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Sophos Endpoint

13Judge labels

1First choices

2Negative labels

9 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Sophos Endpoint was named 7 times in Endpoint protection, where Microsoft Defender for Cloud led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business56 of 89

under the label threshold

Mid-market11 of 99

under the label threshold

Enterprise22 of 82

under the label threshold

In endpoint protection · 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 Sophos Endpoint 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
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	2%	11 of 99	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Cloud at 22%

Movement

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

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Bitdefender GravityZone or Sophos Endpoint are the most balanced choices for a mid-sized B2B company” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Endpoint protection · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Choose Sophos Endpoint if you want a strong balance of capabilities, simpler administration, and often a friendlier mid-market fit.” GPT-5.4 mini · Endpoint protection · direct prompt · alternative

“A prevention-first, highly accessible platform for mid-market and small-to-midsized businesses.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Endpoint protection · comparative prompt · alternative

“Mid-market teams that want simple cloud-managed protection and easy EDR/XDR expansion” Perplexity Sonar · Endpoint protection · direct 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sophos Endpoint, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sophos Endpoint was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CrowdStrike Falcon10 of 135Not in the top three

Bitdefender GravityZone9 of 132Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint9 of 132Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR4 of 130Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity4 of 130Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud3 of 132Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint3 of 131Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon Go2 of 130Not in the top three

ESET PROTECT2 of 130Not in the top three

SentinelOne2 of 130Not 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 Sophos Endpoint. 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 11 of the 13 answers that named Sophos Endpoint and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com6

gbhackers.com6

huntress.com6

guideflow.com5

deel.com4

cybersecmanager.net3

cybersecuritynews.com3

cyberwise.almontsf.com3

g2.com3

softwareadvice.com3

Forty-two of the forty-two domain citations in answers naming Sophos Endpoint came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-business-antivirus-compared5

gbhackers.com/best-edr-solutions-compared5

guideflow.com/blog/best-endpoint-protection-software5

deel.com/blog/best-endpoint-protection-for-business4

gartner.com/reviews/market/endpoint-protection-platforms4

huntress.com/internal-it-cybersecurity-guide/best-endpoint-protection-for-small-businesses4

cybersecmanager.net/best-endpoint-protection-for-small-businesses3

cybersecuritynews.com/best-edr-solutions3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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