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Sysdig Secure

104Judge labels
15First choices
11Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
16% in Container security for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 78 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
4 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 7% of its 29 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
In container security · 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 Sysdig Secure 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
Container and Kubernetes securityCloud and infrastructure16%3 of 787%29accepted challenger
Cloud-native application protectionCloud and infrastructure0%8 of 570%12accepted challenger
Cloud security posture managementCloud and infrastructure0%34 of 530%1under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 43%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Sysdig Secure 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 Sysdig Secure across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini12115
Gemini 3.5 Flash15017
Perplexity Sonar20103
Grok 4.1 Fast14106
Mistral Small01203
DeepSeek V4 Flash22004
Llama 4 Maverick00303
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K212003
GLM 4.7 FlashX11103
MiniMax M2.520103

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
Direct24 labels6
Paraphrase16 labels5
Comparative34 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained12 labels3
Scale-constrained6 labels1
Negative12 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative104 labels in all, every segment counted; 15 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.

“I'd suggest Aqua Security if you want comprehensive full-lifecycle coverage, or Sysdig Secure if runtime detection and Kubernetes security are priorities” MiniMax M2.5 · Container security · direct prompt · first choice
“Sysdig Secure is the strongest alternative... Aqua Security or Sysdig are the safest specialist bets” Kimi K2 · Container security · direct prompt · first choice
“Aqua and Sysdig remain the leaders for pure, container‑specific security across the full lifecycle.” MiniMax M2.5 · Container security · comparative prompt · first choice
“Recommendation 1: The Best Overall Commercial Solution (Value + Low Overhead) Sysdig Secure” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Container security · 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.

“solid commercial option with deep container/runtime visibility, but it's more of a paid platform choice than a budget-first one” GPT-5.4 mini · Container security · budget prompt · soft negative
“you do not need a six-figure enterprise platform (such as Prisma Cloud, Wiz, or Sysdig Secure)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Container security · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sysdig Secure, over the 104 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sysdig Secure was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Wiz78 of 10424Not in the top three
Prisma Cloud73 of 1048Not in the top three
Falco44 of 1047Not in the top three
Trivy41 of 10412Compare →
Snyk31 of 1041Not in the top three
Microsoft Defender for Cloud29 of 1046Not in the top three
Kubescape27 of 1046Not in the top three
Orca Security27 of 1046Not in the top three
Snyk Container26 of 1042Not 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 Sysdig Secure. 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 84 of the 104 answers that named Sysdig Secure and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org66
gbhackers.com65
cybersecuritynews.com54
decryptiondigest.com42
expertinsights.com38
ox.security33
checkmarx.com20
softwareadvice.com20
sentinelone.com18
appsecsanta.com17

373 of the 373 domain citations in answers naming Sysdig Secure came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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