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1 category · Named, not ranked

Expel MDR

7Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

5 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. Expel MDR was named 1 time 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 business16 of 46

under the label threshold

Mid-market25 of 45

under the label threshold

Enterprise9 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 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
Managed detection and response	Security operations	0%	25 of 45	0%	1	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 Expel 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 Expel MDR 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	1	1
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	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
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

Direct2 labels1

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 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.

“Best For: Teams wanting full transparency and strong multi-cloud/SaaS integration.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · MDR · paraphrase 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 7 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response7 of 72Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete7 of 72Not in the top three

Sophos MDR6 of 70Not in the top three

Red Canary4 of 70Not in the top three

Huntress Managed EDR3 of 72Not in the top three

Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response3 of 70Not in the top three

Red Canary MDR2 of 70Not in the top three

Mandiant1 of 70Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR1 of 70Not in the top three

Ontinue1 of 70Not 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 Expel 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 4 of the 7 answers that named Expel MDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com3

learn.g2.com3

checkthat.ai2

consilien.com2

corporatevision-news.com2

cyberpress.org2

cybersecuritynews.com2

decryptiondigest.com2

paloaltonetworks.com2

acquisition-international.com1

Twenty-one of the twenty-one domain citations in answers naming Expel MDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-mdr-services-compared3

learn.g2.com/top-mdr-providers3

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-managed-detection-and-response-solutions2

consilien.com/news/best-mdr-providers-smb-20262

corporatevision-news.com/best-managed-detection-and-response-services-for-enterprises-in-22

cyberpress.org/mdr-services-to-consider2

cybersecuritynews.com/best-mdr-services2

decryptiondigest.com/blog/arctic-wolf-vs-crowdstrike-mdr-comparison2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Is this your product?

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 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.

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 expel.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.