Every category where a model named Sophos NDR 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
Network detection and response	Security operations	0%	31 of 102	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Sophos NDR yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Sophos NDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
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
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct5 labels3

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative5 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained6 labels3

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 9 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 Managed Solution (If you have NO in-house security team)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · NDR · paraphrase 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 NDR, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sophos NDR was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Darktrace14 of 181Not among the top eight

Vectra AI13 of 181Not among the top eight

Corelight Open NDR9 of 181Not among the top eight

ExtraHop RevealX8 of 180Not among the top eight

Cisco Secure Network Analytics6 of 180Not among the top eight

ExtraHop Reveal5 of 180Not among the top eight

Security Onion4 of 183Not among the top eight

Stellar Cyber Open XDR3 of 180Not among the top eight

WatchGuard ThreatSync+ NDR2 of 181Not among the top eight

Awake Security2 of 180Not among the top eight

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 NDR. 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 18 of the 18 answers that named Sophos NDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com15

gartner.com10

cybersecuritynews.com9

comparitech.com8

devopsschool.com8

peerspot.com7

slashdot.org6

cdn.prod.website-files.com5

gbhackers.com5

stocksmantra.com5

Seventy-eight of the seventy-eight domain citations in answers naming Sophos NDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

g2.com/categories/network-detection-and-response-ndr/small-business15

gartner.com/reviews/market/network-detection-and-response9

comparitech.com/net-admin/network-detection-response-software8

cybersecuritynews.com/best-ndr-solutions8

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-ndr-network-detection-and-response-tools-in-2025-features-pro6

gbhackers.com/best-ndr-solutions5

stocksmantra.com/top-10-network-detection-response-ndr-features-pros-cons-comparison5

zenarmor.com/docs/network-security-tutorials/best-10-network-detection-and-response-ndr-to5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Sophos NDR stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 90 a month (“sophos ndr”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 3 a month
Its own site: It sits on Sophos's site (sophos.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 31 of 102 in NDR

Segment leader

21%

ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer

First choices: 6 across its categories
Named in: 18 answers
Its own site cited: in 18 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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 NDR

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

Sophos NDR (integrated with Sophos MDR) 1

Follow Sophos NDR

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Sophos is the company behind Sophos NDR.

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On 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 and 15 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Sophos NDR provides critical visibility into network activity that other products miss
sophos.com/en-us/digital/ndr-experts
For: security teams
sophos.com/en-us/marketplace/secureworks-ndr
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Sophos NDR's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: sophos.com/en-us/digital/ndr-experts, sophos.com/en-us/marketplace/extra-hop-ndr, sophos.com/en-us/marketplace/secureworks-ndr, sophos.com/en-us/marketplace/taegis-ndr-virtual, sophos.com/en-us/marketplace/taegis-ndr-physical. 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 NDR'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 NDR, 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 NDR by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Sophos NDR 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 NDR, 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.