6 categories · RankedNuclei
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.
OWASP ZAP is first at 51%.
Invicti is first at 33%.
Invicti is first at 58%.
Why models recommend it
“tools like Nuclei (which uses YAML templates) or commercial platforms like Invicti or Acunetix are often preferred for continuous integration”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“Supplement with Nuclei if you want very fast, targeted checks for specific CVEs or misconfigurations.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Nuclei, an open-source template-based scanner that has become essential for API security testing”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“An excellent open-source tool for fast and customizable vulnerability scanning using templates”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Nuclei used as a full DAST replacement: ... template-driven scanning is not equivalent to comprehensive authenticated application testing. Use it as a complement, not your only scanner.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“excellent for rapid, rule-based checks, but its detection is heavily dependent on available templates; it doesn't automatically crawl or infer targets”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“Significant detection accuracy gaps: Claims ~67% coverage but only 22.66% actual accurate detection”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“Out of the box, Nuclei is *not* a stateful, deep-crawling DAST scanner.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Nuclei, over the 50 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 15 | View → | |
| 25 | 4 | View → | |
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 4 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 13 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Nuclei →
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 42 of the 50 answers that named Nuclei and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
107 of the 107 domain citations in answers naming Nuclei 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |