51% of first choices, clear leader.
Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.
“Avoid enterprise-heavy tools like CrowdStrike (~$5-10/identity but often bundled/quoted higher)” Grok 4.1 Fast, budget prompt
“What to Avoid - Enterprise solutions like CrowdStrike Falcon Identity ... typically require negotiation and higher minimums” Kimi K2, budget prompt
“Reviewers report heavy alert noise during onboarding that requires real tuning time and limited value outside Microsoft-centric environments, with rigid customization.” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
“Avoid enterprise-heavy tools like CrowdStrike ... or SentinelOne unless you have existing stacks.” Grok 4.1 Fast, budget prompt
79 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1020 links across 173 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntress huntress.com Huntress Managed ITDR 51%, Huntress ITDR 4% | 55% | 126 | 33,100 | 4,338 | 352,368 company | $15,522 | 120 | 2 |
| Microsoft parent site Microsoft Defender for Identity 14%, Microsoft Entra ID Protection 4%, Microsoft Defender for Identity / Entra ID Protection 2%, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps 2% and 1 more | 22% | 480 | 2,240,000 | 403,136 | ||||
| Silverfort ITDR silverfort.com | 4% | 77 | 10 | 0 | 15,992 | 49 | 7 | |
| Sophos parent site Sophos ITDR 4% | 4% | 36 | 18,100 | 2,046 | ||||
| Okta okta.com Okta Identity Threat Protection 2% | 2% | 45 | 368,000 | 8,418 | 1,959,740 company | 118 | ||
| Cayosoft Guardian 8.0 | 2% | |||||||
| Centraleyes centraleyes.com | 2% | 8 | ||||||
| Microsoft Defender parent site Microsoft Defender XDR 2% | 2% | 191 | 18,100 | 3,525 | ||||
| Microsoft Defender's identity-security stack | 2% | |||||||
| Netwrix netwrix.com Netwrix PingCastle 2% | 2% | 2 | 104,208 company | $3,789 | 120 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 15 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (gartner.com, huntress.com, microsoft.com). The first result for “best itdr solution” is gartner.com.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 23:40 | yes | 9 | 8 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 00:55 | yes | 3 | 9 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:21 | yes | 21 | 29 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:18 | yes | 18 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:18 | yes | 19 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:12 | yes | 14 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:27 | yes | 20 | 79 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:06 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 23:04 | no | 0 | 25 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:13 | yes | 13 | 20 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:39 | yes | 13 | 46 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:15 | yes | 15 | 45 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:24 | yes | 16 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 22:23 | yes | 2 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:02 | yes | 8 | 22 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:18 | yes | 23 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:44 | yes | 23 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:01 | yes | 20 | 12 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:21 | yes | 10 | 57 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:18 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 00:13 | no | 0 | 27 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 00:13 | yes | 15 | 17 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:40 | yes | 19 | 24 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 22:53 | yes | 10 | 35 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:06 | yes | 12 | 12 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 00:31 | yes | 5 | 7 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:10 | yes | 19 | 30 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:18 | yes | 21 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:16 | yes | 17 | 11 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:04 | yes | 8 | 9 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:05 | yes | 18 | 73 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:39 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 23:36 | no | 0 | 29 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:19 | yes | 19 | 24 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 23:15 | yes | 18 | 64 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:53 | yes | 24 | 41 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 23:38 | yes | 9 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 22:34 | yes | 4 | 6 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 22:09 | yes | 11 | 27 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:29 | yes | 18 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:25 | yes | 21 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:46 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 00:05 | yes | 23 | 91 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:21 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:17 | no | 0 | 37 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 00:53 | yes | 19 | 26 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:48 | yes | 11 | 21 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:01 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 00:20 | yes | 18 | 12 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:52 | yes | 5 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 23:27 | yes | 12 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:23 | yes | 17 | 4 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:27 | yes | 17 | 13 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:52 | no | 0 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 23:19 | yes | 15 | 98 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:10 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:16 | yes | 10 | 39 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 22:51 | yes | 14 | 29 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:57 | yes | 13 | 54 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:32 | yes | 5 | 18 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 00:25 | yes | 16 | 11 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:55 | yes | 3 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:57 | yes | 18 | 27 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:32 | yes | 20 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:38 | yes | 20 | 10 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:36 | yes | 5 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 23:59 | yes | 23 | 52 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 23:05 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:08 | yes | 14 | 31 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:07 | yes | 19 | 26 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:33 | yes | 23 | 56 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:56 | yes | 5 | 14 s |
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