Qualys WAS
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamic application security testing | Developer platform | 0% | 23 of 58 | 33% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by OWASP ZAP at 29% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Qualys WAS 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“It's worth evaluating if centralized Qualys asset and risk management matters to you.” GPT-6 Luna · DAST · comparative prompt · alternative
“Enterprise automation: Invicti, Qualys WAS, or Burp Suite Enterprise” MiniMax M2.5 · DAST · comparative prompt · alternative
“Leaders like ... Qualys WAS... score higher on accuracy” Grok 4.1 Fast · DAST · negative prompt · alternative
“Cloud-based enterprise platform” Kimi K2 · DAST · 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.
“older configurations of Fortify WebInspect, HCL AppScan, or Qualys WAS ... tread carefully” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DAST · negative prompt · soft negative
“Can be noisy with false positives, limited modern API coverage, slower scan times” Kimi K2 · DAST · negative prompt · soft negative
“Qualys WAS (overhyped for app security, better for infrastructure)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DAST · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Qualys WAS, over the 23 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Qualys WAS 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 23 of the 23 answers that named Qualys WAS and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
127 of the 127 domain citations in answers naming Qualys WAS came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
qualys.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Qualys WAS takes 0% of first choices and OWASP ZAP takes 29%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 70 a month (“qualys was”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 19,272 a month
- Its company's site
- qualys.com shared with Qualys's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 26,929 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 5,871 · 526 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 15,233
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 23 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 23 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.
Names read as Qualys WAS
Follow Qualys WAS
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.
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The company
Qualys is the company behind Qualys WAS.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company records- Also from Qualys
- Qualys Web App Scanning, Qualys Web Application Scanning
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Web Application Scanning
- For
- Web Application Security Analyst
- Free plan or trial
- Try TotalAppSec at no cost for 30 days qualys.com/apps/web-app-scanning
- Integrations claimed
- 100 qualys.com/apps/web-app-scanning
- Certifications
- GDPRHIPAAPCI DSS
- Customers named
- Cisco Systems, Inc.Capital OneMicrosoft
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, hosting
What Qualys WAS's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: qualys.com/faqs-resources-web-application-scanning, qualys.com/apps/web-app-scanning, qualys.com/apps/web-app-scanning/story/web-application-security-analyst-peter, docs.qualys.com/en/was/latest/web_applications/web_apps.htm, docs.qualys.com/en/was/latest/web_applications/basic_info.htm. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Qualys WAS'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 Qualys WAS, 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 Qualys WAS by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Qualys WAS 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 Qualys WAS, 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.