SaltStack
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| API security platforms | Security operations | 2% | 22 of 93 | 60% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12% | |
| Infrastructure as code | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 57 of 59 | 75% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Terraform at 57% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Patch management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 73 of 85 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus at 29% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated SaltStack across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Shortlist 3-5 Vendors: Salt Security, Traceable AI, Wallarm, Akamai, F5/Imperva (strong for WAAP), Cloudflare (edge/value).” Grok 4.20 · API security · scale prompt · first choice
“Salt Security | Best-in-class shadow API discovery, ML behavioral detection, enterprise scale | Detection-only (no inline blocking), premium pricing” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API security · scale 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.
“SaltStack ⚠️ DECLINING MINDSHARE ... Tools to AVOID or Approach with Extreme Caution” Kimi K2 · IaC · negative prompt · hard negative
“using them to provision cloud-native resources ... is a massive anti-pattern” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · hard negative
“SaltStack (older versions) → update or migrate. | SaltStack (old versions).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · IaC · negative prompt · hard negative
“Why NOT the "Big Three" (Salt, Noname/Akamai, Traceable)?” Kimi K2 · API security · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SaltStack, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SaltStack was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 30 of the 30 answers that named SaltStack and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for SaltStack, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where SaltStack stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,300 a month (“saltstack”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 244 a month
- Its own site
- No site of its own on file, so no site figures
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 30 answers
- Its own site cited
- No site on file to match
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.
Names read as SaltStack
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for SaltStack by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where SaltStack 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 SaltStack, 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.