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1 category · Named, not ranked

MITRE Caldera

12Judge labels

3First choices

2Negative labels

7 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. MITRE Caldera was named 7 times in BAS, where Cymulate led with 24%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business13 of 58

under the label threshold

Mid-market7 of 74

under the label threshold

Enterprise62 of 66

under the label threshold

In bas · 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 MITRE Caldera 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	3%	7 of 74	14%	7	under 10 labels · led by Cymulate at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for MITRE Caldera 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 MITRE Caldera 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained10 labels3

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

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

“MITRE Caldera stands out as the top recommendation” Grok 4.1 Fast · BAS · budget prompt · first choice

“platforms like MITRE Caldera and Prelude Operator offer powerful capabilities for simulating adversary behaviors without any licensing fees” Claude Haiku 4.5 · BAS · budget prompt · alternative

“Caldera is an Apache open-source platform for automating adversary emulation with real-world TTPs” Muse Glimmer 30B · BAS · budget 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.

“open-source adversary emulation tools are incredibly complex to configure and maintain. Avoid these if you do not have dedicated security engineers” Gemini 3.5 Flash · BAS · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as MITRE Caldera, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and MITRE Caldera was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Infection Monkey9 of 124Not among the top eight

Atomic Red Team7 of 120Not among the top eight

Cymulate7 of 120Not among the top eight

Picus Security Validation Platform5 of 120Not among the top eight

SafeBreach5 of 120Not among the top eight

OpenBAS4 of 122Not among the top eight

AttackIQ4 of 120Not among the top eight

NodeZero4 of 120Not among the top eight

Pentera4 of 120Not among the top eight

BreachLock3 of 121Not 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 MITRE Caldera. 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 12 of the 12 answers that named MITRE Caldera and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startupstash.com9

bcs365.com5

g2.com5

guideflow.com5

itechguides.com5

slashdot.org5

csoonline.com4

cybernx.com4

esecurityplanet.com4

perkinssecurity.com4

Fifty of the fifty domain citations in answers naming MITRE Caldera came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

startupstash.com/best-breach-and-attack-simulation-tools9

bcs365.com/insights/breach-and-attack-simulation-pricing5

guideflow.com/blog/breach-and-attack-simulation-software5

perkinssecurity.com/index-289.html4

thectoclub.com/tools/best-bas-software4

adaptivesecurity.com/blog/top-bas-platforms-to-strengthen-security-in-20253

csoonline.com/article/3542936/14-underrated-pentesting-tools.html3

esecurityplanet.com/products/breach-and-attack-simulation-bas-vendors3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

mitrecaldera.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, MITRE Caldera takes 3% of first choices and Cymulate takes 24%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “breach and attack simulation platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “breach and attack simulation platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 390 a month (“mitre caldera”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 10 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 0 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1 · 0 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1
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 7 of 74 in BAS

Segment leader

24%

Cymulate

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 12 answers
Its own site cited: in 12 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.

Names read as MITRE Caldera

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

MITRE CALDERA 1

Follow MITRE Caldera

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.

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The company

MITRE Caldera is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: automated adversary emulation platform
mitrecaldera.com
For: Red team, Blue team, Purple team
mitrecaldera.com
Integrations claimed: 40 mitrecaldera.com
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, certifications, hosting, customers

What MITRE Caldera's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: mitrecaldera.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 MITRE Caldera'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 MITRE Caldera, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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

where MITRE Caldera 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 MITRE Caldera, 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.