Every category where a model named Calico 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
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	16 of 78	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1
Mistral Small	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct6 labels1

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained8 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“The standard "credible production stack at $0" is often Kubescape + Falco + Calico (network policy)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Container security · budget prompt · alternative

“Provides network policy and zero-trust controls for containers and Kubernetes.” Mistral Small · Container security · budget prompt · alternative

“Add network policy/segmentation with Calico (or Cilium)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Container security · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Calico OSS: Network policy enforcement.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Container security · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Calico, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Calico was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Falco29 of 297Not in the top three

Kubescape29 of 297Not in the top three

Trivy27 of 2919Not in the top three

Aqua Security24 of 290Not in the top three

Prisma Cloud16 of 290Not in the top three

Snyk15 of 291Not in the top three

Sysdig Secure12 of 291Not in the top three

SUSE NeuVector11 of 291Not in the top three

Sysdig11 of 290Not in the top three

Snyk Container8 of 292Not 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 Calico. 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 29 of the 29 answers that named Calico and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org29

gbhackers.com26

cybersecuritynews.com23

softwareadvice.com13

expertinsights.com11

appsecsanta.com10

portainer.io10

aikido.dev8

decryptiondigest.com8

ox.security8

146 of the 146 domain citations in answers naming Calico came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/container-security-by-business-size-227

gbhackers.com/best-container-security-compared22

cybersecuritynews.com/best-container-security-tools14

softwareadvice.com/container-security13

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-container-security-tools11

cybersecuritynews.com/best-container-security-tools/amp10

aikido.dev/blog/top-container-scanning-tools8

cyberpress.org/cwpp-solutions-by-business-size-28

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Calico

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Calico; a claim can dispute any of them.

Calico OSS 2

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