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Index › Vendors › Heimdal Security · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Heimdal Security

6Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

4 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Heimdal Security was named 3 times in Patching, where Action1 led with 27%. 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-market20 of 87

under the label threshold

Enterprise48 of 79

under the label threshold

In patching · 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 Heimdal Security 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
Patch management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	20 of 87	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Action1 at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Heimdal Security 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 Heimdal Security 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	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1
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 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.

“Heimdal Security or ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus are strong alternatives.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Patching · direct prompt · alternative

“Best All-in-One Security Suite: Heimdal Security ... Heimdal is a strong contender.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Patching · direct prompt · alternative

“Appeals to those who want patching integrated within a broader security suite” Mistral Small · Patching · 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 Heimdal Security, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Heimdal Security was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

NinjaOne4 of 61Not in the top three

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus3 of 62Not in the top three

Action13 of 60Not in the top three

Syxsense3 of 60Not in the top three

Tanium2 of 60Not in the top three

ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus1 of 61Not in the top three

Automox1 of 60Not in the top three

BeyondTrust1 of 60Not in the top three

ConnectSecure1 of 60Not in the top three

Delinea Secret Server1 of 60Not 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 Heimdal Security. 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 6 of the 6 answers that named Heimdal Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

heimdalsecurity.comYour site6

cyberpress.org4

expertinsights.com4

g2.com2

gbhackers.com2

learn.g2.com2

reddit.com2

softwaretestinghelp.com2

worldmetrics.org2

acronis.com1

Twenty-one of the twenty-seven domain citations in answers naming Heimdal Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/patch-management-by-business-size-24

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/automated-patch-management-software4

gbhackers.com/best-patch-management-compared-22

learn.g2.com/best-patch-management-software2

softwaretestinghelp.com/patch-management-software2

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-patch-management-software-and-tools-20261

acsmi.org/blogs/best-privileged-access-management-pam-solutions-ranked-amp-reviewed1

aimultiple.com/patch-management-software1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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