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Mandiant Advantage

12Judge labels

1First choices

6Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, 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. Mandiant Advantage was named 7 times in Threat intel and 1 other category, where NordStellar led with 13%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business106 of 122

under the label threshold

Mid-market116 of 128

under the label threshold

Enterprise14 of 105

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 Mandiant Advantage 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
Threat intelligence platforms	Security operations	0%	116 of 128	50%	6	under 10 labels · led by NordStellar at 13%
Endpoint detection and response	Security operations	0%	23 of 54	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Bitdefender GravityZone at 20%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	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 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	2	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	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

Paraphrase2 labels1

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 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.

“Mandiant Advantage excels, especially if you rely on Google Cloud or want deep IR‑derived intel.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Threat intel · comparative prompt · alternative

“plan a migration to a modern cloud-native EDR (such as Mandiant Advantage or another vendor)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · EDR · negative prompt · alternative

“Best For: Forensic depth and incident response.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · 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.

“overkill and pricey for most B2B mid-markets” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Threat intel · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“likely out of budget: Recorded Future, Mandiant Advantage” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Threat intel · budget prompt · soft negative

“these subscriptions are simply not feasible” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Threat intel · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Mandiant Advantage, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Mandiant Advantage was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Recorded Future11 of 125Not in the top three

MISP6 of 122Not in the top three

ThreatConnect6 of 120Not in the top three

AlienVault OTX5 of 121Not in the top three

Anomali4 of 121Not in the top three

OpenCTI4 of 121Not in the top three

Abuse.ch3 of 120Not in the top three

Anomali ThreatStream3 of 120Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence3 of 120Not in the top three

CISA AIS2 of 120Not 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 Mandiant Advantage. 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 11 of the 12 answers that named Mandiant Advantage and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

analyticsinsight.net8

cipherssecurity.com7

esecurityplanet.com7

underdefense.com6

b2breviews.com5

cyware.com4

peerspot.com4

tech-insider.org4

vectra.ai4

anomali.com3

Fifty-two of the fifty-two domain citations in answers naming Mandiant Advantage came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cipherssecurity.com/best-threat-intelligence-platforms-20267

esecurityplanet.com/products/threat-intelligence-platforms7

analyticsinsight.net/cybersecurity/10-best-threat-intelligence-platforms-in-20265

b2breviews.com/threat-intelligence-platforms5

analyticsinsight.net/cybersecurity/best-threat-intelligence-platforms4

tech-insider.org/recorded-future-vs-gti-vs-threatconnect-20264

vectra.ai/topics/threat-intelligence-tools4

costbench.com/software/threat-intelligence3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Mandiant Advantage

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

Mandiant Advantage (Google Cloud) 1Mandiant Advantage (Threat Intelligence) 1

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