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1 category · Named, not ranked

Software Secured

10Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

6 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

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Software Secured was named 4 times in PTaaS, where Cobalt led with 44%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business15 of 57

under the label threshold

Mid-market9 of 76

under the label threshold

Enterprise29 of 73

under the label threshold

In ptaas · 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 Software Secured 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
Penetration testing as a service	Security operations	2%	9 of 76	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Cobalt at 44%

Movement

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

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase7 labels1

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“the best pentest-as-a-service provider for a mid-sized B2B company would be Software Secured” Llama 4 Maverick · PTaaS · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Software Secured is also highly recommended for B2B SaaS firms” Mistral Small · PTaaS · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Software Secured, a leading provider for B2B SaaS companies” Claude Haiku 4.5 · PTaaS · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Software Secured is a strong contender” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PTaaS · paraphrase 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 Software Secured, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Software Secured was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BreachLock8 of 104Not in the top three

Cobalt6 of 103Not in the top three

Astra Security5 of 103Not in the top three

NetSPI3 of 100Not in the top three

Bugcrowd2 of 100Not in the top three

Packetlabs2 of 100Not in the top three

Synack2 of 100Not in the top three

UnderDefense2 of 100Not in the top three

Beagle Security1 of 100Not in the top three

DeepStrike1 of 100Not 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 Software Secured. 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 10 of the 10 answers that named Software Secured and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

softwaretestinghelp.com8

terra.security8

deepstrike.io6

underdefense.com5

cybri.com4

softwaresecured.comYour site4

synack.com4

soc2auditors.org3

defendify.com2

equixly.com2

Forty-two of the forty-six domain citations in answers naming Software Secured came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

softwaretestinghelp.com/top-pen-testing-as-a-service-providers8

terra.security/blog/top-10-penetration-testing-as-a-service-ptaas-providers8

deepstrike.io/blog/top-penetration-testing-as-a-service-ptaas4

cybri.com/blog/ptaas-companies3

soc2auditors.org/penetration-testing-firms3

synack.com/blog/best-penetration-testing-companies3

underdefense.com/blog/penetration-testing-services3

defendify.com/blog/penetration-testing-companies2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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