Every category where a model named IRONSCALES 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
Email security	Security operations	9%	5 of 71	0%	29	accepted challenger
Security awareness training	Security operations	0%	21 of 65	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by KnowBe4 at 42%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for IRONSCALES 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 IRONSCALES 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	1	0	2	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	4	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	2	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	2	2
Mistral Small	0	0	4	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	0	2	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1	2
Kimi K2	2	1	1	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	2	5
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1	2

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

Direct17 labels7

Paraphrase15 labels5

Comparative23 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained11 labels1

Scale-constrained10 labels2

Negative9 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative85 labels in all, every segment counted; 15 of the 23 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 by evaluating IRONSCALES or Abnormal Security if you're using Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace” Kimi K2 · Email security · direct prompt · first choice

“add IRONSCALES as a phishing-specific layer with built-in security awareness training” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Email security · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“IRONSCALES specializes specifically in phishing protection for mid-market companies” MiniMax M2.5 · Email security · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“should evaluate API-based ICES solutions (Abnormal, IRONSCALES, Material Security)” Kimi K2 · Email security · comparative 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 IRONSCALES, over the 85 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IRONSCALES was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Proofpoint Email Protection64 of 859Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Office 36562 of 8516Not in the top three

Abnormal AI55 of 856Not in the top three

Mimecast Email Security51 of 853Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration39 of 855Not in the top three

Barracuda Email Protection37 of 856Not in the top three

SpamTitan18 of 851Not in the top three

Sublime Security14 of 853Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Email14 of 850Not in the top three

Coro13 of 850Not 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 IRONSCALES. 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 69 of the 85 answers that named IRONSCALES and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com48

expertinsights.com35

ironscales.comYour site32

learn.g2.com30

consilien.com28

simplyit.biz27

cybervendorguide.com25

kaseya.com25

sublime.security21

barracuda.com17

256 of the 288 domain citations in answers naming IRONSCALES came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/email-security45

ironscales.com/blog/the-best-email-security-companies-rankings-and-reviews28

learn.g2.com/best-cloud-email-security-platforms28

simplyit.biz/resources/email-security-platforms-small-business-202627

consilien.com/news/best-email-security-solutions-small-business-202626

kaseya.com/blog/best-email-security-solutions25

cybervendorguide.com/guides/email-security24

expertinsights.com/email-security/top-email-security-gateways22

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as IRONSCALES

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

Ironscales 7IronScales 1

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