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Index › Vendors › Cloud Custodian · September 2026 Edition

3 categories · Named, not ranked

Cloud Custodian

9Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

3Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Cloud Custodian was named 5 times in CSPM and 2 other categories, where Wiz led with 43%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business26 of 64

under the label threshold

Mid-market14 of 53

under the label threshold

Enterprise31 of 42

under the label threshold

In cspm · 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 Cloud Custodian 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
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	14 of 53	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 43%
Cloud cost management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	37 of 79	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Vantage at 54%
Infrastructure as code	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	32 of 46	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Terraform at 46%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	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	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	2	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	2
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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“An open-source rules engine for managing cloud resources... Best for: Automation.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · FinOps · budget prompt · alternative

“Cloud Custodian (great for auto-remediation via policies)” Grok 4.1 Fast · CSPM · budget prompt · alternative

“Auto-remediation (optional) | Cloud Custodian | Free” Kimi K2 · CSPM · budget prompt · alternative

“Cloud Custodian (policy-as-code)” Kimi K2 · CSPM · negative 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 Cloud Custodian, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloud Custodian was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Prowler6 of 92Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud5 of 91Not in the top three

Wiz5 of 91Not in the top three

Prisma Cloud4 of 90Not in the top three

ScoutSuite4 of 90Not in the top three

CloudSploit3 of 90Not in the top three

Google Security Command Center3 of 90Not in the top three

Lacework FortiCNAPP3 of 90Not in the top three

Aikido Security2 of 91Not in the top three

Orca Security2 of 91Not 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 Cloud Custodian. 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 6 of the 9 answers that named Cloud Custodian and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudaware.com4

cyberpress.org4

orca.security4

aikido.dev3

expertinsights.com3

sentinelone.com3

aws.amazon.com2

busistack.com2

complyjet.com2

costbench.com2

Twenty-nine of the twenty-nine domain citations in answers naming Cloud Custodian came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudaware.com/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-vendors4

cyberpress.org/cspm-tools-by-business-size-24

orca.security/resources/blog/best-cspm-tools4

expertinsights.com/cloud-security/the-top-cloud-security-posture-management-cspm-solutions3

aikido.dev/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-cspm-tools2

busistack.com/best-cloud-security-posture-management-tools-20262

complyjet.com/blog/best-cspm-tools2

cybersectools.com/compare/prowler-vs-scout-suite2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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