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Huntress Managed ITDR

128Judge labels

68First choices

3Negative labels

14 / 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

84% in ITDR for small business buyers

Rank 1 of 105 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader

9 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 5% of its 41 labels there were negative.

What the models named instead of Huntress Managed ITDR →

By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.

Small business1 of 79

In itdr · 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 ITDR 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
Identity threat detection and response	Identity and access	51%	1 of 105	5%	41	endorsed leader

Movement

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	2	0	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	1	0	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	3	1	0	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	1	1	1	6
Mistral Small	1	0	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	0	1	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	2	0	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	0	1	3
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	0	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	0	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	3	2	0	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

Direct24 labels21

Paraphrase22 labels18

Comparative25 labels12not counted in share

Budget-constrained34 labels22

Scale-constrained10 labels7

Negative13 labels9not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative128 labels in all, every segment counted; 68 of the 89 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.

“Start with Huntress if you want plug-and-play managed protection without a big stack overhaul—it's repeatedly called out as the value leader for mid-market” Grok 4.1 Fast · ITDR · direct prompt · first choice

“Huntress is often the best overall fit when the company is mid-market but not heavily staffed in security operations” GPT-5.4 mini · ITDR · direct prompt · first choice

“Top Recommendation: Huntress Managed ITDR ... Huntress is built specifically for the mid-market and MSP-backed environments.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ITDR · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“the practical winner is Huntress — its transparent pricing, 24/7 managed SOC, and identity-focused detection” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ITDR · direct 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.

“Huntress: Occasional false positives from location/VPN data... Per-user pricing scales poorly (Huntress complaints)” Grok 4.1 Fast · ITDR · negative prompt · soft negative

“Huntress Managed ITDR users report inadequate detection of failed login attempts, limiting proactive responses.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ITDR · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Huntress Managed ITDR, over the 128 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Huntress Managed ITDR was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender for Identity69 of 12812Compare →

Silverfort ITDR47 of 1281Compare →

CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection43 of 1284Not among the top eight

Sophos ITDR30 of 1281Compare →

Push Security23 of 1280Not among the top eight

CrowdStrike21 of 1280Not among the top eight

Cynet19 of 1280Not among the top eight

Semperis Directory Services Protector18 of 1281Not among the top eight

Okta Identity Threat Protection16 of 1280Compare →

SentinelOne Singularity Identity16 of 1280Not 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 Huntress Managed ITDR. 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 126 of the 128 answers that named Huntress Managed ITDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

huntress.comYour site107

cybersecuritynews.com82

gbhackers.com77

cynet.com69

expertinsights.com68

g2.com56

cyberpress.org46

breachsense.com43

microsoft.com37

guardz.com36

514 of the 621 domain citations in answers naming Huntress Managed ITDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

huntress.com/itdr-guide/best-itdr-vendors92

gbhackers.com/itdr-solutions-compared-features-pricing76

cybersecuritynews.com/best-identity-threat-detection-and-response-solutions68

cynet.com/security-foundations/identity-security/itdr-vendors68

expertinsights.com/identity-and-access-management/the-top-identity-threat-detection-and-re66

breachsense.com/blog/itdr-tools43

g2.com/categories/identity-threat-detection-and-response-itdr/small-business43

cyberpress.org/itdr-solutions-by-business-size42

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Huntress Managed ITDR stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “itdr solution”

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not in the top ten

Position for “itdr solutions”

Searches for its name, Google: 50 a month (“huntress managed itdr”)
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)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 80 text, 29 video, 11 image · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown September 2023, as Huntress Labs Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 82 in the year, 38 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

51%

rank 1 of 105 in ITDR

First choices

across its categories

Named in: 128 answers
Its own site cited: in 126 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 ITDR

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

Huntress 10

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An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Huntress is the company behind Huntress Managed ITDR.

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On record

Company records

Also from Huntress: Huntress ITDR, Huntress MDR, Huntress Managed EDR, Huntress Managed SIEM, Huntress Managed Security Awareness, Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Managed Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), Backed by Huntress' 24/7 SOC
huntress.com/demo-itdr
For: What small- to mid-sized businesses and MSPs alike are saying about Huntress Managed ITDR.
huntress.com/demo-itdr
Price stated: per-identity, annual subscription model huntress.com/pricing/itdr
Free plan or trial: Try Huntress for Free huntress.com/itdr-guide
Customers named: Keenan Cline, Lightbulb NetworksLockIT TechnologiesSmall Business Internet Software & Services CompanySAM IT SolutionsBlair ITJXE TechRound Table NetworksRIT
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Huntress Managed ITDR's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: huntress.com/demo-itdr, huntress.com/itdr-guide, huntress.com/itdr-free-trial, huntress.com/itdr-free-trial-education, huntress.com/pricing/itdr. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Huntress Managed ITDR's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Huntress Managed ITDR, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Huntress Managed ITDR by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Huntress Managed ITDR 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 ITDR, 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 ITDR is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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AI models recommend Huntress Managed ITDR first in Identity threat 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.

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/identity/identity-threat-detection-and-response/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/huntress-managed-itdr--identity-threat-detection-and-response-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Identity threat detection and response, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Identity threat detection and response standing, where the claim can be checked.

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/identity/identity-threat-detection-and-response/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/huntress-managed-itdr--identity-threat-detection-and-response-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Identity threat detection and response, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/identity/identity-threat-detection-and-response/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/huntress-managed-itdr--identity-threat-detection-and-response-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Identity threat detection and response, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Identity threat detection and response standing, where the claim can be checked.

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.