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
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	10 of 53	9%	22	accepted challenger
Cloud-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	11 of 57	22%	18	accepted challenger
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	18 of 78	0%	3	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 CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security 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 CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security 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	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	0	1	4
Perplexity Sonar	2	1	1	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	5	2	0	7
Mistral Small	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	4	0	2	6
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	1	3
Kimi K2	3	2	0	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	3	1	1	5

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

Direct18 labelsNone

Paraphrase14 labelsNone

Comparative42 labelsNone

Budget-constrained6 labels1

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative14 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative101 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“Choose CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security if: Your Security Operations Center (SOC) already relies on the CrowdStrike Falcon console.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CSPM · comparative prompt · alternative

“If your mid-sized company already uses CrowdStrike for endpoint protection (EDR), sticking with them is a major operational win.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CNAPP · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Choose CrowdStrike if you are already a CrowdStrike customer and want to unify endpoint and cloud security.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CSPM · comparative prompt · alternative

“Cloud‑to‑endpoint correlation, runtime protection, and agent ecosystem | CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CSPM · 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.

“Cons: Passive posture scanning (CSPM) and developer-side integrations have traditionally been weaker compared to the agentless-native competitors.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CNAPP · comparative prompt · soft negative

“reported significant challenges including inaccurate reporting, false positives, and a "patchwork" architecture lacking coherence between components” MiniMax M2.5 · CSPM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Avoid paying for enterprise-grade breadth (e.g., Prisma Cloud, CrowdStrike Falcon) you won't use” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CNAPP · direct prompt · soft negative

“"newer entrant in CSPM specifically" — its depth in cloud posture still trails Wiz/Prisma/Orca” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CSPM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, over the 101 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wiz98 of 10159Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud82 of 10111Not in the top three

Orca Security80 of 10114Not in the top three

Prisma Cloud78 of 1016Not in the top three

Tenable Cloud Security27 of 1010Not in the top three

Aqua Security26 of 1013Not in the top three

Sysdig25 of 1010Not in the top three

Check Point CloudGuard21 of 1010Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security19 of 1010Not in the top three

Lacework FortiCNAPP17 of 1010Not 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 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, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 88 of the 101 answers that named CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org65

gbhackers.com60

cybersecuritynews.com54

expertinsights.com52

cloudaware.com48

orca.security41

gartner.com34

decryptiondigest.com33

techrepublic.com26

aikido.dev22

435 of the 435 domain citations in answers naming CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudaware.com/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-vendors37

cyberpress.org/cspm-tools-by-business-size-232

cyberpress.org/cnapp-platforms-by-business-size-230

gbhackers.com/best-cnapp-compared29

gbhackers.com/best-cspm-compared29

techrepublic.com/article/best-cspm-tools26

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-cloud-native-application-protection-platfo25

cybersecuritynews.com/best-cnapp-platforms24

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 3CrowdStrike Falcon Horizon 2CrowdStrike Cloud Security 1CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud 1Falcon Cloud Security 1

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