Every category where a model named SafeStack Academy 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
Secure code training	Developer platform	12%	3 of 97	0%	20	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SafeStack Academy yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated SafeStack Academy 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	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	1	1	1	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	0	3
Kimi K2	2	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	3
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
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

Direct12 labels3

Paraphrase4 labels4

Comparative14 labelsNone

Budget-constrained13 labels7

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative7 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative51 labels in all, every segment counted; 14 of the 17 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.

“I'd typically recommend starting with Top 10 Dev Training or SafeStack Academy for cost-effective compliance coverage” Kimi K2 · Secure code training · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Start with SafeStack or Secure Code Warrior as your primary platform—it's affordable, scalable, and delivers quick wins.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Secure code training · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“For the absolute best value: Start with RansomLeak (free if under 25 employees) or SafeStack ($30/user/year)” Kimi K2 · Secure code training · budget prompt · first choice

“SafeStack Academy and Wizer are highly recommended for companies with limited budgets” Mistral Small · Secure code training · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SafeStack Academy, over the 51 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SafeStack Academy was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Secure Code Warrior41 of 5110Compare →

SecureFlag39 of 5114Compare →

Security Journey31 of 513Compare →

Snyk Learn18 of 512Compare →

Avatao15 of 510Not among the top eight

Veracode Security Labs13 of 510Not among the top eight

Checkmarx Codebashing10 of 510Not among the top eight

AppSecEngineer8 of 510Not among the top eight

SANS6 of 510Not among the top eight

Wizer6 of 510Not 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 SafeStack Academy. 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 51 of the 51 answers that named SafeStack Academy and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

sourceforge.net41

ransomleak.com40

g2.com36

gartner.com30

securityjourney.com27

slashdot.org27

us.fitgap.com25

f6s.com23

secureflag.com22

securecodewarrior.com21

292 of the 292 domain citations in answers naming SafeStack Academy came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ransomleak.com/blog/best-secure-coding-training-202639

gartner.com/reviews/market/secure-code-training-tools30

sourceforge.net/software/secure-code-training22

f6s.com/software/category/secure-coding-training20

g2.com/categories/secure-code-training20

sourceforge.net/software/secure-code-training/for-enterprise20

securityjourney.com/secure-development-training16

securecodewarrior.com/plans14

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

safestack.io ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, SafeStack Academy takes 12% of first choices and SecureFlag takes 26%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “secure code training platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “secure code training platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 10 a month (“safestack academy”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 92 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 37 · 2 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 597
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 edition

Share of first choices

12%

rank 3 of 97 in secure code training

Segment leader

26%

SecureFlag

First choices: 14 across its categories
Named in: 51 answers
Its own site cited: in 51 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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 safestack.io

199

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Latest
Blog	76	2025-10-14
Case study	10	2022-04-27
Glossary or explainer	3	2023-11-16

Most recent

2025-10-14Small teams build the future lets make sure theyre secure from day one blog
2025-07-15Safestack and ninjio to announce partnership to add developer training to human risk mitigation platform blog
2025-07-10Introducing the certified secure development professional csdp blog
2025-07-10Join the safestack faculty were looking for secure development experts blog
2025-05-27Safestack forms faculty advisory group blog
2025-03-11Simplifying safestack pricing with local currency options blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page safestack.io 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. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as SafeStack Academy

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

SafeStack 14

Follow SafeStack Academy

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

SafeStack Academy is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Secure the software you design and build and meet compliance requirements with ease supported by the leading secure development training platform.
safestack.io
For: your whole team
safestack.io
Free plan or trial: Start free trial safestack.io
Certifications: Certified Secure Development Professional (CSDP)Certified Secure Development Leader (CSDL)
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, integrations, hosting, customers

What SafeStack Academy's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: safestack.io, safestack.io/compliance, safestack.io/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

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 SafeStack Academy'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 SafeStack Academy, 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 SafeStack Academy by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where SafeStack Academy 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 SafeStack Academy, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where SafeStack Academy is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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SafeStack Academy is among the products AI models recommend first in Secure code training this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/developer/secure-code-training/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/safestack-academy--secure-code-training-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Secure code training, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Secure code training standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/developer/secure-code-training/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/safestack-academy--secure-code-training-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Secure code training, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Secure code training standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/developer/secure-code-training/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/safestack-academy--secure-code-training-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Secure code training, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Secure code training standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.