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Swimlane

63Judge labels
4First choices
11Negative 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
9% in SOAR for enterprise buyers
Rank 15 of 49 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 18 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In soar · 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 Swimlane 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
SOAR platformsSecurity operations0%15 of 4911%18accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Swimlane 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 Swimlane across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.1 Fast01113
Mistral Small02103
DeepSeek V4 Flash02002
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash01102
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX00011
MiniMax M2.501102

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
Direct17 labels3
Paraphrase8 labelsNone
Comparative16 labelsNone
Budget-constrained4 labels1
Scale-constrained11 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative63 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.

“Choose Swimlane if you need more robust SOC workflows and can support a more feature-rich platform.” Perplexity Sonar · SOAR · direct prompt · alternative
“Swimlane is a strong contender for those needing advanced automation and scalability.” Mistral Small · SOAR · direct prompt · alternative
“the recurring recommendations (as alternatives worth considering) were Swimlane” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SOAR · negative prompt · alternative
“Independent platform; flat-rate pricing; excels in high-volume, multi-tenant ops” Grok 4.1 Fast · SOAR · comparative 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.

“$80k - $400k+/yr | Large enterprises (Not recommended for low budgets)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SOAR · budget prompt · hard negative
“Complex setup/maintenance, needs devs/Python, resource-intensive” Grok 4.1 Fast · SOAR · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Swimlane, over the 63 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Swimlane was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Cortex XSOAR54 of 6319Not in the top three
Splunk SOAR53 of 633Not in the top three
Tines44 of 6315Not in the top three
Torq28 of 632Not in the top three
Microsoft Sentinel28 of 631Not in the top three
IBM QRadar SOAR26 of 630Not in the top three
D3 Security Smart SOAR17 of 631Not in the top three
FortiSOAR16 of 630Not in the top three
Google Security Operations SOAR13 of 630Not in the top three
Rapid7 InsightConnect12 of 634Not 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 Swimlane. 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 57 of the 63 answers that named Swimlane and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com43
blinkops.com38
paloaltonetworks.com36
expertinsights.com32
aimultiple.com25
exabeam.com23
strike48.com22
comparitech.com21
checkthat.ai20
simbian.ai18

278 of the 278 domain citations in answers naming Swimlane came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Swimlane

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Swimlane; a claim can dispute any of them.
Swimlane (Start Edition) 1Swimlane (Turbine) 1
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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 Swimlane'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 Swimlane, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at swimlane.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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