Every category where a model named Salt Security 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
API security platforms	Security operations	8%	5 of 93	33%	43	criticized challenger
Microsegmentation	Network and edge	0%	89 of 94	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by ColorTokens Xshield at 25%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Salt Security 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 Salt Security 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	0	1	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	1	2	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	0	1	0	3
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	4	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	2	3
Kimi K2	1	0	1	2	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	0	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	0	3
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	0	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1	0	2	4

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

Direct25 labels10

Paraphrase20 labels6

Comparative36 labels16not counted in share

Budget-constrained18 labels3

Scale-constrained17 labels2

Negative17 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative133 labels in all, every segment counted; 21 of the 37 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 to stop complex logic abuse (like BOLA) in runtime without adding any latency to your production traffic, select Salt Security or Traceable AI.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API security · comparative prompt · first choice

“dedicated purpose-built solutions like Salt Security, Traceable AI, Wallarm, Akamai API Security, and Cequence Security” Grok 4.1 Fast · API security · comparative prompt · first choice

“Purpose-built API security platform that combines API discovery, posture governance, and runtime threat detection in a single product.” Muse Glimmer 30B · API security · comparative prompt · first choice

“For deep behavioral analysis and threat defense: Choose Salt Security — it's the most feature-rich pure-play option.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API security · comparative 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.

“Another platform frequently mentioned as having significant setup and operational overhead.” Mistral Small · API security · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid Salt Security ($100k+/year)” Kimi K2 · API security · direct prompt · hard negative

“Salt Security is frequently cited as a category pioneer for AI-powered behavioral threat detection and API discovery... also note typical enterprise caveats: shift-left and SIEM logging integrations are still maturing in places, and smaller teams report sales-led buying and opaque pricing.” Muse Glimmer 30B · API security · negative prompt · soft negative

“extremely cost-effective compared to enterprise platforms like Salt Security or Traceable AI (which typically cost $50k+ per year)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API security · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Salt Security, over the 133 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salt Security was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Akamai API Security96 of 13311Compare →

42Crunch59 of 13310Compare →

Wallarm API Security58 of 1335Compare →

Imperva API Security47 of 1330Not among the top eight

Traceable AI44 of 1333Compare →

Cequence Unified API Protection41 of 1330Not among the top eight

Cloudflare API Shield32 of 1331Not among the top eight

StackHawk30 of 1336Compare →

Noname Security27 of 1331Compare →

Traceable26 of 1330Not 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 Salt Security. 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 124 of the 133 answers that named Salt Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

radware.com83

learn.g2.com67

beaglesecurity.com53

zuplo.com51

akamai.com47

axis-intelligence.com41

g2.com39

indusface.com39

getastra.com38

expertinsights.com36

494 of the 494 domain citations in answers naming Salt Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

learn.g2.com/best-api-security-tools67

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/choosing-api-security-solutions62

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/api-security-platforms59

zuplo.com/learning-center/best-api-security-tools-202646

axis-intelligence.com/best-api-security-tools-2026-tested-guide41

beaglesecurity.com/blog/article/best-api-security-solutions-enterprises.html41

akamai.com/products/api-security36

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-api-security-tools36

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

salt.security ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Salt Security takes 8% of first choices and Aikido Security takes 12%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “api security platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “api security platforms”

Searches for its name, Google: 880 a month (“salt security”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 135 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 2,611 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 4,312 · 34 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 2,930
Paid Google search: 1 searches its ads show for, about 3 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

57+ ads · 47 text, 8 image, 2 video · 21 shown in the last 30 days

First shown November 2023, as Salt Security, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 42 in the year, 15 before. 63 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 5 of 93 in API security

Segment leader

12%

Aikido Security

First choices: 21 across its categories
Named in: 133 answers
Its own site cited: in 124 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 salt.security

2,970

subdomains included

Content

595

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

15 · 81

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	413	14	2026-10-01	WAF, API gateways
News or press	131	undated		WAF, API security
Case study	35	undated
Glossary or explainer	5	1	2026-08-20
Conference or event	4	undated
Report or ebook	3	undated
Template or tool	2	undated
Webinar or virtual event	1	undated
Podcast or video	1	undated

Most recent

2026-10-01Salt Labs found the agentic AI platform Manus could be hijacked with a single email blog
2026-10-01When a security guardrail detects the attack and still cant stop it blog
2026-09-29Introducing the salt claude connect continuous mcp server visibility for claude enterprise blog
2026-09-22Salt Blog | AI Security Has a Context Problem blog
2026-09-10The role of agentic ai in cybersecurity blog
2026-09-03Salt | Ten Years, Two Photos, and One Bet That Got Much Bigger blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page salt.security 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 October 5, 2026.

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The company

Salt Security is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Salt Security is the only holistic AI security solution for the entire agentic AI lifecycle, from API discovery to posture management to threat protection.
salt.security
For: Trusted by global enterprises to deliver Agentic Security
salt.security
Price stated: Free API Attack Surface Assessment salt.security
Starting price: 0 salt.security
Free plan or trial: Free API Attack Surface Assessment salt.security
Integrations claimed: 8 salt.security
Certifications: ISO 27001ISO 27701EU AI ActNISTSOC 2
Hosting: USAGermanyCanadaSydney
Customers named: DienDealNavanTripActionsArmisDeinDealAppsFlyerFortune 500 BankSoFi

What Salt Security's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: salt.security, trust.salt.security, salt.security/platform, salt.security/customers, salt.security/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

where Salt Security 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 Salt Security, 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.