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CrowdStrike Falcon Surface

33Judge labels
2First choices
11Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
5% in ASM for enterprise buyers
Rank 27 of 104 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 22% of its 9 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In asm · 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 Surface 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Attack surface managementSecurity operations0%27 of 10422%9under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 59%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CrowdStrike Falcon Surface 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 Surface across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast00022
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash02103
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase6 labels2
Comparative12 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained4 labelsNone
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative6 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative33 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 3 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.

“If you already use CrowdStrike, it integrates into the Falcon platform | Best as a module, not standalone” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ASM · scale prompt · alternative
“Best for: CrowdStrike shops wanting ASM inside their existing security stack.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ASM · 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.

“are overkill: $50k+ annually, complex sales cycles, better for 1,000+ employee firms” Grok 4.1 Fast · ASM · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“powerful but often overkill/too pricey ($50K+), better for larger firms” Grok 4.1 Fast · ASM · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CrowdStrike Falcon Surface, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrowdStrike Falcon Surface was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Cortex Xpanse26 of 330Not in the top three
CyCognito25 of 335Not in the top three
Censys ASM17 of 331Not in the top three
Detectify12 of 333Not in the top three
Tenable Attack Surface Management12 of 330Not in the top three
Synack11 of 332Not in the top three
Intruder9 of 338Not in the top three
Bitsight8 of 333Not in the top three
IONIX8 of 331Not 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 Surface. 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 31 of the 33 answers that named CrowdStrike Falcon Surface and are not a share of its labels.

Names read as CrowdStrike Falcon Surface

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as CrowdStrike Falcon Surface; a claim can dispute any of them.
Falcon Surface 1
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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 Surface'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 Surface, 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.

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