Penetration testing as a service · RankedCoalfire
Coalfire is a cybersecurity and compliance services company for enterprises and tech businesses · coalfire.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“Compliance-linked testing | Combines offensive testing with assessment expertise”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“Need compliance certification? → Coalfire, NCC Group, or Mandiant”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Best for compliance-led engagements | Coalfire”Perplexity Sonar · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Coalfire, over the 23 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 2 | View → | |
| 21 | 3 | View → | |
| 20 | 7 | View → | |
| 19 | 3 | View → | |
| 16 | 3 | View → | |
| 13 | 1 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Coalfire's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- enterprises and tech businesses
- Price stated
- $
- Certifications
- ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA
- Customers named
- Albert Invent
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 23 of the 23 answers that named Coalfire and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ninety-two of the ninety-two domain citations in answers naming Coalfire 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 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 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 150 | 9 | 2026-09-21 | TPRM, ASM | |
| News or press | 93 | 3 | 2026-08-04 | ||
| Conference or event | 59 | 7 | 2026-08-14 | ||
| Report or ebook | 49 | 4 | 2026-09-18 | ||
| Case study | 45 | 3 | 2026-09-21 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 11 | 0 | 2025-05-13 | ||
| Podcast or video | 11 | 1 | 2026-08-24 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 6 | 0 | 2025-04-04 | ||
| Comparison | 2 | 0 | 2026-02-11 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-21Phenom turns security investment into federal market momentum case study
- 2026-09-21Phenom blog
- 2026-09-18Build enterprise trust with iso 42001 report or ebook
- 2026-09-01It and security solutions blog
- 2026-09-01Cyber security service provider blog
- 2026-08-31Pci dss scoping in healthcare why it pulls in hitrust soc 2 and hipaa report or ebook
Events in person
- September 15, 2026 to September 17, 20262026 PCI SSC North America Community MeetingVancouver · attended
- August 17, 2026 to August 20, 2026Meet us at Epic UGM 2026Epic’s Verona, WI Fairgrounds, Verona · attended
- August 5, 2026Black Hat 2026 with CoalfireKumi Sessions · hosted
- August 5, 2026Invitation-Only Sessions at KumiKumi · hosted
- August 5, 2026Don't Miss the Black Hat Happy Hour Event of 2026Kumi Restaurant + Lounge · took part
- December 1, 2025 to December 5, 2025Catch the Coalfire Crew at AWS re:InventLas Vegas · attended
As the event pages on coalfire.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page coalfire.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.