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Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response

115Judge labels

26First choices

21Negative labels

12 of 12Models named it

1Category

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

Best standing

39% in MDR for mid-market buyers

Rank 1 of 45 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader

9 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 43 labels there were negative.

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

Small business12 of 46

criticized challenger

In mdr · 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 Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response 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
Managed detection and response	Security operations	39%	1 of 45	14%	43	endorsed leader

Movement

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

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

Direct28 labels10

Paraphrase21 labels10

Comparative36 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained19 labels5

Scale-constrained7 labels1

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative115 labels in all, every segment counted; 26 of the 28 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.

“For 500 employees, mid-market specialists like Arctic Wolf, Huntress, or Sophos often fit better than pure enterprise plays.” Grok 4.1 Fast · MDR · scale prompt · first choice

“Ideal for regulated mid-market companies that want high-touch support... Both providers are frequently cited as top choices” Mistral Small · MDR · direct prompt · first choice

“Start by evaluating Arctic Wolf (great scale and named-team support) or Expel (if you're cloud-first)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · MDR · direct prompt · first choice

“Arctic Wolf is widely considered the leading MDR provider specifically for mid-market businesses” Qwen 3.7 Flash · MDR · paraphrase 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 enterprise-tier providers (Arctic Wolf, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, Expel, Red Canary) on a tight budget” DeepSeek V4 Flash · MDR · budget prompt · hard negative

“Below minimum (too expensive)... high minimums ($40K+/year) that put them out of reach” Kimi K2 · MDR · budget prompt · hard negative

“premium providers like Arctic Wolf or CyberGhost ... Premium vendors (starting at ~$40k+/year)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · MDR · budget prompt · soft negative

“dramatically lower than competitors like Arctic Wolf (starting ~$44K/year)” Grok 4.1 Fast · MDR · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response, over the 115 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Sophos MDR90 of 1153Compare →

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete76 of 11528Not in the top three

Huntress Managed EDR69 of 11538Compare →

Expel45 of 1152Not in the top three

Red Canary45 of 1152Not in the top three

Rapid7 MDR34 of 1151Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity MDR32 of 1151Not in the top three

eSentire24 of 1151Not in the top three

Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response22 of 1150Not in the top three

Ontinue18 of 1150Not 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 Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response. 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 102 of the 115 answers that named Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com72

learn.g2.com54

cybersecuritynews.com48

mdrproviders.io40

cyberpress.org39

huntress.com39

consilien.com36

defendify.com34

mdrcost.com34

checkthat.ai31

427 of the 427 domain citations in answers naming Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-mdr-services-compared72

learn.g2.com/top-mdr-providers54

cyberpress.org/mdr-services-to-consider39

consilien.com/news/best-mdr-providers-smb-202636

defendify.com/blog/managed-detection-and-response-providers34

cybersecuritynews.com/best-mdr-services32

huntress.com/cybersecurity-insights/managed-detection-response-vendors32

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-managed-detection-and-response-solutions29

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response; a claim can dispute any of them.

Arctic Wolf 37Arctic Wolf MDR 5

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