Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 7 → 66 of 73
5 categories · RankedAvast Business
30Judge labels
0First choices
24Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
5Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Endpoint protection for mid-market buyers
Rank 85 of 86 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 80% of its 5 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business75 of 78
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market85 of 86
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise48 of 48
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Endpoint protection | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 85 of 86 | 80% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint at 22% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Client-side protection | Security operations | 0% | 120 of 120 | 100% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by cside at 13% | |
| DNS filtering | Network and edge | 0% | 92 of 94 | 100% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by DNSFilter at 59% | |
| Business password managers | Identity and access | 0% | 25 of 35 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by 1Password at 47% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Patch management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 64 of 85 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus at 29% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Avast Business held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Endpoint protection · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 74 → 82 of 83
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 30 → 48 of 48
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Endpoint protection | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 74 → 85 of 86 |
| Client-side protection | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 120 of 120, unchanged |
| DNS filtering | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 92 of 94, unchanged |
| Password managers | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 25 of 35, unchanged |
| Patching | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 64 of 85, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Avast Business across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Avast Business across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase3 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained5 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative20 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 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.
“Features in popular antivirus software (historically used by Avast, Kaspersky, Bitdefender, and others) that intercept and decrypt secure HTTPS web traffic” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Client-side protection · negative prompt · hard negative
“Tools/Brands to Avoid Entirely ... Avast & AVG | Caught in a 2020 investigation selling highly sensitive user browsing data” Kimi K2 · Client-side protection · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avast/AVG Real Site intercepts DNS through its own proxy and can override custom DNS settings.” Perplexity Sonar · DNS filtering · negative prompt · hard negative
“such as McAfee or Avast ... built as consumer add-ons rather than specialized enterprise software” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Password managers · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Avast Business, over the 30 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Avast Business, over the 30 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 28 of the 30 answers that named Avast Business and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
techradar.com16
huntress.com13
g2.com9
guideflow.com9
deel.com8
axis-intelligence.com6
comparitech.com6
pcmag.com6
sentinelone.com6
cnicsolutions.com5
Eighty-four of the eighty-four domain citations in answers naming Avast Business came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
avast.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Avast Business takes 0% of first choices and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint takes 22%.ShowHide
Search and answers
avast.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Avast Business takes 0% of first choices and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint takes 22%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “endpoint protection platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “endpoint protection platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 210 a month (“avast business”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 16 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 2,021,508 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 141,200 · 8,679 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 72,649
- Paid Google search
- 1 searches its ads show for, about 1 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 85 of 86 in endpoint protection
Segment leader
22%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 30 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 28 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on avast.com
10,007
subdomains included
Content
3,643
counted in the table below
Documentation
1,897
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 3,437 | 0 | 2026-04-28 | Endpoint protection, Patching | |
| Report or ebook | 108 | 0 | 2026-03-05 | ||
| Conference or event | 34 | 0 | 2016-01-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 26 | 0 | 2014-09-01 | MFA | |
| Comparison | 20 | 0 | 2012-08-01 | Endpoint protection | |
| Podcast or video | 5 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 4 | 0 | 2005-05-30 | ||
| Template or tool | 4 | undated | |||
| News or press | 4 | 0 | 2005-05-26 | ||
| Case study | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-04-28Bail bond scams blog
- 2026-04-22Introducing avast one silver blog
- 2026-04-21Targeted ads blog
- 2026-03-30Spring break break travel scams blog
- 2026-03-05How to avoid the fake buyers flooding facebook marketplace report or ebook
- 2026-02-03Deepfake scams blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page avast.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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 5Avast Business Security 3Avast & AVG 1Avast/AVG Browser extensions 1Avast/AVG Real Site 1
Follow Avast Business
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Avast Business is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Avast Business is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Protect your business with Avast
- For
- Small Businesses
- Price stated
- Essential, Premium, or Ultimate Business Security managed from integrated, cloud-based Business Hub platform. avast.com
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Avast Business's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: avast.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Avast Business by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Avast Business is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Avast Business, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.