Every category where a model named DefectDojo 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
Application security posture management	Developer platform	10%	3 of 70	11%	18	accepted challenger
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	27 of 77	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 30%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Software composition analysis	Developer platform	0%	38 of 50	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Trivy at 31%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for DefectDojo 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 DefectDojo 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	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	3	2	0	6
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	0	1
Grok 4.20	1	1	1	0	3
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	2	0	2

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

Paraphrase6 labelsNone

Comparative7 labelsNone

Budget-constrained22 labels10

Scale-constrained8 labelsNone

Negative7 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative54 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 of the 11 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.

“DefectDojo Community Edition – free, powerful, and integrates with 500+ tools. Great for small teams with some DevOps/DevSecOps capacity.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ASPM · budget prompt · first choice

“DefectDojo (Open Source/Community Edition) is the best overall choice because it is free forever” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ASPM · budget prompt · first choice

“If you have DevOps talent: Choose DefectDojo. It maximizes ROI because you aren't paying for a license” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ASPM · budget prompt · first choice

“choose DefectDojo if software spend must be near zero and you can handle the operational overhead” Perplexity Sonar · ASPM · budget 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.

“DefectDojo (open source) – Zero licensing cost, but higher effort” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ASPM · scale prompt · soft negative

“DefectDojo (open source, but requires more setup)” Mistral Small · ASPM · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DefectDojo, over the 54 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DefectDojo was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Aikido Security37 of 5422Compare →

Snyk28 of 545Compare →

ArmorCode26 of 542Compare →

Cycode ASPM21 of 541Compare →

Apiiro19 of 543Not among the top eight

Jit16 of 541Compare →

Checkmarx One14 of 540Not among the top eight

Legit Security11 of 540Not among the top eight

OX Security11 of 540Not among the top eight

Wiz11 of 540Compare →

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 DefectDojo. 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 52 of the 54 answers that named DefectDojo and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

appsecsanta.com39

aikido.dev25

cycode.com25

orca.security25

defectdojo.comYour site23

plexicus.ai23

g2.com22

expertinsights.com21

gartner.com19

checkmarx.com18

217 of the 240 domain citations in answers naming DefectDojo came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cycode.com/blog/best-application-secuirty-posture-management-tools22

orca.security/resources/blog/best-aspm-tools20

plexicus.ai/blog/review/10-best-aspm-tools-unify-application-security-code-to-cloud-visibi20

appsecsanta.com/aspm-tools18

aikido.dev/blog/top-7-aspm-tools16

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-application-security-posture-management-as16

gartner.com/reviews/market/application-security-posture-management-aspm-tools16

geeksframework.com/software/application-security-posture-management-aspm15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

defectdojo.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, DefectDojo takes 10% of first choices and Aikido Security takes 37%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “aspm platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “aspm platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 880 a month (“defectdojo”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 9 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 603 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 320 · 5 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 901
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

4 ads · 2 image, 2 text · 1 shown in the last 30 days

First shown January 2025, as DefectDojo, Inc., verified.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

10%

rank 3 of 70 in ASPM

Segment leader

37%

Aikido Security

First choices: 10 across its categories
Named in: 54 answers
Its own site cited: in 52 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 defectdojo.com

1,268

subdomains included

Content

174

counted in the table below

Documentation

840

Product · Integration

1 · 162

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	86	13	2026-09-23	CSPM
Conference or event	36	undated
News or press	15	0	2026-06-24
Report or ebook	13	undated
Comparison	12	0	2026-02-21
Template or tool	7	0	2026-02-01
Case study	2	undated
Glossary or explainer	2	0	2026-02-15
Webinar or virtual event	1	0	2024-12-12

Most recent

2026-09-23Youve been lied to about security blog
2026-09-07Getting started with defectdojo in 10 minutes or less blog
2026-09-01Your triage work is now an export sboms and vex from defectdojo pro blog
2026-08-27Sensei cspm fix cloud misconfigurations aws azure gcp blog
2026-08-25Vulnerability explorer epss kev root cause analysis blog
2026-08-20Threat modeling beta defectdojo blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page defectdojo.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.

Names read as DefectDojo

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

DefectDojo (Pro / Cloud) 1DefectDojo Pro 1OWASP DefectDojo 1

Follow DefectDojo

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

DefectDojo is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Open Source Vulnerability Management and ASPM
defectdojo.com
For: security teams
defectdojo.com
Price stated: Pro is now $100 a month plus 15 cents per finding defectdojo.com
Starting price: 100 a month plus 15 cents per finding defectdojo.com
Free plan or trial: Free forever defectdojo.com
Integrations claimed: 500 defectdojo.com
Certifications: SOC 2 Type 2 System and Organization ControlsGDPR General Data Protection RegulationCRA EU Cyber Resilience ActOWASP Flagship Project
Customers named: SASPearson
Not stated on the pages read: Hosting

What DefectDojo's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: defectdojo.com, defectdojo.com/pricing, trust.defectdojo.com, defectdojo.com/platform, defectdojo.com/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 DefectDojo'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 DefectDojo, 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 DefectDojo by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where DefectDojo 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 DefectDojo, 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 DefectDojo 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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DefectDojo is among the products AI models recommend first in Application security posture management 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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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Application security posture management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Application security posture management 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.