Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 2% → 6%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 10 → 5 of 93
Censys · 1 category · RankedCensys ASM
65Judge labels
3First choices
30Negative labels
13 / 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.
Best standing
5% in ASM for small business buyers
Rank 90 of 100 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 42% of its 31 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Censys ASM →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business6 of 99
5%16 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market90 of 100
0%31 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise89 of 89
0%18 labels
criticized challenger
In asm · 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 Censys ASM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attack surface management | Security operations | 0% | 90 of 100 | 42% | 31 | criticized challenger | ▼−5Since September 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Censys ASM held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · ASM · by segment
Mid-market▼−5Since September 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 5% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 4 → 97 of 98
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 20 → 81 of 81
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASM | 5% | 0% | ▼−5Since September 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 4 → 90 of 100 |
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 Censys ASM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Censys ASM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
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
Direct7 labelsNone
Paraphrase7 labels1
Comparative18 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained6 labels1
Scale-constrained6 labels1
Negative21 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative65 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 5 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.
“Deep internet-facing asset discovery | Censys ASM, which focuses on finding and monitoring public-facing assets and exposures” GPT-6 Luna · ASM · direct prompt · alternative
“tools like Censys and Shodan for internet-exposed asset visibility, though these are not the same as a full EASM platform” GPT-5.4 mini · ASM · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Internet-wide visibility into exposed services, including services on nonstandard ports” GPT-6 Luna · ASM · comparative prompt · alternative
“Censys free tier and PortWarden's first 3 IPs free are the easiest entry points” Muse Glimmer 30B · ASM · 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.
“"For security teams that need to reduce external exposure, act on findings, and close exploitable gaps across subsidiaries and supply chain, Censys is the wrong tool."” Muse Glimmer 30B · ASM · negative prompt · hard negative
“avoid the "pure data" players (like Censys) unless you plan to build a validation layer on top of them” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ASM · negative prompt · hard negative
“powerful but start around $25K+/year and are built for large, complex environments” Kimi K2 · ASM · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Censys is often described as a *data layer* rather than an operational ASM platform — it tells you what exists, but not whether it's exploitable or how to fix it.” Kimi K2 · ASM · comparative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Censys ASM, over the 65 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Censys ASM was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Censys ASM, over the 65 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Censys ASM was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Censys ASM. 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 62 of the 65 answers that named Censys ASM and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
paloaltonetworks.com32
synack.com32
wiz.io30
upguard.com26
cycognito.com23
g2.com23
heimdalsecurity.com22
ciopages.com20
gartner.com18
guideflow.com16
242 of the 242 domain citations in answers naming Censys ASM came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
censys.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Censys ASM takes 0% of first choices and Intruder takes 49%.ShowHide
Search and answers
censys.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Censys ASM takes 0% of first choices and Intruder takes 49%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “attack surface management platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “attack surface management platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 30 a month (“censys asm”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Its company's site
- censys.com shared with Censys's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 4,973 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 757 · 54 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 5,556
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 90 of 100 in ASM
Segment leader
49%
Intruder
- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 65 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 62 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.
Names read as Censys ASM
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Censys ASM; a claim can dispute any of them.
Censys 22Censys Enterprise 1
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The company
Censys is the company behind Censys ASM.ShowHide
The company
Censys is the company behind Censys ASM.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from Censys
- Censys Attack Surface Management
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Censys Attack Surface Management offers several ways to keep your monitored attack surface up-to-date.
- For
- security teams
- Integrations claimed
- 3 community.censys.com/asm-q-a-6
- Customers named
- Swiss Life Germany
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, certifications, hosting
What Censys ASM's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: community.censys.com/asm-q-a-6, censys.com/product/attack-surface-management, censys.com/case-studies/asm_cloud_discovery_case_study, community.censys.com/asm-q-a-6/censys-asm-scan-time-224, docs.censys.com/changelog/guide-to-2026-asm-web-scanning-update. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where Censys ASM 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 Censys ASM, 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.