Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Aikido Security
Two of fourteen models named Microsoft Defender for Cloud first on the direct prompt; zero named Aikido Security. Microsoft Defender for Cloud was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Aikido Security by nine and Microsoft Defender for Cloud carries 53 labels and Aikido Security 10, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in fourteen categories this edition.
Named in eleven categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the cloud-native application protection page.
By framing
Microsoft Defender for CloudFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAikido Security
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Aikido Security were named in the same answer sixty-two times, of the 598 answers naming Microsoft Defender for Cloud and the 342 naming Aikido Security. In those answers Aikido Security took the first choice twenty-one times and Microsoft Defender for Cloud eighteen.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | | | ||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | | |||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | |||
| Perplexity Sonar | | | | |||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | | | | |||
| Mistral Small | | | ||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | | | | |
| Llama 4 Maverick | ||||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | | | |
| Kimi K2 | | | | | | |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | | |||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | | | ||
| GPT-6 Luna | | | | |||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | | |
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Aikido Security first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Microsoft Defender for Cloud on the left and Aikido Security on the right.The direct prompt
Microsoft Defender for Cloud first, Aikido Security not the choice
2 of 14 modelsAikido Security was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
6 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
Aikido Security29%#1 of 12Microsoft Defender for Cloud28%#2 of 12Microsoft Defender for Cloud21%#2 of 11Aikido Security6%#4 of 11Microsoft Defender for Cloud17%#2 of 11Aikido Security—not namedWhat the models said about Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“The Trap: Relying exclusively on AWS Security Hub or Microsoft Defender for Cloud... Vendor Lock-in.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
What the models said about Aikido Security
No label in this category carried a quote.
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.