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Index › Vendors › Darktrace · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Darktrace

15Judge labels

0First choices

13Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Darktrace was named 4 times in CSPM and 1 other category, where Wiz led with 43%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business52 of 64

under the label threshold

Mid-market51 of 53

under the label threshold

Enterprise41 of 42

under the label threshold

In cspm · 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 Darktrace 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
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	51 of 53	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 43%
Email security	Security operations	0%	43 of 71	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 at 31%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Darktrace 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 Darktrace across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative13 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Best if you want anomaly/behavior-driven detection.” GPT-5.4 mini · Email security · 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.

“marks it poorly on owner context, IT compliance, exception lifecycle, and reports, which suggests caution if governance is a requirement” Perplexity Sonar · CSPM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Limited multi-cloud support, weak compliance and ownership context, and poor exception workflows.” Grok 4.1 Fast · CSPM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Microsoft and Darktrace were positioned in the "Challengers" quadrant” MiniMax M2.5 · Email security · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Darktrace, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Darktrace was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Prisma Cloud5 of 150Not in the top three

Snyk5 of 150Not in the top three

Wiz4 of 153Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud4 of 151Not in the top three

Wazuh4 of 151Not in the top three

ExtraHop4 of 150Not in the top three

IronNet4 of 150Not in the top three

Microsoft Sentinel4 of 150Not in the top three

Vectra AI4 of 150Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Office 3653 of 151Not 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 Darktrace. 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 14 of the 15 answers that named Darktrace and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com10

gartner.com9

expertinsights.com7

cloudaware.com5

g2.com5

microsoft.com5

complyjet.com4

nohack.net4

blogs.fluencysecurity.com3

cyberpress.org3

Fifty-five of the fifty-five domain citations in answers naming Darktrace came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudaware.com/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-vendors5

expertinsights.com/cloud-security/the-top-cloud-security-posture-management-cspm-solutions5

complyjet.com/blog/best-cspm-tools4

gartner.com/reviews/market/cloud-security-posture-management-tools4

nohack.net/best-siem-tools-small-businesses-20264

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1b80zza/best_siem_solution_for_small_company4

blogs.fluencysecurity.com/siem-for-smbs3

cybersecuritynews.com/best-cspm-tools3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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