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1 category · Named, not ranked

DeepStrike

15Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

7 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. DeepStrike was named 4 times in PTaaS, where Cobalt led with 45%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business23 of 76

under the label threshold

Mid-market25 of 82

under the label threshold

Enterprise7 of 67

under the label threshold

In ptaas · 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 DeepStrike 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	Since September 2026
Penetration testing as a service	Security operations	0%	25 of 82	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Cobalt at 45%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, DeepStrike held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · PTaaS · by segment

Small businessnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 20 of 71, unchanged

Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 19 → 23 of 74

Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

2%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 19 → 7 of 63

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
PTaaS	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 19 → 25 of 82

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

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

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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labels1

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 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.

“Vendor-agnostic integration with detection-and-response | DeepStrike” GLM 4.7 FlashX · PTaaS · 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 DeepStrike, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DeepStrike was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Synack14 of 152Not among the top eight

Cobalt10 of 150Not among the top eight

NetSPI8 of 155Not among the top eight

BreachLock6 of 150Not among the top eight

HackerOne6 of 150Not among the top eight

Astra Security5 of 150Not among the top eight

NCC Group4 of 150Not among the top eight

Rapid74 of 150Not among the top eight

Bishop Fox3 of 150Not among the top eight

Mandiant3 of 150Not 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 DeepStrike. 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 15 of the 15 answers that named DeepStrike and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

deepstrike.ioYour site15

synack.com10

underdefense.com9

getastra.com7

stingrai.io7

techrepublic.com7

beaglesecurity.com5

brightdefense.com5

cybriant.com4

softwaresecured.com4

Fifty-eight of the seventy-three domain citations in answers naming DeepStrike came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

deepstrike.io/blog/top-penetration-testing-companies-us9

underdefense.com/blog/penetration-testing-services8

techrepublic.com/article/best-penetration-testing-companies7

synack.com/blog/best-penetration-testing-companies5

beaglesecurity.com/blog/article/top-penetration-testing-companies.html4

cybriant.com/feeds/blog/penetration-testing-services-pricing4

getastra.com/blog/penetration-testing/companies4

terra.security/blog/top-10-penetration-testing-as-a-service-ptaas-providers4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

deepstrike.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, DeepStrike takes 0% of first choices and Cobalt takes 45%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “penetration testing service”

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not in the top ten

Position for “penetration testing services”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 590 a month (“deepstrike”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 52 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 13,529 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 4,070 · 87 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,175
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

1 ads · 1 text · 0 shown in the last 30 days

First shown March 2026, as DeepStrike LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 1 in the year.

On Google's pages: 1

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 25 of 82 in ptaas

Segment leader

45%

Cobalt

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 15 answers
Its own site cited: in 15 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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 deepstrike.io

435

subdomains included

Content

411

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

2 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	363	10	2026-09-07	PTaaS, CSPM
Glossary or explainer	28	1	2026-08-15	MFA, Patching
Comparison	14	6	2026-09-03	SAST
Case study	6	6	2026-09-16

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How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page deepstrike.io 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. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as DeepStrike

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

Deepstrike 1

Follow DeepStrike

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

DeepStrike is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: DeepStrike penetration testing services simulate real-world attacks, helping you identify potential threats and secure your systems before it's too late.
deepstrike.io
For: organizations
deepstrike.io
Price stated: No upfront payments. 100% of the payment is due only after the project is completed and you are fully satisfied with the deliverables. deepstrike.io/pricing/penetration-testing-pricing
Free plan or trial: Yes, we provide an initial consultation at no charge to understand your needs and recommend the appropriate testing approach. deepstrike.io/pricing/penetration-testing-pricing
Certifications: SOC 2ISO 27001HITRUSTHIPAA
Customers named: TapcartCartaVellumCausalKlookMural.coFourthwallSwimply
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, hosting

What DeepStrike's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: deepstrike.io, deepstrike.io/pricing/penetration-testing-pricing, deepstrike.io/features/no-findings-no-pay, deepstrike.io/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 DeepStrike'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 DeepStrike, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where DeepStrike 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 DeepStrike, 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.