When asked for the best penetration testing service, 6 AI assistants named 7 brands between them this month. Cobalt was named most often, followed by Compliance and Detectify. No brand was named by every assistant that answered.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobalt | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | 3 of 6 |
| Compliance | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Detectify | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | 3 of 6 |
| HackerOne | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Rapid7 | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
| Scope | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Intruder | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 6 brands, in this order: Scope, Compliance, Cobalt, Detectify, Intruder, Rapid7.
Choosing the best penetration testing service for a small business depends on several factors, including your specific security needs, budget, and the particular areas of your infrastructure you want to test.
Perplexity
Answered without naming a brand we could confirm.
For a small business, the best penetration testing service is usually one that combines manual testing, clear remediation guidance, and SMB-friendly pricing.
Claude
Named 6 brands, in this order: Cobalt, HackerOne, Detectify, Rapid7, Compliance, Scope.
Here are some well-regarded options to consider:
Grok
Named 4 brands, in this order: Cobalt, HackerOne, Intruder, Detectify.
Here are the most practical choices ranked by value for small businesses:
DeepSeek
Named 3 brands, in this order: Scope, HackerOne, Compliance.
I can't recommend a specific "best" service, since the right choice depends on your budget, industry, compliance requirements, and what you need tested (network, web app, cloud, etc.).
Cohere
Named one brand, in this order: Rapid7.
Choosing the best penetration testing service for a small business depends on several factors, including budget, industry-specific compliance requirements, the scope of testing needed, and the level of expertise required.
The questions asked
- What is the best penetration testing service for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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