1 category · Named, not rankedHacksplaining
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secure code training | Developer platform | 0% | 28 of 97 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by SecureFlag at 26% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Hacksplaining across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Choose Hacksplaining if your developers are beginners to AppSec and need very short, visual, easy-to-understand lessons.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Secure code training · budget prompt · alternative
“Strong Free Alternative: Hacksplaining (Free Catalog)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Secure code training · budget 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.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Hacksplaining, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hacksplaining was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 9 of the 9 answers that named Hacksplaining and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-three of the forty-six domain citations in answers naming Hacksplaining came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 33 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page hacksplaining.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. Read October 5, 2026.
Follow Hacksplaining
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
Hacksplaining is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Free interactive secure code lessons covering the OWASP Top 10 and emerging LLM vulnerabilities.
- For
- software teams
- Price stated
- Free for personal use. Team features like dashboards, progress tracking, and compliance reports are paid. hacksplaining.com
- Free plan or trial
- Free for personal use; Free 14-day trial hacksplaining.com
- Customers named
- GoogleIBMMicrosoftWalmartIntelAmazonOracleGeneral Motors
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Hacksplaining's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: hacksplaining.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 Hacksplaining'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 Hacksplaining, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Hacksplaining by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Hacksplaining 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 Hacksplaining, 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.