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Fortinet · 2 categories · Named, not ranked

Fortinet FortiEDR

5Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

2Categories

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. Fortinet FortiEDR was named 4 times in Endpoint protection and 1 other category, 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 businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market25 of 99

under the label threshold

Enterprise50 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 Fortinet FortiEDR 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%	25 of 99	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Cloud at 22%
Extended detection and response	Security operations	0%	42 of 61	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender XDR at 63%

Movement

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“Increasingly popular for organizations already using the Fortinet Security Fabric, offering good value and performance.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Endpoint protection · negative prompt · alternative

“Fortinet FortiEDR fits naturally into Fortinet‑centric environments.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Endpoint protection · comparative prompt · alternative

“Strong for organizations already using Fortinet's security stack.” Mistral Small · Endpoint protection · comparative 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 Fortinet FortiEDR, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fortinet FortiEDR was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CrowdStrike Falcon5 of 54Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR4 of 51Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity4 of 51Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint4 of 50Not in the top three

Sophos Intercept X3 of 50Not in the top three

Bitdefender GravityZone2 of 50Not in the top three

ESET PROTECT2 of 50Not in the top three

VMware Carbon Black2 of 50Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender XDR1 of 51Not in the top three

Acronis Cyber Protect1 of 50Not 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 Fortinet FortiEDR. 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 5 answers that named Fortinet FortiEDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com4

docs.broadcom.com3

iru.com3

peerspot.com3

aimultiple.com2

cloudskope.com2

cybersecuritynews.com2

decryptiondigest.com2

gartner.com2

paloaltonetworks.com2

Twenty-five of the twenty-five domain citations in answers naming Fortinet FortiEDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

docs.broadcom.com/doc/kuppingercole-leadership-compass-endpoint-protection-detection-and-r3

gbhackers.com/best-business-antivirus-compared3

gbhackers.com/best-edr-solutions-compared3

iru.com/endpoint/compare/endpoint-security-software3

aimultiple.com/xdr-solutions2

cloudskope.com/insights/post/defender-crowdstrike-sentinelone-comparison-20262

decryptiondigest.com/blog/best-xdr-platforms-20262

paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/crowdstrike-vs-cortex-xdr2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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