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Container and Kubernetes security · November 2026 Edition

Wiz vs Snyk Container

Two of fourteen models named Wiz first on the direct prompt; one named Snyk Container. Wiz was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Snyk Container by thirteen and Wiz carries 40 labels and Snyk Container 35, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Wiz

criticized challenger

Named in seventeen categories this edition.

Snyk Container

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share7%6%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate25%11%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#7A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels4035A 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 Snyk Container · 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 modelsSnyk Container
Direct21
Paraphrase10
Comparative501 against Snyk Container
Budget-constrained013 against Wiz · 1 against Snyk Container
Scale-constrained221 against Wiz · 1 against Snyk Container
Negative006 against Wiz · 1 against Snyk Container
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.

Every model, every framing

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

The direct prompt

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

Wiz first, Snyk Container not the choice

2 of 14 modelsSnyk Container 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

Snyk Container first, Wiz not the choice

1 of 14 modelsWiz was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Qwen 3.7 FlashAikido Security, Snyk Container alternatives: Aqua Security, Mend.io, Sysdig Secure

Neither was the first choice, one was named

7 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
Perplexity SonarAikido Security alternatives: Snyk Container, Sysdig Secure
Mistral SmallUpwind alternatives: Datadog Cloud Security Management, Sysdig Secure, Wiz
Kimi K2Aikido Security alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Containers, 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

4 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Aikido Security alternatives: Aqua Security, Sysdig Secure
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
Snyk Container leads by ten points.
Snyk Container10%#4 of 14
Wiz0%#11 of 14
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Wiz leads at mid-market.
Wiz7%#5 of 14
Snyk Container6%#7 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Wiz leads by sixteen points.
Wiz20%#3 of 12
Snyk Container4%#5 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 Snyk Container

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

“Developer-friendly for scanning/shift-left, but may need pairing with a runtime tool like Falco for full coverage.” Grok 4.20 · scale prompt · soft negative
“No runtime protection — it is purely a scan-time tool requiring a separate platform for production security” Kimi K2 · comparative prompt · soft negative
“useful for image and dependency findings, but they do not by themselves detect runtime attacks” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · soft negative
“Top Pick: Snyk or Aikido Security ... Widely considered the gold standard for "developer-first" security.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · direct prompt · first choice
“The Most Cost-Effective Commercial Platform: Snyk ... offers the best balance of price and usability” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“Extremely popular with developers. Best-in-class for CI/CD integration and easy to use” Qwen 3.7 Flash · scale 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.