Every category where a model named Abnormal AI for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Email security	Security operations	12%	2 of 71	4%	45	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Abnormal AI yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Abnormal AI across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	1	0	2	6
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	3	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	5	0	0	5
Mistral Small	0	2	3	0	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	2	0	0	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	0	0	3
Kimi K2	3	2	0	0	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	2	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	1	0	3

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct20 labels5

Paraphrase22 labels4

Comparative28 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained7 labelsNone

Scale-constrained15 labels5

Negative14 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative106 labels in all, every segment counted; 14 of the 21 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Abnormal Security: Exceptional at AI behavioral detection and stopping BEC. Extremely low management overhead, though usually comes at a premium price point.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email security · scale prompt · first choice

“Abnormal Security: Gaining massive traction. Uses AI specifically for BEC and impersonation. Very clean UI, integrates seamlessly via API.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Email security · scale prompt · first choice

“should evaluate API-based ICES solutions (Abnormal, IRONSCALES, Material Security) alongside or instead of traditional gateways” Kimi K2 · Email security · comparative prompt · first choice

“Shift toward Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) ... (such as *Abnormal Security*, *Check Point Avanan*, or *Sublime*)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email security · negative prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“you want to avoid enterprise-only platforms (like Abnormal Security, which has high annual minimums)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email security · budget prompt · hard negative

“Cons: Expensive. It carries a minimum contract threshold (usually $20k–$25k annually), which might price out smaller mid-sized companies.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email security · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Abnormal AI, over the 106 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Abnormal AI was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Proofpoint Email Protection97 of 10628Compare →

Mimecast Email Security88 of 1066Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Office 36587 of 10624Compare →

IRONSCALES55 of 10610Not in the top three

Barracuda Email Protection46 of 1063Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration45 of 1062Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Email29 of 1060Not in the top three

Sublime Security20 of 1061Not in the top three

SpamTitan11 of 1060Not in the top three

Barracuda Email Security Gateway10 of 1061Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Abnormal AI. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 89 of the 106 answers that named Abnormal AI and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com72

expertinsights.com39

sublime.security39

proofpoint.com36

tech-insider.org32

learn.g2.com31

kaseya.com30

cybervendorguide.com28

ironscales.com28

cipherssecurity.com21

356 of the 356 domain citations in answers naming Abnormal AI came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/email-security69

learn.g2.com/best-cloud-email-security-platforms31

kaseya.com/blog/best-email-security-solutions30

sublime.security/articles/enterprise-email-security-solutions29

cybervendorguide.com/guides/email-security28

expertinsights.com/email-security/top-email-security-gateways26

ironscales.com/blog/the-best-email-security-companies-rankings-and-reviews25

flamingo.run/blog/email-security-solutions21

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Abnormal AI

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Abnormal AI; a claim can dispute any of them.

Abnormal Security 27Abnormal 6Abnormal Security (Abnormal AI) 1

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