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CrowdStrike Falcon Insight

11Judge labels

5First choices

0Negative labels

7 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

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight was named 5 times in EDR, where Bitdefender GravityZone led with 20%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market8 of 54

under the label threshold

Enterprise4 of 50

under the label threshold

In edr · 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 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
Endpoint detection and response	Security operations	4%	8 of 54	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Bitdefender GravityZone at 20%

Movement

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

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

Direct7 labels4

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative2 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 7 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.

“the best overall EDR platform is usually CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR” Perplexity Sonar · EDR · direct prompt · first choice

“my default recommendation would be CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR” Perplexity Sonar · EDR · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“The gold standard for cloud-native, lightweight endpoint security.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · EDR · comparative prompt · first choice

“three clear leaders for enterprise deployments: CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2” Claude Haiku 4.5 · EDR · direct 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, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrowdStrike Falcon Insight was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint10 of 111Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity10 of 110Not in the top three

Bitdefender GravityZone5 of 111Not in the top three

Huntress Managed EDR5 of 111Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR5 of 110Not in the top three

Sophos Intercept X3 of 110Not in the top three

Trend Micro2 of 110Not in the top three

ESET PROTECT1 of 110Not in the top three

FortiEDR1 of 110Not in the top three

Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Expert1 of 110Not 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. 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 9 of the 11 answers that named CrowdStrike Falcon Insight and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

acronis.com8

gbhackers.com8

cyberpress.org5

cybersecuritynews.com5

decryptiondigest.com5

techrepublic.com5

huntress.com4

kaseya.com4

learn.g2.com4

cipherssecurity.com3

Fifty-one of the fifty-one domain citations in answers naming CrowdStrike Falcon Insight came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-edr-endpoint-detection-and-response-solutions-in-20268

gbhackers.com/best-edr-solutions-compared8

cyberpress.org/edr-solutions-by-business-size5

cybersecuritynews.com/best-edr-solutions5

techrepublic.com/article/best-edr-software5

decryptiondigest.com/blog/best-edr-platforms-20264

kaseya.com/blog/best-edr-solutions4

eastbaycyber.com/content/compare-best-edr-platforms-for-mid-market-companies-20263

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as CrowdStrike Falcon Insight

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

CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR 5

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Claim this page

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 CrowdStrike Falcon Insight'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 CrowdStrike Falcon Insight, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at crowdstrike.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.