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Contra

18Judge labels
0First choices
5Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
8 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Contra was named 8 times in Internal talent marketpl and 1 other category, where Fuel50 led with 47%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In internal talent marketpl · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Contra for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Internal talent marketplacePerformance and talent management0%33 of 10229%7under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 47%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Contingent workforce managementWorkforce planning and analytics0%37 of 1210%1under 10 labels · led by VectorVMS at 16%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

Since September 2026, Contra held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.

Best category · Internal talent marketpl · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 25 → 31 of 125
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 20 → 78 of 93

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
Internal talent marketpl0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 20 → 33 of 102
Contingent workforce man0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 37 of 121, unchanged

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated Contra across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500011
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K200112
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500101
GPT-6 Luna01001
Muse Glimmer 30B00101

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative9 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“consider diversifying into zero-commission platforms (like *Contra* or *Hubstaff Talent*)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Internal talent marketpl · negative prompt · alternative
“Want a portfolio-led workflow or already have freelancers to bring in? Contra.” GPT-6 Luna · Internal talent marketpl · comparative prompt · alternative
“tools like Upwork Pro, Contra, or TalentDesk may be more appropriate” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Contingent workforce man · scale prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“users dissatisfied with customer support, limited jobs, and payment issues” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Internal talent marketpl · negative prompt · hard negative
“Very low Trustpilot score (2.1/5 from 65 reviews); login issues, poor support” Kimi K2 · Internal talent marketpl · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Contra, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Contra was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Upwork18 of 185Not among the top eight
Fiverr16 of 180Not among the top eight
Toptal14 of 183Not among the top eight
Freelancer.com11 of 180Not among the top eight
99designs7 of 180Not among the top eight
Guru7 of 180Not among the top eight
PeoplePerHour5 of 180Not among the top eight
Arc.dev4 of 181Not among the top eight
Braintrust4 of 181Not among the top eight
Gun.io4 of 180Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Contra. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 18 of the 18 answers that named Contra and are not a share of its labels.

Search and answers

contrastsecurity.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Contra takes 0% of first choices and Fuel50 takes 47%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “talent marketplaces”
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not in the top ten
Position for “internal talent marketplace”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
49,500 a month (“contra”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
19,791 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 54,118 a month
Searches its site ranks for
4,323 · 263 in the top three
Sites linking to it
2,719
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
51 ads · 42 text, 8 image, 1 video · 6 shown in the last 30 days

First shown May 2025, as CONTRAST SECURITY, INC., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 24 in the year, 27 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 33 of 102 in internal talent marketpl
Segment leader
47%
Fuel50
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
18 answers
Its own site cited
in 18 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on contrastsecurity.com
2,341
subdomains included
Content
488
counted in the table below
Documentation
926
Product · Integration
2 · 1
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
News or press133undated
Glossary or explainer13202025-12-09
Blog77undated
Report or ebook54undated
Webinar or virtual event3202026-06-18
Podcast or video2902025-12-09
Comparison1302026-05-06
Conference or event11undated
Case study402025-10-21
Template or tool3undated

Most recent

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page contrastsecurity.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.

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An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Contra is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Runtime Application Security for AI-Generated Code
For
AI-generated code
Price stated
FREE $0; PRO $750 / month billed annually; Enterprise talk to sales for a quote contrastsecurity.com/pricing-and-packaging
Free plan or trial
Try Contrast contrastsecurity.com
Hosting
United States of America
Customers named
Backbase
Not stated on the pages read
Integrations, certifications

What Contra's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: contrastsecurity.com, contrastsecurity.com/pricing-and-packaging, trust.contrastsecurity.com, contrastsecurity.com/platform, contrastsecurity.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Contra by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Contra is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Contra, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
The subscriber app

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at contrastsecurity.com is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.