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Managed detection and response · September 2026 Edition

Huntress Managed EDR vs Sophos MDR

Zero of twelve models named Huntress Managed EDR first on the direct prompt; one named Sophos MDR. Huntress Managed EDR was named by eleven of the twelve models and Sophos MDR by twelve and Huntress Managed EDR carries 38 labels and Sophos MDR 43, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Huntress Managed EDR

accepted challenger

Named in four categories this edition.

Sophos MDR

accepted challenger

Named in three categories this edition.

First-choice share26%11%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.

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

Rank in category#2#3A position in a field of 10; printed, not drawn.

Labels3843A 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.Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response was named alongside these two in twelve of the twelve direct answers. Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response vs Huntress Managed EDR · Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response vs Sophos MDR

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; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the managed detection and response page.

By framing

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

Huntress Managed EDRFirst choices, of twelve modelsSophos MDR

Direct01

Paraphrase03

Comparative20

Budget-constrained110

Scale-constrained11

Negative00

Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

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

Sophos MDR first, Huntress Managed EDR an alternative

1 of 12 modelsHuntress Managed EDR was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.

Gemini 3.5 FlashSophos MDR alternatives: Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response, Huntress Managed EDR, Red Canary

Neither was the first choice, one was named

9 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.

Claude Haiku 4.5Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response alternatives: ESET PROTECT MDR, Sophos MDR

GPT-5.4 minieSentire alternatives: Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, Sophos MDR

Perplexity SonarArctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response alternatives: Huntress Managed EDR, Ontinue, SentinelOne Singularity MDR, Sophos MDR

Grok 4.1 FastArctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response alternatives: Sophos MDR, eSentire

DeepSeek V4 FlashArctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response, Expel alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, Huntress Managed EDR, Red Canary, Sophos MDR, eSentire

Llama 4 MaverickArctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response alternatives: Field Effect MDR, Huntress Managed EDR, Ontinue, Rapid7 MDR, deepwatch, eSentire

Qwen 3.7 FlashCrowdStrike Falcon Complete alternatives: Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps / Endpoints, SentinelOne Singularity MDR, Sophos MDR

Kimi K2Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response alternatives: Rapid7 MDR, Sophos MDR, eSentire

GLM 4.7 FlashXArctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response, eSentire alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, Expel, Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR, Red Canary, Sophos MDR

Neither was named

2 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.

Mistral SmallArctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response, eSentire

MiniMax M2.5Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, eSentire

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 eighty-two points.

Huntress Managed EDR#1 of 6

Sophos MDR#2 of 6

The full small business standing →

Mid-marketThe figures above

Huntress Managed EDR leads by fifteen points.

Huntress Managed EDR#2 of 10

Sophos MDR#3 of 10

The full mid-market standing →

Enterprise

Level: the same share of first choices.

Huntress Managed EDR#6 of 10

Sophos MDR#5 of 10

The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Huntress Managed EDR

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

“Huntress delivers the best value for small businesses and the MSPs who serve them. Huntress Managed EDR received the highest rating of 9.3 among leaders” Claude Haiku 4.5 · comparative prompt · first choice

“mid-market specialists like Arctic Wolf, Huntress, or Sophos often fit better than pure enterprise plays” Grok 4.1 Fast · scale prompt · first choice

What the models said about Sophos MDR

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

“mid-market specialists like Arctic Wolf, Huntress, or Sophos often fit better than pure enterprise plays” Grok 4.1 Fast · scale prompt · first choice

“I'd lean toward Arctic Wolf or Sophos MDR — both are specifically designed for your segment” Kimi K2 · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Sophos MDR and Esentire are frequently highlighted as top choices” Mistral Small · paraphrase prompt · first choice

Also compared

Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response vs Huntress Managed EDR Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response vs Sophos MDR The full MDR standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.