Every category where a model named Avast Business 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%	79 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 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 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	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labels1

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Platforms to avoid for business: Avast Free, AVG, basic Norton/McAfee consumer products, or unmanaged Windows Defender” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Endpoint protection · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Avast Business, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Avast Business was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender for Cloud9 of 133Not in the top three

SentinelOne5 of 131Not in the top three

Bitdefender4 of 132Not in the top three

Bitdefender GravityZone4 of 132Not in the top three

Huntress Managed EDR4 of 132Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon4 of 130Not in the top three

ESET3 of 131Not in the top three

ESET PROTECT3 of 131Not in the top three

Sophos3 of 130Not in the top three

Bitdefender GravityZone SBS2 of 131Not 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. 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 11 of the 13 answers that named Avast Business and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org9

gbhackers.com9

huntress.com6

tekpon.com5

cybersecuritynews.com4

av-comparatives.org3

g2.com3

selabs.uk3

cnicsolutions.com2

cyberwise.almontsf.com2

Forty-six of the forty-six domain citations in answers naming Avast Business came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/business-antivirus-by-business-size8

gbhackers.com/best-business-antivirus-compared8

huntress.com/internal-it-cybersecurity-guide/best-endpoint-protection-for-small-businesses5

tekpon.com/insights/security-compliance/cybersecurity/best-endpoint-protection-software-fo3

av-comparatives.org/tests/business-security-test-2024-august-november2

av-comparatives.org/tests/business-security-test-2024-march-june2

av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/avc_biz_2024_07.pdf2

cnicsolutions.com/cybersecurity-threat-protection/best-endpoint-protection-edr-solutions-f2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Avast Business

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

Avast Free 1

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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 Avast Business'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 Avast Business, 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 avast.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.