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1 category · Named, not ranked

runZero

14Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

9 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. runZero was named 4 times in ASM, where Intruder led with 49%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business23 of 99

under the label threshold

Mid-market10 of 100

under the label threshold

Enterprise26 of 89

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 runZero 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
Attack surface management	Security operations	2%	10 of 100	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 49%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, runZero held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · ASM · by segment

Small business▼−10Since September 2026: 10% → 0%, −10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 10% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 1 pointRank 2 → 24 of 93

Mid-market=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 15 → 28 of 98

Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 2% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 15 → 27 of 81

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
ASM	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 15 → 10 of 100

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 runZero across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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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	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 label1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 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.

“Best budget-conscious pick: runZero Community Edition—if your company has 100 or fewer assets and wants broad asset discovery.” GPT-6 Luna · ASM · budget prompt · first choice

“Best for Finding "Shadow IT" and Hybrid Assets: runZero” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ASM · direct 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 runZero, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and runZero was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CyCognito9 of 140Not among the top eight

Cortex Xpanse8 of 140Not among the top eight

Intruder7 of 146Not among the top eight

Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management6 of 141Not among the top eight

Tenable Attack Surface Management6 of 141Not among the top eight

Detectify6 of 140Not among the top eight

Censys ASM5 of 140Not among the top eight

UpGuard BreachSight4 of 140Not among the top eight

Wiz3 of 141Not among the top eight

CrowdStrike Falcon Surface3 of 140Not among the top eight

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 runZero. 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 14 of the 14 answers that named runZero and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com6

heimdalsecurity.com6

upguard.com6

ciopages.com5

g2.com5

intruder.io5

expertinsights.com4

it-ai-index.com4

synack.com4

attaxion.com3

Forty-eight of the forty-eight domain citations in answers naming runZero came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/best-attack-surface-management-software6

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/attack-surface-management5

gartner.com/reviews/market/cyber-asset-attack-surface-management4

synack.com/blog/best-attack-surface-management-tools4

upguard.com/blog/best-attack-surface-management-software-solutions4

attaxion.com/top-external-attack-surface-management-vendors3

breachsense.com/blog/attack-surface-management-tools3

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-external-attack-surface-management-easm-softwa3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

runzero.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, runZero takes 2% of first choices and Intruder takes 49%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “attack surface management platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “attack surface management platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 1,900 a month (“runzero”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 16 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 1,882 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,193 · 20 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,501
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

20 ads · 20 text · 12 shown in the last 30 days

First shown August 2024, as Rumble, Inc, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 17 in the year, 3 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 10 of 100 in ASM

Segment leader

49%

Intruder

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 14 answers
Its own site cited: in 14 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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Addresses on runzero.com

1,096

subdomains included

Content

801

counted in the table below

Documentation

182

Product · Integration

15 · 1

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	700	17	2026-09-25	ASM, SD-WAN
News or press	44	0	2026-06-25
Podcast or video	25	0	2026-02-09
Report or ebook	14	13	2026-09-17	Endpoint protection
Case study	13	undated
Comparison	2	0	2026-03-30
Glossary or explainer	2	2	2026-09-17
Conference or event	1	1	2026-09-17

Most recent

2026-09-25Arista velocloud blog
2026-09-23Cve 2024 38508 lenovo blog
2026-09-17Mssp guide report or ebook
2026-09-17Tracking security and it initiatives with goals report or ebook
2026-09-17Scanning with snmp report or ebook
2026-09-17Scanning ot networks report or ebook

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page runzero.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 runZero

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

runZero Community Edition 1

Follow runZero

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

runZero is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Exposure Management for the AI-attack era
runzero.com
For: security leaders
runzero.com
Price stated: Community Edition — Free; runZero Platform — Starts at $5,000 runzero.com/pricing
Starting price: $5,000 runzero.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: Start Free; Try runZero for Free; Our completely free version of the runZero Platform is ideal for home use and environments with fewer than 100 assets. runzero.com
Certifications: DoE-certified
Customers named: North Carolina K-12TopconCapgeminiPresidioYork UniversityUniversity of AucklandSyntricSeminole County Public Schools
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, hosting

What runZero's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: runzero.com, runzero.com/pricing, runzero.com/compliance/csrb, runzero.com/platform, runzero.com/customers. 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 runZero'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 runZero, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for runZero by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where runZero 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 runZero, 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.