Every category where a model named CrowdStrike 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	6%	7 of 54	31%	13	criticized challenger
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	4%	8 of 99	17%	18	accepted challenger
Managed detection and response	Security operations	2%	8 of 45	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response at 39%
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	2%	9 of 53	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 43%
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	25 of 80	17%	6	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%
Cloud-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	21 of 57	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 46%
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	22 of 78	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%
Attack surface management	Security operations	0%	34 of 104	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 59%
Penetration testing as a service	Security operations	0%	70 of 76	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Cobalt at 44%
SIEM platforms	Security operations	0%	22 of 49	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Sentinel at 41%
Threat intelligence platforms	Security operations	0%	103 of 128	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by NordStellar at 13%
Data loss prevention	Security operations	0%	27 of 84	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview DLP at 39%
SOAR platforms	Security operations	0%	37 of 49	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Tines at 47%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CrowdStrike 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 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	1	6	1	8
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	1	1	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	2	2	2	7
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	4	4	2	11
Mistral Small	1	2	2	0	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	2	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	3	0	4
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	4	5	3	12
Kimi K2	2	0	4	0	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	2	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	2	0	3

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

Direct29 labels5

Paraphrase23 labels3

Comparative31 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained23 labelsNone

Scale-constrained48 labels8

Negative45 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative199 labels in all, every segment counted; 16 of the 20 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 EDR platform for a mid-market B2B company is CrowdStrike, as it combines protection, scalability, and manageable cloud delivery better than the rest of the field.” Llama 4 Maverick · EDR · direct prompt · first choice

“CrowdStrike Falcon: Widely considered the gold standard for efficacy and lightweight agent, but can be highly priced. Their MDR service (Falcon Complete) is top-tier.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · EDR · scale prompt · first choice

“The leading contenders to shortlist would be CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Endpoint protection · scale prompt · first choice

“CrowdStrike Falcon | Market leader, strong threat intel | Organizations wanting best-in-class detection” Kimi K2 · Endpoint protection · scale 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.

“The July 2024 CrowdStrike content update incident, which caused widespread Windows failures globally, changed how mature buyers evaluate every EDR vendor.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · EDR · negative prompt · soft negative

“While top-tier, their commercial feeds can be incredibly aggressive... Use their *Intel*, not necessarily their automatic *Blocking*.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Threat intel · negative prompt · soft negative

“The July 2024 global CrowdStrike outage—triggered by a faulty rapid-response sensor update—highlighted a major risk” Gemini 3.5 Flash · EDR · negative prompt · soft negative

“Most Expensive: Custom Manual Pen Test (Enterprise firms like Mandiant or CrowdStrike, usually $50k+)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PTaaS · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CrowdStrike, over the 199 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrowdStrike was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wiz49 of 19911Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud44 of 19920Not in the top three

SentinelOne43 of 1991Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity35 of 1990Not in the top three

Prisma Cloud34 of 1992Not in the top three

Huntress Managed EDR30 of 19914Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint30 of 1998Not in the top three

Bitdefender GravityZone26 of 1995Not in the top three

Tenable19 of 1996Not in the top three

Orca Security19 of 1991Not 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. 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 153 of the 199 answers that named CrowdStrike and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org62

gbhackers.com60

gartner.com48

cybersecuritynews.com45

sentinelone.com43

expertinsights.com39

huntress.com31

decryptiondigest.com28

g2.com26

microsoft.com24

406 of the 406 domain citations in answers naming CrowdStrike came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/edr-solutions-by-business-size22

gbhackers.com/best-edr-solutions-compared21

huntress.com/internal-it-cybersecurity-guide/best-endpoint-protection-for-small-businesses20

cnicsolutions.com/cybersecurity-threat-protection/detection-response/best-endpoint-protect17

cloudaware.com/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-vendors14

cnicsolutions.com/cybersecurity-threat-protection/best-endpoint-protection-edr-solutions-f14

cyberpress.org/cspm-tools-by-business-size-214

gbhackers.com/best-business-antivirus-compared14

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as CrowdStrike

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

CrowdStrike (Falcon Cloud Security) 2CrowdStrike (Falcon Complete) 2CrowdStrike (Falcon Exposure Management) 1CrowdStrike (with Adaptive Shield for SSPM) 1Crowdstrike 1

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