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Container and Kubernetes security · November 2026 Edition

Sysdig Secure vs Aikido Security

Four of fourteen models named Sysdig Secure first on the direct prompt; four named Aikido Security. Sysdig Secure was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Aikido Security by nine and Sysdig Secure carries 58 labels and Aikido Security 11, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Sysdig Secure

accepted challenger

Named in four categories this edition.

Aikido Security

accepted challenger

Named in ten categories this edition.

First-choice share8%7%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate14%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#6A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels5811A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Sysdig Secure reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Wiz was named alongside these two in eight of the fourteen direct answers. Trivy vs Sysdig Secure · Trivy vs Aikido Security · Falco vs Sysdig Secure

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the container and kubernetes security page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Sysdig SecureFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAikido Security
Direct44
Paraphrase00
Comparative40
Budget-constrained015 against Sysdig Secure
Scale-constrained20
Negative003 against Sysdig Secure
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Sysdig Secure and Aikido Security were named in the same answer fifty-two times, of the 284 answers naming Sysdig Secure and the 326 naming Aikido Security. In those answers Aikido Security took the first choice nineteen times and Sysdig Secure one.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Sysdig Secure and Aikido Security stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Sysdig Secure Aikido Security first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Sysdig Secure on the left and Aikido Security on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Sysdig Secure and Aikido Security stood in it.

Sysdig Secure first, Aikido Security not the choice

4 of 14 modelsAikido Security was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniSysdig Secure alternatives: Aqua Security, Wiz
DeepSeek V4 FlashSysdig Secure alternatives: Aqua Security
GPT-6 LunaSysdig Secure alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Containers, Wiz
Muse Glimmer 30BAqua Security, Sysdig Secure alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Containers

Aikido Security first, Sysdig Secure an alternative

4 of 14 modelsSysdig Secure was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Aikido Security alternatives: Aqua Security, Sysdig Secure
Perplexity SonarAikido Security alternatives: Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure
Qwen 3.7 FlashAikido Security, Snyk Container alternatives: Aqua Security, Mend.io, Sysdig Secure
Kimi K2Aikido Security alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Containers, Sysdig Secure, Wiz

Neither was the first choice, one was named

6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Gemini 3.5 FlashWiz alternatives: Aqua Security, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Datadog Cloud Security, Sysdig Secure
Grok 4.20Wiz alternatives: Aqua Security, Sysdig Secure
Mistral SmallUpwind alternatives: Datadog Cloud Security Management, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
Llama 4 MaverickTrivy alternatives: Falco, Mend.io, Sysdig Secure
GLM 4.7 FlashXMend.io alternatives: Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
MiniMax M2.5Mend.io alternatives: Aikido Security, Sysdig Secure, Wiz

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Aikido Security leads by two points.
Aikido Security5%#5 of 14
Sysdig Secure3%#7 of 14
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Sysdig Secure leads at mid-market.
Sysdig Secure8%#4 of 14
Aikido Security7%#6 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Sysdig Secure leads by twenty-two points.
Sysdig Secure22%#2 of 12
Aikido Security0%#– of 12
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Sysdig Secure

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of six in this category shown.

“Avoid these for limited budgets: Enterprise platforms like ... Sysdig Secure” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid starting with Prisma Cloud, Aqua, or Sysdig” Perplexity Sonar · budget prompt · hard negative
“For Deep Kubernetes Threat Detection & Runtime Control: Select Sysdig or Aqua Security.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · comparative prompt · first choice
“If runtime detection is your #1 concern → Sysdig (deepest runtime intelligence and forensics).” DeepSeek V4 Flash · comparative prompt · first choice
“I'd short-list Sysdig and Aqua if you run significant K8s and need runtime protection” DeepSeek V4 Flash · scale prompt · first choice

What the models said about Aikido Security

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“The platform is used by over 50,000 organizations, with the sweet spot being startups and mid-market DevOps teams that want consolidated vulnerability management” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.