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ESET · 1 category · Named, not ranked

ESET Endpoint Security

6Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

4 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. ESET Endpoint Security was named 3 times in Endpoint protection, where Microsoft Defender for Cloud led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business31 of 89

under the label threshold

Mid-market24 of 99

under the label threshold

Enterprise28 of 82

under the label threshold

In endpoint protection · 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 ESET Endpoint Security 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
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	0%	24 of 99	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Cloud at 22%

Movement

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.

“If hardware is older or you need the lightest footprint → ESET Endpoint Security” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Endpoint protection · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Best for self‑managed, per‑device pricing: ESET or Bitdefender GravityZone” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Endpoint protection · budget prompt · alternative

“### 4. Best for Legacy Hardware: ESET Endpoint Security” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Endpoint protection · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ESET Endpoint Security, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ESET Endpoint Security was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Bitdefender GravityZone5 of 62Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint4 of 62Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon2 of 61Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud2 of 61Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity2 of 61Not in the top three

CrowdStrike2 of 60Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR2 of 60Not in the top three

SentinelOne2 of 60Not in the top three

Webroot SecureAnywhere Business2 of 60Not in the top three

Sophos Endpoint1 of 61Not 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 ESET Endpoint Security. 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 5 of the 6 answers that named ESET Endpoint Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com4

cnicsolutions.com2

cyberpress.org2

deel.com2

expertinsights.com2

gartner.com2

microsoft.com2

av-comparatives.org1

bellatorcyber.com1

bitdefender.com1

Nineteen of the nineteen domain citations in answers naming ESET Endpoint Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-business-antivirus-compared4

gbhackers.com/best-edr-solutions-compared3

cnicsolutions.com/cybersecurity-threat-protection/best-endpoint-protection-edr-solutions-f2

cyberpress.org/business-antivirus-by-business-size2

deel.com/blog/best-endpoint-protection-for-business2

av-comparatives.org/tests/endpoint-prevention-response-epr-test-20251

bellatorcyber.com/blog/edr-providers-flat-monthly-pricing-smbs1

bitdefender.com/en-us/consumer/small-business-security1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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