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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Carbon Black

5Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Carbon Black was named 3 times in Endpoint protection and 1 other category, 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 business70 of 89

under the label threshold

Mid-market61 of 99

under the label threshold

Enterprise46 of 82

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 Carbon Black 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%	61 of 99	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Cloud at 22%
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	64 of 78	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%

Movement

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“Dedicated Vendors (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Carbon Black)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Endpoint protection · scale 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.

“Platforms with known usability or false-positive complaints in community feedback, such as some mentions of Carbon Black and Sophos on Reddit” Perplexity Sonar · Endpoint protection · negative prompt · soft negative

“VMware acquiring Carbon Black/Octarine... present specific challenges” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Container security · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Carbon Black, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Carbon Black was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint2 of 52Not in the top three

CrowdStrike2 of 50Not in the top three

SentinelOne2 of 50Not in the top three

Bitdefender1 of 51Not in the top three

ESET1 of 51Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud1 of 51Not in the top three

Anchore1 of 50Not in the top three

Anchore Engine1 of 50Not in the top three

Avast Business1 of 50Not in the top three

Avast Business Security1 of 50Not 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 Carbon Black. 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 3 of the 5 answers that named Carbon Black and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com3

reddit.com3

av-comparatives.org2

deel.com2

expertinsights.com2

g2.com2

huntress.com2

techradar.com2

underdefense.com2

checkthat.ai1

Twenty-one of the twenty-one domain citations in answers naming Carbon Black came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/endpoint-protection-platforms3

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

expertinsights.com/endpoint-security/the-top-endpoint-security-solutions-for-business2

huntress.com/enterprise-cybersecurity-guide/best-endpoint-protection-solutions-compared2

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/13exdwa/endpoint_protection_screw_gartner_lets_get_hon2

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

underdefense.com/blog/trend-micro-alternatives-2026-11-endpoint-security-platforms-compare2

av-comparatives.org/tests/business-security-test-2024-august-november1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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