Every category where a model named PortSwigger Web Security Academy 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
Secure code training	Developer platform	8%	4 of 97	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by SecureFlag at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for PortSwigger Web Security Academy 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 PortSwigger Web Security Academy 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained9 labels5

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 5 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.

“It is widely considered the gold standard for web application security training... Choose PortSwigger Web Security Academy if you want the highest quality, hands-on security training available, without paying a dime.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Secure code training · budget prompt · first choice

“The Gold Standard (100% Free): PortSwigger Web Security Academy ... arguably the best resource available anywhere” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Secure code training · budget prompt · first choice

“Arguably the best free web-vulnerability training on the internet, with deep self-paced labs” Muse Glimmer 30B · Secure code training · budget prompt · first choice

“PortSwigger Web Security Academy is the best choice by far” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Secure code training · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as PortSwigger Web Security Academy, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PortSwigger Web Security Academy was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Secure Code Warrior10 of 141Not among the top eight

SecureFlag9 of 145Not among the top eight

Snyk Learn8 of 141Not among the top eight

SafeStack Academy5 of 142Not among the top eight

Hacksplaining4 of 140Not among the top eight

Security Journey4 of 140Not among the top eight

Codebashing3 of 140Not among the top eight

OWASP Juice Shop3 of 140Not among the top eight

Kontra2 of 140Not among the top eight

OWASP Secure Coding Dojo2 of 140Not among the top eight

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 PortSwigger Web Security Academy. 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 13 of the 14 answers that named PortSwigger Web Security Academy and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

portswigger.netYour site8

securecodewarrior.com7

sourceforge.net7

top10devtraining.com7

secureflag.com6

securityjourney.com5

blog.secureflag.com4

f6s.com4

github.com4

ransomleak.com4

Forty-eight of the fifty-six domain citations in answers naming PortSwigger Web Security Academy came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

portswigger.net/web-security8

top10devtraining.com/guides/owasp-top-10-training-cost-comparison7

sourceforge.net/software/compare/HCL-AppScan-vs-Synopsys-Security-Training6

ransomleak.com/blog/best-secure-coding-training-20264

secureflag.com/pricing4

secureflag.com/training4

sourceforge.net/software/secure-code-training/for-enterprise4

aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-55azktjluj3im3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

portswigger.net is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, PortSwigger Web Security Academy takes 8% of first choices and SecureFlag takes 26%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “secure code training platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “secure code training platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 1,000 a month (“portswigger web security academy”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 4 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 89,623 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 6,386 · 1,143 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 19,307
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 4 of 97 in secure code training

Segment leader

26%

SecureFlag

First choices: 5 across its categories
Named in: 14 answers
Its own site cited: in 13 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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Addresses on portswigger.net

3,080

subdomains included

Content

678

counted in the table below

Documentation

543

Product · Integration

15 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	342	6	2026-08-12	DAST
Report or ebook	159	5	2026-09-23
Template or tool	125	undated
Case study	22	undated		DAST
News or press	13	undated
Webinar or virtual event	8	0	2025-09-24
Comparison	7	undated		DAST
Conference or event	1	undated
Glossary or explainer	1	undated

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How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page portswigger.net 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 October 5, 2026.

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The company

PortSwigger Web Security Academy is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Learn about vulnerabilities first-hand, online.
portswigger.net
For: practitioners
portswigger.net
Price stated: free portswigger.net/customers
Free plan or trial: free portswigger.net/customers
Certifications: GDPRISO/IEC 27001ISO/IEC 27001 SoAVPAT
Hosting: IrelandUKUS
Customers named: AmazonAXA MansardAuto TraderBarclaysDanske BankExpedia GroupFedExNASA
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations

What PortSwigger Web Security Academy's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: portswigger.net, portswigger.net/burp/dast/pricing, trust.portswigger.net, portswigger.net/solutions/devsecops, portswigger.net/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for PortSwigger Web Security Academy by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where PortSwigger Web Security Academy 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 PortSwigger Web Security Academy, 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.