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Container and Kubernetes security · November 2026 Edition

Wiz vs Aikido Security

Two of fourteen models named Wiz first on the direct prompt; four named Aikido Security. Wiz was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Aikido Security by nine and Wiz carries 40 labels and Aikido Security 11, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Wiz

criticized challenger

Named in seventeen categories this edition.

Aikido Security

accepted challenger

Named in ten categories this edition.

First-choice share7%7%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate25%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#6A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels4011A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Wiz reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Sysdig Secure was named alongside these two in fourteen of the fourteen direct answers. Trivy vs Wiz · Trivy vs Aikido Security · Falco vs Wiz

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.
WizFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAikido Security
Direct24
Paraphrase10
Comparative50
Budget-constrained013 against Wiz
Scale-constrained201 against Wiz
Negative006 against Wiz
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, Wiz and Aikido Security were named in the same answer 116 times, of the 854 answers naming Wiz and the 326 naming Aikido Security. In those answers Aikido Security took the first choice fifty-two times and Wiz fourteen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Wiz 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
Wiz Aikido Security first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Wiz on the left and Aikido Security on the right.

The direct prompt

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

Wiz first, Aikido Security not the choice

2 of 14 modelsAikido Security was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Gemini 3.5 FlashWiz alternatives: Aqua Security, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Datadog Cloud Security, Sysdig Secure
Grok 4.20Wiz alternatives: Aqua Security, Sysdig Secure

Aikido Security first, Wiz an alternative

4 of 14 modelsWiz 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

5 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-5.4 miniSysdig Secure alternatives: Aqua Security, Wiz
Mistral SmallUpwind alternatives: Datadog Cloud Security Management, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
GLM 4.7 FlashXMend.io alternatives: Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
MiniMax M2.5Mend.io alternatives: Aikido Security, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
GPT-6 LunaSysdig Secure alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Containers, Wiz

Neither was named

3 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
DeepSeek V4 FlashSysdig Secure alternatives: Aqua Security
Llama 4 MaverickTrivy alternatives: Falco, Mend.io, Sysdig Secure
Muse Glimmer 30BAqua Security, Sysdig Secure alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Containers

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 five points.
Aikido Security5%#5 of 14
Wiz0%#11 of 14
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Level: the same share of first choices.
Wiz7%#5 of 14
Aikido Security7%#6 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Wiz leads at enterprise.
Wiz20%#3 of 12
Aikido Security0%#– of 12
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Wiz

No label in this category carried a quote.

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.