# Skipfish: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/skipfish

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Dynamic application security testing](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/developer/dynamic-application-security-testing/index.md) | 0% | 73 | 100% | 2 |

## And against it

- "Skipfish is not actively maintained (effectively unmaintained since approximately 2012)... should be retired" (Muse Glimmer 30B, DAST)
- "Skipfish (originally developed by Google) and Subgraph's Vega have both been abandoned for years." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, DAST)

## 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 1 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Skipfish, from 3 of the 4 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- appsecsanta.com: 2
- acunetix.com: 1
- aimultiple.com: 1
- ajol.info: 1
- alternativeto.net: 1
- apiiro.com: 1
- augmentcode.com: 1
- blog.detectify.com: 1
- charlesreid1.com: 1
- checkmarx.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://acunetix.com/blog/docs/reduce-false-positives: 1
- https://aimultiple.com/free-dast-tools: 1
- https://ajol.info/index.php/jobasr/article/download/308776/290334: 1
- https://alternativeto.net/software/netsparker: 1
- https://apiiro.com/blog/best-dast-tools-modern-application-security-testing: 1
- https://appsecsanta.com/arachni: 1
- https://appsecsanta.com/dast-tools: 1
- https://appsecsanta.com/w3af: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.