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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Cyscale

8Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

2Categories

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

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Cyscale was named 2 times in CNAPP and 1 other category, where Wiz led with 46%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business30 of 67

under the label threshold

Mid-market42 of 57

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In cnapp · 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 Cyscale 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-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	42 of 57	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 46%
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	29 of 53	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 43%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cyscale 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 Cyscale 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	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
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

Direct2 labels1

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Cyscale was cited as a best-for-mid-sized-business pick in several 2024–2025 roundups.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CSPM · paraphrase 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 Cyscale, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cyscale was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Prowler8 of 82Not in the top three

Wiz6 of 81Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud5 of 81Not in the top three

Prisma Cloud5 of 80Not in the top three

Aikido Security4 of 83Not in the top three

AWS Security Hub3 of 81Not in the top three

Orca Security3 of 80Not in the top three

Drata2 of 81Not in the top three

Vanta2 of 81Not in the top three

Deepfence ThreatMapper2 of 80Not 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 Cyscale. 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 3 of the 8 answers that named Cyscale and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudaware.com3

cyberpress.org2

sentinelone.com2

softwaretestinghelp.com2

accuknox.com1

aikido.dev1

aws.amazon.com1

azure.microsoft.com1

busistack.com1

ciso2ciso.com1

Fifteen of the fifteen domain citations in answers naming Cyscale came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudaware.com/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-vendors3

cyberpress.org/cspm-tools-by-business-size-22

softwaretestinghelp.com/best-cloud-security-posture-management-cspm-tools2

accuknox.com/blog/cspm-tools1

aikido.dev/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-cspm-tools1

aws.amazon.com/security-hub/cspm/pricing1

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/defender-for-cloud1

busistack.com/best-cloud-security-posture-management-tools-20261

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 cyscale.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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