Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 103 → 37 of 114
IBM X-Force Exchange
20Judge labels
1First choices
3Negative labels
10 / 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.
Standing
7 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. IBM X-Force Exchange was named 7 times in Threat intel, where MISP led with 12%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business43 of 126
0%6 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market30 of 119
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise7 of 83
2%7 labels
under the label threshold
In threat intel · 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 IBM X-Force Exchange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Threat intelligence platforms | Security operations | 0% | 30 of 119 | 14% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by MISP at 12% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, IBM X-Force Exchange held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Threat intel · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 26 → 31 of 111
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 62 → 7 of 78
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Threat intel | 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 26 → 30 of 119 |
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 IBM X-Force Exchange 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 IBM X-Force Exchange 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 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative8 labelsNone
Budget-constrained5 labels1
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.
“provides free access to enterprise-grade threat data and research” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Threat intel · budget prompt · alternative
“Best for: Large enterprise environments already in IBM ecosystem” MiniMax M2.5 · Threat intel · 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.
“Better suited for research, sharing, and analysis than for deep end-to-end external risk monitoring.” Perplexity Sonar · Threat intel · comparative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as IBM X-Force Exchange, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM X-Force Exchange was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as IBM X-Force Exchange, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM X-Force Exchange 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 IBM X-Force Exchange. 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 18 of the 20 answers that named IBM X-Force Exchange and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
flare.io11
wiz.io10
analyticsinsight.net9
bitsight.com9
upguard.com9
esecurityplanet.com8
exabeam.com8
g2.com8
learn.g2.com8
csoonline.com7
Eighty-seven of the eighty-seven domain citations in answers naming IBM X-Force Exchange came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where IBM X-Force Exchange stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where IBM X-Force Exchange stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 210 a month (“ibm x-force exchange”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 5 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on IBM's site (ibm.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 30 of 119 in threat intel
Segment leader
12%
MISP
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 20 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 18 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 IBM X-Force Exchange
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as IBM X-Force Exchange; a claim can dispute any of them.
IBM X-Force 2IBM X‑Force 1
Follow IBM X-Force Exchange
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.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
IBM is the company behind IBM X-Force Exchange.ShowHide
The company
IBM is the company behind IBM X-Force Exchange.
ShowHideOn record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Hacker-driven offense. Research-driven defense. Intel-driven protection.
- For
- organizations
- Customers named
- Doosan Digital InnovationCentripetal Networks Inc.Unisys
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What IBM X-Force Exchange's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: ibm.com/x-force, ibm.com/think/x-force, ibm.com/es-es/x-force, ibm.com/id-id/x-force, ibm.com/it-it/x-force. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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 IBM X-Force Exchange'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 IBM X-Force Exchange, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for IBM X-Force Exchange by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where IBM X-Force Exchange 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 IBM X-Force Exchange, 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.