Every category where a model named eSentire 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
Managed detection and response	Security operations	11%	4 of 45	0%	20	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	2	0	1	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	2	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	3	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1	2

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

Direct13 labels3

Paraphrase5 labels2

Comparative10 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 labelsNone

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

“Highly recommended for mid-market organizations seeking a fully managed, analyst-led MDR service.” Mistral Small · MDR · direct prompt · first choice

“my default recommendation would be eSentire if you want a strong fully managed MDR service” Perplexity Sonar · MDR · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Arctic Wolf and eSentire are often cited as top choices for mid‑market B2B firms” GLM 4.7 FlashX · MDR · direct prompt · first choice

“If I had to give a single default recommendation ... Start with eSentire” GPT-5.4 mini · MDR · direct 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

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

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response24 of 316Not in the top three

Sophos MDR22 of 310Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete21 of 3112Not in the top three

Red Canary18 of 310Not in the top three

Expel16 of 311Not in the top three

Huntress Managed EDR16 of 311Not in the top three

Rapid7 MDR15 of 310Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity MDR13 of 312Not in the top three

Ontinue10 of 310Not in the top three

Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response6 of 310Not 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 eSentire. 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 30 of the 31 answers that named eSentire and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

learn.g2.com24

gbhackers.com22

cybersecuritynews.com20

cyberpress.org12

consilien.com9

rapid7.com9

checkthat.ai8

corporatevision-news.com8

huntress.com8

paloaltonetworks.com8

128 of the 128 domain citations in answers naming eSentire came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

learn.g2.com/top-mdr-providers24

gbhackers.com/best-mdr-services-compared22

cybersecuritynews.com/best-mdr-services14

cyberpress.org/mdr-services-to-consider11

consilien.com/news/best-mdr-providers-smb-20269

cybersecuritynews.com/best-mdr-services/amp9

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-managed-detection-and-response-solutions8

corporatevision-news.com/best-managed-detection-and-response-services-for-enterprises-in-28

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as eSentire

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

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when eSentire's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as eSentire, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at esentire.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.