Every category where a model named Synack 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	0%	18 of 76	11%	18	accepted challenger
Attack surface management	Security operations	0%	13 of 104	0%	10	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Synack 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 Synack 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	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	2	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	1	3
Mistral Small	1	1	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	3	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	1	0	3
Kimi K2	0	1	1	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	1	1	5
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	0	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

Direct25 labels2

Paraphrase16 labels5

Comparative38 labels7not counted in share

Budget-constrained12 labels4

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative6 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative101 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 19 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.

“Combines attack surface discovery with agentic AI pentesting and human-validated exploitation, making it ideal for enterprises seeking confirmed, exploitable risks.” Mistral Small · ASM · comparative prompt · first choice

“Synack = discovery + AI pentesting + human validation (best for validated, actionable risks).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ASM · comparative prompt · first choice

“Synack finds exploitable vulnerabilities faster than traditional pentesting with a community of ethical security researchers paired with smart technology” Claude Haiku 4.5 · PTaaS · comparative prompt · alternative

“Pairs an elite crowdsourced community (the Synack Red Team) with its proprietary agentic AI engine ("Sara"). It is FedRAMP-authorized” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PTaaS · 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.

“typically more expensive for enterprise‑scale needs; often better suited to large, complex programs” GLM 4.7 FlashX · PTaaS · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“Fast but enterprise-leaning” Grok 4.1 Fast · PTaaS · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Synack, over the 101 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Synack was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cobalt54 of 10114Not in the top three

NetSPI50 of 10119Not in the top three

Bishop Fox38 of 1015Not in the top three

HackerOne28 of 1011Not in the top three

BreachLock27 of 1012Not in the top three

CyCognito25 of 1013Not in the top three

Cortex Xpanse24 of 1016Not in the top three

Bugcrowd24 of 1012Not in the top three

Censys ASM24 of 1010Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management20 of 1011Not 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 Synack. 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 89 of the 101 answers that named Synack and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

synack.comYour site79

deepstrike.io46

stingrai.io34

underdefense.com31

techrepublic.com29

cybri.com28

upguard.com28

gartner.com24

softwaresecured.com22

getastra.com21

263 of the 342 domain citations in answers naming Synack came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

synack.com/blog/best-penetration-testing-companies43

synack.com/blog/best-attack-surface-management-tools30

underdefense.com/blog/penetration-testing-services29

techrepublic.com/article/best-penetration-testing-companies28

upguard.com/blog/best-attack-surface-management-software-solutions28

bitsight.com/guides/best-external-attack-surface-management-platforms-for-global-enterpris20

deepstrike.io/blog/top-penetration-testing-companies20

softwaresecured.com/post/top-10-penetration-testing-vendors19

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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