Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 64 → 72 of 73
CrowdStrike · 12 categories · RankedCrowdStrike Falcon
255Judge labels
43First choices
56Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
12Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
35% in Endpoint protection for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 86 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
5 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 22% of its 41 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of CrowdStrike Falcon →By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business.
Small business78 of 78
0%18 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market4 of 86
12%41 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise2 of 48
35%60 labels
endorsed leader
In endpoint protection · 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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Endpoint protection | IT operations and endpoint | 12% | 4 of 86 | 22% | 41 | accepted challenger | ▲+8Since September 2026: 4% → 12%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| AI security platforms | Security operations | 4% | 11 of 233 | 43% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11% | |
| Client-side protection | Security operations | 2% | 13 of 120 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by cside at 13% | |
| Digital risk protection | Security operations | 2% | 12 of 86 | 11% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by UpGuard BreachSight at 22% | |
| Threat intelligence platforms | Security operations | 0% | 29 of 119 | 30% | 10 | criticized challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| AI SOC agents | Security operations | 0% | 36 of 104 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Dropzone AI at 24% | |
| Data loss prevention | Security operations | 0% | 27 of 89 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview DLP at 46% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Network detection and response | Security operations | 0% | 89 of 102 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer at 21% | |
| Data security posture management | Security operations | 0% | 64 of 105 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview at 18% | |
| Email security | Security operations | 0% | 24 of 76 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 at 32% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Identity threat detection and response | Identity and access | 0% | 51 of 105 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Huntress Managed ITDR at 51% | |
| Vulnerability management platforms | Security operations | 0% | 48 of 77 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 30% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, CrowdStrike Falcon held within the floor in all twelve categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Endpoint protection · by segment
Mid-market▲+8Since September 2026: 4% → 12%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
12%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 3 pointsRank 6 → 4 of 83
Enterprise▲+4Since September 2026: 30% → 35%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
35%from 30% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 2 of 48, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Endpoint protection | 4% | 12% | ▲+8Since September 2026: 4% → 12%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 6 → 4 of 86 |
| AI security | 0% | 4% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 4% now. | New this edition | Rank 11 of 233, unchanged |
| Client-side protection | 0% | 3% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 3% now. | New this edition | Rank 13 of 120, unchanged |
| DRP | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 12 of 86, unchanged |
| Threat intel | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 14 → 29 of 119 |
| AI SOC agents | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 36 of 104, unchanged |
| DLP | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 27 of 89, unchanged |
| NDR | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 89 of 102, unchanged |
| DSPM | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 64 of 105, unchanged |
| Email security | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 24 of 76, unchanged |
| ITDR | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 51 of 105, unchanged |
| Vuln management | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 45 → 48 of 77 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated CrowdStrike Falcon across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated CrowdStrike Falcon across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
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
Direct67 labels21
Paraphrase32 labels10
Comparative53 labels22not counted in share
Budget-constrained44 labels10
Scale-constrained18 labels2
Negative41 labels7not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative255 labels in all, every segment counted; 43 of the 72 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.
“with CrowdStrike positioned highest on both "Ability to Execute" and "Completeness of Vision" (for the fifth consecutive year)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Endpoint protection · comparative prompt · first choice
“CrowdStrike Falcon Pro (≈$8.99/endpoint/month) offers the most cost‑effective all‑in‑one endpoint + DRP solution” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DRP · budget prompt · first choice
“Choose CrowdStrike if you have a complex enterprise fleet (including significant macOS and Linux deployments)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Endpoint protection · comparative prompt · first choice
“CrowdStrike Falcon - Leader in enterprise endpoint security ... Best for threat hunting and telemetry depth” MiniMax M2.5 · Endpoint protection · 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.
“CrowdStrike Falcon (with significant caveats) ... It's still a strong product, but the outage demonstrated that relying on any single endpoint platform carries systemic risk.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Endpoint protection · negative prompt · soft negative
“the AI engine occasionally throws false positives that need analyst time... bundling adds up when extra modules stack on, and the admin portal has a learning curve” Muse Glimmer 30B · DRP · negative prompt · soft negative
“Why to be cautious: If you choose CrowdStrike, do not allow the vendor to automatically push kernel-level updates to your entire fleet instantly.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Endpoint protection · negative prompt · soft negative
“CrowdStrike Falcon is worth evaluating, but plan for the expertise and ongoing support a more capable platform can require.” GPT-6 Luna · Client-side protection · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as CrowdStrike Falcon, over the 255 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrowdStrike Falcon was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as CrowdStrike Falcon, over the 255 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrowdStrike Falcon was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 234 of the 255 answers that named CrowdStrike Falcon and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com92
g2.com76
huntress.com66
sentinelone.com62
crowdstrike.comYour site56
expertinsights.com51
microsoft.com47
deel.com46
techrepublic.com43
underdefense.com43
526 of the 582 domain citations in answers naming CrowdStrike Falcon came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where CrowdStrike Falcon stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where CrowdStrike Falcon stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 5,400 a month (“crowdstrike falcon”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 480 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on CrowdStrike's site (crowdstrike.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
12%
rank 4 of 86 in endpoint protection
Segment leader
22%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- First choices
- 43 across its categories
- Named in
- 255 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 234 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as CrowdStrike Falcon
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as CrowdStrike Falcon; a claim can dispute any of them.
CrowdStrike Falcon Pro 3CrowdStrike Falcon (Adversary/Intelligence) 1CrowdStrike Falcon (with Falcon X) 1Crowdstrike Falcon 1
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The company
CrowdStrike is the company behind CrowdStrike Falcon.ShowHide
The company
CrowdStrike is the company behind CrowdStrike Falcon.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from CrowdStrike
- CrowdStrike Adaptive Shield, CrowdStrike Adversary Intelligence, CrowdStrike Charlotte AI, CrowdStrike Charlotte AI / AgentWorks, CrowdStrike Charlotte AI Detection Triage, CrowdStrike Falcon Adversary Intelligence, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete and 19 more
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Schutz von KI-Agenten zur Laufzeit
- Price stated
- pro Endgerät / pro Jahr; pro Endgerät / pro Monat crowdstrike.com/de-de/platform/falcon-aidr-ai-detection-and-response
- Free plan or trial
- 15 Tage kostenlos crowdstrike.com/de-de/platform/falcon-aidr-ai-detection-and-response
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What CrowdStrike Falcon's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: crowdstrike.com/services/falcon-logscale, crowdstrike.com/services/falcon-launch-services, crowdstrike.com/partners/crowdstrike-falcons-program, crowdstrike.com/de-de/platform/falcon-aidr-ai-detection-and-response, crowdstrike.com/products/threat-intelligence/falcon-cyber-threat-engine. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for CrowdStrike Falcon by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where CrowdStrike Falcon is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name CrowdStrike Falcon, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.