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1 category · Named, not ranked

Shodan

9Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Shodan was named 1 time in ASM, where Intruder led with 59%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business36 of 96

under the label threshold

Mid-market56 of 104

under the label threshold

Enterprise54 of 78

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 Shodan 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
Attack surface management	Security operations	0%	56 of 104	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 59%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Shodan 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 Shodan across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative3 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained5 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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.

“Shodan Monitor: Starts around $69/month.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ASM · budget 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 Shodan, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Shodan was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Censys ASM6 of 92Not in the top three

Intruder4 of 93Not in the top three

Detectify3 of 90Not in the top three

Cortex Xpanse2 of 91Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management2 of 91Not in the top three

bspeka2 of 91Not in the top three

Bitsight2 of 90Not in the top three

CyCognito2 of 90Not in the top three

OWASP Amass2 of 90Not in the top three

SecurityScorecard2 of 90Not 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 Shodan. 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 5 of the 9 answers that named Shodan and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

attaxion.com3

cyberbench.net3

g2.com3

sourceforge.net3

attacksurfacescan.com2

blog.detectify.com2

bspeka.com2

circleid.com2

esecurityplanet.com2

heimdalsecurity.com2

Twenty-four of the twenty-four domain citations in answers naming Shodan came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

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

cyberbench.net/blog/best-easm-platforms-mid-market-20263

attaxion.com/open-source-attack-surface-management2

blog.detectify.com/industry-insights/product-comparison-detectify-vs-intruder2

bspeka.com/blog/best-attack-surface-monitoring-tools-20252

circleid.com/posts/detectify-vs-intruder-external-attack-surface-management-on-a-budget2

g2.com/categories/attack-surface-management/small-business2

g2.com/compare/detectify-vs-intruder2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Shodan

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

Shodan Monitor 1

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 Shodan'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 Shodan, 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 shodan.io 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.