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Endpoint detection and response · October 2026 Edition

Huntress Managed EDR vs Sophos Intercept X

Zero of fourteen models named Huntress Managed EDR first on the direct prompt; three named Sophos Intercept X. Huntress Managed EDR was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and Sophos Intercept X by fourteen and Huntress Managed EDR carries 33 labels and Sophos Intercept X 39, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Huntress Managed EDR

accepted challenger

Named in six categories this edition.

Sophos Intercept X

accepted challenger

Named in six categories this edition.

First-choice share6%6%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.

Negative rate0%5%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.

Rank in category#5#6A position in a field of 9; printed, not drawn.

Labels3339A count; the two differ.

The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Huntress Managed EDR reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Microsoft Defender for Endpoint was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs Huntress Managed EDR · Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs Sophos Intercept X · CrowdStrike Falcon Insight vs Huntress Managed EDR

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 detection and response page.

By framing

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

Huntress Managed EDRFirst choices, of fourteen modelsSophos Intercept X

Direct03

Paraphrase20

Comparative00

Budget-constrained00

Scale-constrained10

Negative002 against Sophos Intercept X

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, Huntress Managed EDR and Sophos Intercept X were named in the same answer sixty-four times, of the 294 answers naming Huntress Managed EDR and the 275 naming Sophos Intercept X. In those answers Sophos Intercept X took the first choice four times and Huntress Managed EDR twenty.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Huntress Managed EDR and Sophos Intercept X 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

Huntress Managed EDR

Sophos Intercept X

first choice

named as an alternative

argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Huntress Managed EDR on the left and Sophos Intercept X on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Huntress Managed EDR and Sophos Intercept X stood in it.

Sophos Intercept X first, Huntress Managed EDR an alternative

3 of 14 modelsHuntress Managed EDR was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.

Claude Haiku 4.5Sophos Intercept X alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone EDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity

Perplexity SonarSophos Intercept X alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone EDR, CrowdStrike Falcon Insight, Huntress Managed EDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Sophos MDR

Grok 4.1 FastSophos Intercept X alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone EDR, Huntress Managed EDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity

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 FlashSentinelOne Singularity alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight, Huntress Managed EDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Mistral SmallCrowdStrike Falcon Insight, SentinelOne Singularity alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Sophos Intercept X

Qwen 3.7 FlashCrowdStrike Falcon Insight alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity, Sophos Intercept X

Kimi K2SentinelOne Singularity alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight, Huntress Managed EDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Sophos Intercept X

MiniMax M2.5CrowdStrike Falcon Insight, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alternatives: Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity, Sophos Intercept X

Muse Glimmer 30BCrowdStrike Falcon Insight, SentinelOne Singularity alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone EDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Sophos Intercept X

Neither was named

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

GPT-5.4 miniCrowdStrike Falcon Insight alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity

DeepSeek V4 FlashMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone EDR, CrowdStrike Falcon Insight, Cynet, SentinelOne Singularity

Llama 4 MaverickBitdefender GravityZone EDR alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight

GLM 4.7 FlashXMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight, SentinelOne Singularity

GPT-6 LunaSophos Endpoint with MDR alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight, Microsoft Defender

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

Huntress Managed EDR leads by twenty-nine points.

Huntress Managed EDR#2 of 9

Sophos Intercept X#7 of 9

The full small business standing →

Mid-marketThe figures above

Level: the same share of first choices.

Huntress Managed EDR#5 of 9

Sophos Intercept X#6 of 9

The full mid-market standing →

Enterprise

Huntress Managed EDR leads by two points.

Huntress Managed EDR#– of 8

Sophos Intercept X#6 of 8

The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Huntress Managed EDR

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about Sophos Intercept X

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.

“I would evaluate Carbon Black/Broadcom and Sophos carefully for fit rather than assuming they are best-in-class” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · soft negative

“My Pick for Most Mid-Market B2B: Sophos Intercept X edges out due to Gartner leadership, mid-market pricing, and simplicity with optional MDR.” Grok 4.1 Fast · direct prompt · first choice

Also compared

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs Huntress Managed EDR Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs Sophos Intercept X CrowdStrike Falcon Insight vs Huntress Managed EDR CrowdStrike Falcon Insight vs Sophos Intercept X SentinelOne Singularity vs Huntress Managed EDR SentinelOne Singularity vs Sophos Intercept X Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Huntress Managed EDR Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Sophos Intercept X Huntress Managed EDR vs Bitdefender GravityZone EDR Sophos Intercept X vs Bitdefender GravityZone EDR All twenty-one head-to-head pages and the full EDR standing

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.