Small business=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 52 → 62 of 62
Cortex · 1 category · RankedCortex XSOAR
181Judge labels
24First choices
85Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
41% in SOAR for enterprise buyers
Rank 5 of 67 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 44% of its 61 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Cortex XSOAR →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business64 of 64
0%46 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market5 of 67
5%61 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise1 of 45
41%72 labels
criticized default
In soar · 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 Cortex XSOAR 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOAR platforms | Security operations | 5% | 5 of 67 | 44% | 61 | criticized challenger | ▲+4Since September 2026: 2% → 6%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Cortex XSOAR held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · SOAR · by segment
Mid-market▲+4Since September 2026: 2% → 6%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 9 → 5 of 56
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 40% → 42%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
42%from 40% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 1 of 41, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOAR | 2% | 6% | ▲+4Since September 2026: 2% → 6%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 5 of 67 |
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 Cortex XSOAR 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 Cortex XSOAR 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
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
Direct30 labels10
Paraphrase32 labels13
Comparative36 labels14not counted in share
Budget-constrained22 labelsNone
Scale-constrained24 labels1
Negative37 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative181 labels in all, every segment counted; 24 of the 38 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.
“Strengths: Largest integration ecosystem (850+ product integrations), deepest case management, extensive playbook marketplace” MiniMax M2.5 · SOAR · comparative prompt · first choice
“I would recommend Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR if you want the strongest overall balance of mature case management” Perplexity Sonar · SOAR · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Cortex XSOAR is described as the best overall SOAR platform in 2026 due to its ability to handle high incident volumes” Muse Glimmer 30B · SOAR · comparative prompt · first choice
“Choose Cortex XSOAR if you want a mature, enterprise-grade SOAR with strong security-product integration.” GPT-5.4 mini · SOAR · comparative 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.
“one source flags it as an "avoid" for a mid-size B2B company because it is enterprise/multi-team focused and has premium pricing” Perplexity Sonar · SOAR · negative prompt · hard negative
“these are generally not recommended for mid-sized organizations. They are expensive and require a "maintenance tax"” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SOAR · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“avoid: Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR: Highly complex, historically expensive, and requiring heavy professional services” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SOAR · direct prompt · hard negative
“What to avoid for mid-sized B2B - Cortex XSOAR and Splunk SOAR — These are enterprise-grade tools” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SOAR · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cortex XSOAR, over the 177 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cortex XSOAR was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cortex XSOAR, over the 177 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cortex XSOAR 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 Cortex XSOAR. 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 169 of the 177 answers that named Cortex XSOAR and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
aimultiple.com84
checkthat.ai79
intezer.com79
paloaltonetworks.com72
comparitech.com62
strike48.com62
startupstash.com60
zendikt.com59
guideflow.com55
expertinsights.com45
657 of the 657 domain citations in answers naming Cortex XSOAR came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
cortex.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Cortex XSOAR takes 5% of first choices and Tines takes 41%.ShowHide
Search and answers
cortex.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Cortex XSOAR takes 5% of first choices and Tines takes 41%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “soar platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “soar platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 390 a month (“cortex xsoar”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 14 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 16,782 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,883 · 116 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,758
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
5%
rank 5 of 67 in SOAR
Segment leader
41%
Tines
- First choices
- 24 across its categories
- Named in
- 177 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 169 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 cortex.io
781
subdomains included
Content
483
counted in the table below
Documentation
243
Product · Integration
23 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 324 | 7 | 2026-08-11 | IaC, Patching | |
| Report or ebook | 66 | 0 | 2026-06-16 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 32 | 1 | 2026-09-03 | ||
| Podcast or video | 24 | 6 | 2026-09-10 | ||
| Comparison | 16 | 1 | 2026-08-18 | ||
| Case study | 15 | 2 | 2026-08-05 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 2 | 0 | 2026-01-27 | ||
| Conference or event | 2 | 0 | 2025-06-18 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | 0 | 2026-01-14 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-10Judgment is the job planera s naveen puvvula on keeping the human at the front of the pdlc podcast or video
- 2026-09-03What is an internal developer portal glossary or explainer
- 2026-08-27Attacker expertise just got commoditized semgrep s adam berman on security in the agent era podcast or video
- 2026-08-18Drive vs dx core 4 comparison
- 2026-08-13Garbage in garbage out splunk s steve flanders on why ai can t fix your bad telemetry podcast or video
- 2026-08-11Drive and space blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cortex.io 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 Cortex XSOAR
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cortex XSOAR; a claim can dispute any of them.
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR 18Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR 14Palo Alto XSOAR 7Cortex XSOAR (Palo Alto Networks) 1Cortex XSOAR (by Palo Alto Networks) 1Cortex XSOAR / Cortex AgentiX 1Cortex XSOAR Community Edition 1Demisto 1Demisto (Palo Alto) 1Palo Alto Networks (Cortex XSOAR) 1
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The company
Cortex is the company behind Cortex XSOAR.ShowHide
The company
Cortex is the company behind Cortex XSOAR.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from Cortex
- Cortex AgentiX
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Cortex Internal Developer Portal makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
- For
- engineering organizations
- Certifications
- SOC Type 2 CertifiedISO/IEC 27001:2022 Certified
- Customers named
- BigCommerceRapid7PismoH&R BlockSkyscannerTalaArcherOutreach
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What Cortex XSOAR's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: cortex.io, cortex.io/pricing, trust.cortex.io, cortex.io/solutions/agents, cortex.io/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Cortex XSOAR'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 Cortex XSOAR, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cortex XSOAR by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cortex XSOAR 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 Cortex XSOAR, 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.