IBM X-Force Red
IBM X-Force Red is a security testing service that examines AI models, applications, networks, hardware, and personnel to uncover and fix vulnerabilities · ibm.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.
No model named it for this buyer.
Cobalt is first at 46%.
NetSPI is first at 30%.
Why models recommend it
“Large enterprise with complex infrastructure: NetSPI, Bishop Fox, NCC Group, or IBM X-Force Red.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as IBM X-Force Red, over the 12 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 6 | View → | |
| 12 | 2 | View → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on IBM X-Force Red's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- business leaders
- Hosting
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, Washington DC, Ottawa, Canada
- Customers named
- Finastra
- Also from IBM
- IBM AI Fairness 360, IBM API Connect, IBM Apptio Cloudability, IBM Aspera, IBM Aspera Managed File Transfer, IBM Business Automation Workflow and 100 more
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.
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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 12 of the 12 answers that named IBM X-Force Red and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifty-seven of the fifty-seven domain citations in answers naming IBM X-Force Red 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |