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Index Vendors › Secureframe · September 2026 Edition
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Secureframe

188Judge labels
11First choices
29Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
8% in Compliance automation for small business buyers
Rank 6 of 54 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 17% of its 53 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In compliance automation · 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 Secureframe 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Compliance automationSecurity operations4%6 of 5417%53accepted challenger
GRC platformsSecurity operations2%12 of 778%12accepted challenger
Third-party risk managementSecurity operations0%28 of 720%3under 10 labels · led by UpGuard at 53%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Secureframe 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 Secureframe across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.504004
GPT-5.4 mini04105
Gemini 3.5 Flash05016
Perplexity Sonar01304
Grok 4.1 Fast02327
Mistral Small02125
DeepSeek V4 Flash261110
Llama 4 Maverick11103
Qwen 3.7 Flash04116
Kimi K205117
GLM 4.7 FlashX03216
MiniMax M2.503115

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
Direct32 labelsNone
Paraphrase33 labels8
Comparative44 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained20 labels1
Scale-constrained30 labels2
Negative29 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative188 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 12 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.

“Secureframe - Best for growing multi-framework teams... suitable for SaaS companies pursuing ISO 27001 and SOC 2 simultaneously.” Llama 4 Maverick · Compliance automation · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“shortlist 3–4 from the compliance-automation/mid-market category (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, LogicGate...)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · GRC · scale prompt · first choice
“Secureframe is the strongest default” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Compliance automation · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Choose Secureframe if you want structured guidance and want to bundle your compliance software with services like pen-testing.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compliance automation · comparative 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.

“frequently cited as platforms to be cautious about rather than outright avoid, specifically regarding long-term cost and vendor lock-in” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compliance automation · negative prompt · soft negative
“rigid platforms like Secureframe may force you to adapt your compliance program to the software” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Compliance automation · negative prompt · soft negative
“quote-based pricing (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, OneTrust) and can run $10,000-$80,000+/year” MiniMax M2.5 · Compliance automation · budget prompt · soft negative
“security veterans warn against relying on them for actual enterprise risk management” Gemini 3.5 Flash · GRC · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Secureframe, over the 188 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Secureframe was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Vanta184 of 18861Not in the top three
Drata161 of 18835Not in the top three
Sprinto102 of 18814Not in the top three
Hyperproof62 of 1886Not in the top three
AuditBoard40 of 1881Not in the top three
OneTrust39 of 1882Not in the top three
ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management39 of 1882Not in the top three
Scytale34 of 1882Not in the top three
Thoropass34 of 1880Not in the top three
MetricStream32 of 1881Not 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 Secureframe. 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 161 of the 188 answers that named Secureframe and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

vanta.com79
orbiqhq.com66
optro.ai57
expertinsights.com55
sprinto.com41
learn.g2.com36
complyjet.com34
netwrix.com34
consilien.com33
g2.com33

468 of the 468 domain citations in answers naming Secureframe came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Secureframe

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Secureframe; a claim can dispute any of them.
SecureFrame 2
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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 Secureframe'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 Secureframe, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at secureframe.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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