Every category where a model named Datadog Cloud Security Management 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 security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	13 of 53	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 43%
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	29 of 78	25%	4	under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%

Movement

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

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

Direct8 labelsNone

Paraphrase10 labelsNone

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained5 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative37 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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: Teams already heavily invested in Datadog... may not be as deeply specialized as a standalone security platform.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Container security · scale prompt · alternative

“Teams already using Datadog for APM / infrastructure monitoring... Cons: Not as deeply focused on compliance auditing” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CSPM · scale prompt · alternative

“If your engineering team is already using Datadog ... Datadog's CSM is a very compelling choice.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CSPM · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Datadog includes CSPM features within its "Cloud Workload Security" modules.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CSPM · budget 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.

“Relying solely on standard Log Management tools (like basic setups of Splunk, Datadog, or ELK stack) for security” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Container security · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Datadog Cloud Security Management, over the 37 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Datadog Cloud Security Management was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wiz33 of 3712Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud27 of 379Not in the top three

Orca Security25 of 376Not in the top three

Prowler22 of 376Not in the top three

Prisma Cloud21 of 372Not in the top three

Aqua Security9 of 371Not in the top three

Sysdig8 of 372Not in the top three

Orca6 of 370Not in the top three

Falco4 of 371Not in the top three

AWS Security Hub4 of 370Not 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 Datadog Cloud Security Management. 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 28 of the 37 answers that named Datadog Cloud Security Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org23

gbhackers.com23

cloudaware.com21

complyjet.com21

orca.security21

busistack.com16

cybersecuritynews.com15

techrepublic.com15

expertinsights.com7

gartner.com7

169 of the 169 domain citations in answers naming Datadog Cloud Security Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudaware.com/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-vendors21

complyjet.com/blog/best-cspm-tools21

gbhackers.com/best-cspm-compared21

orca.security/resources/blog/best-cspm-tools21

cyberpress.org/cspm-tools-by-business-size-220

busistack.com/best-cloud-security-posture-management-tools-202616

techrepublic.com/article/best-cspm-tools15

cybersecuritynews.com/best-cspm-tools13

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Datadog Cloud Security Management

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

Datadog 5Datadog Cloud Security Management (CSM) 3Datadog Cloud Security 1

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