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3 categories · Named, not ranked

Malwarebytes for Business

22Judge labels

3First choices

0Negative labels

9 / 14Models named it

3Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

9 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Malwarebytes for Business was named 9 times in Client-side protection and 2 other categories, where cside led with 13%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market21 of 120

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In client-side protection · 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 Malwarebytes for Business 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
Client-side protection	Security operations	2%	21 of 120	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by cside at 13%
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	2%	12 of 86	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint at 22%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.
AI security platforms	Security operations	0%	51 of 233	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Malwarebytes for Business 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 Malwarebytes for Business 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	2	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	1	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative3 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained16 labels3

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.

“For very small teams (under 25 devices), Microsoft Defender for Business or Malwarebytes often provide the best value.” MiniMax M2.5 · Client-side protection · budget prompt · first choice

“is Norton Small Business, Malwarebytes for Business, or basic ESET PROTECT tiers” Llama 4 Maverick · Endpoint protection · budget prompt · first choice

“A good option if you want a simple, effective solution with minimal setup required.” Mistral Small · AI security · budget prompt · alternative

“Malwarebytes is praised for its malware detection and removal capabilities.” Mistral Small · Endpoint protection · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Malwarebytes for Business, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Malwarebytes for Business was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender for Cloud16 of 2210Not among the top eight

CrowdStrike Falcon Go9 of 221Not among the top eight

ESET PROTECT8 of 220Not among the top eight

Norton Small Business8 of 220Not among the top eight

Huntress Managed EDR7 of 222Not among the top eight

UnderDefense AI SOC4 of 220Not among the top eight

Huntress3 of 221Not among the top eight

SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint3 of 221Not among the top eight

Bitdefender GravityZone2 of 221Not among the top eight

Bitdefender GravityZone Small Business Security2 of 221Not 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 Malwarebytes for Business. 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 22 of the 22 answers that named Malwarebytes for Business and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

tekpon.com13

huntress.com10

techrepublic.com10

fueler.io9

guideflow.com9

learn.g2.com8

microsoft.com7

tigertail.co7

getastra.com6

sourceforge.net6

Eighty-five of the eighty-five domain citations in answers naming Malwarebytes for Business came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

tekpon.com/insights/security-compliance/cybersecurity/best-endpoint-protection-software-fo13

fueler.io/blog/ai-tools-that-improve-security-for-small-businesses9

guideflow.com/blog/best-endpoint-protection-software9

learn.g2.com/best-edr-software7

microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/endpoint-security/microsoft-defender-business7

tigertail.co/blog/ai-cybersecurity-tools7

getastra.com/blog/ai-security/ai-security-tools6

huntress.com/internal-it-cybersecurity-guide/best-endpoint-protection-for-small-businesses6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

malwarebytes.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Malwarebytes for Business takes 2% of first choices and cside takes 13%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “client-side protection tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “client-side protection tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 90 a month (“malwarebytes for business”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 4 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 2,387,578 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 66,603 · 8,086 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 48,164
Paid Google search: 1 searches its ads show for, about 10 clicks and $62 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

99+ ads · 66 text, 20 image, 13 video · 99 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as Malwarebytes, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 41 in the year, 58 before. 21 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 21 of 120 in client-side protection

Segment leader

13%

cside

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 22 answers
Its own site cited: in 22 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on malwarebytes.com

6,355

subdomains included

Content

6,005

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

35 · 4

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
News or press	4,979	51	2026-09-30	MFA, Endpoint protection
Blog	601	97	2026-10-05	Streaming, RMM
Podcast or video	166	4	2026-09-01	MDR, SIEM
Report or ebook	153	3	2026-09-29
Glossary or explainer	55	0	2026-06-11
Comparison	21	0	2025-08-08
Webinar or virtual event	18	0	2024-10-01
Conference or event	8	0	2025-08-01
Case study	3	0	2018-02-01
Template or tool	1	0	2018-06-01

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How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page malwarebytes.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Malwarebytes for Business

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

Malwarebytes For Teams 2Malwarebytes for Teams 1

Follow Malwarebytes for Business

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

Malwarebytes for Business is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Security for your personal and business devices
malwarebytes.com
For: Small business
malwarebytes.com
Price stated: Sole proprietor $119.99/yr.; Boutique business $399.99/yr.; Small office $519.99/yr. malwarebytes.com
Starting price: 119.99 malwarebytes.com
Certifications: MRG EffitasG2AVLabTom’s Guide RecommendedPC Mag: Best Brands 2026Best of CNET AwardZDNET Editors Choice 2026AV-Test top product
Customers named: eero Plus
Not stated on the pages read: Free plan or trial, integrations, hosting

What Malwarebytes for Business's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: malwarebytes.com, malwarebytes.com/pricing, malwarebytes.com/solutions/scam-guard, malwarebytes.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 Malwarebytes for Business'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 Malwarebytes for Business, 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 Malwarebytes for Business by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Malwarebytes for Business 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 Malwarebytes for Business, 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.