Every category where a model named 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
Managed detection and response	Security operations	11%	3 of 45	0%	43	accepted challenger
Endpoint detection and response	Security operations	0%	31 of 54	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Bitdefender GravityZone at 20%
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	0%	45 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 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 MDR 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	4	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	4	1	6
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	1	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	5	0	6
Mistral Small	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	4	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	4	0	4
Kimi K2	1	3	1	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	2	1	4

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

Direct28 labels3

Paraphrase17 labels4

Comparative33 labelsNone

Budget-constrained19 labelsNone

Scale-constrained9 labels2

Negative11 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative117 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 11 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.

“mid-market specialists like Arctic Wolf, Huntress, or Sophos often fit better than pure enterprise plays” Grok 4.1 Fast · MDR · scale prompt · first choice

“I'd lean toward Arctic Wolf or Sophos MDR — both are specifically designed for your segment” Kimi K2 · MDR · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Sophos MDR and Esentire are frequently highlighted as top choices” Mistral Small · MDR · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Arctic Wolf MDR and Sophos MDR are strong options” MiniMax M2.5 · MDR · paraphrase 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sophos MDR, over the 117 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sophos MDR was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response90 of 11715Compare →

Huntress Managed EDR81 of 11747Compare →

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete64 of 11722Not in the top three

Expel39 of 1172Not in the top three

Red Canary36 of 1170Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity MDR29 of 1171Not in the top three

Rapid7 MDR25 of 1171Not in the top three

eSentire22 of 1172Not in the top three

Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response20 of 1170Not in the top three

Blackpoint Cyber16 of 1170Not 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 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 99 of the 117 answers that named Sophos MDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com74

learn.g2.com52

cybersecuritynews.com51

cyberpress.org44

consilien.com39

mdrcost.com37

huntress.com35

mdrproviders.io35

smbsecureguide.com30

defendify.com25

422 of the 422 domain citations in answers naming Sophos MDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-mdr-services-compared71

learn.g2.com/top-mdr-providers52

cyberpress.org/mdr-services-to-consider40

consilien.com/news/best-mdr-providers-smb-202639

cybersecuritynews.com/best-mdr-services35

mdrcost.com/small-business35

smbsecureguide.com/endpoint-security/best-mdr-services-for-smbs-2026-roundup30

defendify.com/blog/managed-detection-and-response-providers25

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Sophos MDR

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

Sophos MDR Essentials 6Sophos 4Sophos Central MDR 1Sophos Essentials 1

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at sophos.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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