Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 12 → 41 of 44
3 categories · RankedMend.io
122Judge labels
15First choices
35Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
14% in SCA for enterprise buyers
Rank 3 of 50 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
7 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 19% of its 37 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Mend.io →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business46 of 49
0%28 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market3 of 50
14%37 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise3 of 56
14%48 labels
criticized challenger
In sca · 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 Mend.io 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software composition analysis | Developer platform | 14% | 3 of 50 | 19% | 37 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 14% → 14%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Application security posture management | Developer platform | 0% | 28 of 70 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 37% | |
| Container and Kubernetes security | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 59 of 77 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Trivy at 22% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Mend.io held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · SCA · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 14% → 14%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
14%from 14% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 3 of 43, unchanged
Enterprise▲+5Since September 2026: 10% → 14%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
14%from 10% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 6 → 3 of 47
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCA | 14% | 14% | =heldSince September 2026: 14% → 14%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 of 50, unchanged |
| ASPM | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 28 of 70, unchanged |
| Container security | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 59 of 77, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Mend.io across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Mend.io across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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
Direct31 labels10
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative33 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained18 labels4
Scale-constrained18 labels1
Negative20 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative122 labels in all, every segment counted; 15 of the 16 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 most mid-market B2B companies balancing security, compliance, and developer experience, Mend.io is the most frequently recommended choice.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SCA · direct prompt · first choice
“the best Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tool for a mid-market B2B company is Mend.io” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SCA · direct prompt · first choice
“The best software composition analysis tool for a mid-market B2B company is Mend.io” Llama 4 Maverick · SCA · direct prompt · first choice
“Mend.io stands out as a top choice for mid-market and enterprise organizations” Mistral Small · SCA · direct 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.
“This is the tool that surfaces most frequently in negative developer feedback” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SCA · negative prompt · hard negative
“Aggressive automation often creates noise by suggesting unnecessary updates or upgrades that introduce breaking changes.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SCA · negative prompt · soft negative
“you do not need a high-end enterprise Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tool (like Black Duck, Mend, or Sonatype)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SCA · budget prompt · soft negative
“partial policy support... noisy without full reachability, and mid-market focus means enterprise gaps” Grok 4.20 · SCA · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Mend.io, over the 120 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Mend.io was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Mend.io, over the 120 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Mend.io was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Mend.io. 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 114 of the 120 answers that named Mend.io and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com70
mend.ioYour site69
sonatype.com64
checkmarx.com47
endorlabs.com47
expertinsights.com47
blackduck.com35
dupple.com34
g2.com32
aikido.dev31
407 of the 476 domain citations in answers naming Mend.io came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
mend.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Mend.io takes 14% of first choices and Trivy takes 31%.ShowHide
Search and answers
mend.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Mend.io takes 14% of first choices and Trivy takes 31%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “software composition analysis tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “software composition analysis tools”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 210 a month (“mend.io”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 11 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 15,059 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 3,398 · 118 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 5,553
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
14%
rank 3 of 50 in SCA
Segment leader
31%
Trivy
- First choices
- 15 across its categories
- Named in
- 120 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 114 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on mend.io
2,220
subdomains included
Content
943
counted in the table below
Documentation
1,200
Product · Integration
0 · 4
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 586 | 13 | 2026-09-10 | SCA, SAST | |
| News or press | 152 | 7 | 2026-08-10 | SCA, SAST | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 59 | 0 | 2023-07-11 | SAST | |
| Comparison | 44 | 3 | 2026-09-09 | SCA, SAST | |
| Podcast or video | 34 | 0 | 2023-09-08 | ||
| Case study | 30 | 0 | 2025-01-24 | SCA, SAST | |
| Glossary or explainer | 19 | 0 | 2026-03-09 | SCA | |
| Report or ebook | 15 | 0 | 2025-09-22 | SAST | |
| Conference or event | 3 | 0 | 2026-05-11 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-10Appsec remediation gap detection scaled blog
- 2026-09-09Mend vs sonarqube comparison
- 2026-09-03Mend renovate enterprise agentic scale blog
- 2026-08-29Mini shai hulud hits openapi react query codegen blog
- 2026-08-26Owasp agentic skills top 10 supply chain security blog
- 2026-08-13Owasp llm top 10 2026 blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- June 1, 2026 to June 3, 2026Gartner Security & Risk Management SummitNational Harbor · exhibited
As the event pages on mend.io state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page mend.io 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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Mend.io
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Mend.io; a claim can dispute any of them.
Mend 6Mend.io (formerly WhiteSource) 5Mend (formerly WhiteSource) 3Mend SCA 2Mend (WhiteSource) 1Mend (formerly Checkmarx One) 1Mend (formerly Snyk, now Mend.io) 1Mend.io (WhiteSource) 1Mend.io / Mend SCA 1WhiteSource 1
Follow Mend.io
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Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Mend.io is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Mend.io is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Application Security and AI Security, Unified
- For
- security teams
- Customers named
- YahooWTWVonageSiemens Schweiz AGTrimbletexthelpWorkVisionFINOS
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Mend.io's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: mend.io, trust.mend.io. 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 Mend.io'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 Mend.io, 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 Mend.io by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Mend.io 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 Mend.io, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Mend.io is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Mend.io is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideMend.io is among the products AI models recommend first in Software composition analysis this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.