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Index Vendors › Ethicontrol · September 2026 Edition
2 categories · Named, not ranked

Ethicontrol

16Judge labels
6First choices
2Negative labels
9 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
8 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Ethicontrol was named 8 times in GRC and 1 other category, where Vanta led with 14%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In grc · 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 Ethicontrol 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
GRC platformsSecurity operations7%7 of 7714%7under 10 labels · led by Vanta at 14%
Compliance automationSecurity operations0%36 of 540%1under 10 labels · led by Drata at 37%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Ethicontrol 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 Ethicontrol across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast00011
Mistral Small10001
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash10001
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX11002
MiniMax M2.510001

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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained15 labels6
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 6 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.

“starting with the free tier of RealCSO or exploring Ethicontrol\u2019s fixed low-cost model is often the safest entry point” Qwen 3.7 Flash · GRC · budget prompt · first choice
“If you prefer a commercial solution on a tight budget: Start with Ethicontrol or SimpleRisk (free core)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · GRC · budget prompt · first choice
“Featured as the "budget choice" in recent reviews” MiniMax M2.5 · GRC · budget prompt · first choice
“consider Ethicontrol for its low monthly cost” Mistral Small · GRC · 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.

“Ethicontrol (~$400+/mo) is ethics-focused, not full GRC.” Grok 4.1 Fast · GRC · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Ethicontrol, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ethicontrol was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
SimpleRisk14 of 166Not in the top three
RealCISO14 of 164Not in the top three
Hyperproof10 of 160Not in the top three
Sprinto7 of 162Not in the top three
Eramba5 of 160Not in the top three
AdaptiveGRC4 of 160Not in the top three
Drata4 of 160Not in the top three
Vanta3 of 160Not in the top three
Kopexa2 of 160Not in the top three
LowerPlane1 of 161Not 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 Ethicontrol. 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 16 of the 16 answers that named Ethicontrol and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

brightdefense.com16
spotsaas.com16
realciso.io15
reddit.com15
orbiqhq.com9
simplerisk.com8
sourceforge.net8
grc-review.com6
complyjet.com4
enzuzo.com4

101 of the 101 domain citations in answers naming Ethicontrol came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited 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 Ethicontrol'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 Ethicontrol, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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