Every category where a model named Sonatype Lifecycle 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
Software composition analysis	Developer platform	0%	13 of 49	19%	31	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	2	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	1	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	2	0	1	4
Mistral Small	0	2	0	1	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	0	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	2	4
Kimi K2	0	2	1	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1	0	2

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

Direct24 labels5

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative26 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained9 labels3

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative14 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative82 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 13 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.

“Leader in Forrester Wave 2024 (top scores in current offering/strategy, malicious package detection, SBOM handling, policy management, AI analysis)” Grok 4.1 Fast · SCA · comparative prompt · first choice

“Sonatype Lifecycle - Offers enterprise policy management with per-application licensing, AI-powered analysis, and comprehensive SBOM” Llama 4 Maverick · SCA · direct prompt · alternative

“Choose Synopsys or Sonatype if you are a large organization with strict legal/compliance requirements and deep pockets.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SCA · comparative prompt · alternative

“Consider Sonatype if you have complex compliance requirements or plan to scale to enterprise size” Kimi K2 · SCA · direct 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.

“Some enterprise-heavy tools (like older versions of Black Duck or Sonatype Nexus IQ) can be slow to install, heavy on resources, or difficult to configure at scale” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SCA · negative prompt · soft negative

“paid tools like Snyk, Mend, or Sonatype may be better, but they're harder to justify on a tight budget” GPT-5.4 mini · SCA · budget prompt · soft negative

“including older Snyk, Sonatype, etc. configurations that rely purely on version-string matching” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SCA · negative prompt · soft negative

“they can be complex, expensive, and sometimes overkill for smaller teams or simpler use cases” Mistral Small · SCA · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sonatype Lifecycle, over the 81 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sonatype Lifecycle was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Black Duck76 of 818Not in the top three

Snyk Open Source75 of 8124Not in the top three

Mend.io70 of 819Not in the top three

Endor Labs39 of 813Not in the top three

JFrog Xray29 of 810Not in the top three

FOSSA24 of 810Not in the top three

Checkmarx SCA22 of 810Not in the top three

OWASP Dependency-Check19 of 810Not in the top three

Trivy17 of 812Not in the top three

GitHub Advanced Security16 of 811Not 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 Sonatype Lifecycle. 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 72 of the 81 answers that named Sonatype Lifecycle and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

endorlabs.com56

sonatype.comYour site37

cycode.com36

guideflow.com34

mend.io34

safeguard.sh33

expertinsights.com29

toolradar.com29

ox.security27

blackduck.com25

303 of the 340 domain citations in answers naming Sonatype Lifecycle came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

endorlabs.com/learn/best-sca-tools-05b7a52

endorlabs.com/learn/best-sca-tools38

sonatype.com/compare/best-sca-tools33

guideflow.com/blog/software-composition-analysis-tools32

cycode.com/blog/top-enterprise-sca-tools29

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-software-composition-analysis-tools29

toolradar.com/blog/best-software-composition-analysis-tools28

ox.security/blog/software-composition-analysis-and-sca-tools27

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Sonatype Lifecycle

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

Sonatype 8Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle 3Sonatype (Lifecycle & Nexus) 1Sonatype (Nexus Intelligence) 1Sonatype Lifecycle (Sonatype) 1Sonatype Nexus 1

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