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Index Vendors › Wiz · September 2026 Edition
6 categories · Ranked

Wiz

523Judge labels
111First choices
121Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
6Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
58% in CSPM for enterprise buyers
Rank 1 of 57 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
7 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 18% of its 55 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In cnapp · 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 Wiz 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
Cloud-native application protectionCloud and infrastructure46%1 of 5718%55endorsed leader
Cloud security posture managementCloud and infrastructure43%1 of 5315%59endorsed leader
Container and Kubernetes securityCloud and infrastructure4%7 of 7829%38criticized challenger
Vulnerability management platformsSecurity operations0%14 of 806%16accepted challenger
Attack surface managementSecurity operations0%14 of 1048%13accepted challenger
Data loss preventionSecurity operations0%45 of 840%1under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview DLP at 39%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Wiz 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 Wiz across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.5235212
GPT-5.4 mini412411
Gemini 3.5 Flash871622
Perplexity Sonar621211
Grok 4.1 Fast963220
Mistral Small613111
DeepSeek V4 Flash735520
Llama 4 Maverick418013
Qwen 3.7 Flash625215
Kimi K2734418
GLM 4.7 FlashX544215
MiniMax M2.5534214

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
Direct107 labels47
Paraphrase79 labels45
Comparative124 labels45not counted in share
Budget-constrained64 labels5
Scale-constrained73 labels14
Negative76 labels11not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative523 labels in all, every segment counted; 111 of the 167 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.

“Wiz or Orca Security | Most mid-sized companies with multi-cloud footprints. | Pros: Best-in-class UI, agentless, incredible attack-path prioritization.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CSPM · scale prompt · first choice
“Wiz is known for its agentless visibility and attack-path context, making it a good choice for teams that want quick onboarding and broad coverage without agents.” Llama 4 Maverick · CSPM · comparative prompt · first choice
“Extremely popular, pioneered the agentless graph-based approach, and offers great UX. It is incredibly easy to use but tends to be on the pricier end” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CNAPP · scale prompt · first choice
“Market leader by adoption ... Choose Wiz or Orca if you need fast, comprehensive visibility across multi-cloud with minimal operational overhead” Kimi K2 · CNAPP · comparative 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.

“What to avoid at low budget ... Wiz, Orca, Prisma Cloud, Lacework ... overkill for a company on a limited budget” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CSPM · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid big CNAPPs like Palo Alto Prisma or Wiz unless you need broader cloud workload coverage.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Container security · direct prompt · hard negative
“Orca/Wiz | $7K+/mo (small) | Agentless full CNAPP | Avoid for tight budgets” Grok 4.1 Fast · CNAPP · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid at all costs on a limited budget: Enterprise suites like Wiz” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CSPM · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Wiz, over the 523 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Wiz was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Prisma Cloud326 of 52313Not in the top three
Aqua Security140 of 52327Not in the top three
Sysdig115 of 5237Not in the top three
CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security98 of 5231Not in the top three
Orca86 of 5230Not in the top three
Sysdig Secure78 of 52313Not in the top three
Snyk73 of 5238Not 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 Wiz. 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 431 of the 523 answers that named Wiz and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org282
gbhackers.com242
cybersecuritynews.com203
expertinsights.com200
cloudaware.com153
orca.security152
gartner.com129
decryptiondigest.com117
sentinelone.com97
g2.com93

1,668 of the 1,668 domain citations in answers naming Wiz came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Wiz

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Wiz; a claim can dispute any of them.
Wiz CNAPP 2Wiz CSPM 2Wiz (Wiz ASM) 1Wiz (container module) 1Wiz (now Google Cloud) 1Wiz Container Security 1
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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 wiz.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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