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3 categories · Named, not ranked

Cycode

21Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

10 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

9 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Cycode was named 9 times in SCA and 2 other categories, where Trivy led with 40%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business32 of 50

under the label threshold

Mid-market8 of 49

under the label threshold

Enterprise16 of 49

under the label threshold

In sca · 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 Cycode 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
Software composition analysis	Developer platform	2%	8 of 49	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Trivy at 40%
Static application security testing	Developer platform	0%	19 of 47	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Semgrep at 47%
Cloud-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	41 of 57	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 46%

Movement

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

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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative12 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labels1

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative21 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.

“Aikido Security / Cycode: Modern, developer-friendly platforms tailored for mid-market (500-person) companies” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SCA · scale prompt · first choice

“Offers code-to-runtime visibility, SBOM generation, and license compliance, but is not self-hosted.” Mistral Small · SCA · comparative prompt · alternative

“For AI-native and low noise: ZeroPath or Cycode SAST” Mistral Small · SAST · comparative 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 Cycode, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cycode was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SonarQube11 of 211Not in the top three

Checkmarx One10 of 214Not in the top three

Snyk Open Source10 of 212Not in the top three

Endor Labs10 of 211Not in the top three

Mend.io10 of 210Not in the top three

Black Duck9 of 211Not in the top three

Semgrep9 of 211Not in the top three

Veracode9 of 211Not in the top three

Aikido Security9 of 210Not in the top three

Snyk Code9 of 210Not 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 Cycode. 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 20 of the 21 answers that named Cycode and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cycode.comYour site14

endorlabs.com12

expertinsights.com12

appsecsanta.com9

aikido.dev7

corgea.com7

safeguard.sh7

pixee.ai6

zeropath.com6

guideflow.com5

Seventy-one of the eighty-five domain citations in answers naming Cycode came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

endorlabs.com/learn/best-sca-tools-05b7a8

cycode.com/blog/top-enterprise-sca-tools7

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-software-composition-analysis-tools7

zeropath.com/blog/best-sast-tools6

corgea.com/learn/best-sast-tools5

endorlabs.com/learn/best-sca-tools5

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-static-application-security-testing-sast-t5

guideflow.com/blog/software-composition-analysis-tools5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cycode

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

Cycode SAST 1

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 Cycode'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 Cycode, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at cycode.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.