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1 category · Named, not ranked

Open Policy Agent

7Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

6 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. Open Policy Agent was named 2 times in IaC, where Terraform led with 46%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market28 of 46

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In iac · 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 Open Policy Agent 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
Infrastructure as code	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	28 of 46	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Terraform at 46%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Open Policy Agent 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 Open Policy Agent across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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 Open Policy Agent, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Open Policy Agent was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender for Cloud3 of 72Not in the top three

Falco3 of 71Not in the top three

Wiz3 of 71Not in the top three

Trivy3 of 70Not in the top three

Aikido Security2 of 71Not in the top three

Google Security Command Center2 of 71Not in the top three

Snyk2 of 71Not in the top three

Terraform2 of 71Not in the top three

AWS CDK2 of 70Not in the top three

Azure Bicep2 of 70Not 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 Open Policy Agent. 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 4 of the 7 answers that named Open Policy Agent and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org2

cybersecuritynews.com2

microsoft.com2

accuknox.com1

aikido.dev1

armosec.io1

bdemerson.com1

cipherssecurity.com1

claranet.com1

cloudgovernancecost.com1

Thirteen of the thirteen domain citations in answers naming Open Policy Agent came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

accuknox.com/blog/kubernetes-security-tools1

aikido.dev/blog/top-cloud-native-application-protection-platforms-cnapp1

armosec.io/blog/best-kubernetes-runtime-first-security-tools1

bdemerson.com/article/how-much-does-a-firewall-cost1

cipherssecurity.com/wiz-pricing-guide-2026-cnapp-cost1

claranet.com/uk/blog/right-and-wrong-approach-to-infrastructure-code1

cloudgovernancecost.com/tools1

cloudorbis.com/blog/cloud-security-posture-management1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Open Policy Agent

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

OPA (Open Policy Agent) 1

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

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at openpolicyagent.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.