Every category where a model named Blumira 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
SIEM platforms	Security operations	4%	6 of 49	0%	12	accepted challenger
Extended detection and response	Security operations	0%	22 of 61	0%	3	under 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 Blumira 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 Blumira across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	3	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	4	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	3	0	3
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1

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

Direct15 labels10

Paraphrase12 labels4

Comparative10 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained24 labels6

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative9 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative76 labels in all, every segment counted; 20 of the 30 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.

“If your budget is strictly financial and you do not have a dedicated security analyst, Blumira is widely considered the best value in 2026.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SIEM · budget prompt · first choice

“If you have no dedicated security staff and need a "set-and-forget" model ... choose Huntress Managed SIEM or Blumira” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SIEM · direct prompt · first choice

“If you have a small IT team, no dedicated security analysts, and need a system that "just works" without unpredictable billing, Blumira is the best choice.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SIEM · budget prompt · alternative

“gives small IT teams compliance-ready security monitoring with easy setup, fast detection, and full support at a budget-friendly price” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SIEM · budget prompt · alternative

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 Blumira, over the 76 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Blumira was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Sentinel61 of 768Not in the top three

Wazuh42 of 7612Not in the top three

Splunk28 of 760Not in the top three

Elastic Security26 of 760Not in the top three

ManageEngine Log36019 of 762Not in the top three

Huntress Managed SIEM18 of 761Not in the top three

IBM QRadar17 of 760Not in the top three

Rapid7 InsightIDR16 of 764Not in the top three

Sumo Logic12 of 761Not in the top three

Datadog Cloud SIEM10 of 760Not 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 Blumira. 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 64 of the 76 answers that named Blumira and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

q-sec.com33

reddit.com32

nohack.net27

blogs.fluencysecurity.com25

paloaltonetworks.com25

solutionsinsider.com24

blumira.comYour site22

capterra.com22

siemcostcalculator.com22

costbench.com21

231 of the 253 domain citations in answers naming Blumira came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

q-sec.com/siem-knowledge-base/best-siem-for-small-business33

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1b80zza/best_siem_solution_for_small_company30

blogs.fluencysecurity.com/siem-for-smbs25

solutionsinsider.com/continuity-and-compliance-solutions/best-siem-tools-for-small-busines24

costbench.com/best/siem-for-small-business20

nohack.net/best-siem-tools-small-businesses-202620

underdefense.com/blog/siem-solutions-comparison18

nohack.net/siem-tools-small-medium-businesses17

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Blumira

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

Blumira SIEM Starter 1Blumira XDR 1

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