Deception technology · RankedThinkst Canary
Leads at mid-market. Ranked 2 of 87 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first. Next is OpenCanary at 13%.
Ranked first. Next is Canarytokens at 6%. 9 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Acalvio ShadowPlex is first at 61%.
Why models recommend it
“Thinkst Canary offers the best value for money among paid platforms due to its simplicity, low false positives, and comprehensive coverage.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Thinkst Canary (from Thinkst Applied Research) stands out as the best deception technology platform for most mid-market B2B companies.”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · first choice
“Excellent signal quality, very easy (Canarytokens are free and powerful), low maintenance. Often the "gold standard" for fidelity.”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“Thinkst Canary is the best simplicity-first deception platform, especially strong for SMBs and mid-market organizations”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Thinkst Canary, over the 137 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 86 | 29 | Compare → | |
| 56 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 1 | View → | |
| 31 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 31 | 0 | View → | |
| 29 | 0 | View → | |
| 27 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 26 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 25 | 1 | View → | |
| 25 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Thinkst Canary →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Thinkst Canary's own site, not checked by Gane.
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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 131 of the 137 answers that named Thinkst Canary and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
378 of the 436 domain citations in answers naming Thinkst Canary came from a third party's page. Fifty-eight 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 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 202 | 4 | 2026-09-04 | SOAR | |
| Conference or event | 5 | 0 | 2018-04-01 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 1 | 0 | 2018-11-01 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2011-02-01 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-04Getting agents to tell on themselves blog
- 2026-09-04Ap shell2 mp4 blog
- 2026-09-042026 blog
- 2026-07-29Other lessons for security product founders from the wright brothers blog
- 2026-06-22One for all the models out there blog
- 2026-06-05Introducing package proxy supply chain safety checks without client side software blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page thinkst.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 October 5, 2026.