Penetration testing as a service · RankedStingrai
Stingrai is a CREST-accredited penetration testing services company that offers penetration testing as a service · stingrai.io ↗
Strongest at small business, contested with Astra Security. Thin evidence at enterprise: nine labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first, contested: Astra Security has 17%.
Cobalt is first at 46%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
NetSPI is first at 30%.
Why models recommend it
“Stingrai Autonomous $3,000 / Hybrid $6,800 is the most commonly cited published entry price with CREST accreditation.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Raxis or Stingrai offer the best balance of real manual testing, transparent published pricing, and value”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Stingrai (Top pick for very low budgets)”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Stingrai (CREST-accredited, human-led, continuous and one-time engagement options, published pricing)”Mistral Small · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Stingrai, over the 53 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 33 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 28 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 18 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 14 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 12 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Stingrai →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Stingrai's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- companies from startups to enterprises; compliance and security teams; security and compliance leaders
- Price stated
- Fixed, published pricing for one web application and its APIs
- Starting price
- 3000
- Certifications
- CREST
- Customers named
- DeepTrust, LangWatch, Clicktrans, e-STORAGE, 30 Forensic Engineering, Koch Companies, eleven-x, Richter Guardian
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 53 of the 53 answers that named Stingrai and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
134 of the 187 domain citations in answers naming Stingrai 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 289 | 100 | 2026-09-25 | PTaaS, MFA | |
| Comparison | 43 | 38 | 2026-09-05 | ||
| Case study | 20 | 0 | 2026-01-07 | ||
| Template or tool | 6 | 5 | 2026-08-23 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | 1 | 2026-07-01 | PTaaS | |
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page stingrai.io 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. Read September 29, 2026.