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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Pentera

12Judge labels

2First choices

2Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Pentera was named 3 times in PTaaS and 1 other category, where Cobalt led with 44%. 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-market34 of 76

under the label threshold

Enterprise7 of 73

under the label threshold

In ptaas · 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 Pentera 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
Penetration testing as a service	Security operations	0%	34 of 76	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Cobalt at 44%
Attack surface management	Security operations	0%	100 of 104	100%	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 Pentera 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 Pentera across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labels2

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“A market leader in autonomous exposure validation. It is safe-by-design in live production environments” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PTaaS · comparative 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.

“Drawback: Higher price point and complexity. Best suited for mature mid-market companies” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ASM · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Pentera, over the 12 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cobalt7 of 121Not in the top three

Synack7 of 121Not in the top three

BreachLock5 of 121Not in the top three

HackerOne5 of 121Not in the top three

NetSPI5 of 121Not in the top three

Bishop Fox5 of 120Not in the top three

Horizon3.ai NodeZero5 of 120Not in the top three

Bugcrowd3 of 120Not in the top three

NCC Group3 of 120Not in the top three

Censys ASM2 of 121Not 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 Pentera. 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 6 of the 12 answers that named Pentera and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

deepstrike.io4

synack.com4

brightdefense.com3

codeant.ai3

cycognito.com3

g2.com3

cobalt.io2

gartner.com2

getastra.com2

invicti.com2

Twenty-eight of the twenty-eight domain citations in answers naming Pentera came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

synack.com/blog/best-penetration-testing-companies3

brightdefense.com/resources/penetration-testing-pricing2

cobalt.io/platform/pricing2

cycognito.com/learn/penetration-testing/pentesting-pricing2

invicti.com/blog/web-security/penetration-testing-pricing-guide2

lorikeetsecurity.com/blog/top-10-pentesting-companies-20262

prescientsecurity.com/penetration-testing-services/cacilian/pricing2

synack.com/blog/penetration-testing-cost2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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