Every category where a model named CrowdStrike Falcon 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%	6 of 61	7%	14	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CrowdStrike Falcon 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 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	0	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	0	1

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

Direct11 labels6

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative12 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative8 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative42 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 13 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 pick CrowdStrike Falcon XDR for the best overall mid-market balance” Perplexity Sonar · XDR · direct prompt · first choice

“3. CrowdStrike Falcon XDR” Qwen 3.7 Flash · XDR · comparative prompt · first choice

“Need top detection without Microsoft lock-in? CrowdStrike or Palo Alto—leaders in independent tests, but pricier.” Grok 4.1 Fast · XDR · direct prompt · alternative

“CrowdStrike Falcon XDR or SentinelOne Singularity are excellent alternatives” DeepSeek V4 Flash · 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.

“is strong, but it is not the budget pick” Perplexity Sonar · XDR · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, over the 42 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrowdStrike Falcon XDR was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender XDR41 of 4213Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR36 of 425Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity33 of 421Not in the top three

Trend Vision One20 of 420Not in the top three

Stellar Cyber16 of 421Not in the top three

Cisco XDR10 of 420Not in the top three

Coro7 of 423Not in the top three

Trellix XDR6 of 420Not in the top three

Elastic Security5 of 420Not in the top three

Sophos Intercept X5 of 420Not 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 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 40 of the 42 answers that named CrowdStrike Falcon XDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

paloaltonetworks.com29

cyberpress.org27

decryptiondigest.com27

gbhackers.com27

cybersecuritynews.com22

gartner.com19

guideflow.com17

esecurityplanet.com15

aimultiple.com13

cipherssecurity.com12

208 of the 208 domain citations in answers naming CrowdStrike Falcon XDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

decryptiondigest.com/blog/best-xdr-platforms-202627

gbhackers.com/best-xdr-platforms-compared27

cyberpress.org/xdr-platforms-by-business-size25

paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/xdr-solutions22

cybersecuritynews.com/best-xdr-platforms19

gartner.com/reviews/market/extended-detection-and-response17

guideflow.com/blog/xdr-platform17

esecurityplanet.com/products/xdr-security-solutions15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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