2 categories · RankedMandiant
Mandiant is a Google cybersecurity offering for organizations, spanning incident response and security testing · cloud.google.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.
Stingrai is first at 22%.
Cobalt is first at 46%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
NetSPI is first at 30%.
Why models recommend it
“Legendary for incident response and threat intelligence. Their penetration testing and Red Team services mimic real-world nation-state adversaries”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“High-assurance adversary simulation: Bishop Fox, Mandiant, or NCC Group.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“Need compliance certification? → Coalfire, NCC Group, or Mandiant”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Deep real-world IR expertise | Kroll, Mandiant”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“avoid traditional enterprise security firms (like Mandiant or NCC Group, which often charge $20,000–$50,000+ per test)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Frequently criticized for limited support in Microsoft-centric environments... Users report slow SOC responses... high costs without proportional value for non-Google stacks.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Mandiant, over the 33 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 3 | View → | |
| 20 | 2 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 5 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 2 | 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.
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 26 of the 33 answers that named Mandiant and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eighty-five of the eighty-five domain citations in answers naming Mandiant 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 37 | 14 | 2026-09-28 | API management | |
| Case study | 19 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 4 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 2 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Storage optimized z4d vm and bare metal instances blog
- 2026-09-28Accelerate geospatial coding with ai in google earth engine blog
- 2026-09-25Storage intelligence advisor and batch operations updates blog
- 2026-09-25Memorystore for valkey 9 1 3x qps caching blog
- 2026-09-252026 gartner magic quadrant for container management blog
- 2026-09-24Gemini 3 8 live with live avatar is now generally available blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cloud.google.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.