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 61 → 41 of 58
CrowdStrike · 6 categories · RankedCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security
159Judge labels
0First choices
39Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
6Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in CNAPP for mid-market buyers
Rank 15 of 70 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 17% of its 24 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business46 of 61
0%21 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market15 of 70
0%24 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise11 of 38
0%32 labels
accepted challenger
In cnapp · 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 CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud-native application protection | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 15 of 70 | 17% | 24 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Cloud security posture management | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 13 of 80 | 17% | 18 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Container and Kubernetes security | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 39 of 77 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Trivy at 22% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Application security posture management | Developer platform | 0% | 61 of 70 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 37% | |
| AI security platforms | Security operations | 0% | 91 of 233 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11% | |
| Data security posture management | Security operations | 0% | 44 of 105 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview at 18% |
Movement
Since September 2026, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security held within the floor in all six categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CNAPP · by segment
Mid-market=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 9 → 13 of 68
Enterprise=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 7 → 11 of 35
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CNAPP | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 15 of 70 |
| CSPM | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 10 → 13 of 80 |
| Container security | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 18 → 39 of 77 |
| ASPM | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 61 of 70, unchanged |
| AI security | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 91 of 233, unchanged |
| DSPM | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 44 of 105, unchanged |
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 CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security 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 CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security 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 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
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 labelsNone
Paraphrase15 labelsNone
Comparative48 labelsNone
Budget-constrained15 labelsNone
Scale-constrained16 labelsNone
Negative35 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative159 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.
“run a proof of concept (POC) with 2–3 top contenders (Wiz, Prisma Cloud, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CNAPP · negative prompt · first choice
“If you already use CrowdStrike for endpoints and want unified protection: CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud fits.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Container security · comparative prompt · alternative
“Differentiates through cloud workload protection plus endpoint and identity detection integration.” Perplexity Sonar · CNAPP · comparative prompt · alternative
“Choose CrowdStrike if you want unified endpoint + cloud security with strong runtime protection” Kimi K2 · CNAPP · 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.
“Avoid These for Mid-Market ... pricing scales aggressively, making it less practical as a standalone cloud security play” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CNAPP · direct prompt · hard negative
“What to Avoid on a Tight Budget... quote-only and target mid-market to enterprise budgets” Kimi K2 · CSPM · budget prompt · hard negative
“Users find CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security to be expensive, particularly challenging for small businesses with budget constraints, and face issues with alert fatigue and response lag.” Muse Glimmer 30B · ASPM · negative prompt · soft negative
“doesn't strongly differentiate from competitors on CSPM-specific features, and some users mention that alert response times lag approximately one minute” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CSPM · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, over the 159 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, over the 159 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security 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 CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security. 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 155 of the 159 answers that named CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
g2.com75
cyberpress.org71
wiz.io68
expertinsights.com61
orca.security61
cloudaware.com49
gartner.com48
sentinelone.com46
gbhackers.com45
cybersecuritynews.com44
568 of the 568 domain citations in answers naming CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 210 a month (“crowdstrike falcon cloud security”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on CrowdStrike's site (crowdstrike.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 15 of 70 in CNAPP
Segment leader
37%
Wiz
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 159 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 155 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.
Names read as CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security; a claim can dispute any of them.
CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud 7CrowdStrike Falcon 2
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The company
CrowdStrike is the company behind CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security.ShowHide
The company
CrowdStrike is the company behind CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security.
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Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Container Security and Kubernetes Protection
- Price stated
- null crowdstrike.com/resources/demos/falcon-container-security
- Starting price
- null crowdstrike.com/resources/demos/falcon-container-security
- Free plan or trial
- Try CrowdStrike free for 15 days crowdstrike.com/resources/demos/falcon-container-security
- Customers named
- WEXCommercial Bank of California
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: crowdstrike.com/resources/demos/falcon-container-security, crowdstrike.com/resources/demos/falcon-cloud-workload-protection, crowdstrike.com/de-de/platform/cloud-security/cspm, crowdstrike.com/de-de/platform/cloud-security/cnapp, crowdstrike.com/es-latam/platform/cloud-security/cspm. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security 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 CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, 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.