Attack surface management · RankedCensys ASM
Censys ASM is an attack surface management product from Censys that finds and monitors an organization's public-facing assets and exposures · censys.com ↗
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.
Intruder is first at 35%.
Intruder is first at 29%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Cortex Xpanse is first at 44%.
Why models recommend it
“If your budget is tight, Censys ASM is usually the best first place to look.”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Censys ASM is probably the best default choice for a mid-market B2B company”GPT-5.4 mini · Direct question · first choice
“My default recommendation: Censys ASM for a mid-sized B2B company”GPT-6 Luna · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Also evaluate Censys ASM if broad, continuously refreshed visibility into internet-facing assets is your top priority.”GPT-6 Luna · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Censys ASM is a platform that several sources explicitly advise caution about or even avoid for certain use cases”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“delivers best-in-class internet scanning as a data layer but offers no validation, making it a strong input rather than a standalone program”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
“The interface and workflow can feel more technical; pricing isn't published and may scale beyond mid-market comfort zones.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Direct question · warning
“it can function more as an investigation and data layer than a complete remediation platform”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Censys ASM, over the 80 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 54 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 45 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 39 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 31 | 19 | Compare → | |
| 23 | 6 | View → | |
| 21 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 21 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Censys ASM →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Censys ASM's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- security teams
- Integrations
- 3
- Customers named
- Swiss Life Germany
- Also from Censys
- Censys Attack Surface Management
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 74 of the 80 answers that named Censys ASM and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
215 of the 215 domain citations in answers naming Censys ASM 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |