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Index Vendors › Acronis · September 2026 Edition
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Acronis

37Judge labels
3First choices
4Negative labels
10 of 12Models named it
4Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Backup and DR for mid-market buyers
Rank 9 of 121 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 15% of its 13 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Backup and disaster recoveryCloud and infrastructure2%9 of 12115%13accepted challenger
Extended detection and responseSecurity operations0%28 of 6125%4under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender XDR at 63%
Endpoint detection and responseSecurity operations0%34 of 540%1under 10 labels · led by Bitdefender GravityZone at 20%
Patch managementIT operations and endpoint0%47 of 870%1under 10 labels · led by Action1 at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Acronis 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 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500202
GPT-5.4 mini00101
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar11002
Grok 4.1 Fast01113
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash01203
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00112
Kimi K200112
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500101

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
Direct7 labels1
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative8 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labels1
Scale-constrained5 labels1
Negative11 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative37 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.

“Veeam or Acronis is the safest recommendation” Perplexity Sonar · Backup and DR · direct prompt · first choice
“| Acronis | MSPs/M365 | Cyber protection bundle, easy UI. | Per user/device | Yes |” Grok 4.1 Fast · Backup and DR · scale prompt · alternative
“Acronis/Datto if you're an MSP wanting integrated or appliance-based BCDR” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Backup and DR · comparative prompt · alternative
“Acronis and Bitdefender are noted as the only two with real on-prem options.” Mistral Small · XDR · negative prompt · alternative

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.

“Cautionary Examples: Vendors like Acronis or Bitdefender... they may lack the depth required for advanced threat hunting” Qwen 3.7 Flash · XDR · negative prompt · soft negative
“Recent high-severity flaws (e.g., Linux privilege escalation ...) added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog” Grok 4.1 Fast · Backup and DR · negative prompt · soft negative
“Some Reddit sysadmins report declining quality and reliability issues in recent years” Kimi K2 · Backup and DR · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Acronis, over the 37 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Acronis was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Veeam20 of 378Not in the top three
Commvault13 of 370Not in the top three
Datto11 of 371Not in the top three
Rubrik11 of 370Not in the top three
Cohesity10 of 370Not in the top three
Druva7 of 370Not in the top three
Zerto7 of 370Not in the top three
AWS Backup6 of 370Not in the top three
Azure Site Recovery6 of 370Not in the top three
NinjaOne5 of 372Not 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. 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 26 of the 37 answers that named Acronis and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertinsights.com15
reddit.com11
ninjaone.com10
aimultiple.com9
solutionsreview.com8
techtarget.com7
axcient.com6
cybersecuritynews.com6
eon.io6
gartner.com6

Eighty-four of the eighty-four domain citations in answers naming Acronis came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Acronis's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Acronis, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at acronis.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.