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September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 · The permanent record of that edition, superseded since. The current standing is on the category page →
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AI SOC agents

Asked as “AI SOC agent”, and as “AI SOC analyst for alert triage”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 55 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each. Added to the September 2026 Edition; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories: how the two compare.
Standing · first-choice share
24%
Contested · Radiant Security 24%
24Dropzone AI24Radiant Security05UnderDefense Agentic AI SOC47others

24% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Dropzone AI24%2%40accepted challenger
02Radiant Security24%3%29accepted challenger
03SentinelOne Purple AI4%7%14accepted challenger
04Prophet Security2%0%24accepted challenger
05Torq2%5%20accepted challenger
06Intezer AI SOC2%0%16accepted challenger
07Microsoft Security Copilot2%7%14accepted challenger
Show the one product at 0%, ordered by negative rate
08CrowdStrike Charlotte AI0%0%14accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.

Recommended versus criticized

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%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative40%
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01Dropzone AI24%
02Radiant Security24%
03SentinelOne Purple AI4%
04Prophet Security2%
05Torq2%
06Intezer AI SOC2%
07Microsoft Security Copilot2%
08CrowdStrike Charlotte AI0%

What they warned about

Two of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
BlinkOps
50%
1 of 2 labels negative · 1 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“What to Avoid: "The Enterprise Giants" ... too heavy and expensive for a lean mid-market team.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, direct prompt
CrowdStrike Charlotte
100%
1 of 1 labels negative · 1 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Siloed EDR/SIEM Copilots (e.g., Microsoft Copilot for Security, CrowdStrike Charlotte AI) ... too heavy and expensive for a lean mid-market team.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, direct prompt
Microsoft Copilot
100%
1 of 1 labels negative · 1 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Siloed EDR/SIEM Copilots (e.g., Microsoft Copilot for Security, CrowdStrike Charlotte AI) ... these ecosystem-locked tools lose their investigative depth.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, direct prompt
Radiant Security
3%
1 of 29 labels negative · 1 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Radiant is likely no longer a viable standalone choice for a typical mid-sized B2B stack.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, paraphrase prompt

What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

77 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. 1001 links across 213 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · UnderDefense50 answers · 133 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Intezer38 answers · 78 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Rework28 answers · 32 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Swimlane28 answers · 31 citations · 12 models
22 answers · 30 citations · 11 models
vendor site · D3 Security20 answers · 30 citations · 11 models
vendor site · GitHub19 answers · 26 citations · 10 models
vendor site · ReliaQuest19 answers · 25 citations · 9 models
19 answers · 22 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Prophet Security17 answers · 24 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Stellar Cyber17 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Panther16 answers · 21 citations · 9 models

Pages the answers cite

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.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “ai soc agent”, “ai soc agents”, “best ai soc agent”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Dropzone AI dropzone.ai24%1201,300321,6523
Radiant Security radiantsecurity.ai24%63880131,4150
UnderDefense underdefense.com
UnderDefense Agentic AI SOC 5%, UnderDefense 4%, UnderDefense MAXI AI SOC 4%, UnderDefense MAXI 2%
15%68170111,823101
Microsoft parent site
Microsoft Sentinel 4%, Microsoft Security Copilot 2%, Microsoft Sentinel plus Security Copilot 2%, Microsoft Defender 2%
9%3592,240,000403,136
SentinelOne parent site
SentinelOne Purple AI 4%
4%3633,1001,675
Vigil4%
Prophet Security prophetsecurity.ai2%7201,142111
Torq torq.io2%1426,6001,4675,96667
Intezer AI SOC intezer.com2%534001,5951
Huntress huntress.com
Huntress Managed EDR 2%
2%29033,1004,338352,368 company$15,522120

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 24 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (prophetsecurity.ai, reliaquest.com, stellarcyber.ai, underdefense.com). The first result for “ai soc agent” is prophetsecurity.ai.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best AI SOC agent for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which AI SOC analyst for alert triage would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top AI SOC agents and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best AI SOC agent for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating an AI SOC agent. What should we look at?”Negative“Which AI SOC agents should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Radiant Security
Three alternativesConifers CognitiveSOC, Dropzone AI, Stellar Cyber Open XDR
Dropzone AIChanged
Two alternativesPanther, Rapid7 InsightIDR AI Alert Triage
no first choiceUnderDefense Agentic AI SOC
Four alternativesDropzone AI, Helxon, Radiant Security, Wazuh
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniTorq AI SOC Platform
Three alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon, Google Security Operations, Panther
Microsoft Security Copilot with the Security Alert Triage AgentChanged
One alternativePalo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM
Palo Alto Networks Cortex AgentiX, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM
Three alternativesCrowdStrike Charlotte AI, Google Security Operations Triage and Investigation Agent (TIN) / Agentic SOC, Microsoft Security Copilot
against: SentinelOne Purple AI
Microsoft Defender
One alternativeAWS Marketplace AI SOC Agent
against: Google SecOps Agentic SOC / Triage and Investigation Agent
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashDropzone AI
Three alternativesIntezer AI SOC, Prophet Security, Radiant Security
against: BlinkOps, CrowdStrike Charlotte, Microsoft Copilot, ReliaQuest GreyMatter, Torq
Dropzone AIHeld
Four alternativesHuntress Managed EDR, Intezer AI SOC, Prophet Security, UnderDefense
against: Radiant Security
no first choiceTalon, Vigil
Five alternativesAiSOC, Dropzone AI, Google Gemini API, Radiant Security, n8n
no first choicenothing named
Perplexity SonarRadiant Security
Two alternativesDropzone AI, Stellar Cyber Open XDR
Dropzone AIChanged
Three alternativesExpel, Palo Alto Cortex, Prophet Security
Palo Alto Networks Cortex AgentiX / XSIAM
Five alternativesCrowdStrike Charlotte AI, Dropzone AI, Google Security Operations, Microsoft Security Copilot, Torq
Radiant Security
Two alternativesExpel, Prophet Security
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.1 FastDropzone AI, Prophet Security, Radiant Security
Three alternativesArctic Wolf, Huntress Managed EDR, Microsoft Security Copilot
Dropzone AIChanged
Four alternatives7AI, Prophet, Radiant Security, SentinelOne Purple AI
D3 Morpheus, Dropzone AI
Seven alternativesConifers CognitiveSOC, CrowdStrike Charlotte AI, Intezer AI SOC, Prophet Security, Radiant Security, SentinelOne Purple AI, Torq AI SOC/HyperSOC
against: Microsoft Security Copilot
Wazuh
Eleven alternativesAiSOC, Contraforce, Dropzone AI, Elastic Security, Elest.io, Huntress Managed EDR, MISP, Microsoft Sentinel, OpenCTI, Security Copilot, Zoro AI
Dropzone AI, Intezer AI SOC, UnderDefense MAXI
Two alternativesCrowdStrike Charlotte AI, Swimlane
nothing named
Mistral SmallRadiant Security, SentinelOne Purple AIDropzone AIChanged
Two alternativesRadiant, Simbian
no first choiceMicrosoft Sentinel plus Security Copilot
Three alternativesD3 Morpheus, Splunk Enterprise Security, Stellar Cyber Open XDR
no first choice
Six alternativesCrowdStrike, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Splunk ES with ML Toolkit, Vectra, Wazuh
nothing named
DeepSeek V4 FlashRadiant Security, UnderDefense
Two alternativesDropzone AI, Microsoft Security Copilot + Sentinel
Dropzone AIChanged
One alternativeProphet Security
Prophet Security
Eight alternativesCrowdStrike Charlotte AI, Dropzone AI, Google Security Operations, Intezer AI SOC, Microsoft Security Copilot, SentinelOne Purple AI, Torq, UnderDefense MAXI
Huntress Managed EDR
One alternativeUnderDefense MAXI AI SOC
against: Wazuh
no first choiceagainst: Exaforce
Llama 4 MaverickRadiant Security
One alternativeSentinelOne Purple AI
TorqChanged
Four alternativesDropzone AI, Prophet Security, Radiant Security, Simbian
no first choiceno first choice
Four alternativesAI SOC Agent on AWS Marketplace, Dropzone AI, Microsoft Sentinel plus Security Copilot, Prophet Security
no first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashSentinelOne Purple AI
One alternativeRadiant Security
SwimlaneChanged
Five alternativesArctera, Copilot, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Sentinel, Palo Alto Networks
no first choiceCopilot, Microsoft Sentinel
Three alternativesD3 Morpheus, Stellar Cyber Open XDR, Wazuh
no first choicenothing named
Kimi K2Radiant Security
Three alternativesDropzone AI, Stellar Cyber Open XDR, UnderDefense Agentic AI SOC
Radiant SecurityHeld
Two alternativesD3 Morpheus, Intezer AI SOC
7AI, ReliaQuest GreyMatter
Four alternativesD3 Security, Dropzone AI, Prophet Security, Torq
against: Tines
UnderDefense Agentic AI SOC, Vigil
Seven alternativesDropzone AI, Huntress Managed EDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Prophet Security, Security Copilot, Shuffle, Wazuh
no first choicenothing named
GLM 4.7 FlashXRadiant Security, UnderDefense MAXI AI SOC
Three alternativesDropzone AI, Microsoft Security Copilot, Torq
Radiant SecurityChanged
Three alternativesDropzone AI, Qevlar AI, UnderDefense Agentic AI SOC
7AI, ReliaQuest GreyMatter
Four alternativesDropzone AI, Intezer AI SOC, Swimlane, Torq
UnderDefense Agentic AI SOC
Five alternativesAiSOC, Huntress Managed EDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Security Copilot, Vigil
no first choicenothing named
MiniMax M2.5UnderDefense MAXI AI SOC
One alternativeRadiant Security
Dropzone AI, Radiant SecurityChanged
One alternativeProphet Security
no first choiceGoogle Security Operations, Microsoft Sentinel
Five alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon, Shuffle, Splunk Enterprise Security, TheHive, Wazuh
no first choicenothing named
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-05 01:25yes168 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 01:32yes36 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-05 00:21yes1528 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-05 00:04yes174 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 22:40yes209 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 22:08yes53 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-05 01:23yes2344 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-05 00:34yes59 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-05 00:54yes512 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-05 00:38yes1222 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-05 00:41yes14172 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-05 00:22yes922 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-05 00:51yes98 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 00:46yes34 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-05 01:28yes1727 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-05 01:23yes194 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-05 01:41yes227 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 22:55yes53 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 23:10yes2041 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 23:39yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-05 01:02no030 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-05 01:44yes2526 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-05 00:01yes2449 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 22:14yes1017 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 23:08yes99 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 22:11yes57 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-05 01:08yes1724 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 22:53yes164 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 23:32yes2011 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-05 01:29yes88 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-05 00:44yes2134 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-05 01:52yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-05 01:37yes522 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-05 01:46yes1054 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-05 00:01yes23147 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-05 01:04yes725 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-05 01:36yes179 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 00:25yes36 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 22:59yes1120 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-05 01:46yes173 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 22:23yes2111 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-05 01:49yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 23:45yes2366 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-05 00:56yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 22:35yes524 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 23:33yes2345 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 22:39yes1526 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 22:46yes521 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-05 01:52yes1612 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 23:55no08 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 22:54yes1125 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 23:54yes184 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 22:57yes2210 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 23:57no010 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-05 01:36yes20140 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 23:16yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-05 01:32no031 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-05 00:39no032 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 23:02yes19157 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-05 01:29no08 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 22:42yes159 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-05 00:56yes610 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-05 01:30yes1522 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-05 01:42yes213 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-05 01:34yes196 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-05 01:28yes55 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-05 01:28yes2138 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-05 01:15yes52 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-05 01:33no032 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-05 00:42yes2230 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-05 01:56yes1526 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-05 01:53yes1416 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Conifers AI (CognitiveSOC) read as Conifers CognitiveSOC
Conifers.ai (CognitiveSOC) read as Conifers CognitiveSOC
Conifers.ai CognitiveSOC read as Conifers CognitiveSOC
Huntress read as Huntress Managed EDR
Intezer read as Intezer AI SOC
Intezer Autonomous SOC read as Intezer AI SOC
Intezer Forensic AI SOC read as Intezer AI SOC
SentinelOne read as SentinelOne Singularity
SentinelOne (Purple AI / Athena) read as SentinelOne Singularity
Splunk read as Splunk Enterprise Security
Splunk (Cisco Integration) read as Splunk Enterprise Security
Stellar Cyber read as Stellar Cyber Open XDR
Unresolved, counted raw
AI SOC Agent on AWS Marketplace
AWS Marketplace AI SOC Agent
Andesite AI
Assured Trust
Contraforce Agent
CrowdStrike Charlotte
Elest.io
Google Gemini API
Google Gemini Security Agents
Google SecOps Agentic SOC / Triage and Investigation Agent (TIN)
Google Security Operations Triage and Investigation Agent (TIN) / Agentic SOC
Google Security Operations with Gemini
Microsoft Security Copilot agents in Defender / Microsoft Sentinel
Microsoft Security Copilot with the Security Alert Triage Agent
Microsoft Security Copilot’s Security Alert Triage Agent
Rapid7 InsightIDR AI Alert Triage
Splunk ES with ML Toolkit
Torq AI SOC Platform
Torq AI SOC/HyperSOC
Torq Socrates and HyperAgents
Zoro AI
Zoro AI Agent
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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