, Brakeman) for depth” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SAST · budget prompt · alternative

“for Ruby on Rails, Brakeman is tailored to the framework” Mistral Small · SAST · budget prompt · alternative

“Brakeman for Ruby) as needed” Kimi K2 · SAST · budget prompt · alternative

“Ruby on Rails: Brakeman” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SAST · 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.

“Brakeman is Rails-specific, so they are poor fits outside those ecosystems” Perplexity Sonar · SAST · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Brakeman, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Brakeman was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Bandit15 of 150Not in the top three

Semgrep14 of 1510Not in the top three

SonarQube14 of 151Not in the top three

CodeQL12 of 150Not in the top three

gosec11 of 150Not in the top three

Checkmarx One7 of 151Not in the top three

Veracode7 of 151Not in the top three

Snyk Code7 of 150Not in the top three

Codacy5 of 150Not in the top three

OpenText Fortify5 of 150Not 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 Brakeman. 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 11 of the 15 answers that named Brakeman and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

appsecsanta.com9

dev.to9

checkmarx.com8

safeguard.sh8

appscan.dev6

corgea.com6

endorlabs.com5

zeropath.com5

aicodereview.cc4

aikido.dev4

No domain is on file for Brakeman, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

appsecsanta.com/sast-tools8

checkmarx.com/learn/sast/open-source-vs-premium-sast-tools8

dev.to/rahulxsingh/i-reviewed-32-sast-tools-the-ones-worth-using-283e8

appsecsanta.com/sast-tools/open-source-sast-tools7

appscan.dev/blog/best-free-sast-tools-20266

corgea.com/learn/best-sast-tools6

safeguard.sh/resources/blog/free-sast-tools5

zeropath.com/blog/best-sast-tools5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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