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Index Security operations EDR › Enterprise September 2026 Edition

Endpoint detection and response for enterprise buyers

Asked as “EDR platform”, and as “endpoint detection and response tool”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 44 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Clear leader
43% of first choices, clear leader.

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.

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01CrowdStrike Falcon43%16%49endorsed leader
02Microsoft Defender for Endpoint39%7%58endorsed leader
03SentinelOne Singularity7%2%59accepted challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
06Trend Micro0%18%17accepted challenger
05Sophos Intercept X0%11%18accepted challenger
04Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR0%9%34accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor 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
Negative label rate →
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative60%
Key
01CrowdStrike Falcon43%
02Microsoft Defender for Endpoint39%
03SentinelOne Singularity7%
04Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR0%
05Sophos Intercept X0%
06Trend Micro0%

02What they warned about

Four of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash 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.
CrowdStrike Falcon
16%
8 of 49 labels negative · 6 of 12 models
“CrowdStrike remains an industry-leading EDR platform, but the catastrophic July 2024 global IT outage... highlighted the immense danger of ring-0 (kernel-level) security software.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Trellix EDR
67%
4 of 6 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“it is not considered a leader in the current EDR market ... Enterprises ... may find Trellix lacking” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
7%
4 of 58 labels negative · 4 of 12 models
“High alert volume requiring significant tuning; heavy reliance on proper GPO configuration; limited without M365 E5” Kimi K2, negative prompt
Datto EDR
100%
3 of 3 labels negative · 3 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Datto EDR is purpose-built for MSP and SMB environments; organizations with large, dedicated security operations centers ... may find purpose-built enterprise platforms provide a higher ceiling” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt

03What they cite

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

Sites the answers cite

63 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 5 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 867 links across 217 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

36 answers · 38 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Acronis33 answers · 35 citations · 10 models
26 answers · 26 citations · 9 models
23 answers · 27 citations · 9 models
23 answers · 23 citations · 8 models
vendor site · SentinelOne16 answers · 22 citations · 7 models
16 answers · 16 citations · 6 models
15 answers · 17 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Palo Alto Networks14 answers · 17 citations · 6 models
vendor site · Microsoft13 answers · 27 citations · 7 models
vendor site · CrowdStrike13 answers · 24 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Huntress13 answers · 19 citations · 5 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.

04How 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.
ModelDirect“What is the best EDR platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which endpoint detection and response tool would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade EDR platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best EDR platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a EDR platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which EDR platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choiceSentinelOne Singularity
Two alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
no first choiceagainst: Cynet, Datto EDR, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
GPT-5.4 miniCrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Three alternativesPalo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity, Sophos Intercept X
Microsoft Defender for EndpointChanged
Two alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
CrowdStrike Falcon Insight / Falcon platform, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Two alternativesPalo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity
against: Sophos Intercept X / Sophos EDR, Symantec Endpoint Security, Trellix EDR
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
One alternativeSentinelOne Singularity
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashCrowdStrike Falcon Insight
Three alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for EndpointChanged
Two alternativesPalo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike Falcon
Three alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularityagainst: CrowdStrike FalconCrowdStrike Falcon
One alternativeSentinelOne Singularity
against: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
against: Cisco Secure Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Symantec Endpoint Security, Trellix EDR, VMware Carbon Black
Perplexity SonarCrowdStrike Falcon
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike FalconHeld
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike Falcon
Three alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint/XDR
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
One alternativeSentinelOne Singularity
against: CrowdStrike Falcon
no first choiceagainst: Bitdefender GravityZone, CrowdStrike Falcon, Elastic Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Sophos Intercept X
Grok 4.1 FastCrowdStrike Falcon
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity
Microsoft Defender for EndpointChanged
Four alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity, Sophos Intercept X
CrowdStrike Falcon Insight
Four alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity, Sophos Intercept X
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Two alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity
against: Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
CrowdStrike
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity
against: Broadcom, CrowdStrike Falcon, Datto EDR, Elastic Security, OSSEC, Symantec EDR, Trellix EDR, Trend Micro
Mistral SmallCrowdStrike Falcon Insight
Three alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike FalconChanged
One alternativeSentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike Falcon
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Two alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon Insight, SentinelOne Singularity
no first choiceagainst: Sophos Intercept X, Trellix EDR, VMware Carbon Black
DeepSeek V4 FlashCrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Three alternativesCynet, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike FalconChanged
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity
Five alternativesCynet, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, Sophos Intercept X, Trend Micro
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Two alternativesCrowdStrike, SentinelOne Singularity
no first choiceagainst: CrowdStrike Falcon, Cylance / BlackBerry CylancePROTECT, F-Secure / WithSecure Elements, Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Expert, VMware Carbon Black
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceCrowdStrikeChangedno first choiceMicrosoft Defender for Endpointno first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashCrowdStrike Falcon
Three alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for EndpointChanged
One alternativeSentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike Falcon
Five alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, Sophos Central, Sophos Intercept X, Trend Micro
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
One alternativeSentinelOne Singularity
against: CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike Falcon
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender XDR, SentinelOne Singularity
against: Elastic Security
against: Avast / AVG, CCleaner Business, F-Secure, Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Expert, McAfee, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, OSQuery, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Sysmon, Trend Micro
Kimi K2CrowdStrike Falcon
Three alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike FalconHeld
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity
Three alternativesPalo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, Sophos Intercept X / Endpoint XDR, Trend Micro
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Three alternativesCrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity, Trend Micro
CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
against: CrowdStrike Falcon, Datto EDR, ESET PROTECT, Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Expert, McAfee Endpoint Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity, Symantec Endpoint Security, Trend Micro Apex One
GLM 4.7 FlashXCrowdStrike Falcon
Three alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike FalconHeld
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike Falcon
Four alternativesDarktrace, Elastic Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike Falcon
Two alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity
against: Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, Trend Micro
no first choiceagainst: CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender
MiniMax M2.5CrowdStrike Falcon Insight, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Two alternativesKaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Expert, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike FalconChanged
Three alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity
CrowdStrike Falcon
Four alternativesMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity, Trend Micro
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
One alternativeCrowdStrike Falcon
no first choicenothing named
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The 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-4-5-202510012026-09-17 14:10no04 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 12:23yes47 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 14:07yes1727 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 13:05yes196 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 09:34yes2916 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 11:34yes2313 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 11:12yes1016 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 09:55yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 13:53no032 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 10:07yes1357 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 09:27yes23197 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 12:04yes524 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 14:05no05 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 12:18yes57 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 10:27yes1119 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 12:47yes206 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 12:03yes3717 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 09:32yes53 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 12:42yes1522 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 13:52yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:29yes1049 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 10:54yes1016 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 10:11yes2561 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 13:56yes524 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:07yes1039 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 11:28yes47 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 13:38yes1728 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:06yes209 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 13:47yes3019 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 13:02yes56 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 09:30yes1321 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 12:37yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:39yes1166 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 09:58yes1780 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:25no046 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 10:07yes1027 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 10:37yes1710 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 10:13yes24 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 10:29yes2521 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 12:50yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 12:46yes4118 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 13:01yes55 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 13:53yes1422 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 12:20yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 13:13yes1098 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 10:47yes1946 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 10:51yes14129 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 11:24yes21116 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 11:21yes1816 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 10:36no013 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 12:26no018 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 11:03yes208 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 11:10yes1911 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 11:29no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 13:07yes1523 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 09:23yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:14yes535 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 10:01yes1433 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 12:52yes28189 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 12:21no067 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:40yes3513 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 11:37yes36 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 13:25yes2525 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:15yes207 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 10:22yes3015 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 12:24yes56 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 10:00yes2628 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 11:11yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 13:14no047 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 13:32yes2135 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 10:04yes27122 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 11:10yes1029 s

Normalization in this category

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

Category-scoped readings
Bitdefender read as Bitdefender GravityZone
Broadcom Symantec Endpoint Security Complete read as Symantec Endpoint Security
Carbon Black (CB Defense / Carbon Black Cloud, now Broadcom/VMware) read as VMware Carbon Black
Carbon Black (VMware Carbon Black) read as VMware Carbon Black
Carbon Black (now Broadcom) read as VMware Carbon Black
Carbon Black Cloud read as VMware Carbon Black
CrowdStrike Falcon Enterprise read as CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR read as CrowdStrike Falcon Insight
ESET read as ESET PROTECT
Fortinet FortiEDR read as FortiEDR
Huntress read as Huntress Managed EDR
Kaspersky read as Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Expert
Kaspersky Lab read as Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Expert
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint P2 read as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 (P2) read as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Palo Alto Cortex XDR read as Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
Palo Alto Networks (Cortex XDR) read as Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
SentinelOne read as SentinelOne Singularity
SentinelOne Singularity read as SentinelOne Singularity
SentinelOne Singularity Complete read as SentinelOne Singularity
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint read as SentinelOne Singularity
SentinelOne Singularity Enterprise read as SentinelOne Singularity
SentinelOne Singularity Platform read as SentinelOne Singularity
Sentinelone Singularity read as SentinelOne Singularity
Sophos read as Sophos Intercept X
Sophos Endpoint read as Sophos Intercept X
Sophos Endpoint (Intercept X) read as Sophos Intercept X
Sophos Intercept X Advanced read as Sophos Intercept X
Sophos Intercept X with XDR read as Sophos Intercept X
Trellix read as Trellix EDR
Trellix (formerly McAfee EDR) read as Trellix EDR
Trend Micro Vision One read as Trend Micro
Trend Micro XDR read as Trend Micro
Unresolved, counted raw
CCleaner Business
CrowdStrike Falcon Insight / Falcon platform
Cylance / BlackBerry CylancePROTECT
F-Secure / WithSecure Elements
IBM QRadar EDR
McAfee Endpoint Security
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint/XDR
Sophos Intercept X / Endpoint XDR
Symantec EDR
Sysmon
Tanium Threat Response
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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