Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 14 → 6 of 44
1 category · RankedFOSSA
57Judge labels
3First choices
5Negative labels
14 / 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.
Best standing
5% in SCA for small business buyers
Rank 17 of 50 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 5% of its 19 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of FOSSA →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 49
5%19 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market17 of 50
0%19 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise16 of 56
0%19 labels
accepted challenger
In sca · 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 FOSSA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software composition analysis | Developer platform | 0% | 17 of 50 | 5% | 19 | accepted challenger | =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, FOSSA held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · SCA · by segment
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 13 → 15 of 43
Enterprise=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 13 → 16 of 47
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCA | 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 13 → 17 of 50 |
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 FOSSA across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated FOSSA across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct17 labels3
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative17 labelsNone
Budget-constrained5 labelsNone
Scale-constrained7 labelsNone
Negative9 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative57 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.
“Mend.io or FOSSA are excellent for companies that are beginning to worry about legal compliance alongside security” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SCA · direct prompt · alternative
“Consider Black Duck or FOSSA only if license compliance or regulatory requirements are the primary driver.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SCA · direct prompt · alternative
“FOSSA is purpose-built for open-source policy enforcement and SBOM reporting” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SCA · comparative prompt · alternative
“License compliance or less-visible components: look at Black Duck or FOSSA.” GPT-6 Luna · SCA · 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.
“vulnerability fix recommendations do not always appear immediately, and reviews mention interface experiences occasional sluggishness” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SCA · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as FOSSA, over the 57 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and FOSSA was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as FOSSA, over the 57 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and FOSSA was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 FOSSA. 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 55 of the 57 answers that named FOSSA and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com43
sonatype.com31
mend.io27
endorlabs.com26
expertinsights.com25
checkmarx.com23
dupple.com20
ox.security20
blog.jetbrains.com19
blackduck.com18
252 of the 252 domain citations in answers naming FOSSA came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
fossa.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, FOSSA takes 0% of first choices and Trivy takes 31%.ShowHide
Search and answers
fossa.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, FOSSA takes 0% of first choices and Trivy takes 31%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “software composition analysis tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “software composition analysis tools”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 74,000 a month (“fossa”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 4,140 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 133,902 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,714 · 117 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,688
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess1 ads · 1 text · 1 shown in the last 30 days
First shown December 2023, as FOSSA, INC., verified.
On Google's pages: 1
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 17 of 50 in SCA
Segment leader
31%
Trivy
- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 57 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 55 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on fossa.com
1,202
subdomains included
Content
804
counted in the table below
Documentation
307
Product · Integration
24 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 571 | 8 | 2026-09-11 | SCA, AI coding | |
| Glossary or explainer | 138 | undated | SCA, MFA | ||
| Conference or event | 28 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 20 | undated | |||
| Case study | 18 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 14 | undated | SAST, SCA | ||
| Podcast or video | 12 | undated | SCA | ||
| News or press | 3 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-11Cra 2026 reporting requirements blog
- 2026-09-10Fossa nohau partner software security compliance nordics blog
- 2026-08-28How fossa first hack house reinvented documentation blog
- 2026-08-17Cra product classification blog
- 2026-08-06Cra compliance timeline blog
- 2026-07-30Cisa releases 2026 minimum sbom elements blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page fossa.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 FOSSA
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as FOSSA; a claim can dispute any of them.
FOSSA Scan 1
Follow FOSSA
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
FOSSA is its own company.ShowHide
The company
FOSSA is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Control Your Software Supply Chain
- For
- Engineering
- Price stated
- No credit card required. Free trial includes full access to all features. fossa.com
- Starting price
- Free fossa.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Free trial includes full access to all features. fossa.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2 compliantSOC 2 Compliance
- Customers named
- OmnissaPrometheusKubernetesCNCFSentryUiPathApplauseCollibra
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What FOSSA's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: fossa.com, fossa.com/pricing, fossa.com/trust, fossa.com/products/scan, fossa.com/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 FOSSA'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 FOSSA, 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 FOSSA by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where FOSSA 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 FOSSA, 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.