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Fortinet FortiNDR

26Judge labels
0First choices
7Negative labels
13 / 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
0% in NDR for mid-market buyers
Rank 24 of 102 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 18% of its 11 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Fortinet FortiNDR →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In ndr · 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 FortiNDR 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Network detection and responseSecurity operations0%24 of 10218%11accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Fortinet FortiNDR yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Fortinet FortiNDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00202
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small00022
DeepSeek V4 Flash00101
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01102
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B01001

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 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative12 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 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.

“FortiNDR with FortiSIEM integration, cloud-native, encrypted traffic analysis and automated response.” Muse Glimmer 30B · NDR · comparative prompt · alternative
“For consolidation under one vendor: Trend Micro, Fortinet” Qwen 3.7 Flash · NDR · 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.

“more feature-rich but tend to be more expensive and may be better suited for larger enterprises with bigger budgets” Mistral Small · NDR · budget prompt · soft negative
“Fortinet FortiNDR may also be less suitable outside of its ecosystem.” Mistral Small · NDR · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Fortinet FortiNDR, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fortinet FortiNDR was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Corelight Open NDR22 of 262Not among the top eight
Vectra AI21 of 268Not among the top eight
Darktrace21 of 263Not among the top eight
Cisco Secure Network Analytics19 of 261Not among the top eight
ExtraHop RevealX13 of 263Not among the top eight
Trellix NDR9 of 260Not among the top eight
Security Onion5 of 263Not among the top eight
NetWitness5 of 260Not among the top eight
Trend Vision One5 of 260Not among the top eight
ExtraHop Reveal4 of 260Not among the top eight
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 Fortinet FortiNDR. 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 25 of the 26 answers that named Fortinet FortiNDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comparitech.com16
vectra.ai15
cybersecuritynews.com14
gartner.com12
g2.com11
darktrace.com10
devopsschool.com10
extrahop.com10
ciopages.com9
myhospitalnow.com9

116 of the 116 domain citations in answers naming Fortinet FortiNDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Fortinet FortiNDR stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Searches for its name, Google
10 a month (“fortinet fortindr”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
0 a month
Its own site
It sits on Fortinet's site (fortinet.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 24 of 102 in NDR
Segment leader
21%
ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
26 answers
Its own site cited
in 25 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

Names read as Fortinet FortiNDR

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Fortinet FortiNDR; a claim can dispute any of them.
Fortinet 5

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The company

Fortinet is the company behind Fortinet FortiNDR.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Fortinet FortiNDR by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Fortinet FortiNDR 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 Fortinet FortiNDR, 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.
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