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Endpoint protection · October 2026 Edition

Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs SentinelOne Singularity

Zero of fourteen models named Microsoft Defender for Cloud first on the direct prompt; one named SentinelOne Singularity. Microsoft Defender for Cloud was named by eight of the fourteen models and SentinelOne Singularity by eleven and Microsoft Defender for Cloud carries 12 labels and SentinelOne Singularity 25, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

accepted challenger

Named in fourteen categories this edition.

SentinelOne Singularity

accepted challenger

Named in fourteen categories this edition.

First-choice share17%5%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.

Negative rate8%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.

Rank in category#3#6A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.

Labels1225A count; the two differ.

The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Microsoft Defender for Cloud reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Sophos Intercept X was named alongside these two in ten of the fourteen direct answers. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud · Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs SentinelOne Singularity · Bitdefender GravityZone vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud

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 endpoint protection page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.

Microsoft Defender for CloudFirst choices, of fourteen modelsSentinelOne Singularity

Direct011 against Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Paraphrase22

Comparative02

Budget-constrained80

Scale-constrained00

Negative00

Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and SentinelOne Singularity were named in the same answer ninety-seven times, of the 598 answers naming Microsoft Defender for Cloud and the 569 naming SentinelOne Singularity. In those answers SentinelOne Singularity took the first choice six times and Microsoft Defender for Cloud fifty-two.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Microsoft Defender for Cloud and SentinelOne Singularity stood in it.

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

SentinelOne Singularity

first choice

named as an alternative

argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Microsoft Defender for Cloud on the left and SentinelOne Singularity on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Microsoft Defender for Cloud and SentinelOne Singularity stood in it.

SentinelOne Singularity first, Microsoft Defender for Cloud not the choice

1 of 14 modelsMicrosoft Defender for Cloud was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.

DeepSeek V4 FlashSentinelOne Singularity alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Business / Endpoint, Sophos Intercept X

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.

Gemini 3.5 FlashSophos Intercept X alternatives: Huntress Managed EDR, Microsoft Defender for Business / Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity

Perplexity SonarBitdefender GravityZone alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity, Sophos Intercept X

Grok 4.1 FastMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone, SentinelOne Singularity, Sophos Intercept X

Kimi K2Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity

GPT-6 LunaCrowdStrike Falcon alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity

Muse Glimmer 30BBitdefender GravityZone Business Security, Microsoft Defender for Business / Defender for Endpoint alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity, Sophos Intercept X

Neither was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.

Claude Haiku 4.5Sophos Intercept X alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR

GPT-5.4 miniCrowdStrike Falcon alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint, Sophos Intercept X

Mistral SmallBitdefender GravityZone, CrowdStrike Falcon alternatives: Acronis Cyber Protect

Llama 4 MaverickBitdefender GravityZone

Qwen 3.7 FlashMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint, Sophos Intercept X, Trend Vision One

GLM 4.7 FlashXCrowdStrike Falcon alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Sophos Intercept X

MiniMax M2.5Bitdefender GravityZone, CrowdStrike Falcon alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Sophos Intercept X

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

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.

Small business

Microsoft Defender for Cloud leads by fifty points.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud#1 of 12

SentinelOne Singularity#10 of 12

The full small business standing →

Mid-marketThe figures above

Microsoft Defender for Cloud leads by twelve points.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud#3 of 11

SentinelOne Singularity#6 of 11

The full mid-market standing →

Enterprise

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is not named for this buyer.

SentinelOne Singularity#3 of 9

Microsoft Defender for Cloudnot named

The full enterprise standing →

What 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. Two of two in this category shown.

“My top advice: If you are not already using Microsoft 365, Microsoft Defender for Business is still a strong contender because it is the most cost-effective way” GLM 4.7 FlashX · budget prompt · first choice

“If you want the best value and least friction for a mid-size B2B firm already in the Microsoft ecosystem, start with Microsoft Defender for Business” GLM 4.7 FlashX · paraphrase prompt · first choice

What the models said about SentinelOne Singularity

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

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.