Every category where a model named Illusive Networks 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	2%	16 of 94	42%	12	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Illusive Networks 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 Illusive Networks 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	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	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	2	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	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

Direct5 labels1

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative12 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained3 labels1

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative11 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative36 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 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.

“I recommend requesting demos from Illusive Networks and Acalvio specifically, as they appear most focused on the mid-market segment.” MiniMax M2.5 · Deception · direct prompt · first choice

“Often rated as the best overall deception platform for operational value.” Kimi K2 · Deception · comparative prompt · first choice

“excels at identity and credential deception, providing agentless decoys that disrupt lateral movement” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Deception · comparative prompt · alternative

“Specialized in financial institutions” MiniMax M2.5 · Deception · 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.

“Pure network-wide standalone deception from Illusive is essentially sunsetted” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Deception · negative prompt · hard negative

“Caution flags: Reviews note it is "heavily focused on Microsoft environments" and has "limited cloud-native capabilities."” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Deception · negative prompt · soft negative

“legacy Illusive installs should be treated as end-of-life from a vendor perspective” Muse Glimmer 30B · Deception · negative prompt · soft negative

“Too heavy for mid-market; enterprise pricing and complexity” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Deception · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Illusive Networks, over the 36 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Illusive Networks was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Acalvio ShadowPlex29 of 369Compare →

Attivo Networks14 of 363Not among the top eight

TrapX Security14 of 360Not among the top eight

Thinkst Canary10 of 364Compare →

Fidelis Deception10 of 360Not among the top eight

SentinelOne Singularity9 of 362Not among the top eight

CounterCraft9 of 361Not among the top eight

Rapid7 InsightIDR8 of 360Not among the top eight

Smokescreen Technologies8 of 360Not among the top eight

Zscaler Deception7 of 361Not 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 Illusive Networks. 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 35 of the 36 answers that named Illusive Networks and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

acalvio.com27

myhospitalnow.com17

us.fitgap.com17

expertinsights.com15

guideflow.com14

linkedin.com14

devopsschool.com13

dataintelo.com12

sourceforge.net12

cybersecuritynews.com11

No domain is on file for Illusive Networks, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

acalvio.com/preemptive-security/competitive-intelligence-cyber-deception15

expertinsights.com/network-security/best-deception-technology-companies15

linkedin.com/pulse/cyber-deception-technology-cisos-guide-choosing-right-anand-akela-zbmlc14

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-deception-technology-tools-features-pros-cons-comparison13

guideflow.com/blog/deception-technology-software13

cybersecuritynews.com/deception-tools11

myhospitalnow.com/blog/top-10-deception-technology-tools-features-pros-cons-comparison-211

us.fitgap.com/search/deception-technology-software11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Illusive Networks stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 40 a month (“illusive networks”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 16 of 94 in deception

Segment leader

37%

Thinkst Canary

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 36 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

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.

Names read as Illusive Networks

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

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Illusive Networks by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Illusive Networks 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 Illusive Networks, 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.