Small business▼−21Since September 2026: 36% → 15%, −21 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
15%from 36% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 10 pointsRank 1 → 3 of 44
8 categories · RankedTrivy
224Judge labels
61First choices
22Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
8Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
31% in SCA for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 50 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 27 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Trivy →By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business2 of 49
18%41 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market1 of 50
31%27 labels
endorsed leader
Enterprise4 of 56
9%15 labels
accepted challenger
In sca · 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 Trivy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software composition analysis | Developer platform | 31% | 1 of 50 | 11% | 27 | endorsed leader | ▼−5Since September 2026: 40% → 34%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Container and Kubernetes security | Cloud and infrastructure | 22% | 1 of 77 | 11% | 44 | accepted challenger | ▲+6Since September 2026: 16% → 22%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Cloud security posture management | Cloud and infrastructure | 2% | 11 of 80 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 37% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. |
| Cloud-native application protection | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 19 of 70 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 37% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Vulnerability management platforms | Security operations | 0% | 26 of 77 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 30% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Application security posture management | Developer platform | 0% | 58 of 70 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 37% | |
| Artifact and container registries | Developer platform | 0% | 63 of 89 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by JFrog Artifactory at 14% | |
| Static application security testing | Developer platform | 0% | 48 of 71 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Semgrep at 36% | =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, Trivy held within the floor in all eight categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · SCA · by segment
Mid-market▼−5Since September 2026: 40% → 34%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
34%from 40% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 1 of 43, unchanged
Enterprise▲+1Since September 2026: 7% → 8%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
8%from 7% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 7 → 4 of 47
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Container security | 16% | 22% | ▲+6Since September 2026: 16% → 22%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 → 1 of 77 |
| SCA | 40% | 34% | ▼−5Since September 2026: 40% → 34%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 1 of 50, unchanged |
| CSPM | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 11 of 80, unchanged |
| CNAPP | 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 → 19 of 70 |
| Vuln management | 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 65 → 26 of 77 |
| ASPM | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 58 of 70, unchanged |
| Artifact registries | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 63 of 89, unchanged |
| SAST | 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 39 → 48 of 71 |
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 Trivy 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 Trivy 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 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
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
Direct22 labels1
Paraphrase54 labels22
Comparative33 labels9not counted in share
Budget-constrained65 labels36
Scale-constrained12 labels2
Negative38 labels6not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative224 labels in all, every segment counted; 61 of the 76 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.
“Start with the open-source stack: Trivy for image scanning, Harbor for the registry, Kubescape for posture, Falco for runtime, and Cosign for signing.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Container security · budget prompt · first choice
“If you have no budget for software licenses but have engineering time, this is the gold standard... best open-source scanner available right now.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Container security · budget prompt · first choice
“Highly recommended for its open-source, free-to-use vulnerability scanner... making it a strong choice for budget-conscious teams.” Mistral Small · Container security · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend Trivy (from Aqua Security) as the top open-source dependency vulnerability scanner for a mid-sized B2B company.” Grok 4.20 · SCA · 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.
“In March 2026 Aqua Security’s Trivy open source vulnerability scanner was compromised in a multi-stage supply chain attack.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Container security · negative prompt · soft negative
“free options like Trivy being the best zero-budget choice but typically requiring more tuning than commercial offerings” Muse Glimmer 30B · SCA · negative prompt · soft negative
“Trivy disclosed a 2026 compromise involving a malicious release and GitHub Action tags, so pin and verify the tooling” GPT-6 Luna · SCA · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“One caution: Trivy remains a capable scanner, but its project disclosed supply-chain compromises” GPT-6 Luna · Container security · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Trivy, over the 224 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Trivy was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Trivy, over the 224 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Trivy 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 Trivy. 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 207 of the 224 answers that named Trivy and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
appsecsanta.com94
cyberpress.org91
g2.com69
gbhackers.com65
safeguard.sh64
checkmarx.com63
expertinsights.com63
aikido.dev62
thectoclub.com60
portainer.io57
688 of the 688 domain citations in answers naming Trivy came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Trivy stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Trivy stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “software composition analysis tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “software composition analysis tools”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 5,400 a month (“trivy”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 182 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 3,093 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 144 · 59 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,418
- 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 editionShare of first choices
31%
rank 1 of 50 in SCA
First choices
61
across its categories
- Named in
- 224 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 207 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 trivy.dev
192
subdomains included
Content
147
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
0 · 8
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 146 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page trivy.dev 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. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Trivy
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Trivy; a claim can dispute any of them.
Trivy (by Aqua Security) 2Aqua Security / Trivy 1Trivy (from Aqua Security) 1Trivy (open-source) 1Trivy by Aqua Security 1
Follow Trivy
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
Trivy is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Trivy is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The All-in-One Security Scanner
- Customers named
- WiseCloudNativePGVistaAntigen SecurityGitLabAlpine SecurityHarborMirantis
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Trivy's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: trivy.dev, trivy.dev/v0.74/guide/compliance/compliance, trivy.dev/v0.74/tutorials/integrations. 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 Trivy'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 Trivy, 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 Trivy by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Trivy 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 Trivy, 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 Trivy 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 Trivy is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideSoftware composition analysis
AI models recommend Trivy first in Software composition analysis 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
Container and Kubernetes security
AI models recommend Trivy first in Container and Kubernetes security 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.