Every category where a model named SurfaceLoop 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	Since September 2026
Attack surface management	Security operations	2%	11 of 100	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 49%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.

Movement

Since September 2026, SurfaceLoop held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · ASM · by segment

Small businessnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.

2%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 10 of 93, unchanged

Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.

2%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 10 of 98, unchanged

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
ASM	0%	2%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.	New this edition	Rank 11 of 100, unchanged

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated SurfaceLoop across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
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	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct4 labels2

Paraphrase3 labels1

Comparative1 label1not counted in share

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 5 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.

“SurfaceLoop is widely considered the best value for small businesses.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ASM · budget prompt · first choice

“SurfaceLoop if you want flat-rate pricing without complexity” MiniMax M2.5 · 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 SurfaceLoop, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SurfaceLoop was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Attaxion12 of 135Not among the top eight

Intruder10 of 134Not among the top eight

Detectify10 of 130Not among the top eight

UpGuard BreachSight7 of 130Not among the top eight

Bitsight3 of 130Not among the top eight

HostedScan3 of 130Not among the top eight

Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management3 of 130Not among the top eight

Criminal IP ASM2 of 130Not among the top eight

CyCognito2 of 130Not among the top eight

ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus2 of 130Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 SurfaceLoop. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 13 of the 13 answers that named SurfaceLoop and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

surfaceloop.comYour site13

attaxion.com10

guideflow.com8

scanreview.io8

g2.com6

sourceforge.net6

thectoclub.com6

slashdot.org5

synack.com5

technologyadvice.com5

Fifty-nine of the seventy-two domain citations in answers naming SurfaceLoop came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

surfaceloop.com/blog/best-easm-tools-small-business13

attaxion.com/top-external-attack-surface-management-vendors10

guideflow.com/blog/attack-surface-management-software8

scanreview.io/managed/small-business8

thectoclub.com/tools/best-attack-surface-management-tools6

slashdot.org/software/attack-surface-management/f-small-business5

synack.com/blog/best-attack-surface-management-tools5

technologyadvice.com/attack-surface-management-software5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

surfaceloop.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, SurfaceLoop takes 2% of first choices and Intruder takes 49%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “attack surface management platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “attack surface management platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: not counted (“surfaceloop”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 12 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 40 · 0 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 420
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 11 of 100 in ASM

Segment leader

49%

Intruder

First choices: 4 across its categories
Named in: 13 answers
Its own site cited: in 13 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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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Addresses on surfaceloop.com

199

subdomains included

Content

166

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

5 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Glossary or explainer	122	0	2026-05-18	DAST, ASM
Blog	24	4	2026-09-23
Comparison	11	7	2026-09-23	ASM
Report or ebook	7	6	2026-09-24
Template or tool	2	1	2026-09-23

Most recent

2026-09-24Cyber essentials plus external scope report or ebook
2026-09-24Easm buyers guide uk report or ebook
2026-09-24Msp easm playbook report or ebook
2026-09-24Nis2 externally facing controls report or ebook
2026-09-24Subdomain takeover remediation report or ebook
2026-09-23Cheapest easm tools blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page surfaceloop.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. Read October 5, 2026.

Follow SurfaceLoop

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

SurfaceLoop is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Continuous external attack surface management for UK businesses.
surfaceloop.com
For: For UK businesses without a security team
surfaceloop.com
Price stated: £149 /month surfaceloop.com
Starting price: 149 surfaceloop.com
Free plan or trial: 14-day free trial surfaceloop.com
Certifications: Cyber Essentials
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, hosting, customers

What SurfaceLoop's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: surfaceloop.com, surfaceloop.com/pricing, surfaceloop.com/security, surfaceloop.com/use-cases/easm-for-msps. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 SurfaceLoop'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 SurfaceLoop, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for SurfaceLoop by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where SurfaceLoop 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 SurfaceLoop, 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.