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Cloud-native application protection

Asked as “CNAPP”, and as “cloud-native application protection platform”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 50 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
46%
Clear leader
46Wiz30Microsoft Defender for Cloud18Orca Security06others

46% of first choices, clear leader.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Wiz46%18%55endorsed leader
02Microsoft Defender for Cloud30%4%48endorsed leader
03Orca Security18%8%50accepted challenger
04Prisma Cloud2%32%38criticized challenger
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09FortiCNAPP0%43%14criticized challenger
08Aqua Security0%26%19criticized challenger
07CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security0%22%18accepted challenger
05Sysdig Secure0%3%38accepted challenger
06SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security0%0%12accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All six head-to-head pages: the top four products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative60%
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01Wiz46%
02Microsoft Defender for Cloud30%
03Orca Security18%
04Prisma Cloud2%
05Sysdig Secure0%
06SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security0%
07CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security0%
08Aqua Security0%
09FortiCNAPP0%

What they warned about

Six of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Grok 4.20, Llama 4 Maverick, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Wiz
18%
10 of 55 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Orca/Wiz | $7K+/mo (small) | Agentless full CNAPP | Avoid for tight budgets” Grok 4.20, budget prompt
Prisma Cloud
32%
12 of 38 labels negative · 8 of 12 models
“has suffered from this "franken-suite" reputation ... users still frequently cite a steep learning curve, disjointed reporting, and complex backend workflows” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
FortiCNAPP
43%
6 of 14 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“I'd flag Lacework/FortiCNAPP and Aqua as the two with the most documented dissatisfaction” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
Aqua Security
26%
5 of 19 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“I'd flag Lacework/FortiCNAPP and Aqua as the two with the most documented dissatisfaction” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt

What they cite

Twelve of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited and eight the search results they consulted.

Sites the answers cite

68 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 887 links across 170 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · CyberPress42 answers · 55 citations · 11 models
37 answers · 40 citations · 11 models
36 answers · 36 citations · 10 models
35 answers · 36 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Wiz23 answers · 28 citations · 9 models
22 answers · 34 citations · 8 models
vendor site · AccuKnox22 answers · 26 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Orca20 answers · 30 citations · 9 models
18 answers · 27 citations · 10 models
18 answers · 23 citations · 10 models
17 answers · 20 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Uptycs17 answers · 18 citations · 9 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best cnapp”, “cnapp”, “cnapps”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Wiz wiz.io46%76440,50016,751102,573$6,8561202
Microsoft Defender microsoft.com
Microsoft Defender for Cloud 30%
30%65918,1003,525145,358,109 company$12,4551031
Orca Security orca.security18%3791,900103125,483$441278
Aikido aikido.dev
Aikido Security 4%
4%3262,400516,442 company$936120
Prisma prismacloud.io
Prisma Cloud 2%
2%4401,300972,039
Sysdig Secure sysdig.com0%252110250,599$1,06748
SentinelOne parent site
SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security 0%
0%6633,1001,675
Prowler prowler.com0%8640,5006,189671
CrowdStrike parent site
CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security 0%
0%19074,0005,130
Falco falco.org0%11927,1004,242383

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 22 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (accuknox.com, gartner.com, orca.security, wiz.io). The first result for “best cnapp” is gartner.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best CNAPP for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which cloud-native application protection platform would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top CNAPPs and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best CNAPP for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a CNAPP. What should we look at?”Negative“Which CNAPPs should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Orca Security
Two alternativesPrisma Cloud, Sysdig Secure
against: Wiz
Orca Security, WizChanged
Three alternativesAikido Security, FortiCNAPP, Microsoft Defender for Cloud
no first choiceMicrosoft Defender for Cloud
One alternativeAikido Security
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniWiz
One alternativeSysdig Secure
against: Aqua Security
WizHeld
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud
no first choiceMicrosoft Defender for Cloud
One alternativeWiz
against: FortiCNAPP, Prisma Cloud
no first choiceagainst: Aqua Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Wiz
Gemini 3.5 FlashOrca Security
Four alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Sysdig Secure, Upwind, Wiz
against: Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud
Orca Security, WizChanged
Four alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, SentinelOne Singularity, Sysdig Secure, Upwind
Orca Security, Wiz
Three alternativesAqua Security, Sysdig Secure, Upwind
against: CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud
Aikido Security
Four alternativesDeepfence ThreatMapper, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prowler, Trivy
against: Orca Security, Prisma Cloud, Wiz
Orca Security, Wiz
Two alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security
against: Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud
against: FortiCNAPP, Orca Security, Prisma Cloud, Wiz
Perplexity SonarWiz
Five alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig Secure
WizHeld
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Sysdig Secure
against: Prisma Cloud
no first choiceMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security
One alternativeAqua Security
against: CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Wiz
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.20Orca Security
Five alternativesAqua Security, FortiCNAPP, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
against: Prisma Cloud
WizChanged
Three alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, Sysdig Secure
against: Prisma Cloud
Wiz
Five alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, Prisma Cloud, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Four alternativesFalco, Prowler, Sweet Security, Trivy
against: FortiCNAPP, Orca Security, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
Orca Security, Wiz
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud
against: Aqua Security, FortiCNAPP
Mistral SmallMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Wiz
Two alternativesOrca Security, Sysdig Secure
Microsoft Defender for Cloud, WizHeld
Five alternativesData Theorem, Orca Security, Prisma Cloud, Sweet Security, Sysdig Secure
Prisma Cloud, Wiz
One alternativeMicrosoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Five alternativesFalco, Prowler, Trivy, Uptycs, Upwind
no first choicenothing named
DeepSeek V4 FlashWiz
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security
against: CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Prisma Cloud
WizHeld
Five alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, Sweet Security, Sysdig Secure
against: Prisma Cloud
Wiz
Five alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig Secure
Aikido Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Five alternativesFalco, Orca Security, Prowler, Sweet Security, Trivy
no first choiceagainst: Aqua Security, FortiCNAPP, Wiz
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceWizChanged
Seven alternativesData Theorem, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, Prisma Cloud, Rapid7 InsightCloudSec, Sweet Security, Sysdig Secure
no first choiceMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud, Wizno first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashWiz
Three alternativesAikido Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security
against: Prisma Cloud
WizHeld
Three alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security
against: Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud
Wiz
Six alternativesAqua Security, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud, Sysdig Secure
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Two alternativesAikido Security, Orca Security
no first choiceagainst: AWS Security Hub, Aqua Security, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, FortiCNAPP, Google Security Command Center, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud, Wiz
Kimi K2Wiz
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security
WizHeld
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security
Orca Security, Wiz
Five alternativesAqua Security, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud, Sysdig Secure
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Five alternativesAikido Security, Cloudanix, Falco, Prowler, Trivy
Wiz
Three alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, Sysdig Secure
against: AWS Security Hub + GuardDuty, Google Security Command Center, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud, Wiz
GLM 4.7 FlashXMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Wiz
Five alternativesOrca Security, Prisma Cloud, Rapid7 InsightCloudSec, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, Sysdig Secure
WizChanged
One alternativeMicrosoft Defender for Cloud
against: Prisma Cloud
Wiz
Four alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig Secure
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Seven alternativesCloudDefense.AI QINA, Falco, Fidelis Halo Cloud Secure, MoreSec CNPP, Orca Security, Prowler, Wiz
no first choiceagainst: Wiz
MiniMax M2.5Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Two alternativesOrca Security, Wiz
Orca Security, WizChanged
Three alternativesAikido Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Sysdig Secure
Wiz
Four alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig Secure
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Three alternativesFalco, Prowler, Sweet Security
against: Orca Security
no first choicenothing named
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:15yes98 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 14:14yes410 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 10:55yes1824 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 09:49yes205 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 09:34yes1713 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 12:45yes87 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 09:29yes1920 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 09:34yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 11:43yes1040 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 13:56yes1019 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:25yes11105 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 12:50yes866 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 10:40yes169 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 13:09yes14 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 13:43yes1023 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 13:39yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 12:15yes3216 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 09:53yes55 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 13:27yes1013 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 11:06yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 12:07no049 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 10:08yes1235 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 10:01yes1269 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 14:13yes516 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 11:19yes98 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 11:14yes57 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 12:33yes3033 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 09:34yes2013 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 11:14yes2113 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 12:06yes811 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 10:36yes2428 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 12:05yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:51yes1586 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 10:12yes2039 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:17yes9111 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 12:07yes525 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 10:15yes98 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 10:46yes47 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 12:18yes1421 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 13:26yes205 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 12:33yes3819 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 12:18yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 09:52yes99 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 10:04yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 12:44yes556 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 13:05yes1527 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 12:52yes1267 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 14:04yes516 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:38yes1710 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 12:00no08 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 13:53yes721 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:23yes208 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 12:44yes2011 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 13:06no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 11:52yes1725 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 10:53yes52 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:03no036 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 14:05yes1435 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 12:37yes14147 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 10:22yes919 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 10:59yes177 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 11:33yes45 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 10:33yes1932 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 14:02yes168 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 12:38yes2513 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 09:38yes58 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 12:40yes2828 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 12:56yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 12:46yes15107 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 10:59yes1461 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 10:35yes2488 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 10:35yes1327 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Aikido read as Aikido Security
Aqua read as Aqua Security
CrowdStrike Falcon read as CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security
Cyscale read as Cyscale CNAPP
Lacework read as FortiCNAPP
Lacework (now FortiCNAPP, acquired by Fortinet) read as FortiCNAPP
Lacework (now Fortinet) read as FortiCNAPP
Microsoft (Microsoft Defender for Cloud) read as Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Orca read as Orca Security
Palo Alto Networks (Prisma Cloud) read as Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud
Palo Alto Prisma Cloud / Cortex Cloud read as Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud
Rapid7 read as Rapid7 InsightCloudSec
Rapid7 (InsightCloudSec) read as Rapid7 InsightCloudSec
SentinelOne read as SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security
Sysdig read as Sysdig Secure
Tenable read as Tenable Cloud Security
Trend Micro read as Trend Micro Cloud One
Unresolved, counted raw
Cisco Panoptica
CloudDefense.AI QINA
MoreSec CNPP
OpenCNAPP
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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