Small business▼−6Since September 2026: 27% → 21%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
21%from 27% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 2 → 1 of 69
4 categories · RankedProwler
81Judge labels
18First choices
7Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
18% in CSPM for small business buyers
Rank 4 of 80 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 14 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Prowler →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business2 of 72
18%35 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market4 of 80
13%14 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise16 of 52
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
In cspm · 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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud security posture management | Cloud and infrastructure | 13% | 4 of 80 | 14% | 14 | accepted challenger | ▼−3Since September 2026: 16% → 13%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Cloud-native application protection | Cloud and infrastructure | 1% | 8 of 70 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 37% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Compliance automation | Security operations | 0% | 36 of 67 | 33% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Drata at 34% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Data security posture management | Security operations | 0% | 37 of 105 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview at 18% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Prowler held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CSPM · by segment
Mid-market▼−3Since September 2026: 16% → 13%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
13%from 16% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 2 → 4 of 73
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 28 → 20 of 46
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSPM | 16% | 13% | ▼−3Since September 2026: 16% → 13%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 → 4 of 80 |
| CNAPP | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 8 of 70, unchanged |
| Compliance automation | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 36 of 67, unchanged |
| DSPM | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 37 of 105, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Prowler across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Prowler across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct14 labels1
Paraphrase6 labelsNone
Comparative11 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained38 labels16
Scale-constrained3 labels1
Negative9 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative81 labels in all, every segment counted; 18 of the 24 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 the tightest budgets, open-source tools like Prowler or Microsoft Defender for Cloud's free tier are excellent starting points.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CSPM · budget prompt · first choice
“start with your cloud provider's built-in CSPM, and add Prowler OSS if you need broader or multi-cloud checks” GPT-6 Luna · CSPM · budget prompt · first choice
“Prowler as your primary CSPM tool - it's comprehensive, free, and covers all major cloud providers” MiniMax M2.5 · CSPM · budget prompt · first choice
“If you have $0: Use Prowler (for AWS) or Microsoft Defender Foundation (for Azure).” Qwen 3.7 Flash · 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.
“they're limited to scanning—not full GRC automation, evidence collection, or audit prep” Grok 4.20 · Compliance automation · budget prompt · soft negative
“self-hosting open-source CSPM tools requires significant maintenance” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CSPM · negative prompt · soft negative
“excellent for audits but not continuous production monitoring” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CSPM · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Prowler, over the 80 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Prowler, over the 80 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Prowler. 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 77 of the 80 answers that named Prowler and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cyberpress.org49
g2.com48
gbhackers.com35
complyjet.com34
us.fitgap.com30
orca.security26
cloudaware.com25
sourceforge.net25
aikido.dev23
wiz.io23
318 of the 318 domain citations in answers naming Prowler came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
prowler.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Prowler takes 13% of first choices and Wiz takes 37%.ShowHide
Search and answers
prowler.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Prowler takes 13% of first choices and Wiz takes 37%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cloud security posture management platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “cloud security posture management platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 40,500 a month (“prowler”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 6,189 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 671 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 480 · 22 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 581
- 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 editionShare of first choices
13%
rank 4 of 80 in CSPM
Segment leader
37%
Wiz
- First choices
- 18 across its categories
- Named in
- 80 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 77 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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
ShowHideAddresses on prowler.com
339
subdomains included
Content
72
counted in the table below
Documentation
193
Product · Integration
3 · 4
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 51 | undated | CSPM, MFA | ||
| Conference or event | 12 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 5 | 0 | 2026-06-30 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 0 | 2026-04-04 | CSPM | |
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-06-30Prowler vs orca security comparison
- 2026-06-30Prowler vs prisma cloud comparison
- 2026-04-10Prowler vs wiz comparison
- 2026-04-04What is a cis benchmark glossary or explainer
- 2026-04-03What is cspm glossary or explainer
Events in person
Last twelve months
- August 5, 2026Cocktails with Prowler x ChainloopBeauty and Essex, Las Vegas, USA · hosted
- August 4, 2026 to August 6, 2026Prowler at Black Hat 2026Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, USA · exhibited
- August 4, 2026Global Startup Spotlight CompetitionMain Stage, Business Hall, Las Vegas, USA · spoke
- March 23, 2026 to March 26, 2026RSA Conference 2026Moscone Center, San Francisco, US · exhibited
As the event pages on prowler.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page prowler.com 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 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) 3CloudSploit/Prowler 1Prowler Cloud (SaaS) 1Prowler OSS 1
Follow Prowler
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Prowler is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Prowler is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- the open-source cloud security platform
- For
- teams
- Price stated
- Managed SaaS ### Prowler Cloud Hosted and maintained by Prowler - Continuous monitoring with auto-scaling scans - Continuous compliance - Lighthouse AI, Slack and Jira integrations - MCP Server for your AI agents - 15-day free trial, no cloud account limit prowler.com
- Starting price
- $0 prowler.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- 15-day free trial, no cloud account limit prowler.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type IIAWS Foundational Technical ReviewSOC 2 Type 2
- Customers named
- Syntro
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What Prowler's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: prowler.com, prowler.com/pricing, prowler.com/use-cases/infrastructure-as-code, prowler.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Prowler'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 Prowler, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Prowler by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Prowler 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 Prowler, 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.