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
Software composition analysis	Developer platform	40%	1 of 49	3%	30	endorsed leader
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	16%	2 of 78	5%	39	accepted challenger
Cloud-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	15 of 57	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 46%
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	76 of 80	50%	6	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%
Static application security testing	Developer platform	0%	42 of 47	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Semgrep at 47%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	4	0	1	5
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	3	3	0	8
Perplexity Sonar	3	1	1	2	7
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	3	2	2	10
Mistral Small	2	4	2	0	8
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	6	1	1	11
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	3	1	2	0	6
Kimi K2	4	5	0	0	9
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	4	1	0	7
MiniMax M2.5	3	1	2	0	6

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

Direct27 labels5

Paraphrase50 labels18

Comparative39 labels11not counted in share

Budget-constrained61 labels36

Scale-constrained11 labels2

Negative37 labels8not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative225 labels in all, every segment counted; 61 of the 80 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.

“the open‑source stack of Trivy + Falco + Kubescape (with NeuVector as a full‑life optional addition) provides a credible, complete container security solution” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Container security · budget prompt · first choice

“I would recommend Trivy as the default open-source dependency vulnerability scanner because it gives the broadest practical coverage in one tool” Perplexity Sonar · SCA · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Trivy (by Aqua Security) stands out as the best software composition analysis (SCA) tool for companies with a limited budget.” Grok 4.1 Fast · SCA · budget prompt · first choice

“the best container security platform is usually Trivy if you want the lowest-cost option, because it is fully open source” Perplexity Sonar · Container security · budget 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.

“Avoid for high-security environments until fully audited; check releases post-v0.69.4 and scan your pipelines.” Grok 4.1 Fast · SCA · negative prompt · hard negative

“Build-time scanners like Trivy, Grype, and Clair can find CVEs and misconfigurations, but they do not detect runtime threats.” Perplexity Sonar · Container security · negative prompt · soft negative

“Trivy and Nuclei are noted as strong specialized tools but with limited enterprise features or centralized management” Perplexity Sonar · Vuln management · negative prompt · soft negative

“provide a strong free foundation but lack enterprise-scale management, support, and advanced enforcement” Grok 4.1 Fast · Container security · comparative 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Falco106 of 2244Not in the top three

Aqua Security77 of 22421Compare →

Snyk Open Source64 of 22424Compare →

Kubescape63 of 2248Not in the top three

Prisma Cloud63 of 2242Not in the top three

Wiz60 of 2241Not in the top three

OWASP Dependency-Check55 of 2247Not in the top three

Snyk52 of 2247Not in the top three

SUSE NeuVector43 of 2242Not in the top three

Sysdig42 of 2243Not 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 Trivy. 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 187 of the 224 answers that named Trivy and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com89

cyberpress.org87

expertinsights.com73

cybersecuritynews.com72

appsecsanta.com70

aikido.dev68

ox.security62

safeguard.sh61

endorlabs.com60

dupple.com47

689 of the 689 domain citations in answers naming Trivy came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/container-security-by-business-size-268

gbhackers.com/best-container-security-compared68

endorlabs.com/learn/best-sca-tools-05b7a54

dupple.com/learn/best-software-composition-analysis-tools46

cybersecuritynews.com/best-container-security-tools44

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-container-security-tools39

toolradar.com/blog/best-software-composition-analysis-tools39

endorlabs.com/learn/best-sca-tools37

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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) 5Trivy (Aqua Security) 2Aqua Security's Trivy (open-source scanner) 1Trivy (by Aqua/Falco) 1

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