# Budget Security: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/budget-security

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Penetration testing as a service](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/security/penetration-testing-as-a-service/index.md) | 0% | 47 | 0% | 2 |

## What the models said for it

- "Budget Security (manual, OSCP‑certified) or Target Defense (US‑based, competitive) are strong choices." (GLM 4.7 FlashX, PTaaS)

## 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Budget Security, from 2 of the 2 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- budgetsecurity.com: 2 (its own site)
- pentestingproviders.com: 2
- affordablepentesting.com: 1
- atlantsecurity.com: 1
- cloudskope.com: 1
- diginatives.io: 1
- hackernoon.com: 1
- hacksessible.com: 1
- kioptrix.com: 1
- kobalt.io: 1

### Pages cited

- https://pentestingproviders.com/best/affordable-penetration-testing: 2
- https://affordablepentesting.com/: 1
- https://atlantsecurity.com/blog/top-penetration-testing-companies: 1
- https://budgetsecurity.com/: 1
- https://budgetsecurity.com/about: 1
- https://budgetsecurity.com/order-pentest: 1
- https://budgetsecurity.com/pentest-price-index: 1
- https://budgetsecurity.com/services: 1

## In its own words

What Budget Security's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Self-Serve Penetration Testing Platform (https://budgetsecurity.com/)
- For: Teams that want to book, scope and manage manual penetration tests online (https://budgetsecurity.com/)
- Price stated: $985 / tester-day · EU €849 (https://budgetsecurity.com/)
- Starting price: $2,955 (https://budgetsecurity.com/)
- Free plan or trial: Creating an account is free. Free account · No card required (https://budgetsecurity.com/)
- Hosting: EU

## What it publishes

Every page budgetsecurity.com exposes, read 2026-09-29: 72 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 17 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- comparison: 3 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- news or press: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.