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Breach and attack simulation · November 2026 Edition

AttackIQ Flex vs Atomic Red Team

Zero of fourteen models named AttackIQ Flex first on the direct prompt; zero named Atomic Red Team. AttackIQ Flex was named by eight of the fourteen models and Atomic Red Team by nine and AttackIQ Flex carries 10 labels and Atomic Red Team 11, so the shares are not directly comparable.

AttackIQ Flex

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Atomic Red Team

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share13%7%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate10%9%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#5A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels1011A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, AttackIQ Flex reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Picus Security Validation Platform was named alongside these two in thirteen of the fourteen direct answers. Cymulate vs AttackIQ Flex · Cymulate vs Atomic Red Team · Picus Security Validation Platform vs AttackIQ Flex

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 breach and attack simulation page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
AttackIQ FlexFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAtomic Red Team
Direct00
Paraphrase00
Comparative00
Budget-constrained741 against AttackIQ Flex
Scale-constrained001 against Atomic Red Team
Negative10
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, AttackIQ Flex and Atomic Red Team were named in the same answer five times, of the 35 answers naming AttackIQ Flex and the 28 naming Atomic Red Team. In those answers Atomic Red Team took the first choice one time and AttackIQ Flex four.

Every model, every framing

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

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where AttackIQ Flex and Atomic Red Team stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-6 LunaCymulate alternatives: AttackIQ Flex, Picus Security Validation Platform

Neither was named

13 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Cymulate alternatives: Pentera, Picus Security Validation Platform, Validato
GPT-5.4 miniCymulate alternatives: Picus Security Validation Platform
Gemini 3.5 FlashCymulate alternatives: Pentera, Picus Security Validation Platform
Perplexity SonarCymulate alternatives: AttackIQ, Horizon3.ai NodeZero, Picus Security Validation Platform
Grok 4.20Cymulate alternatives: Pentera, Picus Security Validation Platform
Mistral SmallCymulate, Picus Security Validation Platform alternatives: Pentera, Sakeon
DeepSeek V4 FlashCymulate alternatives: AttackIQ, Picus Security Validation Platform
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Qwen 3.7 FlashPicus Security Validation Platform alternatives: AttackIQ, SafeBreach
Kimi K2Cymulate, Picus Security Validation Platform alternatives: AttackIQ, Pentera
GLM 4.7 FlashXCymulate alternatives: AttackIQ, Picus Security Validation Platform, SafeBreach
MiniMax M2.5Cymulate, Picus Security Validation Platform alternatives: Pentera
Muse Glimmer 30BCymulate alternatives: AttackIQ, Picus Security Validation Platform

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
AttackIQ Flex leads by eighteen points.
AttackIQ Flex18%#2 of 11
Atomic Red Team0%#9 of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
AttackIQ Flex leads by five points.
AttackIQ Flex13%#3 of 13
Atomic Red Team7%#5 of 13
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
AttackIQ Flex2%#– of 8
Atomic Red Team2%#– of 8
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about AttackIQ Flex

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

“The $0 tier is quite limited compared to paid options” GLM 4.7 FlashX · budget prompt · soft negative
“The best breach and attack simulation platform for a company with a limited budget is AttackIQ Flex, as it is available for a published price starting at free.” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · first choice
“AttackIQ Flex is highlighted as a strong option for those needing real results quickly, with a starting price that begins at free” Mistral Small · budget prompt · first choice
“For a company with a limited budget, AttackIQ Flex is the best starting point.” Perplexity Sonar · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Atomic Red Team

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

“can supplement but usually lack the enterprise polish, automation, reporting, and support a 500-person company needs” Grok 4.20 · scale prompt · soft negative
“Very limited budget + technical team | Atomic Red Team + Caldera | Free, powerful, but requires expertise” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · first choice
“Start free: Deploy Atomic Red Team or MITRE Caldera to establish baseline testing” MiniMax M2.5 · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with the free open-source tools (Atomic Red Team + MITRE Caldera)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · budget prompt · first choice
Also compared
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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.