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Huntress Managed EDR

240Judge labels
82First choices
3Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
4Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
88% in MDR for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 45 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 38 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Managed detection and responseSecurity operations26%2 of 450%38accepted challenger
Endpoint detection and responseSecurity operations14%3 of 540%34accepted challenger
Endpoint protectionIT operations and endpoint0%20 of 9911%9under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Cloud at 22%
Extended detection and responseSecurity operations0%16 of 610%8under 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 Huntress Managed EDR 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 Huntress Managed EDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.543209
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash262010
Perplexity Sonar172111
Grok 4.1 Fast283013
Mistral Small23005
DeepSeek V4 Flash26109
Llama 4 Maverick13004
Qwen 3.7 Flash13004
Kimi K2181010
GLM 4.7 FlashX35008
MiniMax M2.522105

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
Direct46 labels24
Paraphrase41 labels22
Comparative53 labels22not counted in share
Budget-constrained66 labels28
Scale-constrained14 labels8
Negative20 labels8not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative240 labels in all, every segment counted; 82 of the 112 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.

“Huntress Managed EDR is rated 4.8/5 on G2 based on 800+ user reviews and has repeatedly ranked as the #1 Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solution for small businesses and mid-market” Claude Haiku 4.5 · EDR · direct prompt · first choice
“Huntress Managed EDR is an excellent alternative to CrowdStrike, delivering enterprise-grade detection without the complexity, steep learning curve, or high cost” Claude Haiku 4.5 · EDR · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Huntress delivers the best value for small businesses and the MSPs who serve them. Huntress Managed EDR received the highest rating of 9.3 among leaders” Claude Haiku 4.5 · MDR · comparative prompt · first choice
“mid-market specialists like Arctic Wolf, Huntress, or Sophos often fit better than pure enterprise plays” Grok 4.1 Fast · MDR · scale 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.

“Consider Huntress Managed EDR, but it is usually more about service quality than lowest price.” Perplexity Sonar · Endpoint protection · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Huntress Managed EDR, over the 240 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.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
SentinelOne Singularity90 of 2407Not in the top three
Microsoft Defender for Cloud75 of 24038Not in the top three
CrowdStrike Falcon71 of 24012Not in the top three
CrowdStrike Falcon Complete49 of 24012Not in the top three
Sophos Intercept X47 of 2401Not in the top three
Expel39 of 2403Not 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 Huntress Managed EDR. 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 209 of the 240 answers that named Huntress Managed EDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com161
huntress.comYour site130
cyberpress.org129
cybersecuritynews.com97
consilien.com73
learn.g2.com73
cnicsolutions.com72
sentinelone.com49
mdrcost.com48
unio.digital43

745 of the 875 domain citations in answers naming Huntress Managed EDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 44Huntress (via MSP) 1Huntress Managed EDR (MDR) 1Huntress Managed EDR/XDR 1
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