Small business▼−6Since September 2026: 88% → 82%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
82%from 88% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 1 of 42, unchanged
Huntress · 6 categories · RankedHuntress Managed EDR
294Judge labels
95First choices
7Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
6Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
78% in MDR for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 67 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 30 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Huntress Managed EDR →By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.
Small business1 of 48
78%61 labels
endorsed leader
Mid-market2 of 67
35%30 labels
endorsed leader
Enterprise18 of 67
0%12 labels
accepted challenger
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 Huntress Managed EDR 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed detection and response | Security operations | 35% | 2 of 67 | 0% | 30 | endorsed leader | ▲+9Since September 2026: 26% → 35%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Endpoint detection and response | Security operations | 6% | 5 of 55 | 0% | 33 | accepted challenger | ▼−7Since September 2026: 14% → 6%, −7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| AI SOC agents | Security operations | 2% | 13 of 104 | 0% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Dropzone AI at 24% | |
| Endpoint protection | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 18 of 86 | 0% | 13 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Extended detection and response | Security operations | 0% | 24 of 58 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender XDR at 40% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| AI security platforms | Security operations | 0% | 106 of 233 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Huntress Managed EDR held within the floor in all six categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · MDR · by segment
Mid-market▲+9Since September 2026: 26% → 35%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
35%from 26% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 2 pointsRank 2 of 65, unchanged
Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 9 → 18 of 60
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDR | 26% | 35% | ▲+9Since September 2026: 26% → 35%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 of 67, unchanged |
| EDR | 14% | 6% | ▼−7Since September 2026: 14% → 6%, −7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 4 → 5 of 55 |
| AI SOC agents | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 13 of 104, unchanged |
| Endpoint protection | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 15 → 18 of 86 |
| XDR | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 14 → 24 of 58 |
| AI security | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 106 of 233, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Huntress Managed EDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Huntress Managed EDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
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
Direct54 labels22
Paraphrase47 labels25
Comparative53 labels24not counted in share
Budget-constrained90 labels36
Scale-constrained23 labels12
Negative27 labels11not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative294 labels in all, every segment counted; 95 of the 130 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.
“The best MDR service for a company with a limited budget is Huntress, as it delivers human-verified MDR at a price point that works for small-market budgets.” Llama 4 Maverick · MDR · budget prompt · first choice
“1. Huntress - Strong reputation for mid-market B2B companies ... I'd recommend requesting demos from Huntress, Sophos, and Arctic Wolf” MiniMax M2.5 · MDR · direct prompt · first choice
“For tightest budget, Huntress offers some of the most transparent and affordable pricing specifically designed for small businesses.” MiniMax M2.5 · MDR · budget prompt · first choice
“Huntress is the strongest general-purpose MDR option in the results because it is described as one of the lower-cost providers” Perplexity Sonar · MDR · budget prompt · first choice
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 Huntress Managed EDR, over the 294 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Huntress Managed EDR was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Huntress Managed EDR, over the 294 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Huntress Managed EDR was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Huntress Managed EDR. 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 290 of the 294 answers that named Huntress Managed EDR and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
huntress.comYour site207
gbhackers.com91
kaseya.com88
learn.g2.com83
expertinsights.com80
sentinelone.com80
g2.com65
underdefense.com64
cybersecuritynews.com63
cynet.com63
677 of the 884 domain citations in answers naming Huntress Managed EDR came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
huntress.com ranks 8 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Huntress Managed EDR takes 35% of first choices and Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response takes 37%.ShowHide
Search and answers
huntress.com ranks 8 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Huntress Managed EDR takes 35% of first choices and Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response takes 37%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “mdr service”
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not in the top ten
Position for “mdr services”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 170 a month (“huntress managed edr”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 4 a month
- Its company's site
- huntress.com shared with Huntress's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 352,368 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 27,922 · 2,764 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 8,631
- Paid Google search
- 24 searches its ads show for, about 681 clicks and $15,522 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
35%
rank 2 of 67 in MDR
Segment leader
37%
Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response
- First choices
- 95 across its categories
- Named in
- 294 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 290 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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 Huntress Managed EDR
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Huntress Managed EDR; a claim can dispute any of them.
Huntress 57
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The company
Huntress is the company behind Huntress Managed EDR.ShowHide
The company
Huntress is the company behind Huntress Managed EDR.
ShowHideOn record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Get full endpoint visibility, detection, and response.
- For
- Designed for all teams; whether you’re a one-person shop or a large security team.
- Price stated
- licensed per endpoint via a subscription model huntress.com/pricing/edr
- Free plan or trial
- Try Huntress for Free huntress.com/edr-guide
- Customers named
- Solis SecurityCohere HealthUltra ITKey MethodsDominant Systems CorporationDarkhorse TechRudick Innovation and TechnologyGreystone Technology
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Huntress Managed EDR's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: huntress.com/edr-guide, huntress.com/pricing/edr, huntress.com/platform/managed-edr, huntress.com/platform/managed-espm, huntress.com/platform/managed-ispm. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Huntress Managed EDR by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Huntress Managed EDR 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 Huntress Managed EDR, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Huntress Managed EDR is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Huntress Managed EDR is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideHuntress Managed EDR is among the products AI models recommend first in Managed detection and response this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.