3 categories · RankedPentera
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breach and attack simulation | Security operations | 7% | 5 of 74 | 28% | 32 | criticized challenger | |
| Attack surface management | Security operations | 2% | 12 of 100 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 49% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Penetration testing as a service | Security operations | 0% | 79 of 82 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cobalt at 45% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Pentera across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“opt for "automated security validation" or highly-automated BAS vendors (e.g., Cymulate, Pentera, Picus, or Horizon3)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · BAS · scale prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend Pentera (formerly Pcysys) as a top security control validation tool.” Grok 4.20 · BAS · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I would recommend Pentera if your primary goal is security control validation” Perplexity Sonar · BAS · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Choose NodeZero or Pentera if you want highly automated attack emulation” Perplexity Sonar · BAS · 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.
“Industry-standard vendors like Cymulate or Pentera typically charge $50k–$100k+ annually, making them inaccessible for tight budgets.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · BAS · budget prompt · soft negative
“positioned more toward enterprise deployments, and review data suggests smaller orgs often run into pricing/contract challenges” GPT-5.4 mini · BAS · budget prompt · soft negative
“don't publish pricing and typically start at $30,000-$50,000+ annually, which may be prohibitive for smaller organizations” Kimi K2 · BAS · budget prompt · soft negative
“platforms like SafeBreach, Pentera, and AttackIQ do not simulate phishing, deepfake, or other human-targeted attacks” Claude Haiku 4.5 · BAS · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Pentera, over the 103 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Pentera was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 101 of the 103 answers that named Pentera and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
434 of the 434 domain citations in answers naming Pentera came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
pentera.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Pentera takes 7% of first choices and Cymulate takes 24%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,900 a month (“pentera”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 49 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 9,580 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,243 · 150 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,019
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 10 across its categories
- Named in
- 103 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 101 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 156 | 10 | 2026-09-12 | ASM, EDR | |
| News or press | 117 | 4 | 2026-09-03 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 77 | 2 | 2026-08-28 | ASM, PTaaS | |
| Report or ebook | 47 | 6 | 2026-08-17 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 41 | 2 | 2026-08-25 | PTaaS, EDR | |
| Case study | 38 | 0 | 2026-04-08 | ||
| Podcast or video | 36 | 1 | 2026-08-25 | ||
| Conference or event | 6 | 0 | 2025-11-13 | ||
| Comparison | 4 | 0 | 2024-10-08 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | 0 | 2022-09-19 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-12Pentera for financial services blog
- 2026-09-12Pentera for healthcare services blog
- 2026-09-03Pentera named gartner peer insights customers choice 2026 blog
- 2026-09-03Pentera named gartner peer insights customers choice 2026 news or press
- 2026-09-01Pentera for gov blog
- 2026-08-28Threat led penetration testing glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page pentera.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 Pentera
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The company
Pentera is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Exposure Validation Platform
- For
- organizations
- Certifications
- AWS Qualified SoftwareAICPA SOC 2ISO/IEC 27001ISC2ISO/IEC 42001ISO 9001SOC 2 Type IISOC 3
- Hosting
- EU
- Customers named
- TelefonicaCasey’sMerlin EntertainmentsEDEKAALDO GroupDTCCAzul AirlinesSCHMITZ CARGOBULL
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations
What Pentera's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: pentera.io, trust.pentera.io, pentera.io/solution/red-teaming, pentera.io/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 Pentera'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 Pentera, 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 Pentera by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Pentera 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 Pentera, 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.