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GitLab · 1 category · Named, not ranked

GitLab SAST

18Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

9 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

9 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. GitLab SAST was named 9 times in SAST, where Semgrep led with 47%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business8 of 43

under the label threshold

Mid-market11 of 47

under the label threshold

Enterprise18 of 43

under the label threshold

In sast · 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 GitLab SAST 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
Static application security testing	Developer platform	0%	11 of 47	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by Semgrep at 47%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct6 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labels1

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“If you are already paying for GitLab Ultimate, however, you should absolutely start by turning on its built-in SAST tools” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SAST · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Best if you are a "DevSecOps" shop that wants one single pane of glass for everything from commit to production.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SAST · direct prompt · alternative

“Best if Already Deeply Native to Your VCS: GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) or GitLab Ultimate” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SAST · direct prompt · alternative

“For DevSecOps integration: GitLab Advanced SAST” Mistral Small · SAST · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as GitLab SAST, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GitLab SAST was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Semgrep15 of 188Not in the top three

SonarQube15 of 182Not in the top three

Checkmarx One14 of 183Not in the top three

Veracode12 of 182Not in the top three

Snyk Code11 of 180Not in the top three

Aikido Security9 of 183Not in the top three

OpenText Fortify8 of 180Not in the top three

CodeQL7 of 180Not in the top three

Snyk4 of 181Not in the top three

GitHub Advanced Security4 of 180Not 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 GitLab SAST. 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 13 of the 18 answers that named GitLab SAST and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

appsecsanta.com9

corgea.com9

dev.to8

zeropath.com8

ox.security7

augmentcode.com6

cycode.com6

jit.io6

pixee.ai6

checkmarx.com5

Seventy of the seventy domain citations in answers naming GitLab SAST came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

corgea.com/learn/best-sast-tools9

dev.to/rahulxsingh/i-reviewed-32-sast-tools-the-ones-worth-using-283e8

zeropath.com/blog/best-sast-tools8

ox.security/blog/static-application-security-sast-tools7

jit.io/resources/appsec-tools/best-sast-tools6

appsecsanta.com/sast-tools5

checkmarx.com/learn/sast/open-source-vs-premium-sast-tools5

cycode.com/blog/top-13-enterprise-sast-tools-for-20265

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as GitLab SAST

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

GitLab Ultimate 4GitLab 1GitLab Advanced SAST 1

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

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