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Index › Vendors › Sophos Intercept X + Sophos MDR · September 2026 Edition

Sophos · 3 categories · Named, not ranked

Sophos Intercept X + Sophos MDR

4Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

2 of 12Models named it

3Categories

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

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Sophos Intercept X + Sophos MDR was named 4 times in XDR and 2 other categories, where Microsoft Defender XDR led with 63%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market10 of 61

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In xdr · 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 Intercept X + Sophos MDR 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	2%	10 of 61	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender XDR at 63%
Endpoint detection and response	Security operations	0%	29 of 54	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Bitdefender GravityZone at 20%
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	0%	44 of 99	0%	1	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 Intercept X + Sophos MDR 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 Intercept X + Sophos MDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 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.

“Best Overall for Lean Teams (No SOC): Sophos Intercept X + Sophos MDR ... Sophos is the industry leader for this segment.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · XDR · direct prompt · first choice

“The best "bang-for-your-buck" option if you want to completely outsource threat monitoring to a 24/7 SOC” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Endpoint protection · direct prompt · alternative

“Sophos is built from the ground up for the mid-market... exceptionally easy for a small team to manage” Gemini 3.5 Flash · XDR · scale prompt · alternative

“a strong fit for mid-market IT teams that want simpler operations and managed monitoring” Perplexity Sonar · EDR · 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 Intercept X + Sophos MDR, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sophos Intercept X + Sophos MDR was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SentinelOne Singularity4 of 42Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon3 of 40Not in the top three

Huntress Managed EDR2 of 40Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender XDR2 of 40Not in the top three

Stellar Cyber2 of 40Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon Insight1 of 41Not in the top three

Bitdefender GravityZone1 of 40Not in the top three

Expel1 of 40Not in the top three

Huntress1 of 40Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Business / Defender for Endpoint1 of 40Not 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 Intercept X + Sophos MDR. 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 1 of the 4 answers that named Sophos Intercept X + Sophos MDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

acronis.com1

channelinsider.com1

consilien.com1

cyberpress.org1

cybersecuritynews.com1

cynet.com1

decryptiondigest.com1

eastbaycyber.com1

gbhackers.com1

guptadeepak.com1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Sophos Intercept X + Sophos MDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-edr-endpoint-detection-and-response-solutions-in-20261

channelinsider.com/security/best-edr-tools-for-msps1

consilien.com/news/best-edr-software-smb-20261

cyberpress.org/edr-solutions-by-business-size1

cybersecuritynews.com/best-edr-solutions1

cynet.com/security-foundations/endpoint-security/top-6-edr-tools-compared1

decryptiondigest.com/blog/best-mdr-services-20261

eastbaycyber.com/content/compare-best-edr-platforms-for-mid-market-companies-20261

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Sophos Intercept X + Sophos MDR

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Sophos Intercept X + Sophos MDR; a claim can dispute any of them.

Sophos Intercept X / Sophos MDR 1

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