Every category where a model named Valence Security 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
SaaS security posture management	Security operations	2%	12 of 95	8%	13	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Valence Security 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 Valence Security 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	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	1	1	0	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	1	0	1

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

Direct4 labels1

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative17 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained5 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative35 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“My default pick: Valence Security” GPT-6 Luna · SSPM · direct prompt · first choice

“a good fit for organizations concerned about automated and third-party risks” Mistral Small · SSPM · comparative prompt · alternative

“look at Valence if integration risk is central” GPT-6 Luna · SSPM · comparative prompt · alternative

“Valence Security (non-human identity)” MiniMax M2.5 · SSPM · 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.

“Proceed with caution. Negotiate long-term pricing caps and support SLAs” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SSPM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Valence Security, over the 35 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Valence Security was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

AppOmni31 of 3512Not among the top eight

Grip Security26 of 352Not among the top eight

Obsidian Security21 of 354Not among the top eight

Wing Security21 of 353Not among the top eight

Nudge Security15 of 353Not among the top eight

DoControl15 of 350Not among the top eight

Adaptive Shield13 of 354Not among the top eight

CrowdStrike Falcon Shield11 of 351Not among the top eight

Reco10 of 350Not among the top eight

Zscaler SSPM8 of 350Not 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 Valence Security. 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 35 of the 35 answers that named Valence Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startupstash.com21

gbhackers.com20

reco.ai17

guideflow.com16

cyberpress.org14

scmgalaxy.com14

docontrol.io13

nudgesecurity.com13

us.fitgap.com13

go.appomni.com12

153 of the 153 domain citations in answers naming Valence Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

startupstash.com/best-sspm-platforms21

gbhackers.com/best-sspm-compared18

guideflow.com/blog/sspm-software16

cyberpress.org/sspm-tools-by-business-size-214

reco.ai/compare/top-sspm-tools14

scmgalaxy.com/tutorials/top-10-saas-security-posture-management-sspm-features-pros-cons-co14

go.appomni.com/hubfs/Collateral/Frost_RadarReport_SSPM_2025_AppOmni.pdf12

saassecurity.io/blog/saas-security-posture-management12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

valencesecurity.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Valence Security takes 2% of first choices and Wing Security takes 30%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “sspm platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “sspm platforms”

Searches for its name, Google: 320 a month (“valence security”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 773 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 545 · 20 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 930
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

16 ads · 16 text · 0 shown in the last 30 days

First shown March 2024, as Valence Security, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 2 in the year, 14 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 12 of 95 in SSPM

Segment leader

30%

Wing Security

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 35 answers
Its own site cited: in 35 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 valencesecurity.com

329

subdomains included

Content

215

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

26 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Categories named
Blog	114	undated	SSPM, AI security
News or press	53	undated	SSPM, TPRM
Podcast or video	24	undated
Glossary or explainer	11	undated	ITDR, CSPM
Report or ebook	5	undated
Case study	4	undated
Comparison	2	undated	SSPM, CSPM
Conference or event	1	undated
Template or tool	1	undated	SSPM

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page valencesecurity.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 Valence Security

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

Valence Security is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: The Leader in SaaS and AI Security, Built for the Agentic Era
valencesecurity.com
For: security teams
valencesecurity.com
Integrations claimed: 200 valencesecurity.com
Certifications: CISISOSOC2NISTSOC 2ISO 27001HIPAA
Customers named: RiskifiedServiceTitanLionbridgeElasticSwimlaneGoosehead InsurancePDS HealthHighspot
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, hosting

What Valence Security's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: valencesecurity.com, trust.valencesecurity.com, valencesecurity.com/platform, valencesecurity.com/resources/case-studies, valencesecurity.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Valence Security by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Valence Security 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 Valence Security, 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.