Small business=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 90 → 93 of 93
Palo Alto Cortex · 1 category · RankedCortex Xpanse
111Judge labels
16First choices
44Negative labels
14 / 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
29% in ASM for enterprise buyers
Rank 23 of 100 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 42% of its 36 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Cortex Xpanse →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business99 of 99
0%21 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market23 of 100
0%36 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise1 of 89
29%53 labels
accepted 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 Cortex Xpanse 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% | 23 of 100 | 42% | 36 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Cortex Xpanse held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · ASM · by segment
Mid-market=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 100 → 18 of 98
Enterprise▲+12Since September 2026: 16% → 28%, +12 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
28%from 16% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 1 pointRank 3 → 1 of 81
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASM | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 100 → 23 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 Cortex Xpanse 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 Cortex Xpanse 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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
Direct22 labels9
Paraphrase12 labels6
Comparative30 labels9not counted in share
Budget-constrained13 labelsNone
Scale-constrained10 labels1
Negative24 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative111 labels in all, every segment counted; 16 of the 26 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.
“Best for: Large enterprises that want ASM tightly integrated with a broader SecOps stack.” GPT-5.4 mini · ASM · comparative prompt · first choice
“Tight integration with Cortex XSIAM/XDR/SIEM; ranked highest in strategy by Forrester” Kimi K2 · ASM · comparative prompt · first choice
“Cortex Xpanse is widely considered the market leader for standalone ASM.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ASM · comparative prompt · first choice
“Best for large enterprises: Cortex Xpanse or Bitsight” Perplexity Sonar · ASM · comparative prompt · first choice
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.
“notably high percentage of negative labels (56% criticized) ... limited internal context, high cost” Mistral Small · ASM · negative prompt · hard negative
“What I'd Avoid for Mid-Market - Palo Alto Cortex Xpanse and Censys Enterprise” Kimi K2 · ASM · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Avoid at all costs (for your budget) ... Cortex Xpanse” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ASM · budget prompt · hard negative
“you do not need to pay for five-figure, enterprise-grade platforms like Palo Alto Cortex Xpanse or CyCognito” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ASM · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cortex Xpanse, over the 110 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cortex Xpanse was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cortex Xpanse, over the 110 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cortex Xpanse 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 Cortex Xpanse. 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 110 of the 110 answers that named Cortex Xpanse and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
paloaltonetworks.com66
synack.com59
upguard.com50
cycognito.com42
wiz.io42
guideflow.com41
attaxion.com39
gartner.com35
ionix.io34
g2.com33
441 of the 441 domain citations in answers naming Cortex Xpanse came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
cortex.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Cortex Xpanse takes 0% of first choices and Intruder takes 49%.ShowHide
Search and answers
cortex.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Cortex Xpanse 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
- 170 a month (“cortex xpanse”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 4 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 16,782 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,883 · 116 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,758
- 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 23 of 100 in ASM
Segment leader
49%
Intruder
- First choices
- 16 across its categories
- Named in
- 110 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 110 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on cortex.io
781
subdomains included
Content
483
counted in the table below
Documentation
243
Product · Integration
23 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 324 | 7 | 2026-08-11 | IaC, Patching | |
| Report or ebook | 66 | 0 | 2026-06-16 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 32 | 1 | 2026-09-03 | ||
| Podcast or video | 24 | 6 | 2026-09-10 | ||
| Comparison | 16 | 1 | 2026-08-18 | ||
| Case study | 15 | 2 | 2026-08-05 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 2 | 0 | 2026-01-27 | ||
| Conference or event | 2 | 0 | 2025-06-18 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | 0 | 2026-01-14 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-10Judgment is the job planera s naveen puvvula on keeping the human at the front of the pdlc podcast or video
- 2026-09-03What is an internal developer portal glossary or explainer
- 2026-08-27Attacker expertise just got commoditized semgrep s adam berman on security in the agent era podcast or video
- 2026-08-18Drive vs dx core 4 comparison
- 2026-08-13Garbage in garbage out splunk s steve flanders on why ai can t fix your bad telemetry podcast or video
- 2026-08-11Drive and space blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cortex.io 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. 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.
Names read as Cortex Xpanse
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cortex Xpanse; a claim can dispute any of them.
Palo Alto Networks Cortex Xpanse 13Palo Alto Cortex Xpanse 10Palo Alto 1Palo Alto's Cortex Xpanse 1
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The company
Palo Alto Cortex is the company behind Cortex Xpanse.ShowHide
The company
Palo Alto Cortex is the company behind Cortex Xpanse.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from Palo Alto Cortex
- Palo Alto Cortex AgentiX, Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Cortex is the Engineering Operations Platform that gives engineering teams the visibility, governance, and golden paths to ship faster with AI, without runaway risk.
- For
- engineering teams
- Price stated
- Cortex uses a per-seat model with pricing that scales based on org size. Pricing is customized. Contact the team for a quote. cortex.io/pricing
- Integrations claimed
- 50 cortex.io/pricing
- Certifications
- SOC Type 2 CertifiedISO/IEC 27001:2022 Certified
- Customers named
- H&R BlockSkyscannerXeroArcherRapid7MONY GroupVistaPrintOutreach
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, free plan or trial, hosting
What Cortex Xpanse's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: cortex.io, cortex.io/pricing, trust.cortex.io, cortex.io/solutions/agents, cortex.io/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Cortex Xpanse'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 Cortex Xpanse, 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 Cortex Xpanse by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cortex Xpanse 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 Cortex Xpanse, 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.