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Veracode

122Judge labels
7First choices
46Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
12% in SAST for enterprise buyers
Rank 8 of 47 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 41% of its 34 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In sast · 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 Veracode 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Static application security testingDeveloper platform2%8 of 4741%34criticized challenger
Software composition analysisDeveloper platform0%34 of 490%2under 10 labels · led by Trivy at 40%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Veracode 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 Veracode across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501102
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash01045
Perplexity Sonar20013
Grok 4.1 Fast02316
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash01146
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash10113
Kimi K201023
GLM 4.7 FlashX01012
MiniMax M2.501102

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
Direct19 labels4
Paraphrase18 labels1
Comparative25 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained15 labelsNone
Scale-constrained19 labels2
Negative26 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative122 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 10 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.

“A cloud-based veteran known for stability and deep static/dynamic hybrid analysis.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SAST · comparative prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend Veracode if you want the safest default choice” Perplexity Sonar · SAST · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Best overall enterprise choice: Checkmarx or Veracode” Perplexity Sonar · SAST · comparative prompt · first choice
“Checkmarx, Veracode, or Fortify are recommended if enterprise governance, compliance reporting, and mature procurement paths matter most.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SAST · 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.

“Avoid legacy, binary-upload scanners... historically pioneered by tools like Veracode)... a major friction point for modern, fast-paced DevSecOps teams.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SAST · negative prompt · hard negative
“Checkmarx One / Fortify / Vercode: ... They offer little value to small teams and are expensive to maintain.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SAST · budget prompt · hard negative
“traditional enterprise legacy tools (like Checkmarx or Veracode) are usually too expensive, slow, and noisy” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SAST · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“they are rarely the right fit for mid-market B2B companies” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SAST · direct prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Veracode, over the 122 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Veracode was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Checkmarx One102 of 12216Not in the top three
Semgrep93 of 12230Not in the top three
SonarQube80 of 1226Not in the top three
OpenText Fortify68 of 1220Not in the top three
Snyk Code64 of 12211Not in the top three
CodeQL33 of 1222Not in the top three
Aikido Security30 of 1225Not in the top three
GitHub Advanced Security21 of 1221Not in the top three
Snyk20 of 1222Not in the top three
Black Duck18 of 1225Not 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 Veracode. 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 97 of the 122 answers that named Veracode and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

appsecsanta.com58
corgea.com58
zeropath.com55
augmentcode.com52
pixee.ai48
dev.to46
checkmarx.com42
cycode.com41
ox.security38
aikido.dev36

474 of the 474 domain citations in answers naming Veracode came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited 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 Veracode'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 Veracode, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at veracode.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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