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1 category · Named, not ranked

Avast Business Security

2Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

1 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.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Avast Business Security was named 1 time in Endpoint protection, where Microsoft Defender for Cloud led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business57 of 89

under the label threshold

Mid-market65 of 99

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In endpoint protection · 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 Avast Business Security 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
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	0%	65 of 99	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Cloud at 22%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Avast Business Security 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 Avast Business Security across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Avast Business Security if mobile endpoint protection is required.[18]” Perplexity Sonar · Endpoint protection · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Avast Business Security, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Avast Business Security was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cisco2 of 20Not in the top three

Carbon Black1 of 20Not in the top three

Sophos1 of 20Not 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 Avast Business Security. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named Avast Business Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org2

deel.com2

gartner.com2

heimdalsecurity.com2

huntress.com2

reddit.com2

techradar.com2

av-comparatives.org1

cisco.com1

cybersecmanager.net1

Seventeen of the seventeen domain citations in answers naming Avast Business Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

deel.com/blog/best-endpoint-protection-for-business2

gartner.com/reviews/market/endpoint-protection-platforms2

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/sophos-alternatives-competitors2

techradar.com/news/best-endpoint-security-software2

av-comparatives.org/tests/endpoint-prevention-response-epr-test-20251

cisco.com/site/us/en/learn/topics/security/what-is-an-endpoint-protection-platform.html1

cyberpress.org/best-endpoint-protection-solutions1

cyberpress.org/business-antivirus-by-business-size1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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