3 categories · RankedStackHawk
StackHawk is a dynamic application security testing platform that tests running applications and APIs for vulnerabilities · stackhawk.com ↗
Strongest at small business. Ranked 21 of 79 for enterprise buyers.
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%. 3 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Invicti is first at 58%.
Why models recommend it
“Modern mid-market / DevSecOps native | StackHawk, Escape, Bright (NeuraLegion)”Kimi K2 · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“the best DAST tool is usually StackHawk if your team is developer-driven”GPT-5.4 mini · Direct question · first choice
“StackHawk — Best for Developer-Centric & Modern API-First B2B SaaS”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“StackHawk is generally the top choice for modern B2B SaaS.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
“42Crunch, StackHawk, and APIsec are risky as standalone choices if your main requirement is detecting and stopping attacks against live APIs.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“its own docs acknowledge that scan results can include false positives, so findings still need review and confirmation”GPT-5.4 mini · Negative question · warning
“Focuses almost entirely on *pre-production* security, not runtime protection. Often used alongside other runtime tools.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as StackHawk, over the 186 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 111 | 40 | Compare → | |
| 78 | 26 | Compare → | |
| 59 | 3 | View → | |
| 51 | 8 | View → | |
| 45 | 13 | View → | |
| 44 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 42 | 2 | View → | |
| 40 | 12 | View → | |
| 39 | 5 | View → | |
| 36 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of StackHawk →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on StackHawk's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- coding agents
- Price stated
- $10/user/mo.
- Starting price
- $10/user/mo.
- Free plan or trial
- Get started - Free 14 day trial
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II
- Hosting
- US us-west-2, US
- Customers named
- ITV, Hagerty, Change.org, Breathe Life
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 175 of the 186 answers that named StackHawk and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
402 of the 448 domain citations in answers naming StackHawk came from a third party's page. Forty-six 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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 337 | undated | SAST, SOAR | ||
| Report or ebook | 35 | undated | SOAR | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 20 | undated | |||
| Case study | 17 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 15 | undated | SAST | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 15 | undated | SAST | ||
| News or press | 11 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 3 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 2 | undated | SAST | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page stackhawk.com 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.