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Red Canary

59Judge labels
3First choices
3Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
4Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
7% in MDR for enterprise buyers
Rank 10 of 45 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 5% of its 21 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In mdr · 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 Red Canary 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Managed detection and responseSecurity operations0%10 of 455%21accepted challenger
SIEM platformsSecurity operations0%17 of 490%2under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Sentinel at 41%
Endpoint detection and responseSecurity operations0%27 of 540%1under 10 labels · led by Bitdefender GravityZone at 20%
Extended detection and responseSecurity operations0%44 of 610%1under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender XDR at 63%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Red Canary 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 Red Canary across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash04307
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast01102
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash03115
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K202002
GLM 4.7 FlashX03104
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Direct10 labels1
Paraphrase9 labelsNone
Comparative19 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labels2
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative7 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative59 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.

“Best for organizations that want to bring their own tools but still need expert detection and response.” Mistral Small · MDR · comparative prompt · alternative
“Expel, Red Canary, or Blackpoint Cyber: These are Managed Detection and Response (MDR) providers.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SIEM · scale prompt · alternative
“Industry leader in "detective logic"; excels at identifying subtle attacks that other tools miss.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · MDR · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best For: Organizations seeking world-class detection engineering and custom detection-as-code.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · MDR · 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.

“Avoid enterprise-tier providers (Arctic Wolf, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, Expel, Red Canary)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · MDR · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Red Canary, over the 59 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Red Canary was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response45 of 598Not in the top three
CrowdStrike Falcon Complete39 of 5920Not in the top three
Expel39 of 592Not in the top three
Sophos MDR36 of 591Not in the top three
Huntress Managed EDR31 of 5912Not in the top three
SentinelOne Singularity MDR23 of 591Not in the top three
eSentire18 of 591Not in the top three
Rapid7 MDR18 of 590Not in the top three
Ontinue14 of 590Not in the top three
CrowdStrike11 of 593Not 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 Red Canary. 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 43 of the 59 answers that named Red Canary and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com34
learn.g2.com25
cybersecuritynews.com24
checkthat.ai18
cyberpress.org18
defendify.com17
huntress.com17
mdrproviders.io14
corporatevision-news.com13
consilien.com12

192 of the 192 domain citations in answers naming Red Canary came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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