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CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR

23Judge labels

3First choices

2Negative labels

9 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR was named 6 times in XDR, where Microsoft Defender XDR led with 63%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business12 of 54

under the label threshold

Mid-market8 of 61

under the label threshold

Enterprise7 of 47

under the label threshold

In xdr · 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 Insight 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	2%	8 of 61	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender XDR at 63%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase7 labels3

Comparative11 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative23 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 5 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.

“I'd recommend CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR as the default choice” Perplexity Sonar · XDR · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Palo Alto and CrowdStrike lead in AI-driven detection and automation.” Mistral Small · XDR · comparative prompt · first choice

“Simple per‑endpoint pricing with no surprise data‑ingestion fees.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · XDR · budget prompt · alternative

“3. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR — *Best Detection Quality*” Kimi K2 · XDR · paraphrase 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR, over the 23 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender XDR20 of 235Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR18 of 232Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity15 of 231Not in the top three

Trend Vision One10 of 230Not in the top three

Coro9 of 236Not in the top three

Cisco XDR8 of 230Not in the top three

Stellar Cyber8 of 230Not in the top three

Sophos Intercept X6 of 230Not in the top three

Huntress Managed EDR4 of 230Not in the top three

Trellix XDR4 of 230Not 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 Insight 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 22 of the 23 answers that named CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com18

cyberpress.org16

paloaltonetworks.com16

cybersecuritynews.com15

esecurityplanet.com14

decryptiondigest.com7

guideflow.com7

expertinsights.com6

gartner.com6

sentinelone.com6

111 of the 111 domain citations in answers naming CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-xdr-platforms-compared15

paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/xdr-solutions15

esecurityplanet.com/products/xdr-security-solutions14

cyberpress.org/xdr-platforms-by-business-size13

cybersecuritynews.com/best-xdr-platforms11

gbhackers.com/best-managed-xdr-compared8

guideflow.com/blog/xdr-platform7

decryptiondigest.com/blog/best-xdr-platforms-20266

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR

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

CrowdStrike Falcon Insight 1CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR (Falcon Go) 1

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