Every category where a model named Thinkst Canary 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
Deception technology	Security operations	37%	1 of 94	5%	40	endorsed leader

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Thinkst Canary yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Thinkst Canary 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	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	2	0	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	2	1	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	2	0	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	1	2	0	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	2	0	1	4
Mistral Small	2	1	0	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	0	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	2	1	0	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	1	3	1	0	5
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1	1	0	3

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

Direct18 labels8

Paraphrase28 labels19

Comparative26 labels12not counted in share

Budget-constrained19 labels8

Scale-constrained3 labels2

Negative9 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative103 labels in all, every segment counted; 37 of the 51 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.

“For most mid-sized B2B companies with a small SOC, start with Thinkst Canary for quick, high-confidence alerts and low operational overhead” Muse Glimmer 30B · Deception · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Lightweight / Token-Centric Deception (e.g., Thinkst Canary, Tracebit) ... Best For: Mid-market companies with small teams.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Deception · scale prompt · first choice

“Thinkst Canary offers a very low entry price, making it an excellent choice for budget-conscious organizations.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Deception · budget prompt · first choice

“I'd generally recommend Thinkst Canary as the best default choice for decoy/honeypot-style deception” GPT-5.4 mini · Deception · 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.

“But pricier than open-source—avoid if truly limited.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Deception · budget prompt · soft negative

“Too expensive for most small budgets” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Deception · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Thinkst Canary, over the 103 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Thinkst Canary was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Acalvio ShadowPlex55 of 10318Compare →

OpenCanary32 of 1036Compare →

Tracebit26 of 1032Compare →

Zscaler Deception24 of 1033Not among the top eight

T-Pot21 of 1030Compare →

CounterCraft19 of 1030Not among the top eight

Fortinet FortiDeceptor17 of 1031Compare →

Cowrie17 of 1030Not among the top eight

FortiDeceptor17 of 1030Not among the top eight

SentinelOne Singularity14 of 1032Not 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 Thinkst Canary. 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 103 of the 103 answers that named Thinkst Canary and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

acalvio.com48

guideflow.com45

expertinsights.com36

devopsschool.com34

sourceforge.net34

canary.tools33

guptadeepak.com33

us.fitgap.com32

slashdot.org30

securityhive.io27

352 of the 352 domain citations in answers naming Thinkst Canary came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/network-security/best-deception-technology-companies36

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-deception-technology-tools-features-pros-cons-comparison34

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-honeypots-deception-tools-202633

canary.tools/32

guideflow.com/blog/deception-technology-software32

acalvio.com/preemptive-security/competitive-intelligence-cyber-deception25

linkedin.com/pulse/cyber-deception-technology-cisos-guide-choosing-right-anand-akela-zbmlc24

securityhive.io/blog/best-honeypot-solutions-in-202523

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Thinkst Canary stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “deception technology platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “deception technology platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 590 a month (“thinkst canary”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 8 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 189 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 76 · 4 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,215
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

37%

rank 1 of 94 in deception

First choices

across its categories

Named in: 103 answers
Its own site cited: in 103 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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 thinkst.com

212

subdomains included

Content

210

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	202	4	2026-09-04	SOAR
Conference or event	5	0	2018-04-01
Webinar or virtual event	1	undated
Comparison	1	0	2018-11-01
Podcast or video	1	0	2011-02-01

Most recent

2026-09-04Getting agents to tell on themselves blog
2026-09-04Ap shell2 mp4 blog
2026-09-042026 blog
2026-07-29Other lessons for security product founders from the wright brothers blog
2026-06-22One for all the models out there blog
2026-06-05Introducing package proxy supply chain safety checks without client side software blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page thinkst.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 October 5, 2026.

Follow Thinkst Canary

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.

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The company

Thinkst Canary is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: a clear, high quality marker of compromise
thinkst.com
For: defenders
thinkst.com
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Thinkst Canary's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: thinkst.com. 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 Thinkst Canary'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 Thinkst Canary, 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 Thinkst Canary by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Thinkst Canary 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 Thinkst Canary, 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 Thinkst Canary is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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AI models recommend Thinkst Canary first in Deception technology 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

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/deception-technology/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/thinkst-canary--deception-technology-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Deception technology, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Deception technology standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/deception-technology/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/thinkst-canary--deception-technology-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Deception technology, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Deception technology standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/deception-technology/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/thinkst-canary--deception-technology-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Deception technology, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Deception technology standing, where the claim can be checked.

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.