Every category where a model named Cisco XDR 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
Extended detection and response	Security operations	0%	18 of 61	24%	17	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1	2
Mistral Small	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1	2

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

Direct6 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative15 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative12 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative40 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.

“If not, evaluate Bitdefender or Cisco SecureX based on your specific infrastructure mix.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · XDR · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Cisco has successfully unified network infrastructure security with big-data SIEM operations.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · XDR · comparative prompt · alternative

“Cisco XDR is worth a look, especially if you want partner-led MDR / MXDR support” GPT-5.4 mini · XDR · direct prompt · alternative

“tends to stand out where network telemetry and Cisco infrastructure matter most” Perplexity Sonar · XDR · comparative 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.

“Maintains a public "known issues" list that has grown substantially since its initial release” MiniMax M2.5 · XDR · negative prompt · soft negative

“Cisco (Contenders): Weaker Forrester scores, fewer reviews, more integration/support gaps” Grok 4.1 Fast · XDR · negative prompt · soft negative

“Endpoint detection depth trails the specialists; Cisco licensing complexity is a concern.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · XDR · negative prompt · soft negative

“buying a native XDR platform (such as those from ... Trellix, or Cisco)” Mistral Small · XDR · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cisco XDR, over the 40 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco XDR was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender XDR35 of 4013Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR30 of 409Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity30 of 402Not in the top three

Trend Vision One25 of 400Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon17 of 403Not in the top three

Trellix XDR17 of 400Not in the top three

Stellar Cyber16 of 402Not in the top three

Sophos Intercept X11 of 400Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon XDR10 of 405Not in the top three

Sophos9 of 400Not 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 Cisco XDR. 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 37 of the 40 answers that named Cisco XDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com28

cyberpress.org24

cybersecuritynews.com23

paloaltonetworks.com23

decryptiondigest.com19

guideflow.com18

esecurityplanet.com16

aimultiple.com15

gartner.com14

guptadeepak.com9

189 of the 189 domain citations in answers naming Cisco XDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-xdr-platforms-compared26

cyberpress.org/xdr-platforms-by-business-size22

cybersecuritynews.com/best-xdr-platforms21

decryptiondigest.com/blog/best-xdr-platforms-202618

guideflow.com/blog/xdr-platform18

paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/xdr-solutions18

esecurityplanet.com/products/xdr-security-solutions16

aimultiple.com/xdr-solutions15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cisco XDR

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

Cisco 4Cisco (Cisco XDR & Splunk) 1Cisco SecureX 1

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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 cisco.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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