Every category where a model named HoneyWire 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
Deception technology	Security operations	7%	4 of 94	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Thinkst Canary at 37%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for HoneyWire yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated HoneyWire across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	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

Direct7 labels3

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained8 labels5

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative24 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 8 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.

“HoneyWire (free) or Thinkst Canary (low-cost, easy to deploy) are the best choices” Mistral Small · Deception · budget prompt · first choice

“the best deception technology platform is HoneyWire (open‑source, AGPL‑3.0)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Deception · budget prompt · first choice

“Top Recommendation: HoneyWire (Free, Open-Source)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Deception · budget prompt · first choice

“A newer open-source, agentless option designed for easy terminal-based deployment” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Deception · paraphrase 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 HoneyWire, over the 24 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HoneyWire was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Thinkst Canary12 of 248Not among the top eight

Trapster9 of 241Not among the top eight

OpenCanary8 of 240Not among the top eight

Morphisec7 of 242Not among the top eight

Tracebit6 of 240Not among the top eight

Acalvio ShadowPlex5 of 241Not among the top eight

CyberTrap5 of 240Not among the top eight

Canarytokens4 of 242Not among the top eight

Cowrie4 of 240Not among the top eight

FortiDeceptor4 of 240Not among the top eight

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 HoneyWire. 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 24 of the 24 answers that named HoneyWire and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

sourceforge.net23

devopsschool.com17

slashdot.org17

guideflow.com14

us.fitgap.com13

trustradius.com12

linkedin.com11

canary.tools9

cybersectools.com9

expertinsights.com9

134 of the 134 domain citations in answers naming HoneyWire came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

sourceforge.net/software/deception-technology/for-small-business19

sourceforge.net/software/deception-technology18

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-deception-technology-tools-features-pros-cons-comparison17

slashdot.org/software/deception-technology/f-small-business15

guideflow.com/blog/deception-technology-software12

us.fitgap.com/search/deception-technology-software/small-business12

linkedin.com/pulse/cyber-deception-technology-cisos-guide-choosing-right-anand-akela-zbmlc11

trustradius.com/deception-technology11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

honeywire.dev is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, HoneyWire takes 7% of first choices and Thinkst Canary takes 37%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “deception technology platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “deception technology platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 20 a month (“honeywire”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about a month
Searches its site ranks for: · in the top three
Sites linking to it: 43
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 4 of 94 in deception

Segment leader

37%

Thinkst Canary

First choices: 8 across its categories
Named in: 24 answers
Its own site cited: in 24 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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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Addresses on honeywire.dev

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	2025-11 to 2026-10	Latest	Categories named
Blog	2	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page honeywire.dev 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 HoneyWire

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

HoneyWire is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Open-source zero-agent cyber deception platform.
honeywire.dev
Price stated: Free and Open Source (AGPLv3) honeywire.dev
Starting price: 0 honeywire.dev
Free plan or trial: Free and Open Source (AGPLv3) honeywire.dev
Not stated on the pages read: Who it is for, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What HoneyWire's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: honeywire.dev. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 HoneyWire'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 HoneyWire, 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 HoneyWire by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where HoneyWire 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 HoneyWire, 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.