6 categories · RankedOWASP ZAP
OWASP ZAP is a security testing tool used for automated testing of web applications · owasp.org ↗
Leads at small business. Ranked 79 of 79 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first. Next is Intruder at 17%.
Invicti is first at 33%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Invicti is first at 58%.
Why models recommend it
“OWASP ZAP is the most widely used open-source DAST tool and the strongest free option for API security testing.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best Overall Free/Open-Source Choice ... Completely free and open-source, with no usage limits or hidden fees.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best default for a limited budget: ZAP by Checkmarx (formerly OWASP ZAP). It's free and open source”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Use OWASP ZAP (actively maintained, modern browser crawling support, strong CI/CD integration)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“it is advisable to avoid or proceed with extreme caution when using OWASP ZAP or Invicti in automated pipelines”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Avoid for Automated Pipelines: OWASP ZAP (if you lack a dedicated team to manage it).”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Unmanaged open-source tools (like raw OWASP ZAP) unless you have dedicated headcount”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · warning
“Excellent free option, but avoid treating its default output as production-ready. It can require substantial tuning and manual configuration, with potentially high false-positive volume”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as OWASP ZAP, over the 212 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 111 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 98 | 31 | Compare → | |
| 89 | 3 | View → | |
| 73 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 53 | 8 | View → | |
| 45 | 0 | View → | |
| 40 | 1 | View → | |
| 31 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 29 | 1 | View → | |
| 28 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of OWASP ZAP →
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 194 of the 212 answers that named OWASP ZAP and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
442 of the 493 domain citations in answers naming OWASP ZAP came from a third party's page. Fifty-one were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 86 | 0 | 2025-08-05 | ||
| Conference or event | 35 | 0 | 2025-11-14 | ||
| News or press | 18 | 0 | 2024-11-20 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 7 | 0 | 2026-05-13 | ||
| Podcast or video | 4 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 3 | 0 | 2024-05-08 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-05-13Gen ai project application security risk virtual summit webinar or virtual event
- 2025-11-14Genai security project agentic ai summit europe conference or event
- 2025-08-30Genai security project uae summit hackathon conference or event
- 2025-08-28Owasp 2025 global appsec usa washington dc conference or event
- 2025-08-27Gen ai application security risk virtual conference webinar or virtual event
- 2025-08-06Owasp genai agentic security top 10 global kick off livestream webinar or virtual event
Events in person
- November 5, 2026 to November 6, 2026OWASP Global AppSec USA 2026Hyatt Regency San Francisco, San Francisco, USA · hosts
- March 25, 2026OWASP GenAI Security Summit 2026 @ RSAC 2026 – Safeguarding GenAI Agents & Anonymous Risk in 2026Moscone Conference Center – Moscone South – Room 303, San Francisco, USA · hosted
- March 25, 2026OWASP GenAI Security Open Workshop & Agentic Hackathon at RSAC’26DigitalJungleSF, 972 Mission St, San Francisco, USA · hosted
- March 25, 2026OWASP GenAI Security RSAC’26 Jungle Party of The CenturyDigitalJungleSF, 972 Mission St, San Francisco, USA · attended
- March 23, 2026OWASP GenAI Security – RSAC’26 Kickoff PartyJames Bong Building, Market St Floor 2, San Francisco, USA · hosted
As the event pages on owasp.org state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page owasp.org 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.