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1 category · Named, not ranked

Validato

10Judge labels

3First choices

0Negative labels

6 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Validato was named 4 times in BAS, where Cymulate led with 24%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business10 of 58

under the label threshold

Mid-market14 of 74

under the label threshold

Enterprise37 of 66

under the label threshold

In bas · 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 Validato 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
Breach and attack simulation	Security operations	2%	14 of 74	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Cymulate at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Validato 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 Validato 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
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

Direct3 labels2

Paraphrase4 labels1

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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 best breach and attack simulation platform for a mid-market B2B company is Validato” Llama 4 Maverick · BAS · direct prompt · first choice

“Best for: Small to mid-sized businesses wanting continuous validation” Kimi K2 · BAS · budget prompt · alternative

“Validato is notable for its transparent, lower pricing structure” Qwen 3.7 Flash · BAS · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Validato, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Validato was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cymulate7 of 101Not among the top eight

Picus Security Validation Platform5 of 101Not among the top eight

SafeBreach4 of 100Not among the top eight

AttackIQ3 of 101Not among the top eight

Infection Monkey3 of 101Not among the top eight

Horizon3.ai NodeZero2 of 101Not among the top eight

MITRE Caldera2 of 101Not among the top eight

Atomic Red Team2 of 100Not among the top eight

Pentera2 of 100Not among the top eight

Picus Autonomous Exposure Validation Platform2 of 100Not 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 Validato. 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 10 of the 10 answers that named Validato and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

picussecurity.com7

sourceforge.net6

computerwoche.de5

csoonline.com4

slashdot.org4

socradar.io4

startupstash.com4

cymulate.com3

g2.com3

peerspot.com3

No domain is on file for Validato, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

computerwoche.de/article/3494368/der-kaufratgeber-fur-breach-attack-simulation-tools.html5

picussecurity.com/4

socradar.io/top-10-breach-and-attack-simulation-bas-software-20244

startupstash.com/best-breach-and-attack-simulation-tools4

perkinssecurity.com/index-289.html3

csoonline.com/article/2132289/breach-and-attack-simulation-tools.html3

sourceforge.net/software/security-compliance/for-small-business3

sourceforge.net/software/security-validation3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Validato stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 30 a month (“validato”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 14 of 74 in BAS

Segment leader

24%

Cymulate

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 10 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

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.

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where Validato 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 Validato, 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.