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Container and Kubernetes security

Asked as “container security platform”, and as “Kubernetes security tool”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 49 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
29%
Contested · Aqua Security 18%
29Sysdig Secure18Aqua Security16Trivy37others

29% of first choices, contested.

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
01Sysdig Secure29%12%58accepted challenger
02Aqua Security18%15%52accepted challenger
03Trivy16%5%39accepted challenger
04Falco10%4%47accepted challenger
05Kubescape10%4%27accepted challenger
06Wiz4%29%38criticized challenger
07Snyk Container2%11%36accepted challenger
08SUSE NeuVector2%4%24accepted challenger
09Orca Security2%18%11accepted challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
12Prisma Cloud0%36%44criticized challenger
11Microsoft Defender for Containers0%17%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 twenty-eight head-to-head pages: the top eight 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%.

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01Sysdig Secure29%
02Aqua Security18%
03Trivy16%
04Falco10%
05Kubescape10%
06Wiz4%
07Snyk Container2%
08SUSE NeuVector2%
09Orca Security2%
10Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes0%
11Microsoft Defender for Containers0%
12Prisma Cloud0%

What they warned about

One of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.20, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, 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.
Prisma Cloud
36%
16 of 44 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Avoid Prisma Cloud if you are a small team or lack dedicated DevOps/SRE resources to configure a complex policy engine.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Wiz
29%
11 of 38 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Avoid big CNAPPs like Palo Alto Prisma or Wiz unless you need broader cloud workload coverage.” Grok 4.20, direct prompt
Aqua Security
15%
8 of 52 labels negative · 7 of 12 models
“Aqua has deep container expertise but: Requires integration with separate platforms... Pricing scales significantly by node count” Kimi K2, negative prompt
Sysdig Secure
12%
7 of 58 labels negative · 6 of 12 models
“Be Cautious with Sysdig if you are deploying on bare metal or have high-performance computing requirements that cannot tolerate agent overhead.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, 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

63 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. 824 links across 183 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

50 answers · 59 citations · 11 models
vendor site · CyberPress42 answers · 56 citations · 11 models
32 answers · 36 citations · 11 models
28 answers · 31 citations · 9 models
25 answers · 26 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Checkmarx21 answers · 26 citations · 10 models
vendor site · OX21 answers · 24 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Minimus17 answers · 24 citations · 8 models
vendor site · SentinelOne16 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Portainer16 answers · 16 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Safeguard14 answers · 16 citations · 7 models
13 answers · 19 citations · 8 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 container security platform”, “container security platform”, “container security platforms”. 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
Sysdig Secure sysdig.com29%252110250,599$1,06749
Aqua aquasec.com
Aqua Security 18%
18%214880327,831 company02
Trivy trivy.dev16%2485,4001823,093
Falco falco.org10%11927,1004,242383
Kubescape kubescape.io10%552601150
Wiz wiz.io4%76440,50016,751102,573$6,8561203
Snyk snyk.io
Snyk Container 2%
2%11112,10058161,651 company60
SUSE NeuVector suse.com2%1620059,6151039
ARMO Platform2%
Aikido aikido.dev
Aikido Security 2%
2%3262,400516,442 company$936120

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 20 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (checkmarx.com, ox.security, sentinelone.com). The first result for “best container security platform” is guptadeepak.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 container security platform for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which Kubernetes security tool would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top container security platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best container security platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a container security platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which container security platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceKubescapeChanged
Four alternativesAqua Security, Calico, Falco, Sysdig Secure
no first choiceFalco
Two alternativesSUSE NeuVector, Sysdig Secure
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniSysdig Secure
Two alternativesPrisma AIRS, Prisma Cloud
KubescapeChanged
Two alternativesKyverno, Trivy
no first choice
Three alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Microsoft Defender for Containers, Sysdig Secure
ARMO Platform, Chainguard, Falco
One alternativeTrivy
against: Orca Security, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashAikido Security
Two alternativesSnyk Container, Sysdig Secure
against: Wiz
Sysdig SecureChanged
Five alternativesARMO Platform, Falco, Kubescape, Kyverno, Trivy
against: Gatekeeper, Open Policy Agent, Orca Security, Wiz
Wiz
Three alternativesAqua Security, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig Secure
against: Snyk Container
SUSE NeuVector
Five alternativesARMO Platform, Falco, Kubescape, Snyk Container, Trivy
against: Prisma Cloud, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
Orca Security, Wiz
Five alternativesARMO Platform, Aqua Security, Datadog Cloud Security Management, Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure
against: Anchore Engine, Carbon Black, Clair, Docker Bench for Security, Elastic’s "Defend for Containers", Prisma Cloud, SUSE NeuVector
Perplexity SonarWiz
Three alternativesAikido Security, Aqua Security, Sysdig Secure
Sysdig SecureChanged
Three alternativesAqua Security, Falco, Kubescape
Aqua Security, Sysdig Secure
Five alternativesOX Security, Orca Security, Prisma Cloud, Snyk Container, Wiz
Trivy
Four alternativesFalco, Kubescape, SUSE NeuVector, TigerGate
against: Aqua Security, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
no first choiceagainst: Clair, Falco, Grype, Tetragon, Trivy
Grok 4.20Aqua Security
Five alternativesAikido Security, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure, Uptycs
against: Prisma Cloud, Wiz
Falco, KubescapeChanged
Five alternativesARMO Platform, Aqua Security, Kyverno, Sysdig Secure, Trivy
Aqua Security
Six alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Prisma Cloud, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
against: Falco, Kubescape, Trivy
Trivy
Five alternativesCalico, Falco, Harbor, Kubescape, SUSE NeuVector
against: Snyk Container
Aqua Security
Six alternativesOrca Security, Prisma Cloud, Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure, Tenable, Wiz
against: Aqua Security, JFrog Artifactory, Prisma Cloud
Mistral SmallAqua Security, Sysdig Secure
One alternativeWiz
Aqua Security, Sysdig SecureHeld
Two alternativesFalco, Kubescape
Aqua Security
Four alternativesPrisma Cloud, SUSE NeuVector, Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure
Trivy
Three alternativesCalico, Falco, Kubescape
no first choiceagainst: Aqua Security, Microsoft Defender for Containers, Prisma Cloud, Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure, Trend Micro (Trend) Container Security
DeepSeek V4 FlashSnyk Container, Sysdig Secure
Three alternativesAqua Security, Falco, Trivy
Sysdig SecureChanged
Four alternativesCalico, Falco, Kubescape, Trivy
against: Aqua Security, Prisma Cloud, Wiz
Aqua Security
Five alternativesPrisma Cloud, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
Trivy
Five alternativesAikido Security, Calico, Falco, Kubescape, Snyk Container
no first choice
Two alternativesFalco, Trivy
against: Aqua Security, Microsoft Defender for Containers, Minimus, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig Secure
Llama 4 MaverickSysdig Secure
Four alternativesAqua Security, Orca Security, Trend Micro (Trend) Container Security, Wiz
Falco, KubescapeChanged
Five alternativesARMO Platform, Aqua Security, Datadog Cloud Security Management, RAD Security, Sysdig Secure
no first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashAqua Security
Three alternativesRed Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure
Aqua Security, Sysdig SecureChanged
Three alternativesFalco, Kubescape, Trivy
Snyk Container
Three alternativesAqua Security, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig Secure
Trivy
Four alternativesCheckov, Falco, Kubescape, Wazuh
no first choiceagainst: Aqua Security, Bridgecrew, Datadog Cloud Security Management, ELK Stack, Prisma Cloud, Qualys, Splunk, Sslabs, Tenable
Kimi K2Aqua Security, Sysdig Secure
Six alternativesFalco, Orca Security, SUSE NeuVector, Snyk Container, Trivy, Wiz
KubescapeChanged
Four alternativesAqua Security, Falco, Sysdig Secure, Trivy
against: Prisma Cloud, Wiz
Aqua Security, Sysdig Secure
Six alternativesFalco, Prisma Cloud, SUSE NeuVector, Snyk Container, Trivy, Wiz
Falco, Trivy
Three alternativesGrype + Syft, Kube-bench, Kubescape
no first choiceagainst: Aqua Security, Prisma Cloud, Wiz
GLM 4.7 FlashXAqua Security, Sysdig Secure
One alternativeSnyk Container
against: Prisma Cloud
Sysdig SecureChanged
Four alternativesAqua Security, Falco, Kubescape, Trivy
Aqua Security, Prisma Cloud
Eight alternativesFalco, JFrog Xray, Kubescape, SUSE NeuVector, Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure, Trivy, Wiz
Trivy
Four alternativesARMO Platform, Falco, Kubescape, SUSE NeuVector
against: Aqua Security, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig Secure, Trend Micro Cloud One
no first choiceagainst: Anchore Community, Clair, Google Cloud Container Security, Microscanner, Prisma Cloud, Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure
MiniMax M2.5Aqua Security, Sysdig Secure
Three alternativesFalco, SUSE NeuVector, Trivy
against: Wiz
Sysdig SecureChanged
Four alternativesAqua Security, Falco, Kubescape, Prisma Cloud
Aqua Security, Sysdig Secure
Six alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon, Google Cloud Container Security, Microsoft Defender for Containers, Prisma Cloud, Snyk Container, Wiz
Trivy
Two alternativesAnchore, TigerGate
no first choiceagainst: Wiz
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 14:05no05 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 09:43yes412 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 12:36yes2421 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:30yes206 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 09:32yes1812 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 10:46yes55 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 09:25yes1516 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 10:37yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 09:58yes864 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 13:43yes847 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 09:29yes17119 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 12:22yes1234 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 13:24yes1510 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 11:01yes35 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:52yes923 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:44yes186 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 10:56yes3018 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 10:51yes56 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 11:09yes712 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 12:39yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 09:48yes545 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 09:44yes718 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 09:46yes14276 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 11:15yes936 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:15yes1511 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 13:44yes410 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:53yes1834 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:10yes2012 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 12:45yes2419 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 12:07yes56 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 13:06yes2648 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 10:15yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 11:48no040 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 09:41yes855 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:34yes987 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 09:50yes885 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 11:21yes98 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 10:45yes36 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 12:45yes1726 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:50yes206 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 11:23yes3016 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 13:56yes88 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 14:14yes917 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 14:01yes54 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:50no032 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 09:40yes919 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 12:24yes2831 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 10:07yes1033 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 13:42no08 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 09:29no08 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 13:07yes630 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:52yes207 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 13:08yes1415 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 13:32no010 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 13:51yes1016 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 12:16yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 12:34no036 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 12:30yes1533 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:59yes9116 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 11:37yes918 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:09yes1017 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 13:10no05 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 12:41yes1729 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 11:38yes207 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 09:44yes2111 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 13:38yes58 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 11:03yes2826 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 10:06yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 09:58no048 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 10:59yes2936 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 10:47yes30126 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 10:09yes1840 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
Aqua Platform read as Aqua Security
Datadog read as Datadog Cloud Security Management
Microsoft read as Microsoft Defender for Containers
Microsoft Defender read as Microsoft Defender for Containers
Microsoft Defender for Cloud read as Microsoft Defender for Containers
Orca read as Orca Security
Palo Alto (Prisma) read as Prisma Cloud
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security read as Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (RHACS) read as Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (RHACS, powered by StackRox) read as Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
SentinelOne read as SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security
Snyk read as Snyk Container
Snyk (Container Security) read as Snyk Container
Sysdig read as Sysdig Secure
Sysdig (Secure/Monitor) read as Sysdig Secure
Trend read as Trend Micro (Trend) Container Security
Trend Micro read as Trend Micro (Trend) Container Security
Unresolved, counted raw
Anchore Community
Elastic’s "Defend for Containers" (D4C)
GitLab Container Scanning
Microscanner
Sslabs
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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