Small business▲+6Since September 2026: 0% → 6%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 9 → 6 of 55
Sophos · 6 categories · RankedSophos Intercept X
276Judge labels
24First choices
33Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
6Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
19% in XDR for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 58 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
9 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 24 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Sophos Intercept X →By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business6 of 62
5%26 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market2 of 58
19%24 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise44 of 58
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extended detection and response | Security operations | 19% | 2 of 58 | 8% | 24 | accepted challenger | ▲+18Since September 2026: 2% → 20%, +18 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Endpoint detection and response | Security operations | 6% | 6 of 55 | 5% | 39 | accepted challenger | ▲+6Since September 2026: 0% → 6%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Endpoint protection | IT operations and endpoint | 5% | 5 of 86 | 12% | 42 | accepted challenger | ▼−4Since September 2026: 8% → 4%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Client-side protection | Security operations | 0% | 69 of 120 | 33% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by cside at 13% | |
| AI security platforms | Security operations | 0% | 136 of 233 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11% | |
| Vulnerability management platforms | Security operations | 0% | 59 of 77 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 30% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Sophos Intercept X moved past the floor in one of six categories: XDR, +18 points to 20%. It held within the floor in the other five.
Best category · XDR · by segment
Mid-market▲+18Since September 2026: 2% → 20%, +18 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
20%from 2% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 7 pointsRank 7 → 2 of 53
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 28 → 29 of 46
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XDR | 2% | 20% | ▲+18Since September 2026: 2% → 20%, +18 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. | Moved past the floor | Rank 7 → 2 of 58 |
| EDR | 0% | 6% | ▲+6Since September 2026: 0% → 6%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 10 → 6 of 55 |
| Endpoint protection | 8% | 4% | ▼−4Since September 2026: 8% → 4%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 4 → 5 of 86 |
| Client-side protection | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 69 of 120, unchanged |
| AI security | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 136 of 233, unchanged |
| Vuln management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 59 of 77, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Sophos Intercept X across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Sophos Intercept X across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 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
Direct64 labels17
Paraphrase42 labels5
Comparative82 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained23 labels1
Scale-constrained24 labels1
Negative41 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative276 labels in all, every segment counted; 24 of the 29 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.
“For most mid-market B2B companies: Start with Sophos Intercept X/XDR. It offers the best balance of prevention, ease of use, and optional managed services” Qwen 3.7 Flash · XDR · direct prompt · first choice
“My Pick for Most Mid-Market B2B: Sophos Intercept X edges out due to Gartner leadership, mid-market pricing, and simplicity with optional MDR.” Grok 4.20 · EDR · direct prompt · first choice
“"Best for balanced SMB to mid-market coverage: Sophos Endpoint, strong endpoint protection software for business with simple admin."” Muse Glimmer 30B · Endpoint protection · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Sophos Intercept X or SentinelOne Singularity offer the best balance of protection, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness” Kimi K2 · XDR · direct 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.
“Some platforms like Sophos Endpoint have received complaints about slow performance on older systems and high resource usage affecting productivity” MiniMax M2.5 · Endpoint protection · negative prompt · soft negative
“I would evaluate Carbon Black/Broadcom and Sophos carefully for fit rather than assuming they are best-in-class” Perplexity Sonar · EDR · negative prompt · soft negative
“Platforms like CrowdStrike and Sophos can be prohibitively expensive for smaller organizations” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Endpoint protection · negative prompt · soft negative
“Good protection but consistent performance hits ... with user complaints about resource usage.” Grok 4.20 · Endpoint protection · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Sophos Intercept X, over the 275 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sophos Intercept X was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Sophos Intercept X, over the 275 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sophos Intercept X was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 252 of the 275 answers that named Sophos Intercept X and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
huntress.com104
sentinelone.com97
guideflow.com87
expertinsights.com74
techrepublic.com74
kaseya.com71
paloaltonetworks.com68
crowdstrike.com67
cybersecuritynews.com66
deel.com66
774 of the 774 domain citations in answers naming Sophos Intercept X came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
sophos.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Sophos Intercept X takes 19% of first choices and Microsoft Defender XDR takes 40%.ShowHide
Search and answers
sophos.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Sophos Intercept X takes 19% of first choices and Microsoft Defender XDR takes 40%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “xdr platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “xdr platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 880 a month (“sophos intercept x”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 49 a month
- Its company's site
- sophos.com shared with Sophos's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 186,716 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 26,165 · 1,253 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 68,364
- Paid Google search
- 4 searches its ads show for, about 56 clicks and $1,427 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
19%
rank 2 of 58 in XDR
Segment leader
40%
Microsoft Defender XDR
- First choices
- 24 across its categories
- Named in
- 275 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 252 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.
Names read as Sophos Intercept X
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Sophos Intercept X; a claim can dispute any of them.
Sophos Endpoint 12Sophos 11Sophos XDR 9Sophos Intercept X Endpoint 3Sophos Intercept X (with Sophos MDR) 2Sophos (Intercept X / Sophos MDR) 1Sophos (Intercept X) 1Sophos Endpoint / EDR / XDR 1Sophos Endpoint / Intercept X 1Sophos Endpoint / XDR 1Sophos Endpoint/Intercept X 1Sophos Intercept X & Sophos MDR 1Sophos Intercept X (XDR) 1Sophos Intercept X + Sophos XDR 1Sophos Intercept X / Sophos EDR 1Sophos Intercept X Advanced 1Sophos Intercept X with XDR / Sophos MDR 1Sophos XDR (+ optional Sophos MDR) 1Sophos XDR (with optional Sophos MDR) 1Sophos XDR + MDR 1Sophos XDR/MDR 1
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The company
Sophos is the company behind Sophos Intercept X.ShowHide
The company
Sophos is the company behind Sophos Intercept X.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from Sophos
- Sophos Central, Sophos Email, Sophos Endpoint, Sophos Endpoint / Intercept X, Sophos Firewall, Sophos Firewall XGS, Sophos ITDR, Sophos Intercept X + Sophos MDR and 15 more
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Sophos Intercept X Advanced
- For
- cualquiera que se esté planteando la función de detección y respuesta para endpoints (EDR)
- Free plan or trial
- 30 días, gratis y sin compromiso sophos.com/es-es/products/endpoint-security
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Sophos Intercept X's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: developer.sophos.com/endpoint-software, developer.sophos.com/endpoint-device-software, sophos.com/es-es/products/endpoint-security, sophos.com/es-es/products/xdr-with-next-gen-siem, sophos.com/es-es/resources/sophos-edr-solution-brief. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Sophos Intercept X'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 Sophos Intercept X, 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 Sophos Intercept X by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Sophos Intercept X 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 Sophos Intercept X, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Sophos Intercept X is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Sophos Intercept X is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideSophos Intercept X is among the products AI models recommend first in Extended detection and response this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.