Proton · 2 categories · Named, not rankedProton Mail
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Client-side protection | Security operations | 0% | 63 of 120 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by cside at 13% | |
| Email security | Security operations | 0% | 31 of 76 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 at 32% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Proton Mail across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Use communication platforms that fiercely resist CSS mandates (like Signal or Proton Mail)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Client-side protection · negative prompt · alternative
“Move to privacy-first, encrypted email services such as Proton Mail or Tuta.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email security · negative 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.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Proton Mail, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Proton Mail was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 4 of the 4 answers that named Proton Mail and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eleven of the eleven domain citations in answers naming Proton Mail came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
proton.me is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Proton Mail takes 0% of first choices and cside takes 13%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Its company's site
- proton.me shared with Proton's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 3,125,854 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 38,338 · 4,353 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 46,001
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 4 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 4 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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.
Follow Proton Mail
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.
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The company
Proton is the company behind Proton Mail.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company records- Also from Proton
- Proton Pass, Proton Pass for Business
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Secure email that protects your privacy
- For
- People who use desktop email clients and want Proton Mail with end-to-end encryption
- Price stated
- Proton Mail Bridge is available only with a paid plan that includes Proton Mail. proton.me/mail/bridge
- Starting price
- 3.99/month proton.me/mail/proton-mail-vs-gmail
- Free plan or trial
- Create a free account; Free trial proton.me/mail/download
- Certifications
- ISO 27001HIPAAGDPR
- Hosting
- SwitzerlandGeneva, SwitzerlandSuiza
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, customers
What Proton Mail's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: proton.me/mail/bridge, proton.me/mail/download, proton.me/mail/proton-mail-vs-tuta, proton.me/mail/proton-mail-vs-gmail, proton.me/es-419/mail/proton-mail-vs-tuta. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 Proton Mail'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 Proton Mail, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Proton Mail by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Proton Mail 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 Proton Mail, 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.