Every category where a model named Edge for Business 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
Enterprise browsers	Security operations	0%	17 of 80	7%	15	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Edge for Business yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Edge for Business across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	0	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0	0	0

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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase7 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labels1

Scale-constrained2 labels1

Negative12 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 5 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.

“If you're a Microsoft shop: Edge for Business (free, deeply integrated, zero extra cost) is often the pragmatic choice” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Enterprise browsers · negative prompt · first choice

“I wouldn't avoid Chrome Enterprise, Edge for Business, or another established browser just because of the brand” GPT-6 Luna · Enterprise browsers · negative prompt · alternative

“Edge for Business may be the better-value choice because you may already have access to relevant controls” GPT-6 Luna · Enterprise browsers · direct prompt · alternative

“Managed Existing Browsers | Chrome Enterprise Premium, Edge for Business | Standardized, familiar UI” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Enterprise browsers · negative 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.

“Standard consumer browsers in enterprise use (e.g., unmanaged Chrome, Edge, Firefox): Widely criticized for lacking built-in enterprise controls” Grok 4.1 Fast · Enterprise browsers · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Edge for Business, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Edge for Business was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Password Manager28 of 318Not among the top eight

Island Enterprise Browser24 of 317Not among the top eight

Talon11 of 311Not among the top eight

Brave9 of 310Not among the top eight

Firefox ESR7 of 310Not among the top eight

Prisma Access Browser6 of 312Not among the top eight

Opera6 of 310Not among the top eight

DuckDuckGo5 of 310Not among the top eight

LayerX5 of 310Not among the top eight

Seraphic5 of 310Not among the top eight

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 Edge for Business. 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 31 of the 31 answers that named Edge for Business and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cybersecuritynews.com20

venn.com20

chromeenterprise.google17

gbhackers.com17

expertinsights.com16

csoonline.com12

island.io12

paloaltonetworks.com11

us.fitgap.com11

gartner.com10

No domain is on file for Edge for Business, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-enterprise-browsers-compared17

cybersecuritynews.com/best-enterprise-browsers13

csoonline.com/article/573875/secure-web-browsers-for-the-enterprise-compared-how-to-pick-t12

expertinsights.com/web-security/the-top-enterprise-browsers12

us.fitgap.com/search/browsers/enterprise11

venn.com/learn/browser-security/secure-enterprise-browser10

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-secure-enterprise-browser-solutions9

firstanalysis.com/research/cybersecurity-jan-20269

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Edge for Business stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 390 a month (“edge for business”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 153 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 17 of 80 in enterprise browsers

Segment leader

26%

Google Password Manager

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 31 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

Follow Edge for Business

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Edge for Business by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Edge for Business 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 Edge for Business, 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.