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Index › Vendors › Horizon3.ai NodeZero · September 2026 Edition

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Horizon3.ai NodeZero

6Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

3 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Horizon3.ai NodeZero was named 2 times in PTaaS, where Cobalt led with 44%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business30 of 57

under the label threshold

Mid-market31 of 76

under the label threshold

Enterprise20 of 73

under the label threshold

In ptaas · 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 Horizon3.ai NodeZero 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
Penetration testing as a service	Security operations	0%	31 of 76	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Cobalt at 44%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Horizon3.ai NodeZero 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 Horizon3.ai NodeZero 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	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Offers a 100% agentless, autonomous platform that continuously chains exploits” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PTaaS · 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 Horizon3.ai NodeZero, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Horizon3.ai NodeZero was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BreachLock6 of 61Not in the top three

Cobalt5 of 62Not in the top three

Pentera5 of 60Not in the top three

NetSPI4 of 61Not in the top three

Synack4 of 60Not in the top three

Bishop Fox3 of 60Not in the top three

HackerOne3 of 60Not in the top three

Astra Security2 of 62Not in the top three

Bugcrowd2 of 60Not in the top three

Intruder2 of 60Not 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 Horizon3.ai NodeZero. 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 2 of the 6 answers that named Horizon3.ai NodeZero and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

brightdefense.com1

brightsec.com1

budgetsecurity.com1

clutch.co1

cybersecurityventures.com1

cycognito.com1

deepstrike.io1

disruptorsradar.ai1

g2.com1

gartner.com1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Horizon3.ai NodeZero came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

brightdefense.com/resources/top-penetration-testing-companies1

brightsec.com/blog/penetration-testing-services1

budgetsecurity.com/blog/automated-penetration-testing1

clutch.co/it-services/cybersecurity/penetration-testing1

cybersecurityventures.com/10-hot-penetration-testing-companies-to-watch-in-20241

cycognito.com/learn/application-security/dast-vs-manual-pentesting-vs-automated-pentesting1

deepstrike.io/blog/top-penetration-testing-companies-us1

disruptorsradar.ai/blog/top-10-continuous-penetration-testing-platforms-20261

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Horizon3.ai NodeZero

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Horizon3.ai NodeZero; a claim can dispute any of them.

Horizon3 (NodeZero) 1Horizon3's NodeZero 1

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