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Trivy is a security scanner that checks container images, infrastructure as code and software dependencies for vulnerabilities · trivy.dev ↗
Strongest at small business, contested with Falco. Ranked 39 of 93 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first, contested: Falco has 22%.
Ranked first, contested: Falco has 21%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Prisma Cloud is first at 31%.
Why models recommend it
“Top Recommendation for Open-Source Tools: Trivy (by Aqua Security) ... the gold standard open-source scanner for mid-sized engineering teams”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Choose Open Source (Trivy/Falco) if you have DevOps engineers who enjoy building internal tooling and want zero vendor lock-in.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Trivy plus Falco covers scanning and runtime at zero licence cost... best for cost-conscious teams that own their pipelines”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Top overall choice (free & powerful): Trivy (open-source; CLI, CI/CD, containers, IaC; zero cost, no vendor lock‑in)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid for most mid-market cases: Pure open-source like Trivy alone (great scanner but lacks platform features)”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning
“Tools such as Trivy, Grype, and Snyk Container are useful for image and dependency findings, but they do not by themselves detect runtime attacks”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Snyk or Trivy (with add-ons): Developer-friendly for scanning/shift-left, but may need pairing with a runtime tool like Falco for full coverage.”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · warning
“Unconfigured Basic Scanners (e.g., Default Trivy/Grype setups): The Risk: Running a basic scan ... will inevitably lead to build failures”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Trivy, over the 284 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 116 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 108 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 100 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 95 | 9 | View → | |
| 91 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 89 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 69 | 28 | Compare → | |
| 67 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 51 | 0 | View → | |
| 49 | 11 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Trivy →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Trivy's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Customers named
- Wise, CloudNativePG, Vista, Antigen Security, GitLab, Alpine Security, Harbor, Mirantis
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 248 of the 284 answers that named Trivy and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
595 of the 595 domain citations in answers naming Trivy 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 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 146 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page trivy.dev 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.