2 categories · RankedSynack
Synack is a penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) platform that combines AI and human testers to find and validate security vulnerabilities, with attack surface management among its uses · synack.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise. Thin evidence at small business: eight labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Stingrai is first at 22%.
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
“Synack if you have a broader or more complex attack surface... it may be more than you need”GPT-6 Luna · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Combines an elite crowdsourced community (the Synack Red Team) with AI-powered scanning tools.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Uses a crowdsourced model of vetted hackers for continuous, real-world testing.”Mistral Small · Comparative question · alternative
“Cobalt or Synack if a platform-based, repeatable testing workflow is a priority”GPT-6 Luna · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“What to Avoid - Synack/Bugcrowd/HackerOne – Better suited for large enterprises”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Synack, over the 75 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | 14 | View → | |
| 43 | 17 | View → | |
| 30 | 1 | View → | |
| 27 | 3 | View → | |
| 26 | 0 | View → | |
| 24 | 2 | View → | |
| 22 | 0 | View → | |
| 18 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Synack →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Synack's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- organizations
- Price stated
- Pricing
- Starting price
- 4,181
- Free plan or trial
- The Basic Platform is available at no cost.
- Integrations
- 6
- Certifications
- FedRAMP, CREST, ISO 27001, PCI DSS
- Hosting
- multiple US geographic regions
- Customers named
- Allianz Direct, Spectro Cloud Security, Domino's, Jack Henry, Dow, Iberia Cards, Spectro Cloud, Microsoft
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 66 of the 75 answers that named Synack and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
137 of the 178 domain citations in answers naming Synack 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 366 | 33 | 2026-09-24 | ASM, PTaaS | |
| Podcast or video | 139 | 7 | 2026-08-06 | ASM | |
| News or press | 32 | 10 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 27 | 18 | 2026-09-16 | SAST | |
| Comparison | 23 | 9 | 2026-08-19 | ||
| Conference or event | 11 | 2 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | 0 | 2026-04-29 | ||
| Case study | 3 | 0 | 2026-05-21 | ||
| Report or ebook | 2 | 0 | 2026-01-07 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | 1 | 2026-07-20 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Agentic ai pentesting guardrails blog
- 2026-09-24St stplus compliance pentesting data sheet blog
- 2026-09-24Web application security testing data sheet blog
- 2026-09-24Sara ai pentesting data sheet blog
- 2026-09-24Synack ai pentesting marketplaces news or press
- 2026-09-23Penetration testing rfp blog
Events in person
- September 24, 2026Build or Buy AI Pentesting? 5 Tests for Production ReadinessShow Floor Theatre at ExCeL London, London · spoke
- September 22, 2026 to September 24, 2026Gartner Security & Risk Management SummitLondon · exhibited
- June 2, 2026Theater Session TH32: Cutting Through AI NoiseNational Harbor · spoke
- June 1, 2026 to June 3, 2026Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026National Harbor · exhibited
- June 1, 2026Pickin’ & Pourin’ at the HarborNational Harbor · took part
As the event pages on synack.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page synack.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.