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Endpoint detection and response · October 2026 Edition

SentinelOne Singularity vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Four of fourteen models named SentinelOne Singularity first on the direct prompt; zero named Microsoft Defender for Cloud. SentinelOne Singularity was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Microsoft Defender for Cloud by eight and SentinelOne Singularity carries 56 labels and Microsoft Defender for Cloud 10, so the shares are not directly comparable.

SentinelOne Singularity

accepted challenger

Named in fourteen categories this edition.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

accepted challenger

Named in fourteen categories this edition.

First-choice share15%15%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.

Negative rate9%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.

Rank in category#3#4A position in a field of 9; printed, not drawn.

Labels5610A count; the two differ.

The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, SentinelOne Singularity 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 SentinelOne Singularity · Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud · CrowdStrike Falcon Insight vs SentinelOne Singularity

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.

SentinelOne SingularityFirst choices, of fourteen modelsMicrosoft Defender for Cloud

Direct40

Paraphrase40

Comparative20

Budget-constrained082 against SentinelOne Singularity

Scale-constrained00

Negative103 against SentinelOne Singularity

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

Every model, every framing

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

SentinelOne Singularity

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

first choice

named as an alternative

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

The direct prompt

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

SentinelOne Singularity first, Microsoft Defender for Cloud not the choice

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

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

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

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

Neither was the first choice, one was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neither was named

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

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

Llama 4 MaverickBitdefender GravityZone EDR alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight

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

Microsoft Defender for Cloud leads by thirty-seven points.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud#1 of 9

SentinelOne Singularity#3 of 9

The full small business standing →

Mid-marketThe figures above

Level: the same share of first choices.

SentinelOne Singularity#3 of 9

Microsoft Defender for Cloud#4 of 9

The full mid-market standing →

Enterprise

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is not named for this buyer.

SentinelOne Singularity#3 of 8

Microsoft Defender for Cloudnot named

The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about SentinelOne Singularity

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

“Two distinct classes of caution have been raised recently: a service provider vulnerability advisory and BYOEDR abuse research.” Muse Glimmer 30B · negative prompt · soft negative

“Have an in-house security team and want top autonomous response: SentinelOne Singularity Complete about $179.99 per endpoint per year or CrowdStrike Falcon Pro/Enterprise.” Muse Glimmer 30B · direct prompt · first choice

“For most mid-market B2B companies, SentinelOne Singularity offers the best balance of autonomous protection, reasonable pricing, and minimal management overhead.” Kimi K2 · direct prompt · first choice

What the models said about Microsoft Defender for Cloud

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs SentinelOne Singularity Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud CrowdStrike Falcon Insight vs SentinelOne Singularity CrowdStrike Falcon Insight vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud SentinelOne Singularity vs Huntress Managed EDR SentinelOne Singularity vs Sophos Intercept X SentinelOne Singularity vs Bitdefender GravityZone EDR Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Huntress Managed EDR Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Sophos Intercept X Microsoft Defender for Cloud 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.