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Alternatives to cside, as AI models named them

In the October 2026 Edition, 192 of the 252 answers collected in the one category where cside holds a standing named it neither as a first choice nor as an alternative. These are the products those answers put first, category by category and buyer by buyer. The output is the models' output.

Named instead, most often
First choices in the 192 answers that did not name cside, every category and segment above added together; a product can be counted in several. Each category below keeps its own denominator.

Client-side protection

Security operations. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when cside is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businesscside is #1 of 9 here at 14% of first choices, 25 labels.

Sixty-one of the eighty-four answers did not name cside; it was the first choice in thirteen. The first choices in those sixty-one answers, thirty-four products in all, the eight most named:

26 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketcside is #1 of 8 here at 13% of first choices, 26 labels.

Sixty-six of the eighty-four answers did not name cside; it was the first choice in nine. The first choices in those sixty-six answers, twenty-two products in all, the eight most named:

14 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
Enterprisecside is #1 of 10 here at 17% of first choices, 26 labels.

Sixty-five of the eighty-four answers did not name cside; it was the first choice in nine. The first choices in those sixty-five answers, twenty-three products in all, the eight most named:

15 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

How to read this

A category is asked six ways of each of fourteen models on behalf of each buyer segment, so a segment is eighty-four answers. An answer belongs on this page when the judge labeled cside neither its first choice nor an alternative in it; the products listed are the first choices those answers made, counted once per answer. An answer that named nothing first, or named cside only in passing, is in the denominator and adds to no product. The counts are not the category standing, which is on the category page with its share and rank; they are the same record read from cside's side.

Every answer and every label behind these figures is in the record, sent on request. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index, and a product named instead of cside was named by a model, not endorsed by anyone.