Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 25 → 21 of 71
2 categories · RankedSynack
105Judge labels
13First choices
7Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
23% in PTaaS for enterprise buyers
Rank 3 of 82 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 10% of its 29 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Synack →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business24 of 76
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market3 of 82
4%29 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise2 of 67
23%47 labels
accepted challenger
In ptaas · 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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penetration testing as a service | Security operations | 4% | 3 of 82 | 10% | 29 | accepted challenger | ▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Attack surface management | Security operations | 0% | 13 of 100 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 49% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Synack held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · PTaaS · by segment
Mid-market▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 18 → 3 of 74
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 23% → 25%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
25%from 23% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 2 of 63, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PTaaS | 0% | 5% | ▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 18 → 3 of 82 |
| ASM | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 13 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 Synack across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Synack across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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
Direct21 labels3
Paraphrase22 labels3
Comparative36 labels7not counted in share
Budget-constrained11 labels7
Scale-constrained10 labelsNone
Negative5 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative105 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 21 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.
“The best penetration testing service for a company with a limited budget is Synack, which offers penetration testing as a service starting at $119/month.” Llama 4 Maverick · PTaaS · budget prompt · first choice
“Offers continuous AI-driven penetration testing starting at $119/month, making it one of the most affordable options” Mistral Small · PTaaS · budget prompt · first choice
“Synack tops the list because it combines an elite human red team with agentic AI inside a single platform” Claude Haiku 4.5 · PTaaS · comparative prompt · first choice
“Synack — Combines ASM with AI pentesting and human validation” Kimi K2 · ASM · negative 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.
“Choose Synack if you want a crowdsourced model and are willing to validate scope and pricing more carefully” Perplexity Sonar · PTaaS · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“often more suited to larger enterprises or those with more complex needs” Mistral Small · PTaaS · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“More enterprise-focused, higher cost/complexity.” Grok 4.20 · PTaaS · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Synack, over the 105 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Synack, over the 105 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Synack. 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 104 of the 105 answers that named Synack and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
synack.comYour site88
underdefense.com55
deepstrike.io53
stingrai.io44
getastra.com42
techrepublic.com42
beaglesecurity.com35
softwaresecured.com28
brightdefense.com21
terra.security16
336 of the 424 domain citations in answers naming Synack came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
synack.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Synack takes 4% of first choices and Cobalt takes 45%.ShowHide
Search and answers
synack.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Synack takes 4% of first choices and Cobalt takes 45%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “penetration testing service”
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not in the top ten
Position for “penetration testing services”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,400 a month (“synack”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 59 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 6,764 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 908 · 98 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,860
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 3 of 82 in ptaas
Segment leader
45%
Cobalt
- First choices
- 13 across its categories
- Named in
- 105 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 104 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on synack.com
1,326
subdomains included
Content
609
counted in the table below
Documentation
111
Product · Integration
25 · 13
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 366 | 33 | 2026-09-24 | ASM, PTaaS | |
| Podcast or video | 139 | 7 | 2026-08-06 | ASM | |
| News or press | 32 | 10 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 27 | 18 | 2026-09-16 | SAST | |
| Comparison | 23 | 9 | 2026-08-19 | ||
| Conference or event | 11 | 2 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | 0 | 2026-04-29 | ||
| Case study | 3 | 0 | 2026-05-21 | ||
| Report or ebook | 2 | 0 | 2026-01-07 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | 1 | 2026-07-20 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Agentic ai pentesting guardrails blog
- 2026-09-24St stplus compliance pentesting data sheet blog
- 2026-09-24Web application security testing data sheet blog
- 2026-09-24Sara ai pentesting data sheet blog
- 2026-09-24Synack ai pentesting marketplaces news or press
- 2026-09-23Penetration testing rfp blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- September 24, 2026Build or Buy AI Pentesting? 5 Tests for Production ReadinessShow Floor Theatre at ExCeL London, London · spoke
- September 22, 2026 to September 24, 2026Gartner Security & Risk Management SummitLondon · exhibited
- June 2, 2026Theater Session TH32: Cutting Through AI NoiseNational Harbor · spoke
- June 1, 2026 to June 3, 2026Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026National Harbor · exhibited
- June 1, 2026Pickin’ & Pourin’ at the HarborNational Harbor · took part
As the event pages on synack.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page synack.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.
Follow Synack
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
Synack is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Synack is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI + Human Penetration Testing | PTaaS
- For
- organizations
- Price stated
- Pricing synack.com
- Starting price
- 4,181 synack.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- The Basic Platform is available at no cost. synack.com/pricing
- Integrations claimed
- 6 synack.com/products
- Certifications
- FedRAMPFedRAMP AuthorizedOWASPCRESTISO 27001FedRAMP ModeratePCI DSS Level 1ISO 27001:2022
- Hosting
- multiple US geographic regions
- Customers named
- Allianz DirectSpectro Cloud SecurityDomino'sJack HenryDowIberia CardsSpectro CloudMicrosoft
What Synack's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: synack.com, synack.com/pricing, synack.com/security, synack.com/products, synack.com/partners. 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 Synack'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 Synack, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Synack by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Synack 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 Synack, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Synack is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Synack is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideSynack is among the products AI models recommend first in Penetration testing as a service this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.