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Snyk Open Source

144Judge labels
25First choices
18Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
33% in SCA for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 49 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
5 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 15% of its 47 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In sca · 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 Snyk Open Source 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
Software composition analysisDeveloper platform16%2 of 4915%47accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Snyk Open Source 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 Snyk Open Source across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501203
GPT-5.4 mini20013
Gemini 3.5 Flash12014
Perplexity Sonar01113
Grok 4.1 Fast22015
Mistral Small03104
DeepSeek V4 Flash30014
Llama 4 Maverick01102
Qwen 3.7 Flash23005
Kimi K220316
GLM 4.7 FlashX11215
MiniMax M2.521003

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 labels16
Paraphrase10 labels1
Comparative36 labels17not counted in share
Budget-constrained31 labels4
Scale-constrained17 labels4
Negative18 labels8not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative144 labels in all, every segment counted; 25 of the 50 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.

“For many teams, Snyk, Mend.io (formerly WhiteSource), and Sonatype (Nexus IQ/Black Duck) are considered leaders” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SCA · negative prompt · first choice
“Choose Snyk if you want to empower developers to fix issues quickly without leaving their IDE or CI pipeline.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SCA · comparative prompt · first choice
“I'd start with Snyk Open Source — it gives you the fastest developer adoption and integrated remediation” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SCA · direct prompt · first choice
“Shortlist 3-5: Snyk (dev-first)... Developer-first tools (Snyk, Endor) prevent security bottlenecks.” Grok 4.1 Fast · SCA · scale 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.

“The industry heavyweight with top-tier developer UX, strong remediation suggestions, and a wide ecosystem, though it can be highly expensive.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SCA · scale prompt · soft negative
“Be cautious with tools like Snyk if you're at scale or in a regulated environment, because they're known to generate significant noise” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SCA · negative prompt · soft negative
“its paid plans are typically around the mid-$20s to $30 per developer per month, so it is not the cheapest option” Perplexity Sonar · SCA · budget prompt · soft negative
“Frequent complaints of noise/UI complexity/slow large-repo scans (G2/PeerSpot)... scales poorly without tuning.” Grok 4.1 Fast · SCA · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Snyk Open Source, over the 143 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Snyk Open Source was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Black Duck94 of 14312Not in the top three
Sonatype Lifecycle75 of 14311Not in the top three
Trivy64 of 14321Compare →
OWASP Dependency-Check53 of 1435Not in the top three
Endor Labs50 of 1433Not in the top three
FOSSA50 of 1430Not in the top three
Socket34 of 1430Not in the top three
JFrog Xray32 of 1431Not in the top three
Semgrep Supply Chain26 of 1431Not 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 Snyk Open Source. 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 121 of the 143 answers that named Snyk Open Source and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

endorlabs.com94
dupple.com62
guideflow.com61
toolradar.com59
safeguard.sh51
appsecsanta.com45
mend.io44
cycode.com42
expertinsights.com42
aikido.dev41

541 of the 541 domain citations in answers naming Snyk Open Source came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Snyk Open Source

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Snyk Open Source; a claim can dispute any of them.
Snyk 37Snyk (Free Tier) 1Snyk (commercial) 1Snyk Free Tier 1Snyk Open Source / Snyk platform 1Snyk Team 1
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