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1 category · Named, not ranked

Canarytokens

13Judge labels

3First choices

1Negative labels

6 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Canarytokens was named 3 times in Deception, where Thinkst Canary led with 37%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business5 of 95

under the label threshold

Mid-market11 of 94

under the label threshold

Enterprise72 of 83

under the label threshold

In deception · 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 Canarytokens 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
Deception technology	Security operations	2%	11 of 94	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Thinkst Canary at 37%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Canarytokens yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Canarytokens 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labels1

Comparative1 label1not counted in share

Budget-constrained6 labels2

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 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.

“It provides the fastest path to deception-based detection with no cost and minimal setup.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Deception · budget prompt · first choice

“If budget is extremely tight, you could also start with Canarytokens (the free token service from Thinkst)” Kimi K2 · Deception · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“If you have $0 budget: Use Canarytokens.org for document, folder, and credential tripwires” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Deception · 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 Canarytokens, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Canarytokens was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Thinkst Canary9 of 134Not among the top eight

OpenCanary9 of 133Not among the top eight

Cowrie5 of 130Not among the top eight

T-Pot5 of 130Not among the top eight

HoneyWire4 of 130Not among the top eight

Acalvio ShadowPlex3 of 130Not among the top eight

CyberTrap2 of 130Not among the top eight

Dionaea2 of 130Not among the top eight

Honeyd2 of 130Not among the top eight

Illusive Networks2 of 130Not 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 Canarytokens. 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 12 of the 13 answers that named Canarytokens and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

canary.tools8

cybersectools.com6

securityhive.io5

sourceforge.net5

vendr.com5

acalvio.com4

decryptiondigest.com4

devopsschool.com4

github.com4

guptadeepak.com4

Forty-nine of the forty-nine domain citations in answers naming Canarytokens came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

canary.tools/7

vendr.com/marketplace/thinkst-canary5

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-deception-technology-tools-features-pros-cons-comparison4

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-honeypots-deception-tools-20264

securityhive.io/blog/best-honeypot-solutions-in-20254

slashdot.org/software/deception-technology/f-small-business4

sourceforge.net/software/deception-technology/for-small-business4

cybersectools.com/categories/honeypots3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

canarytokens.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Canarytokens takes 2% of first choices and Thinkst Canary takes 37%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “deception technology platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “deception technology platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 720 a month (“canarytokens”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 8 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 778 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 134 · 15 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,272
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 11 of 94 in deception

Segment leader

37%

Thinkst Canary

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 13 answers
Its own site cited: in 12 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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 canarytokens.org

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	2025-11 to 2026-10	Latest	Categories named
Report or ebook	7	0		2026-06-22

Most recent

2026-06-22Mcp token report or ebook
2026-03-06Svg token report or ebook
2024-08-19Entraid token report or ebook
2024-07-23Getting started report or ebook
2024-07-23Dns token report or ebook
2024-07-23Wireguard token report or ebook

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page canarytokens.org 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. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Canarytokens

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

Canarytokens / Thinkst Canarytokens 1

Follow Canarytokens

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

Canarytokens is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Canarytokens is a free tool that helps you discover you’ve been breached by having attackers announce themselves.
canarytokens.org
For: All- microsoft; phishing; cloud; database; other
canarytokens.org
Free plan or trial: free tool canarytokens.org
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Canarytokens's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: canarytokens.org. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

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 Canarytokens'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 Canarytokens, 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 Canarytokens by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Canarytokens 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 Canarytokens, 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.