Grype
Why models recommend it
“Modern open-source alternatives like Trivy, Grype, or Kubescape have largely replaced them.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“Better alternative: Look for tools (commercial or open source like Trivy, Grype, or Snyk)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“Excellent accuracy, minimal false positives, and strong on container/image scanning.”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“A fast, lightweight CLI vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“useful for image and dependency findings, but they do not by themselves detect runtime attacks, enforce admission policy, or provide incident response”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Unconfigured Basic Scanners (e.g., Default Trivy/Grype setups): The Risk: ... You must avoid these tools if you haven't set up policy-as-code”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“free deployments often leave monitoring, triage, reporting, and governance to your team”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Grype, over the 54 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 16 | View → | |
| 25 | 5 | View → | |
| 21 | 7 | View → | |
| 19 | 5 | View → | |
| 17 | 6 | View → | |
| 16 | 2 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Grype →
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 48 of the 54 answers that named Grype and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for Grype, 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |