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CrowdStrike Falcon Complete

93Judge labels

16First choices

18Negative labels

12 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.

Best standing

37% in MDR for enterprise buyers

Rank 6 of 45 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger

1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 12% of its 26 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business.

Small business46 of 46

criticized challenger

In mdr · 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 Complete 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
Managed detection and response	Security operations	2%	6 of 45	12%	26	accepted challenger
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	0%	37 of 99	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Cloud at 22%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	1	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	1	0	3
Mistral Small	1	0	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	2	0	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	0	0	2
Kimi K2	1	1	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	0	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	0	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

Direct17 labels7

Paraphrase24 labels8

Comparative31 labels16not counted in share

Budget-constrained13 labels1

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative4 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative93 labels in all, every segment counted; 16 of the 33 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.

“Best for detection and response authority, often scoring highest in these areas... making it a top choice for organizations needing strong security postures.” Mistral Small · MDR · comparative prompt · first choice

“Only a few providers (notably CrowdStrike Falcon Complete and some Arctic Wolf tiers) have the authority to act autonomously” GLM 4.7 FlashX · MDR · comparative prompt · first choice

“Ranked #1 for *detection & response authority* (G2, Gartner Peer Insights). 2024 Gartner "Customers' Choice" for MDR.” MiniMax M2.5 · MDR · comparative prompt · first choice

“CrowdStrike Falcon Complete | Strongest detection & response authority; $1M warranty | Mid-market to enterprise” DeepSeek V4 Flash · MDR · 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.

“Avoid enterprise-tier providers (Arctic Wolf, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, Expel, Red Canary)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · MDR · budget prompt · hard negative

“Note: It is typically priced at a premium compared to other mid-market options.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · MDR · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“it requires the CrowdStrike platform and is the most expensive option” Claude Haiku 4.5 · MDR · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, over the 93 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrowdStrike Falcon Complete was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response76 of 9315Not in the top three

Sophos MDR64 of 933Not in the top three

Huntress Managed EDR49 of 9325Not in the top three

Expel43 of 932Not in the top three

Red Canary39 of 932Not in the top three

Rapid7 MDR27 of 931Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity MDR26 of 930Not in the top three

eSentire21 of 933Not in the top three

Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response18 of 930Not in the top three

Ontinue15 of 930Not 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 Complete. 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 83 of the 93 answers that named CrowdStrike Falcon Complete and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com57

learn.g2.com46

cybersecuritynews.com43

huntress.com33

cyberpress.org32

defendify.com29

mdrproviders.io28

checkthat.ai26

corporatevision-news.com26

consilien.com23

343 of the 343 domain citations in answers naming CrowdStrike Falcon Complete came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-mdr-services-compared57

learn.g2.com/top-mdr-providers46

cyberpress.org/mdr-services-to-consider31

cybersecuritynews.com/best-mdr-services31

defendify.com/blog/managed-detection-and-response-providers29

huntress.com/cybersecurity-insights/managed-detection-response-vendors28

corporatevision-news.com/best-managed-detection-and-response-services-for-enterprises-in-226

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-managed-detection-and-response-solutions25

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as CrowdStrike Falcon Complete

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

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR 2CrowdStrike Falcon 1CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR 1

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