Every category where a model named Bug Circuit 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
Penetration testing as a service	Security operations	7%	4 of 76	25%	4	under 10 labels · led by Cobalt at 44%

Movement

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

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

Direct2 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained8 labels6

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 7 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.

“I'd recommend starting with Bug Circuit or HIFENCE for initial testing” Kimi K2 · PTaaS · budget prompt · first choice

“Absolute lowest cost (human‑led, one domain): Bug Circuit – $49.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · PTaaS · budget prompt · first choice

“Bug Circuit (Best Ultra-Budget Pick for Small Websites)” Grok 4.1 Fast · PTaaS · 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.

“the ultra-cheap options (TurboPentest, Bug Circuit) are largely automated/AI-driven and won't deliver the depth of a certified human-led test” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PTaaS · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Bug Circuit, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bug Circuit was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BreachLock7 of 102Not in the top three

Cobalt6 of 101Not in the top three

Astra Security5 of 103Not in the top three

Affordable Pentesting5 of 100Not in the top three

TurboPentest4 of 100Not in the top three

Synack3 of 100Not in the top three

Acunetix2 of 100Not in the top three

HIFENCE2 of 100Not in the top three

Intruder2 of 100Not in the top three

Invadel2 of 100Not 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 Bug Circuit. 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 10 of the 10 answers that named Bug Circuit and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bugcircuit.comYour site10

pentestingproviders.com8

techrepublic.com8

affordablepentesting.com7

invadel.com5

reddit.com5

terra.security5

deepstrike.io4

g2.com4

getastra.com4

Fifty of the sixty domain citations in answers naming Bug Circuit came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bugcircuit.com/services/penetration-testing-small-business10

pentestingproviders.com/best/affordable-penetration-testing8

techrepublic.com/article/best-penetration-testing-companies8

reddit.com/r/msp/comments/znf99o/small_business_pen_testing5

terra.security/blog/top-10-penetration-testing-as-a-service-ptaas-providers5

affordablepentesting.com/4

affordablepentesting.com/post/low-cost-penetration-testing4

objectstorage.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com/n/idjn99rg9axo/b/it-services/o/com-nyc-listicle4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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