Every category where a model named Microsoft Sentinel 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
SIEM platforms	Security operations	41%	1 of 49	12%	56	endorsed leader
SOAR platforms	Security operations	2%	6 of 49	11%	28	accepted challenger
Log management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	36 of 59	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Datadog Log Management at 20%
Managed detection and response	Security operations	0%	39 of 45	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response at 39%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	3	0	0	5
GPT-5.4 mini	3	4	0	0	7
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	5	0	2	10
Perplexity Sonar	2	1	1	1	5
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	4	2	1	10
Mistral Small	2	1	1	0	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	2	2	1	8
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	4	3	1	10
Kimi K2	0	6	1	3	10
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	3	1	0	6
MiniMax M2.5	2	3	2	1	8

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

Direct54 labels23

Paraphrase48 labels19

Comparative57 labels9not counted in share

Budget-constrained37 labels7

Scale-constrained34 labels5

Negative38 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative268 labels in all, every segment counted; 54 of the 65 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.

“Microsoft Sentinel or LogRhythm are top choices due to their balance of features, ease of deployment, and support for mid-market teams.” Mistral Small · SIEM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend starting with Microsoft Sentinel due to its scalability, integration capabilities, and consumption-based pricing model” MiniMax M2.5 · SIEM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“The best SIEM platform for a mid-market B2B company is likely to be Microsoft Sentinel, Rapid7 InsightIDR, or ManageEngine Log360” Llama 4 Maverick · SIEM · direct prompt · first choice

“If you run on Microsoft 365 and have a dedicated sysadmin or security engineer who can learn KQL, go with Microsoft Sentinel” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SIEM · direct 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.

“a Microsoft SOAR works seamlessly with Microsoft tools, but requires significant effort to integrate with AWS or CrowdStrike” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SOAR · negative prompt · soft negative

“Sentinel is an excellent SIEM, but its value proposition changes drastically depending on your architecture.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SIEM · negative prompt · soft negative

“not "bad," but you should be careful with licensing, ingestion costs, and operational surprises” Perplexity Sonar · SIEM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Not on the "avoid" list, but cautionary because non-Microsoft data sources get expensive to ingest” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SIEM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Sentinel, over the 268 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Sentinel was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

IBM QRadar86 of 2680Not in the top three

Elastic Security85 of 2681Not in the top three

Splunk Enterprise Security76 of 26811Not in the top three

Splunk73 of 2686Not in the top three

Splunk SOAR65 of 2681Not in the top three

Blumira61 of 26822Not in the top three

Cortex XSOAR60 of 26821Not in the top three

Wazuh58 of 26814Compare →

Tines52 of 26825Not in the top three

Rapid7 InsightIDR49 of 26812Compare →

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 Microsoft Sentinel. 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 215 of the 268 answers that named Microsoft Sentinel and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

paloaltonetworks.com104

underdefense.com89

gartner.com83

exabeam.com64

expertinsights.com61

reddit.com56

comparitech.com48

cipherssecurity.com42

manageengine.com42

solutionsreview.com40

629 of the 629 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Sentinel came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

underdefense.com/blog/siem-solutions-comparison72

paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/siem-tools-comparison61

paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/soar-tools-comparison40

gartner.com/reviews/market/security-orchestration-automation-and-response-solutions36

expertinsights.com/security-operations/the-top-siem-solutions34

q-sec.com/siem-knowledge-base/best-siem-for-small-business34

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1b80zza/best_siem_solution_for_small_company34

gartner.com/reviews/market/security-information-event-management31

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Microsoft Sentinel

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

Microsoft Sentinel SOAR 4Sentinel 3Microsoft Sentinel (Logic Apps) 2Microsoft Azure Sentinel 1Microsoft Sentinel (w/ Logic Apps) 1Microsoft Sentinel Automation 1Microsoft Sentinel SOAR (Logic Apps) 1Microsoft with Sentinel 1

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