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Bitdefender GravityZone

162Judge labels
24First choices
7Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
20% in Endpoint protection for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 99 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
5 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 29 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
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 Bitdefender GravityZone 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
Endpoint protectionIT operations and endpoint20%2 of 990%29accepted challenger
Endpoint detection and responseSecurity operations20%1 of 540%42accepted challenger
Extended detection and responseSecurity operations0%20 of 610%4under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender XDR at 63%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Bitdefender GravityZone 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 Bitdefender GravityZone across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.505106
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash12003
Perplexity Sonar24208
Grok 4.1 Fast43108
Mistral Small32409
DeepSeek V4 Flash24107
Llama 4 Maverick22004
Qwen 3.7 Flash172010
Kimi K217008
GLM 4.7 FlashX24107
MiniMax M2.522004

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
Direct29 labels10
Paraphrase34 labels11
Comparative43 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained31 labels3
Scale-constrained10 labelsNone
Negative15 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative162 labels in all, every segment counted; 24 of the 27 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.

“Consistently ranked as a top choice for mid-market organizations due to its strong malware detection, low system impact, and ease of use.” Mistral Small · Endpoint protection · direct prompt · first choice
“If you're not on E5 → Bitdefender GravityZone or Sophos Endpoint are the most balanced choices for a mid-sized B2B company” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Endpoint protection · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“The Best All-Rounder: Bitdefender GravityZone ... frequently cited as the best value for mid-market companies.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · EDR · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Bitdefender GravityZone or SentinelOne offer the best balance of protection, manageability, and cost” MiniMax M2.5 · Endpoint protection · direct 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Bitdefender GravityZone, over the 162 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bitdefender GravityZone was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
SentinelOne Singularity93 of 16212Not in the top three
CrowdStrike Falcon89 of 16232Not in the top three
Sophos Intercept X61 of 1622Not in the top three
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR40 of 1621Not in the top three
ESET PROTECT32 of 1622Not in the top three
CrowdStrike26 of 1623Not in the top three
Cynet21 of 1620Not 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 Bitdefender GravityZone. 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 141 of the 162 answers that named Bitdefender GravityZone and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com105
cyberpress.org74
huntress.com73
cybersecuritynews.com68
cnicsolutions.com58
sentinelone.com35
deel.com34
gartner.com28
learn.g2.com27
unio.digital27

529 of the 529 domain citations in answers naming Bitdefender GravityZone came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Bitdefender GravityZone

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Bitdefender GravityZone; a claim can dispute any of them.
Bitdefender 9Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security Enterprise 2Bitdefender GravityZone (Business Security Enterprise) 1Bitdefender GravityZone (Managed XDR) 1Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security 1Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security Premium 1Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra 1
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