Every category where a model named Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR 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
Extended detection and response	Security operations	0%	13 of 61	21%	29	accepted challenger
Endpoint detection and response	Security operations	0%	12 of 54	11%	19	accepted challenger
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	0%	19 of 99	0%	14	accepted challenger
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	71 of 80	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR 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 Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR 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	0	0	2	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	3	0	1	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	1	1	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	2	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	5	3	1	10
Mistral Small	1	0	5	0	6
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	2	2	8
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	4	0	4
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	3	1	1	6
Kimi K2	1	1	1	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	1	2	6
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	5	1	7

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

Direct38 labels3

Paraphrase25 labels4

Comparative68 labels11not counted in share

Budget-constrained12 labelsNone

Scale-constrained31 labelsNone

Negative39 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative213 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 18 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.

“### 1. Palo Alto Cortex XDR - Best for: Native correlation and enterprise security needs ... Score: 8.8/10 (2026 rankings)” Kimi K2 · XDR · comparative prompt · first choice

“If you need the absolute best detection and have the budget, CrowdStrike or Palo Alto Cortex XDR are the top picks.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · XDR · comparative prompt · first choice

“Palo Alto Cortex XDR – often rated #1 overall for correlation quality and data coverage” DeepSeek V4 Flash · XDR · comparative prompt · first choice

“Palo Alto and CrowdStrike lead in AI-driven detection and automation.” Mistral Small · XDR · 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.

“Complex policy tuning/detections leading to high false positives/noise (requires expertise), steep learning curve ... aggressive pricing” Grok 4.1 Fast · XDR · negative prompt · soft negative

“Robust platform, but multiple security advisories and documented bypasses mean you must: Keep agents and content updates current.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · EDR · negative prompt · soft negative

“Major "Native" XDR vendors (such as Palo Alto Cortex, Microsoft Defender, and CrowdStrike)... Why to be cautious” Qwen 3.7 Flash · XDR · negative prompt · soft negative

“is good, but it's usually positioned more as an enterprise/advanced option than the cheapest choice” GPT-5.4 mini · XDR · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, over the 213 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SentinelOne Singularity152 of 21317Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon121 of 21355Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender XDR99 of 21331Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint86 of 21320Not in the top three

Sophos Intercept X65 of 2130Not in the top three

Trend Vision One47 of 2130Not in the top three

Bitdefender GravityZone40 of 2132Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon XDR36 of 2136Not in the top three

Stellar Cyber35 of 2132Not in the top three

Cisco XDR30 of 2130Not 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 Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR. 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 175 of the 213 answers that named Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com122

cybersecuritynews.com91

paloaltonetworks.com85

cyberpress.org82

decryptiondigest.com68

gartner.com64

sentinelone.com46

guideflow.com44

microsoft.com37

esecurityplanet.com36

675 of the 675 domain citations in answers naming Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-edr-solutions-compared71

gbhackers.com/best-xdr-platforms-compared63

cyberpress.org/xdr-platforms-by-business-size54

paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/xdr-solutions48

decryptiondigest.com/blog/best-xdr-platforms-202645

cybersecuritynews.com/best-edr-solutions43

cybersecuritynews.com/best-xdr-platforms43

gartner.com/reviews/market/extended-detection-and-response34

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR

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

Palo Alto Cortex XDR 33Cortex XDR 2Palo Alto Cortex 2Cortex 1Palo Alto 1Palo Alto Cortex XDR (with EDR) 1Palo Alto Networks 1Palo Alto Networks Cortex 1Palo Alto Networks Cortex / Cortex XDR 1Palo Alto/Cortex 1

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