Every category where a model named Traceable 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	0%	26 of 93	31%	13	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Traceable 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 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct6 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative9 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained5 labelsNone

Scale-constrained9 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative41 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

“Traceable AI | Deep data-flow observability, great for understanding sensitive data movement | Newer to market” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API security · scale prompt · alternative

“A candidate for teams that want API activity context useful to security operations and threat hunting” GPT-6 Luna · API security · comparative prompt · alternative

“For data-flow visibility and microservice observability: Choose Traceable (via Harness).” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API security · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for behavioral/runtime API threat detection: Salt Security or Traceable” GPT-5.4 mini · API security · 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.

“Now part of Harness; complex enterprise contracts” Kimi K2 · API security · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“Harness completed its merger with Traceable on March 4, 2025... confirm the product's current roadmap, support ownership” GPT-6 Luna · API security · negative prompt · soft negative

“premium enterprise API security platforms (like Salt Security, Akamai/Noname, or Traceable) are usually out of reach” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API security · budget prompt · soft negative

“without the premium enterprise pricing of tools like Salt Security or Traceable” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API security · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Traceable, over the 41 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Traceable was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Akamai API Security28 of 416Not among the top eight

Salt Security26 of 414Not among the top eight

Wallarm API Security23 of 414Not among the top eight

Imperva API Security15 of 410Not among the top eight

42Crunch12 of 415Not among the top eight

Cloudflare API Shield12 of 411Not among the top eight

Cequence Unified API Protection10 of 410Not among the top eight

OWASP ZAP8 of 413Not among the top eight

StackHawk7 of 412Not among the top eight

Noname7 of 410Not 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. 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 39 of the 41 answers that named Traceable and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

radware.com18

akamai.com13

ciopages.com13

escape.tech13

learn.g2.com13

getastra.com12

zuplo.com12

beaglesecurity.com11

indusface.com10

appsecsanta.com9

124 of the 124 domain citations in answers naming Traceable came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/api-security13

learn.g2.com/best-api-security-tools13

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/choosing-api-security-solutions12

zuplo.com/learning-center/best-api-security-tools-202612

escape.tech/blog/best-api-security-tools-20249

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/api-security-platforms9

akamai.com/products/api-security8

cyberpress.org/api-security-by-use-case8

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 takes 0% 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: 2,900 a month (“traceable”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 3,256 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 26 of 93 in API security

Segment leader

12%

Aikido Security

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 41 answers
Its own site cited: in 39 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.

Follow Traceable

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

where Traceable 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, 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.