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ESET · 1 category · Named, not ranked

ESET PROTECT MDR

13Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

7 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

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. ESET PROTECT MDR was named 4 times in MDR, where Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response led with 39%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business11 of 46

under the label threshold

Mid-market9 of 45

under the label threshold

Enterprise19 of 45

under the label threshold

In mdr · 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 PROTECT MDR 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	2%	9 of 45	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response at 39%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
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	1	1
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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“ESET MDR looks like a strong budget-friendly choice for SMBs” GPT-5.4 mini · MDR · budget prompt · first choice

“ESET - Offers MDR with 25+ years of threat research backing it” MiniMax M2.5 · MDR · budget prompt · alternative

“ESET PROTECT MDR is another solid mid-market option.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · MDR · direct prompt · alternative

“Runner-Up: ESET MDR” Kimi K2 · MDR · 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 PROTECT MDR, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ESET PROTECT MDR was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response9 of 132Not in the top three

Sophos MDR8 of 130Not in the top three

Huntress Managed EDR7 of 136Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete6 of 132Not in the top three

Rapid7 MDR4 of 130Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity Wayfinder4 of 130Not in the top three

Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response3 of 130Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR2 of 130Not in the top three

Red Canary MDR2 of 130Not in the top three

CrowdStrike1 of 131Not 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 PROTECT MDR. 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 13 of the 13 answers that named ESET PROTECT MDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org6

defendify.com6

gbhackers.com6

learn.g2.com6

acquisition-international.com5

huntress.com5

mdrproviders.io5

consilien.com4

corporatevision-news.com4

gartner.com4

Fifty-one of the fifty-one domain citations in answers naming ESET PROTECT MDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

defendify.com/blog/managed-detection-and-response-providers6

gbhackers.com/best-mdr-services-compared6

learn.g2.com/top-mdr-providers6

acquisition-international.com/the-best-mdr-services-for-enterprise-security-teams-in-20265

cyberpress.org/mdr-services-to-consider5

huntress.com/cybersecurity-insights/managed-detection-response-vendors5

consilien.com/news/best-mdr-providers-smb-20264

corporatevision-news.com/best-managed-detection-and-response-services-for-enterprises-in-24

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as ESET PROTECT MDR

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

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