Brakeman
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Brakeman has 7.
Why models recommend it
“Static analysis security scanner designed specifically for Rails.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Highly accurate for Rails-specific vulns. | Rails-only”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Brakeman (Ruby on Rails)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Tools such as Bandit or Brakeman can be useful for Python or Rails, respectively, but their narrow scope makes them poor choices as an organization-wide SAST platform.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Brakeman, over the 15 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 11 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
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 11 of the 15 answers that named Brakeman and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for Brakeman, so its own site is not marked.
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 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |