Every category where a model named Prowler 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 security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	16%	2 of 53	4%	24	accepted challenger
Cloud-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	10 of 57	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 46%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Prowler 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 Prowler 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	1	0	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	3	0	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	1	1	4
Mistral Small	1	2	0	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	2	0	6
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	2	0	3
Kimi K2	1	2	1	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	0	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	0	0	2

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

Direct20 labels3

Paraphrase12 labels3

Comparative17 labels4not counted in share

Budget-constrained38 labels17

Scale-constrained8 labelsNone

Negative13 labels5not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative108 labels in all, every segment counted; 23 of the 32 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.

“the best starting point is a combination of free tools: the open-source Prowler for multi-cloud scanning” Grok 4.1 Fast · CSPM · budget prompt · first choice

“Choose open-source Prowler if you have a strong DevOps/Security engineer on hand, your budget is $0” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CSPM · budget prompt · first choice

“Prowler (open source) is the best starting point—it's free, multi-cloud, and compliance-ready” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CSPM · budget prompt · first choice

“Prowler - An open-source CSPM tool that's free to use and can audit AWS, Azure, and GCP” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CSPM · 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.

“open-source Prowler appear frequently but rank lower for enterprise scale” Grok 4.1 Fast · CSPM · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Prowler, over the 106 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Prowler was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender for Cloud95 of 10633Compare →

Wiz83 of 10617Compare →

Prisma Cloud58 of 1060Not in the top three

Orca Security53 of 10610Not in the top three

AWS Security Hub30 of 1064Not in the top three

Aikido Security24 of 1069Not in the top three

Datadog Cloud Security Management22 of 1060Not in the top three

Falco22 of 1060Not in the top three

Orca22 of 1060Not in the top three

Lacework FortiCNAPP20 of 1060Not 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 Prowler. 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 92 of the 106 answers that named Prowler and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org87

gbhackers.com64

cybersecuritynews.com61

cloudaware.com58

orca.security46

complyjet.com44

busistack.com42

aikido.dev32

expertinsights.com30

techrepublic.com30

494 of the 494 domain citations in answers naming Prowler came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/cspm-tools-by-business-size-267

cloudaware.com/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-vendors53

gbhackers.com/best-cspm-compared46

complyjet.com/blog/best-cspm-tools44

cybersecuritynews.com/best-cspm-tools44

orca.security/resources/blog/best-cspm-tools43

busistack.com/best-cloud-security-posture-management-tools-202642

techrepublic.com/article/best-cspm-tools30

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Prowler

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Prowler; a claim can dispute any of them.

Prowler (Open Source) 1Prowler Pro 1

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