Every category where a model named RealCISO 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
Compliance automation	Security operations	2%	12 of 54	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Drata at 37%
GRC platforms	Security operations	2%	13 of 77	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by Vanta at 14%

Movement

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

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained16 labels6

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative21 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 6 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.

“LowerPlane or RealCISO offer the best balance of transparent pricing, framework coverage, and support” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Compliance automation · budget prompt · first choice

“For most small businesses with very limited funds, starting with the free tier of RealCSO” Qwen 3.7 Flash · GRC · budget prompt · first choice

“It offers very low-barrier, transparent pricing to upgrade to their full platform, making it a great alternative” Gemini 3.5 Flash · GRC · budget prompt · alternative

“For small teams needing guidance: RealCISO offers the best free-to-paid transition with AI assistance.” Kimi K2 · GRC · budget 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 RealCISO, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and RealCISO was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SimpleRisk15 of 216Not in the top three

Ethicontrol14 of 214Not in the top three

Hyperproof11 of 210Not in the top three

Sprinto10 of 212Not in the top three

Vanta9 of 212Not in the top three

Drata9 of 211Not in the top three

Eramba8 of 211Not in the top three

MetricStream4 of 210Not in the top three

CISO Assistant3 of 212Not in the top three

Secureframe3 of 211Not 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 RealCISO. 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 18 of the 21 answers that named RealCISO and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

realciso.ioYour site18

brightdefense.com17

reddit.com14

spotsaas.com14

orbiqhq.com9

simplerisk.com8

sourceforge.net8

complyjet.com6

grc-review.com6

auditxyz.com5

Eighty-seven of the 105 domain citations in answers naming RealCISO came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

brightdefense.com/resources/grc-tools-for-smbs-and-startups17

realciso.io/grc-platform/for-small-business17

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1ay5u9v/what_grc_software_is_suitable_in_features_and14

spotsaas.com/list/grc-platforms/for-small-business14

orbiqhq.com/compliance-automation/best-grc-software8

simplerisk.com/8

sourceforge.net/software/grc/for-small-business8

complyjet.com/blog/best-grc-software6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as RealCISO

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

RealCISO Essentials 1RealCSO 1RealCiso 1

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