3 categories · RankedStackHawk
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamic application security testing | Developer platform | 8% | 4 of 58 | 3% | 30 | accepted challenger | |
| API security platforms | Security operations | 4% | 9 of 93 | 5% | 19 | accepted challenger | |
| Application security posture management | Developer platform | 2% | 11 of 70 | 0% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 37% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated StackHawk across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Best Overall Value (Automated Testing): StackHawk ... widely considered the best balance of cost and capability for startups and SMBs” Qwen 3.7 Flash · API security · budget prompt · first choice
“For most mid-market B2B companies, StackHawk offers the best balance of features, pricing, and developer experience.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DAST · direct prompt · first choice
“StackHawk - a developer-centric CI/CD DAST on a budget, with a free tier and paid plans starting at $59/mo.” Llama 4 Maverick · API security · budget prompt · first choice
“Top Recommendation for Mid-Sized B2B: Stackhawk” MiniMax M2.5 · ASPM · paraphrase 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.
“tools like StackHawk are built on ZAP, but they're not the cheapest option for a tight budget” GPT-5.4 mini · DAST · budget prompt · soft negative
“If you outgrow them, scale to affordable paid like StackHawk.” Grok 4.20 · API security · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as StackHawk, over the 147 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and StackHawk was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 142 of the 147 answers that named StackHawk and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
468 of the 546 domain citations in answers naming StackHawk came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
stackhawk.com ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, StackHawk takes 8% of first choices and OWASP ZAP takes 29%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 590 a month (“stackhawk”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 10 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 8,458 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,689 · 162 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,377
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 21 across its categories
- Named in
- 147 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 142 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 337 | undated | SAST, SOAR | ||
| Report or ebook | 35 | undated | SOAR | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 20 | undated | |||
| Case study | 17 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 15 | undated | SAST | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 15 | undated | SAST | ||
| News or press | 11 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 3 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 2 | undated | SAST | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page stackhawk.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as StackHawk
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The company
StackHawk is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI Coding Agent Security Platform
- For
- coding agents
- Price stated
- $10/user/mo. stackhawk.com/pricing
- Starting price
- $10/user/mo. stackhawk.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Get started - Free 14 day trial stackhawk.com/pricing
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type 2
- Hosting
- US us-west-2US
- Customers named
- ITVHagertyChange.orgBreathe Life
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What StackHawk's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: stackhawk.com, stackhawk.com/pricing, trust.stackhawk.com, stackhawk.com/platform, stackhawk.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for StackHawk by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where StackHawk is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name StackHawk, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.