October 2026 Edition

Leader changes · 18, of which 6 cleared the floor

Endpoint detection and response

Bitdefender GravityZone EDR→Microsoft Defender for Endpoint34%

New leader · moved

30 points clear of Bitdefender GravityZone EDR's current 4%.

SASE platforms

Cato SASE Cloud→Cato Networks35%

New leader · moved

28 points clear of Cato SASE Cloud's current 7%.

Infrastructure monitoring

Site24x7→Datadog27%

New leader · moved

18 points clear of Site24x7's current 9%.

Vector databases

Qdrant→pgvector36%

New leader · moved

16 points clear of Qdrant's current 20%.

Threat intelligence platforms

NordStellar→Anomali ThreatStream11%

New leader · moved

11 points clear of NordStellar's current 0%.

ETL and ELT

Airbyte→Fivetran37%

New leader · moved

11 points clear of Airbyte's current 26%.

Names swapped within the floor · 12, read as unsettled

• Feature flagsLaunchDarkly→Flagsmith 27%8 points apart, inside the floor
• Zero trust network accessCloudflare One→Twingate 40%7 points apart, inside the floor
• Observability platformsGrafana→New Relic 31%7 points apart, inside the floor
• IT asset managementSnipe-IT→Freshservice 31%7 points apart, inside the floor
• Endpoint protectionMicrosoft Defender for Cloud→Microsoft Defender for Endpoint 23%6 points apart, inside the floor
• Identity governanceLumos→Microsoft Entra ID Governance 19%6 points apart, inside the floor
• Container and Kubernetes securitySysdig Secure→Trivy 22%4 points apart, inside the floor
• ML platformsDatabricks Mosaic AI→Azure Machine Learning 18%4 points apart, inside the floor
• Secrets managementDoppler→HashiCorp Vault 33%4 points apart, inside the floor
• Business password managersBitwarden→1Password 45%2 points apart, inside the floor
• Data warehousesSnowflake→Google BigQuery 48%0 points apart, inside the floor
• Patch managementAction1→ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus 30%0 points apart, inside the floor

Verdict changes

• Cloud-native application protectionClear leader→ContestedWiz leads at 35%
• Cloud security posture managementClear leader→ContestedWiz leads at 38%
• Data loss preventionContested→Clear leaderMicrosoft Purview DLP leads at 48%
• Extended detection and responseClear leader→ContestedMicrosoft Defender XDR leads at 39%
• Managed Kubernetes platformsContested→Clear leaderGoogle Kubernetes Engine leads at 42%
• Managed relational databasesContested→Clear leaderAmazon RDS leads at 42%
• SIEM platformsClear leader→ContestedMicrosoft Sentinel leads at 39%
• SOAR platformsClear leader→ContestedTines leads at 37%
• Static application security testingClear leader→ContestedSemgrep leads at 30%
• Vulnerability management platformsClear leader→ContestedRapid7 InsightVM leads at 29%
• Workforce identity and SSOContested→Clear leaderMicrosoft Entra ID leads at 42%

Biggest movers in first-choice share

Microsoft Defender XDRExtended detection and response

−2563% → 39%

MovedCleared the floor by 14 points · rank 1 of 53, unchanged

Cloudflare WAFWeb application firewalls

−2189% → 67%

MovedCleared the floor by 10 points · rank 1 of 80, unchanged

Cato SASE CloudSASE platforms

−2128% → 7%

MovedCleared the floor by 10 points · rank 1 → 5 of 43

AteraRemote monitoring and management

+207% → 27%

MovedCleared the floor by 9 points · rank 4 → 2 of 58

WorkOSCustomer identity and access management

−1822% → 4%

MovedCleared the floor by 7 points · rank 2 → 7 of 61

Sophos Intercept XExtended detection and response

+182% → 20%

MovedCleared the floor by 7 points · rank 7 → 2 of 53

QdrantVector databases

−1737% → 20%

MovedCleared the floor by 6 points · rank 1 → 3 of 35

SemgrepStatic application security testing

−1747% → 30%

MovedCleared the floor by 6 points · rank 1 of 65, unchanged

Rapid7 InsightVMVulnerability management platforms

−1645% → 29%

MovedCleared the floor by 5 points · rank 1 of 74, unchanged

CurrentWareData loss prevention

−1618% → 2%

MovedCleared the floor by 5 points · rank 2 → 6 of 80

GraylogLog management

+1610% → 26%

MovedCleared the floor by 5 points · rank 3 → 2 of 66

Site24x7Infrastructure monitoring

−1524% → 9%

MovedCleared the floor by 4 points · rank 1 → 4 of 69

0Floor 11 pts · measured

The floor is 11 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 · Every change resolves to its category page and to the previous edition's record on the Data page.