Every category where a model named Orca Security 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
Cloud-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	16%	3 of 57	5%	40	accepted challenger
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	12%	4 of 53	8%	38	accepted challenger
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	2%	12 of 78	17%	6	under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	15 of 80	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%
Attack surface management	Security operations	0%	79 of 104	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 59%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	3	1	2	0	6
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	9	4	0	3	16
Perplexity Sonar	1	5	1	0	7
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	6	0	0	9
Mistral Small	0	4	3	0	7
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	8	0	0	9
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	4	0	4
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	6	1	2	10
Kimi K2	1	6	2	0	9
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	5	3	0	8
MiniMax M2.5	2	4	0	1	7

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

Direct52 labels9

Paraphrase52 labels7

Comparative77 labels9not counted in share

Budget-constrained21 labels4

Scale-constrained23 labels4

Negative31 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative256 labels in all, every segment counted; 24 of the 37 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, Orca Security offers the best balance of capability, low false positives, agentless coverage, and price” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CSPM · direct prompt · first choice

“Very strong on data security posture management (DSPM) and attack path analysis, often highly competitive on pricing for mid-market companies.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CNAPP · scale prompt · first choice

“Choose Wiz or Orca Security if you have a multi-cloud footprint, want immediate visibility without installing agents” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CNAPP · comparative prompt · first choice

“Choose Wiz or Orca Security if: You want to secure a multi-cloud footprint rapidly without deploying software agents.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CSPM · comparative 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.

“these tools typically cost $40,000–$50,000+ annually, which is disproportionate to a startup budget.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CSPM · budget prompt · hard negative

“Orca suffered significant internal restructuring and layoffs recently ... whether their roadmap will continue at its current pace” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CSPM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Buying these platforms strictly for Kubernetes is prohibitively expensive for most mid-sized budgets” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Container security · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“often out of reach because they typically require high annual contract minimums” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CNAPP · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Orca Security, over the 256 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Orca Security was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wiz241 of 25689Compare →

Microsoft Defender for Cloud185 of 25641Compare →

Prisma Cloud161 of 2567Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security80 of 2561Not in the top three

Prowler53 of 25610Not in the top three

Sysdig45 of 2561Not in the top three

Aikido Security43 of 25624Not in the top three

Aqua Security43 of 2565Not in the top three

Tenable Cloud Security31 of 2560Not in the top three

AWS Security Hub28 of 2564Not 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 Orca Security. 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 205 of the 256 answers that named Orca Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org152

gbhackers.com126

cybersecuritynews.com115

expertinsights.com113

cloudaware.com98

orca.security96

gartner.com71

techrepublic.com56

aikido.dev55

complyjet.com52

934 of the 934 domain citations in answers naming Orca Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/cnapp-platforms-by-business-size-281

cloudaware.com/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-vendors78

cyberpress.org/cspm-tools-by-business-size-274

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-cloud-native-application-protection-platfo63

gbhackers.com/best-cnapp-compared62

gbhackers.com/best-cspm-compared62

orca.security/resources/blog/best-cspm-tools56

cybersecuritynews.com/best-cnapp-platforms54

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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