Every category where a model named Heimdal 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	4%	6 of 87	0%	16	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	4	4
Mistral Small	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	2	0	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	1

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

Direct6 labels1

Paraphrase4 labels1

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“Some of the top contenders include ManageEngine, Syxsense, and Heimdal.” Llama 4 Maverick · Patching · direct prompt · first choice

“would be ManageEngine, Syxsense, or Heimdal” Llama 4 Maverick · Patching · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Appeals to mid-market companies that want patching integrated within a broader security suite” Mistral Small · Patching · direct prompt · alternative

“Prefer a security‑centric patching platform (AV + patching) | Heimdal” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Patching · 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 Heimdal, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Heimdal was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Automox16 of 207Not in the top three

NinjaOne15 of 208Not in the top three

Action113 of 202Not in the top three

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus10 of 204Not in the top three

Syxsense10 of 201Not in the top three

Microsoft Intune7 of 200Not in the top three

ManageEngine6 of 200Not in the top three

Patch My PC6 of 200Not in the top three

Tanium5 of 201Not in the top three

Ivanti4 of 200Not 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. 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 20 of the 20 answers that named Heimdal and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

heimdalsecurity.comYour site16

cyberpress.org15

gbhackers.com11

learn.g2.com11

expertinsights.com10

acronis.com9

motadata.com9

ninjaone.com9

mspcompared.com7

automox.com5

Eighty-six of the 102 domain citations in answers naming Heimdal came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/patch-management-by-business-size-215

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/automated-patch-management-software14

gbhackers.com/best-patch-management-compared-211

learn.g2.com/best-patch-management-software11

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-patch-management-software-and-tools-20269

expertinsights.com/it-management/the-top-patch-management-software-for-business9

motadata.com/blog/best-patch-management-software8

mspcompared.com/best/patch-management5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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