Every category where a model named OpenCanary 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	4%	5 of 94	0%	17	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase18 labels7

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained16 labels4

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative40 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 11 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 Canarytokens.org (free) + OpenCanary (free)” Kimi K2 · Deception · budget prompt · first choice

“For a genuinely limited budget, start with OpenCanary.” GPT-6 Luna · Deception · budget prompt · first choice

“Another strong open-source option is OpenCanary, also from Thinkst, which is free and supports multiple protocols.” Mistral Small · Deception · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“OpenCanary (lightweight multi-protocol tripwire) ... can work — but you'll own the maintenance” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Deception · paraphrase 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as OpenCanary, over the 40 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and OpenCanary was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Thinkst Canary32 of 4017Compare →

T-Pot19 of 400Compare →

Cowrie18 of 400Not among the top eight

Acalvio ShadowPlex11 of 401Compare →

Canarytokens9 of 402Not among the top eight

Trapster9 of 401Not among the top eight

HoneyWire8 of 403Not among the top eight

Dionaea5 of 400Not among the top eight

FortiDeceptor5 of 400Not among the top eight

Tracebit5 of 400Compare →

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 OpenCanary. 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 40 of the 40 answers that named OpenCanary and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

securityhive.io23

canary.tools20

guideflow.com18

cybersectools.com16

trapster.cloud16

devopsschool.com15

guptadeepak.com15

sourceforge.net15

vendr.com15

github.com13

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

Pages cited

canary.tools/19

guideflow.com/blog/honeypot-software16

securityhive.io/blog/best-honeypot-solutions-in-202516

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-deception-technology-tools-features-pros-cons-comparison15

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-honeypots-deception-tools-202615

vendr.com/marketplace/thinkst-canary15

worldmetrics.org/best/honeypot-software12

linkedin.com/pulse/cyber-deception-technology-cisos-guide-choosing-right-anand-akela-zbmlc11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where OpenCanary 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: 210 a month (“opencanary”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 2 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 5 of 94 in deception

Segment leader

37%

Thinkst Canary

First choices: 11 across its categories
Named in: 40 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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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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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for OpenCanary by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where OpenCanary 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 OpenCanary, 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.