Nikto
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Nikto has 8.
Why models recommend it
“The best free DAST tools in 2026 are ZAP, Nuclei, Nikto, and Wapiti”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Runner-Up: Nikto (Free, Open-Source)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“It's outdated for modern web apps/APIs (high false positives...). Use only as a quick initial check, not a primary DAST solution.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“An old HTTP server scanner that is largely outdated and yields high false positives. Use only for legacy systems.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Nikto is a legacy, template-based web server fuzzer, not an application-level DAST tool... cannot crawl modern client-side application logic”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“tends to report configuration issues and has limited detection compared to more modern scanners; not a primary DAST choice”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Nikto, over the 14 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 6 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 2 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 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.
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 14 answers that named Nikto and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for Nikto, 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 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 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |