Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 7 → 11 of 42
1 category · RankedExpel MDR
51Judge labels
7First choices
1Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
9% in MDR for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 67 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 17 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Expel MDR →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business13 of 48
0%13 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market4 of 67
4%17 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise3 of 67
9%21 labels
accepted challenger
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 Expel 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed detection and response | Security operations | 4% | 4 of 67 | 0% | 17 | accepted challenger | ▲+1Since September 2026: 4% → 5%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Expel MDR held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · MDR · by segment
Mid-market▲+1Since September 2026: 4% → 5%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 5 → 4 of 65
Enterprise▼−6Since September 2026: 10% → 4%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 10% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 3 → 6 of 60
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDR | 4% | 5% | ▲+1Since September 2026: 4% → 5%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 4 of 67 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Expel MDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Expel MDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| 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 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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
Direct9 labels2
Paraphrase8 labels3
Comparative21 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained4 labels2
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative4 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative51 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 9 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.
“Best Overall for Transparent, "Bring Your Own Tech" (BYOT) Security: Expel ... Expel is the top choice.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · MDR · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“the most cited MDR leaders in 2025-2026 are CrowdStrike, Expel and Red Canary” Muse Glimmer 30B · MDR · comparative prompt · first choice
“Sophos MDR and Expel are frequently highlighted as top choices” Mistral Small · MDR · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend reviewing providers like Expel, eSentire, Rapid7, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Arctic Wolf, and Critical Start (these are well-regarded)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · MDR · 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Expel MDR, over the 51 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Expel MDR was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Expel MDR, over the 51 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Expel MDR was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Expel MDR. 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 50 of the 51 answers that named Expel MDR and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
mdrproviders.io26
huntress.com23
intezer.com22
expel.comYour site21
rapid7.com18
expertinsights.com17
crowdstrike.com16
kaseya.com16
sentinelone.com16
gartner.com15
169 of the 190 domain citations in answers naming Expel MDR came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
expel.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Expel MDR takes 4% of first choices and Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response takes 37%.ShowHide
Search and answers
expel.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Expel MDR takes 4% of first choices and Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response takes 37%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “mdr service”
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not in the top ten
Position for “mdr services”
7
- Searches for its name, Google
- 210 a month (“expel mdr”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 2 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 16,570 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 827 · 34 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,129
- Paid Google search
- 4 searches its ads show for, about 11 clicks and $314 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 4 of 67 in MDR
Segment leader
37%
Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response
- First choices
- 7 across its categories
- Named in
- 51 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 50 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on expel.com
1,406
subdomains included
Content
854
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
21 · 11
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 661 | 11 | 2026-09-24 | MDR, SIEM | |
| Glossary or explainer | 77 | 1 | 2026-07-13 | SIEM, MDR | |
| Case study | 31 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 27 | undated | MDR | ||
| Conference or event | 21 | 0 | 2025-12-15 | MDR | |
| Comparison | 17 | undated | MDR, EDR | ||
| Podcast or video | 9 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 6 | undated | MDR | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | undated | MDR | ||
| News or press | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Are we secure against ai agents is a question we couldnt answer well blog
- 2026-09-21What changed in the 2026 gartner market guide for managed detection and response blog
- 2026-09-15Meet the expletive todd bane director of professional services blog
- 2026-09-10New ruxie ai power up precedent engine blog
- 2026-09-09Patch tuesday september 2026 expels version blog
- 2026-09-01What we built august 2026 blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- June 1, 2026 to June 3, 2026Gartner Security & Risk Management SummitNational Harbor, US · exhibited
- June 1, 2026The human-AI SOC: A framework for building SecOps that actually scaleNational Harbor, US · spoke
- June 1, 2026Mythos (Un) Happy Hour?Silver Diner, National Harbor, US · took part
- March 24, 2026VIP Lunch Experience at RSAC with Kevin MandiaLao Table, San Francisco, United States · took part
As the event pages on expel.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page expel.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Expel MDR
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Expel MDR; a claim can dispute any of them.
Expel 14
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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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The company
Expel MDR is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Expel MDR is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Managed detection and response (MDR) security services; "Agentic MDR means AI speed, without tradeoffs. Tech makes you fast. Humans make you accurate. You keep your tools, your visibility, and your control."
- For
- Tailored solutions for any size org offering 24×7 protection
- Customers named
- AffirmVisaEstes Express LinesInductive AutomationQlikDayton Children’s HospitalData IntelligenceScale Venture Partners
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Expel MDR's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: expel.com, expel.com/glossary-category/compliance, expel.com/solutions, expel.com/customers, expel.com/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Expel MDR'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 Expel MDR, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Expel MDR by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Expel MDR 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 Expel MDR, 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.