Every category where a model named Cymulate 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
Breach and attack simulation	Security operations	24%	1 of 74	21%	53	accepted challenger
Cyber risk quantification	Security operations	0%	84 of 116	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by CyberSaint CyberStrong at 25%
Deception technology	Security operations	0%	46 of 94	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Thinkst Canary at 37%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cymulate yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Cymulate across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1	2	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	2	0	1	6
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	1	1	4
Grok 4.20	3	0	0	1	4
Mistral Small	1	0	2	2	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	4	0	0	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	3	0	2	5
Kimi K2	1	2	0	2	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	0	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	2	1	2	0	5
GPT-6 Luna	1	2	0	0	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	1	1	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

Direct40 labels20

Paraphrase18 labels6

Comparative39 labels16not counted in share

Budget-constrained22 labels3

Scale-constrained17 labels5

Negative33 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative169 labels in all, every segment counted; 34 of the 51 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.

“Choose Cymulate or SafeBreach if you want a reliable, easy-to-use, and highly visible metric of overall security posture” Gemini 3.5 Flash · BAS · comparative prompt · first choice

“Cymulate is one of the most widely deployed BAS platforms, known for its broad enterprise validation capabilities.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · BAS · comparative prompt · first choice

“opt for "automated security validation" or highly-automated BAS vendors (e.g., Cymulate, Pentera, Picus, or Horizon3)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · BAS · scale prompt · first choice

“My top recommendation would be Cymulate or NodeZero for most mid-market B2B companies” MiniMax M2.5 · BAS · direct 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.

“some enterprise users have noted that its dynamic reporting, user interface complexity, and third-party SIEM/EDR integrations can occasionally be unstable” Gemini 3.5 Flash · BAS · negative prompt · soft negative

“Integration Stability: Users frequently cite "integration issues" as a hurdle... Be cautious if your primary goal is automated remediation” Qwen 3.7 Flash · BAS · negative prompt · soft negative

“Industry-standard vendors like Cymulate or Pentera typically charge $50k–$100k+ annually, making them inaccessible for tight budgets.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · BAS · budget prompt · soft negative

“don't publish pricing and typically start at $30,000-$50,000+ annually, which may be prohibitive for smaller organizations” Kimi K2 · BAS · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cymulate, over the 169 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cymulate was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SafeBreach132 of 16910Not among the top eight

Picus Security Validation Platform123 of 16913Compare →

AttackIQ113 of 16913Compare →

Pentera80 of 1693Compare →

XM Cyber41 of 1691Not among the top eight

Mandiant Security Validation28 of 1691Not among the top eight

Horizon3.ai NodeZero26 of 1696Compare →

NodeZero25 of 1699Compare →

AttackIQ Flex18 of 1699Compare →

Infection Monkey16 of 1698Not among the top eight

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 Cymulate. 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 163 of the 169 answers that named Cymulate and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startupstash.com107

picussecurity.com100

guideflow.com95

g2.com67

csoonline.com65

cymulate.comYour site65

adaptivesecurity.com62

peerspot.com58

techtarget.com52

gbhackers.com50

656 of the 721 domain citations in answers naming Cymulate came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

startupstash.com/best-breach-and-attack-simulation-tools107

guideflow.com/blog/breach-and-attack-simulation-software91

csoonline.com/article/2132289/breach-and-attack-simulation-tools.html62

adaptivesecurity.com/blog/top-bas-platforms-to-strengthen-security-in-202561

peerspot.com/categories/breach-and-attack-simulation-bas47

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-breach-attack-simulation-tools-202643

esecurityplanet.com/products/breach-and-attack-simulation-bas-vendors42

gbhackers.com/best-breach-and-attack-simulation-bas-vendors35

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Cymulate stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “breach and attack simulation platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “breach and attack simulation platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 720 a month (“cymulate”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 16 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 16,407 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 3,469 · 303 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,161
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

14 ads · 14 text · 3 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2024, as CYMULATE LTD, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 6 in the year, 8 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

24%

rank 1 of 74 in BAS

First choices

across its categories

Named in: 169 answers
Its own site cited: in 163 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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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Addresses on cymulate.com

1,356

subdomains included

Content

822

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

12 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	346	10	2026-09-24	EDR, SIEM
News or press	258	1	2026-08-04	EDR, ASM
Conference or event	66	undated
Report or ebook	60	0	2026-03-17	SIEM
Webinar or virtual event	34	0	2026-03-10
Case study	33	0	2026-02-05	SIEM, Compliance automation
Comparison	13	0	2025-12-11
Glossary or explainer	5	0	2022-07-27	ASM
Podcast or video	5	0	2024-09-09
Template or tool	2	0	2025-05-06

Most recent

2026-09-24Ai accelerated defense loop blog
2026-09-22Agentic cyber defense architecture blog
2026-09-17Headless claude code git config command execution blog
2026-09-15Agentic cyber defense framework blog
2026-09-10Ai powered cyber defense engineering blog
2026-09-01Gartner peer insights customers choice blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page cymulate.com 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.

Follow Cymulate

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Cymulate is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: AI-Powered Exposure Validation
cymulate.com
For: CISO/Security Leader; SecOps/SOC; Red & Purple Teams; Vulnerability Management
cymulate.com
Customers named: Afya Participações S.AAxis Max Life InsurancePersistent TechnologyDarling Ingredients, Inc.GlobeleqBanco PANRBIFinancial Regulatory Authority
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Cymulate's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: cymulate.com, cymulate.com/tags/security, cymulate.com/platform, cymulate.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cymulate by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Cymulate 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 Cymulate, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Cymulate is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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AI models recommend Cymulate first in Breach and attack simulation this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/breach-and-attack-simulation/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cymulate--breach-and-attack-simulation-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Breach and attack simulation, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Breach and attack simulation standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/breach-and-attack-simulation/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cymulate--breach-and-attack-simulation-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Breach and attack simulation, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Breach and attack simulation standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/breach-and-attack-simulation/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cymulate--breach-and-attack-simulation-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Breach and attack simulation, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Breach and attack simulation standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.