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PortSwigger Web Security Academy provides interactive, self-paced labs for learning web security and practicing how web vulnerabilities work · portswigger.net ↗
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.
SecureFlag is first at 25%.
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No model named it for this buyer.
Why models recommend it
“PortSwigger Web Security Academy (*Best Overall for Web App Security*) ... one of the highest-quality security resources on the internet”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“PortSwigger Web Security Academy is the single best secure code training platform”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Choose PortSwigger if you are looking for free, high-quality resources for web-specific security knowledge”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“PortSwigger's academy is the gold standard for web vulnerability education. It is completely free”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as PortSwigger Web Security Academy, over the 18 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 4 | View → | |
| 10 | 3 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 2 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on PortSwigger Web Security Academy's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- practitioners
- Price stated
- free
- Free plan or trial
- free
- Certifications
- GDPR, ISO 27001
- Hosting
- Ireland, UK, US
- Customers named
- Amazon, AXA Mansard, Auto Trader, Barclays, Danske Bank, Expedia Group, FedEx, NASA
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 13 of the 18 answers that named PortSwigger Web Security Academy and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-six of the fifty-six domain citations in answers naming PortSwigger Web Security Academy came from a third party's page. Five 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 342 | 6 | 2026-08-12 | DAST | |
| Report or ebook | 159 | 5 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Template or tool | 125 | undated | |||
| Case study | 22 | undated | DAST | ||
| News or press | 13 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 8 | 0 | 2025-09-24 | ||
| Comparison | 7 | undated | DAST | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-23Http3 in burp suite report or ebook
- 2026-08-25Whats in a tag name javascript apparently report or ebook
- 2026-08-12Can ai invent new attack techniques new research from james kettle and portswigger research blog
- 2026-08-06CSS:the bomb inside your inbox report or ebook
- 2026-08-05Can ai do novel security research report or ebook
- 2026-08-05Crlf powered desync attacks report or ebook
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page portswigger.net 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 October 5, 2026.