4 categories · RankedBlack Duck
Black Duck is an application security product covering SAST, SCA, DAST and AI-powered AppSec · blackduck.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise. Ranked 60 of 60 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Snyk Open Source is first at 38%.
Snyk Open Source is first at 34%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Sonatype Lifecycle is first at 30%.
Why models recommend it
“Choose Black Duck if compliance, license risk, and enterprise governance are top priorities.”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · first choice
“Choose Black Duck or Sonatype if your priority is enterprise legal compliance, strict policy enforcement, and audit readiness.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Offers a full lifecycle application security solution, with a focus on policy compliance and enterprise integration.”Mistral Small · Comparative question · alternative
“Another Forrester leader, strong in deep license detection ... often seen as heavier to implement than Snyk”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
“What to Avoid - Black Duck (Synopsys) and Mend.io: Powerful but historically complex to configure and priced for enterprise”Kimi K2 · Direct question · warning
“Avoid broader platforms like HackerRank ... or pure eLearning (Synopsys, Cybrary)”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning
“Better fit for small or budget-limited teams than commercial tools like Snyk, Mend, Black Duck, or JFrog, which are typically feature-rich but paid.”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · warning
“license compliance depth does not automatically mean superior malware detection, exploitability analysis, or runtime prioritization”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Black Duck, over the 125 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | 36 | View → | |
| 88 | 5 | View → | |
| 76 | 20 | View → | |
| 43 | 0 | View → | |
| 38 | 0 | View → | |
| 34 | 2 | View → | |
| 32 | 0 | View → | |
| 32 | 0 | View → | |
| 31 | 0 | View → | |
| 29 | 6 | View → |
What the models named instead of Black Duck →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Black Duck's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- security and development teams
- Customers named
- FPT Software
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 114 of the 125 answers that named Black Duck and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
303 of the 359 domain citations in answers naming Black Duck came from a third party's page. Twenty-seven were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
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 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 843 | 11 | 2026-09-23 | SCA, SAST | |
| Report or ebook | 204 | 2 | 2026-08-07 | SCA, SAST | |
| Glossary or explainer | 69 | 0 | 2026-05-08 | IaC, SAST | |
| Case study | 32 | 2 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| Comparison | 12 | 0 | 2026-03-03 | SCA, SAST | |
| Podcast or video | 6 | 0 | 2024-02-21 | ||
| Template or tool | 4 | 0 | 2020-04-21 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | 2 | 2026-09-22 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-25Securing ai generated code static analysis case study
- 2026-09-23Top 10 free hacking tools for penetration testers blog
- 2026-09-23Polaris september 2026 update blog
- 2026-09-22Are you ready cra reporting webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-22Thankyou webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-21Hidden costs ai security programs blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page blackduck.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.