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6 categories · Ranked

Acronis Cyber Protect

96Judge labels

22First choices

7Negative labels

12 of 12Models named it

6Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Best standing

37% in Backup and DR for small business buyers

Rank 3 of 121 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger

3 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 24 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.

Small business1 of 110

under the label threshold

In backup and dr · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Acronis Cyber Protect 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
Backup and disaster recovery	Cloud and infrastructure	12%	3 of 121	8%	24	accepted challenger
Remote monitoring and management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	12 of 57	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by NinjaOne at 50%
Endpoint detection and response	Security operations	0%	17 of 54	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Bitdefender GravityZone at 20%
Patch management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	25 of 87	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Action1 at 27%
Email security	Security operations	0%	21 of 71	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 at 31%
Extended detection and response	Security operations	0%	29 of 61	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender XDR at 63%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Acronis Cyber Protect 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 Acronis Cyber Protect 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	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	1	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	2	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	2	3	1	7
Mistral Small	1	0	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	1	4
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	3	0	5
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	3	1	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	4	2	0	7
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	0	1

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 labels11

Paraphrase17 labels5

Comparative32 labels7not counted in share

Budget-constrained17 labels1

Scale-constrained9 labels5

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative96 labels in all, every segment counted; 22 of the 29 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.

“Acronis Cyber Protect and Datto SIRIS are top choices due to their comprehensive features, ease of use, and strong support for mixed environments” Mistral Small · Backup and DR · direct prompt · first choice

“Acronis Cyber Protect is the best all-in-one option if you need backup and recovery features in one platform” Perplexity Sonar · Backup and DR · budget prompt · first choice

“Acronis Cyber Protect offers the most balanced blend of comprehensive coverage, robust disaster recovery” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Backup and DR · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Start with Acronis Cyber Protect for most mid-market B2B companies” Grok 4.1 Fast · Backup and DR · direct 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.

“Avoid quote-led enterprise platforms (Acronis on physical servers, etc.) if cost is truly the deciding factor” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Backup and DR · budget prompt · soft negative

“great with security but pricier” Grok 4.1 Fast · Backup and DR · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Acronis Cyber Protect, over the 96 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Acronis Cyber Protect was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

IDrive Business39 of 9612Not in the top three

Veeam Data Platform23 of 967Compare →

NinjaOne22 of 9612Not in the top three

Veeam18 of 964Compare →

Datto SIRIS16 of 964Not in the top three

Backblaze16 of 962Not in the top three

Axcient x360Recover15 of 960Not in the top three

Atera14 of 961Not in the top three

Commvault14 of 960Not in the top three

Cove Data Protection13 of 960Not 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 Acronis Cyber Protect. 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 84 of the 96 answers that named Acronis Cyber Protect and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertinsights.com46

hyperconvergence.com39

axcient.com30

learn.g2.com28

solutionsreview.com27

listicler.com26

ifeeltech.com25

ninjaone.com23

worldmetrics.org21

acronis.comYour site20

265 of the 285 domain citations in answers naming Acronis Cyber Protect came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

hyperconvergence.com/best-backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions-for-smbs39

axcient.com/blog/backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions26

listicler.com/best/best-backup-disaster-recovery-small-businesses26

ifeeltech.com/blog/best-cloud-backup-small-business17

consilien.com/news/best-cloud-backup-solutions-smb-202616

expertinsights.com/backup-and-recovery/the-top-business-continuity-and-disaster-recovery-s16

expertinsights.com/backup-and-recovery/top-disaster-recovery-dr-software-solutions16

ninjaone.com/blog/best-data-backup-and-recovery-software16

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Acronis Cyber Protect

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

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud 10Acronis Cyber Protect (Advanced Disaster Recovery) 1Acronis Cyber Protect (MSP) 1

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