Every category where a model named Traceable AI 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
API security platforms	Security operations	6%	7 of 93	12%	17	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Traceable AI 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 Traceable AI 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	0	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	0	0	2
Mistral Small	0	2	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	2	0	2	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
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

Direct9 labels2

Paraphrase7 labelsNone

Comparative11 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained8 labels1

Scale-constrained7 labels1

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative50 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 7 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.

“dedicated purpose-built solutions like Salt Security, Traceable AI, Wallarm, Akamai API Security, and Cequence Security” Grok 4.1 Fast · API security · comparative prompt · first choice

“starting with a free tier from 42Crunch or Traceable AI allows you to evaluate the platform before committing financially” Claude Haiku 4.5 · API security · budget prompt · first choice

“Choose Salt or Traceable if you need deep behavioral analytics and identity-aware protection” Kimi K2 · API security · comparative prompt · first choice

“the evaluation shortlist is commonly Traceable, Check Point CloudGuard WAF, Treblle for cost” Muse Glimmer 30B · API security · direct 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.

“enterprise platforms like Salt Security or Traceable AI (which typically cost $50k+ per year)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API security · budget prompt · soft negative

“Harness merged with Traceable AI.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API security · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Traceable AI, over the 50 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Traceable AI was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Salt Security44 of 5012Compare →

Akamai API Security37 of 507Compare →

42Crunch23 of 503Compare →

Wallarm API Security23 of 500Compare →

Cequence Unified API Protection22 of 500Not among the top eight

Imperva API Security20 of 500Not among the top eight

StackHawk15 of 502Compare →

Cloudflare API Shield14 of 501Not among the top eight

Noname Security14 of 500Compare →

Apigee10 of 500Not 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 Traceable AI. 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 47 of the 50 answers that named Traceable AI and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

radware.com32

learn.g2.com26

beaglesecurity.com25

axis-intelligence.com21

akamai.com20

zuplo.com19

getastra.com17

appsecsanta.com16

indusface.com15

gartner.com14

205 of the 205 domain citations in answers naming Traceable AI came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

learn.g2.com/best-api-security-tools26

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/choosing-api-security-solutions26

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/api-security-platforms23

beaglesecurity.com/blog/article/best-api-security-solutions-enterprises.html22

axis-intelligence.com/best-api-security-tools-2026-tested-guide21

zuplo.com/learning-center/best-api-security-tools-202617

akamai.com/products/api-security15

appsecsanta.com/api-security-tools13

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

traceable.ai ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Traceable AI takes 6% of first choices and Aikido Security takes 12%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “api security platform”

Position for “api security platforms”

Searches for its name, Google: 170 a month (“traceable ai”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 10 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 1,793 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 633 · 35 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,291
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

rank 7 of 93 in API security

Segment leader

12%

Aikido Security

First choices: 4 across its categories
Named in: 50 answers
Its own site cited: in 47 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 traceable.ai

229

subdomains included

Content

226

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	171	undated		API security, WAF
Webinar or virtual event	21	undated
Case study	13	undated
Report or ebook	12	undated
Glossary or explainer	3	undated
Comparison	2	undated
News or press	2	0	2023-04-08
Conference or event	1	undated
Template or tool	1	undated

Most recent

2023-04-08Press kit news or press

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page traceable.ai 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.

Names read as Traceable AI

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Traceable AI; a claim can dispute any of them.

Traceable AI (now part of Harness) 1

Follow Traceable AI

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

Traceable AI is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Intelligent Application and API Security at Enterprise Scale
traceable.ai
For: the world’s leading organizations
traceable.ai
Customers named: InformaticaJobviteAxos Bank
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Traceable AI's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: traceable.ai. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

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 Traceable AI'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 Traceable AI, 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 Traceable AI by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Traceable AI 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 Traceable AI, 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.