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1 category · Named, not ranked

Elastic’s "Defend for Containers"

1Judge labels
0First choices
1Negative labels
1 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
1 label, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Elastic’s "Defend for Containers" was named 1 time in Container security, where Aqua Security led with 18%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market75 of 78
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In container security · 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 Elastic’s "Defend for Containers" 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Container and Kubernetes securityCloud and infrastructure0%75 of 78100%1under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Elastic’s "Defend for Containers" 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 Elastic’s "Defend for Containers" across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative1 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“using D4C for runtime container protection is a dead end” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Container security · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Elastic’s "Defend for Containers", over the 1 answer that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Elastic’s "Defend for Containers" was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Anchore1 of 10Not in the top three
Anchore Engine1 of 10Not in the top three
Carbon Black1 of 10Not in the top three
Clair1 of 10Not in the top three
Docker Bench for Security1 of 10Not in the top three
Falco1 of 10Not in the top three
Grype1 of 10Not in the top three
Prisma Cloud1 of 10Not in the top three
SUSE NeuVector1 of 10Not in the top three
Syft1 of 10Not 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.

Names read as Elastic’s "Defend for Containers"

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Elastic’s "Defend for Containers"; a claim can dispute any of them.
Elastic’s "Defend for Containers" (D4C) 1
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