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Rapid7 Surface Command

6Judge labels

1First choices

2Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

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

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Rapid7 Surface Command was named 2 times in ASM, where Intruder led with 59%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business79 of 96

under the label threshold

Mid-market8 of 104

under the label threshold

Enterprise36 of 78

under the label threshold

In asm · 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 Rapid7 Surface Command 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
Attack surface management	Security operations	2%	8 of 104	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 59%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Rapid7 Surface Command 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 Rapid7 Surface Command across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct1 label1

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“If you want one default pick for a mid-market B2B company, I'd start with Rapid7 Surface Command.” GPT-5.4 mini · ASM · direct prompt · first choice

“if you want to stay within the Rapid7 ecosystem” GPT-5.4 mini · ASM · paraphrase 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Rapid7 Surface Command, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Rapid7 Surface Command was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CyCognito3 of 61Not in the top three

Tenable Attack Surface Management3 of 61Not in the top three

Bitsight3 of 60Not in the top three

Cortex Xpanse3 of 60Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management3 of 60Not in the top three

Intruder2 of 62Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon Surface2 of 61Not in the top three

Detectify2 of 61Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management2 of 60Not in the top three

Qualys External Attack Surface Management2 of 60Not 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 Rapid7 Surface Command. 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 6 answers that named Rapid7 Surface Command and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

paloaltonetworks.com3

rapid7.comYour site3

cyberbench.net2

g2.com2

gartner.com2

geekflare.com2

guideflow.com2

synack.com2

tenable.com2

upguard.com2

Nineteen of the twenty-two domain citations in answers naming Rapid7 Surface Command came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberbench.net/blog/best-easm-platforms-mid-market-20262

g2.com/categories/attack-surface-management/small-business2

geekflare.com/cybersecurity/best-attack-surface-monitoring2

guideflow.com/blog/attack-surface-management-software2

paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/asm-tools-comparison2

rapid7.com/products/command/attack-surface-management-asm2

synack.com/blog/best-attack-surface-management-tools2

tenable.com/products/attack-surface-management2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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