1 category · RankedCyCognito
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attack surface management | Security operations | 2% | 9 of 104 | 39% | 31 | criticized challenger |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“my default recommendation would be CyCognito if your priority is finding unknown internet-exposed assets quickly and continuously” GPT-5.4 mini · ASM · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Validated, proven-exploitable risk (not just a list) → CyCognito, Randori, or Synack.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ASM · comparative prompt · first choice
“Very strong on automated attribution and shadow IT discovery, often scaling well for fast-growing mid-market companies.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ASM · scale prompt · alternative
“Discovery + active testing + exploit-informed prioritization | Stronger for teams wanting validation built in” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ASM · scale 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.
“Avoid enterprise-focused platforms like Cortex Xpanse or CyCognito unless you have complex multi-entity infrastructure” Kimi K2 · ASM · direct prompt · hard negative
“Enterprise tools (CrowdStrike Falcon Surface, CyCognito, Microsoft Defender EASM) are overkill: $50k+ annually” Grok 4.1 Fast · ASM · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“require $50,000+/year – these are not suitable for limited budgets” MiniMax M2.5 · ASM · budget prompt · hard negative
“typically overkill (and overpriced) for mid-market companies” MiniMax M2.5 · ASM · direct prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 76 of the 91 answers that named CyCognito and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
346 of the 373 domain citations in answers naming CyCognito came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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