Every category where a model named Falco 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
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	10%	5 of 78	4%	47	accepted challenger
Cloud-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	12 of 57	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 46%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	1	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	2	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	1	1	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	3	2	1	7
Mistral Small	0	4	1	0	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	6	1	0	7
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	3	2	0	5
Kimi K2	1	5	0	0	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	4	0	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	3	3	0	6

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

Direct21 labels2

Paraphrase33 labels7

Comparative23 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained39 labels9

Scale-constrained8 labels2

Negative22 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative146 labels in all, every segment counted; 20 of the 25 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.

“Falco is a particularly strong choice... open-source tools like Falco are excellent for runtime detection at no cost” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Container security · budget prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend starting with the open-source combination of Kubescape and Falco as your Kubernetes security foundation” Grok 4.1 Fast · Container security · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“My practical pick: ARMO/Falco-based stack or Chainguard's free tier” GPT-5.4 mini · Container security · budget prompt · first choice

“Kubescape + Falco (free) - a credible defense-in-depth for $0 in licensing.” Llama 4 Maverick · Container security · paraphrase 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.

“provide a strong free foundation but lack enterprise-scale management, support, and advanced enforcement” Grok 4.1 Fast · Container security · comparative prompt · soft negative

“Runtime tools like Falco and Tetragon detect anomalous behavior, but they do not scan for CVEs.” Perplexity Sonar · Container security · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Falco, over the 146 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Falco was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Trivy106 of 14623Not in the top three

Aqua Security89 of 14623Not in the top three

Prisma Cloud80 of 1467Not in the top three

Kubescape79 of 1468Not in the top three

Wiz69 of 1463Not in the top three

Sysdig55 of 1466Not in the top three

Snyk49 of 1468Not in the top three

Sysdig Secure44 of 14612Not in the top three

SUSE NeuVector42 of 1462Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud39 of 14623Not 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 Falco. 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 127 of the 146 answers that named Falco and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org114

gbhackers.com111

cybersecuritynews.com89

expertinsights.com51

decryptiondigest.com41

aikido.dev36

cipherssecurity.com34

ox.security33

portainer.io32

sentinelone.com31

572 of the 572 domain citations in answers naming Falco came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/container-security-by-business-size-266

gbhackers.com/best-container-security-compared64

cybersecuritynews.com/best-container-security-tools41

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-container-security-tools36

gbhackers.com/best-kubernetes-security-compared35

decryptiondigest.com/blog/guide-finding-best-container-security-tools32

cyberpress.org/kubernetes-security-by-business-size-231

cyberpress.org/cnapp-platforms-by-business-size-226

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Falco

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

Falco (by Sysdig) 1

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