Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 29 of 35, unchanged
6 categories · Named, not rankedMcAfee
21Judge labels
0First choices
15Negative labels
9 / 14Models named it
6Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
6 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. McAfee was named 6 times in Password managers and 5 other categories, where 1Password led with 47%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market29 of 35
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprise33 of 37
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In password managers · 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 McAfee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business password managers | Identity and access | 0% | 29 of 35 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by 1Password at 47% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Data security posture management | Security operations | 0% | 104 of 105 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview at 18% | |
| Endpoint protection | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 69 of 86 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint at 22% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Microsegmentation | Network and edge | 0% | 85 of 94 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by ColorTokens Xshield at 25% | |
| SASE platforms | Network and edge | 0% | 42 of 45 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cato Networks at 35% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Threat intelligence platforms | Security operations | 0% | 93 of 119 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by MISP at 12% |
Movement
Since September 2026, McAfee held within the floor in all six categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Password managers · by segment
EnterprisenewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 33 of 37, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Password managers | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 29 of 35, unchanged |
| DSPM | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 104 of 105, unchanged |
| Endpoint protection | 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 75 → 69 of 86 |
| Microsegmentation | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 85 of 94, unchanged |
| SASE | 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 38 → 42 of 45 |
| Threat intel | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 93 of 119, unchanged |
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 McAfee 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 McAfee 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 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 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
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative4 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative12 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative21 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.
No positive label carried a quote.
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.
“Many premium antivirus suites (such as McAfee or Avast) bundle a "free" password manager ... They routinely lack business-grade features” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Password managers · negative prompt · hard negative
“DLP vendors like CyberHaven, Forcepoint, Digital Guardian, and McAfee miss the discovery, posture management” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DSPM · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid—no future roadmap for enterprise SASE” Kimi K2 · SASE · negative prompt · hard negative
“These are "last resort" options... Significant maintenance burden” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Microsegmentation · comparative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as McAfee, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and McAfee was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as McAfee, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and McAfee 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 McAfee. 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 21 answers that named McAfee and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
g2.com7
us.fitgap.com5
venn.com5
huntress.com4
linkedin.com4
microsoft.com4
peerspot.com4
reddit.com4
rfp.wiki4
sourceforge.net4
Forty-five of the forty-five domain citations in answers naming McAfee came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on mcafee.com
767
subdomains included
Content
759
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 528 | 18 | 2026-09-20 | ||
| Blog | 201 | 6 | 2026-09-04 | ||
| Report or ebook | 12 | undated | |||
| News or press | 11 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 5 | 0 | 2026-04-24 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | 0 | 2026-05-04 |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page mcafee.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. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as McAfee
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as McAfee; a claim can dispute any of them.
McAfee (now Trellix) 1
Follow McAfee
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
McAfee is its own company.ShowHide
The company
McAfee is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI-Powered Antivirus, Scam, Identity, and Privacy Protection
- For
- individuals
- Price stated
- Core Protection Premium $49.99*/yr; Advanced $89.99*/yr; Ultimate $199.99*/yr; Core Protection Premium $99.99*/2yrs; Advanced $179.99*/2yrs; Ultimate $399.99*/2yrs mcafee.com
- Starting price
- 49.99 mcafee.com
- Free plan or trial
- Free Antivirus Trial mcafee.com
- Customers named
- CNETTOM’S GUIDETHE TELEGRAPHU.S. NEWS
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What McAfee's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: mcafee.com. 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 McAfee'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 McAfee, 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 McAfee by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where McAfee 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 McAfee, 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.