2 categories · Named, not rankedMaterial Security
Material Security is an email security product designed to sit on top of Google Workspace · material.security ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Material Security has 6.
Why models recommend it
“Abnormal Security or Material Security: Modern, API-first options excelling in BEC and post-delivery response.”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“modern platforms like Abnormal Security, Material Security, or Microsoft Defender for Office 365”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“In-tenant ICES (Integrated Cloud Email Security): Ironscales, Abnormal Security, Material Security”Kimi K2 · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Material Security, over the 13 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 4 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Material Security's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- teams that need to automate email security plus understand and fix file sharing, connected app inventory, and risky account settings
- Price stated
- Essentials starts at $4 per user/month, billed annually, plus a fee based on Shared Drive size. Advanced is $6 per user/month, billed annually, plus the same Shared Drive fee. ATO Resilience can be added to either plan for an additional $3 per user/month, or purchased as a standalone license for $5 per user/month.
- Starting price
- 4
- Free plan or trial
- Material does offer a self-serve free trial.
- Customers named
- Lyft, Figma, Mars, Dotmatics, PagerDuty, Headway, Gusto, Collective Health
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 12 of the 13 answers that named Material Security and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty-nine of the forty-nine domain citations in answers naming Material Security 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 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 185 | undated | Email security, MFA | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 26 | 1 | 2026-07-29 | Email security | |
| Podcast or video | 26 | undated | Email security | ||
| Case study | 25 | undated | Email security | ||
| Comparison | 10 | undated | Email security | ||
| Conference or event | 3 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-07-29Account takeover resilience glossary or explainer
- 2026-06-15Assign issues glossary or explainer
- 2026-06-12Export a .csv in the explorer glossary or explainer
- 2026-05-19Issue closure and manual classification glossary or explainer
- 2026-05-18Fundamentals glossary or explainer
- 2026-05-18Detection severity framework glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page material.security 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.