# Flawfinder: how AI models rank it, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 1 categories by 3 of 14 models. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/flawfinder/

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Static application security testing | 0% | 71 | 100% | 3 |

## And against it

- "Strongly avoid: RegEx-only tools (Flawfinder as primary, Graudit, any "grep-based" scanner)" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, SAST)
- "deprecated by major CI/CD platforms because they are no longer maintained" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, SAST)
- "High FPs from syntactic matching; good recall ... but irrelevant warnings dominate." (Grok 4.1 Fast, SAST)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise.

- Static application security testing: 0% to 0%, ±0. New · not ranked in September 2026 · rank 71 of 71.

## Record

- Method: https://it-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://it-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, it-ai-index.com.