Breach and attack simulation · RankedAtomic Red Team
Atomic Red Team is a library of small, focused tests mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques · atomicredteam.io ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Vanta is first at 20%.
Cymulate is first at 35%.
Cymulate is first at 27%.
Why models recommend it
“Very limited budget + technical team | Atomic Red Team + Caldera | Free, powerful, but requires expertise”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Start free: Deploy Atomic Red Team or MITRE Caldera to establish baseline testing”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with the free open-source tools (Atomic Red Team + MITRE Caldera)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Atomic Red Team (by Red Canary) — *Best Overall for Endpoint & SIEM Validation*”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“can supplement but usually lack the enterprise polish, automation, reporting, and support a 500-person company needs”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Atomic Red Team, over the 28 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 23 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 17 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 14 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 13 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 4 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Atomic Red Team →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Atomic Red Team's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- security teams
- Free plan or trial
- free and open source tools
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 25 of the 28 answers that named Atomic Red Team and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ninety-eight of the ninety-eight domain citations in answers naming Atomic Red Team came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |