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Index › IT › Products › Hack The Box · November 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Hack The Box

–Too few to rank

4/14Models named it

0First choices

2Warnings

November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.

Ranked inSecure code training #40 mid-market Breach and attack simulation #40

What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Hack The Box has 5.

Why models recommend it

“Have security-minded engineers? → Hack The Box”Kimi K2 · Comparative question · alternative

“Best Value Alternative: Hack The Box (HTB)”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative

What gives them pause

“Standard offensive platforms like *Hack The Box* or *TryHackMe* (unless using their specific developer-focused tracks)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Hack The Box, over the 7 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

Product	Named together	Picked instead
Secure Code Warrior Learning Platform	6	2	View →
Immersive Labs	5	0	View →
SecureFlag	4	0	View →
PortSwigger Web Security Academy	3	2	View →
Checkmarx Codebashing	3	0	View →
TryHackMe	3	0	View →
Veracode Security Labs	3	0	View →
Kontra	2	0	View →
Security Journey	2	0	View →
Snyk Learn	2	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.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Hack The Box came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 4 of the 7 answers that named Hack The Box and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com4

guideflow.com3

appsecengineer.com2

aws.amazon.com2

cybersectools.com2

github.com2

marketintelo.com2

owasp.github.io2

securecodewarrior.com2

secureflag.com2

No domain is on file for Hack The Box, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1ip5cke/what_platform_do_you_use_to_train_developers_o3

guideflow.com/blog/application-security-training2

marketintelo.com/report/secure-coding-training-market2

owasp.github.io/DevSecOpsGuideline/1-People/1-2-Training/1-2-1-Secure-coding2

docs.checkmarx.com/en/34965-172454-course-catalog-and-descriptions.html1

appsecengineer.com/blog/the-best-infosec-training-platforms-in-20231

appsecengineer.com/enterprises/secure-coding-training1

aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-4gibzpxtyipxu1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Hack The Box across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Warning	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0	0