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Index Vendors › Stellar Cyber · September 2026 Edition
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Stellar Cyber

56Judge labels
2First choices
4Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
4% in XDR for enterprise buyers
Rank 12 of 61 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 5% of its 19 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Stellar Cyber 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Extended detection and responseSecurity operations0%12 of 615%19accepted challenger
Threat intelligence platformsSecurity operations0%108 of 12850%2under 10 labels · led by NordStellar at 13%
SIEM platformsSecurity operations0%29 of 490%1under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Sentinel at 41%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Stellar Cyber 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 Stellar Cyber across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500202
GPT-5.4 mini00022
Gemini 3.5 Flash03003
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small13004
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K212205
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500101

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
Direct8 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative23 labelsNone
Budget-constrained7 labels2
Scale-constrained6 labelsNone
Negative10 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative56 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 5 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.

“Open XDR platforms (like Elastic, Hunters, Stellar Cyber) offer: Better third-party integration” Kimi K2 · XDR · negative prompt · first choice
“open XDR architectures (like Stellar Cyber) are recommended instead” Mistral Small · XDR · negative prompt · first choice
“Stellar Cyber (Open XDR): Excellent at collecting logs from different firewalls, endpoint agents, and cloud platforms” Gemini 3.5 Flash · XDR · scale prompt · alternative
“Top Recommendation: Stellar Cyber or Blumira XDR ... Best for: Companies that have a variety of existing security tools” Gemini 3.5 Flash · XDR · 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.

“Reviews for platforms like ThreatConnect, ThreatQ, and Stellar Cyber, for example, mention concerns such as learning curve, API limitations, access-control gaps” GPT-5.4 mini · Threat intel · negative prompt · soft negative
“reviews mention false positives, telemetry search slowness, and dashboard/reporting limits” GPT-5.4 mini · XDR · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Stellar Cyber, over the 56 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Stellar Cyber was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Microsoft Defender XDR47 of 5617Not in the top three
SentinelOne Singularity38 of 562Not in the top three
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR35 of 5611Not in the top three
Trend Vision One28 of 560Not in the top three
CrowdStrike Falcon20 of 562Not in the top three
CrowdStrike Falcon XDR16 of 566Not in the top three
Cisco XDR16 of 560Not in the top three
Trellix XDR11 of 560Not in the top three
Bitdefender10 of 561Not in the top three
Sophos Intercept X10 of 561Not 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 Stellar Cyber. 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 50 of the 56 answers that named Stellar Cyber and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com41
cyberpress.org32
paloaltonetworks.com32
cybersecuritynews.com28
esecurityplanet.com24
decryptiondigest.com23
guideflow.com20
gartner.com17
aimultiple.com16
sentinelone.com10

243 of the 243 domain citations in answers naming Stellar Cyber came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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