Every category where a model named Bugcrowd 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
Penetration testing as a service	Security operations	2%	8 of 82	17%	12	accepted challenger	▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Bugcrowd held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · PTaaS · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

2%from 2% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 6 → 10 of 71

Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

2%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 23 → 7 of 74

Enterprise=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 17 → 20 of 63

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
PTaaS	0%	2%	▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 23 → 8 of 82

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 Bugcrowd 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	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.20	0	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	1	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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase12 labels1

Comparative11 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained6 labels2

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative36 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.

“Platforms like HackerOne, Bugcrowd, or Open Bug Bounty allow you to set a budget and pay only for valid vulnerabilities found” MiniMax M2.5 · PTaaS · budget prompt · first choice

“Companies wanting crowdsourced testing | Launch in <72 hours, subscription model” MiniMax M2.5 · PTaaS · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“their Enterprise PTaaS offering is well-suited for mid-sized agile enterprises” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PTaaS · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“HackerOne / Bugcrowd: Both have programs tailored for SMBs and startups.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PTaaS · 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.

“often more suited to larger enterprises or those with more complex needs” Mistral Small · PTaaS · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“Broader crowdsourcing, but less PTaaS-specific structure.” Grok 4.20 · PTaaS · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Bugcrowd, over the 36 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bugcrowd was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cobalt27 of 3612Compare →

BreachLock21 of 366Compare →

Synack17 of 363Compare →

HackerOne17 of 360Compare →

NetSPI15 of 366Not among the top eight

Astra Security13 of 363Compare →

Acunetix7 of 360Not among the top eight

Pentest-Tools.com7 of 360Not among the top eight

Mandiant6 of 360Not among the top eight

Rapid76 of 360Not 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 Bugcrowd. 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 32 of the 36 answers that named Bugcrowd and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

synack.com21

underdefense.com20

deepstrike.io18

techrepublic.com17

stingrai.io15

terra.security13

beaglesecurity.com10

brightdefense.com9

getastra.com9

g2.com8

140 of the 140 domain citations in answers naming Bugcrowd came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

techrepublic.com/article/best-penetration-testing-companies17

synack.com/blog/best-penetration-testing-companies16

underdefense.com/blog/penetration-testing-services16

terra.security/blog/top-10-penetration-testing-as-a-service-ptaas-providers13

deepstrike.io/blog/top-penetration-testing-as-a-service-ptaas11

beaglesecurity.com/blog/article/top-penetration-testing-companies.html10

stingrai.io/blog/best-ptaas-providers-20269

brightdefense.com/resources/best-penetration-testing-companies-for-soc-2-compliance6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

bugcrowd.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Bugcrowd takes 2% of first choices and Cobalt takes 45%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “penetration testing service”

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not in the top ten

Position for “penetration testing services”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 3,600 a month (“bugcrowd”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 77 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 38,523 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 5,125 · 218 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 14,535
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

7 ads · 7 image · 0 shown in the last 30 days

First shown July 2025, as Bugcrowd, verified.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 8 of 82 in ptaas

Segment leader

45%

Cobalt

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 36 answers
Its own site cited: in 32 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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Addresses on bugcrowd.com

2,191

subdomains included

Content

1,800

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

49 · 4

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	983	0	2023-12-05	ASM, MFA
Case study	410	2	2026-09-10	MFA, ASM
Glossary or explainer	207	10	2026-09-18	SASE
News or press	163	0	2023-02-22	PTaaS, ASM
Comparison	11	0	2026-06-22	ASM
Podcast or video	11	0	2016-04-29
Conference or event	8	0	2017-07-12
Webinar or virtual event	7	0	2026-05-05	ASM

Most recent

2026-09-18Agentic pen testing glossary or explainer
2026-09-18Ai slop glossary or explainer
2026-09-18Slop screening glossary or explainer
2026-09-16Runtime sbom glossary or explainer
2026-09-16Autonomous fuzzing glossary or explainer
2026-09-16Reinforcement learning environments glossary or explainer

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page bugcrowd.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name ASM (13); 2 name the category the models place it in. 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 Bugcrowd

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.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Bugcrowd is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: #1 Crowdsourced Cybersecurity Platform
bugcrowd.com
For: security buyer
bugcrowd.com
Certifications: FedRAMP ModerateCRESTSOC 2 Type 2SOC 3ISO/IEC 27001:2022ISO/IEC 27018:2019CSA STAR Level 1Cyber Essentials
Customers named: InstructureAutomotive IndustryT-MobileAtlassianHPSophosActiveCampaignRubrik
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting

What Bugcrowd's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: bugcrowd.com, trust.bugcrowd.com, bugcrowd.com/solutions, bugcrowd.com/customers, bugcrowd.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

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

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where Bugcrowd 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 Bugcrowd, 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.