Every category where a model named Infection Monkey 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
Breach and attack simulation	Security operations	9%	4 of 74	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by Cymulate at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Infection Monkey 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 Infection Monkey 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	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative1 label1not counted in share

Budget-constrained16 labels11

Scale-constrained2 labels1

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative24 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 13 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.

“For a limited budget, Infection Monkey (free) is the best starting point if your team can handle open-source deployment.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · BAS · budget prompt · first choice

“Start with MITRE Caldera or Infection Monkey (free) to get familiar with BAS concepts” Kimi K2 · BAS · budget prompt · first choice

“For a truly limited budget, I'd recommend starting with Infection Monkey (free)” MiniMax M2.5 · BAS · budget prompt · first choice

“Infection Monkey is free and open-source for your internal network” Claude Haiku 4.5 · BAS · budget prompt · first choice

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 Infection Monkey, over the 24 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Infection Monkey was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cymulate16 of 240Not among the top eight

Picus Security Validation Platform15 of 241Not among the top eight

SafeBreach13 of 240Not among the top eight

Atomic Red Team11 of 240Not among the top eight

AttackIQ10 of 240Not among the top eight

Horizon3.ai NodeZero9 of 243Not among the top eight

MITRE Caldera9 of 242Not among the top eight

AttackIQ Flex8 of 241Not among the top eight

OpenBAS8 of 241Not among the top eight

NodeZero8 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 Infection Monkey. 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 Infection Monkey and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startupstash.com21

guideflow.com14

thectoclub.com14

perkinssecurity.com11

us.fitgap.com10

g2.com9

csoonline.com8

guptadeepak.com8

peerspot.com8

picussecurity.com8

No domain is on file for Infection Monkey, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

startupstash.com/best-breach-and-attack-simulation-tools21

guideflow.com/blog/breach-and-attack-simulation-software14

thectoclub.com/tools/best-bas-software14

perkinssecurity.com/index-289.html11

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-breach-attack-simulation-tools-20268

us.fitgap.com/search/breach-and-attack-simulation-bas-software8

bcs365.com/insights/breach-and-attack-simulation-pricing7

computerwoche.de/article/3494368/der-kaufratgeber-fur-breach-attack-simulation-tools.html7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Infection Monkey 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: 880 a month (“infection monkey”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 11 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 4 of 74 in BAS

Segment leader

24%

Cymulate

First choices: 12 across its categories
Named in: 24 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.

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where Infection Monkey 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 Infection Monkey, 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;
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