Every category where a model named Syxsense 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
Patch management	IT operations and endpoint	6%	5 of 87	0%	15	accepted challenger
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	35 of 80	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Syxsense 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 Syxsense 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	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	2	2
Mistral Small	1	1	3	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	2	2
Llama 4 Maverick	2	0	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	2	3
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	1

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

Direct10 labels2

Paraphrase3 labels1

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained5 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative24 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus and Syxsense are the top choices” Mistral Small · Patching · direct prompt · first choice

“Some of the top contenders include ManageEngine, Syxsense, and Heimdal.” Llama 4 Maverick · Patching · direct prompt · first choice

“would be ManageEngine, Syxsense, or Heimdal” Llama 4 Maverick · Patching · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Adds vulnerability context and remediation orchestration, ideal for teams wanting more than just patching.” Mistral Small · Patching · 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 Syxsense, over the 24 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Syxsense was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

NinjaOne12 of 245Not in the top three

Action111 of 240Not in the top three

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus10 of 244Not in the top three

Automox10 of 241Not in the top three

Heimdal10 of 240Not in the top three

ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management7 of 240Not in the top three

Intruder6 of 244Not in the top three

Qualys VMDR6 of 241Not in the top three

Tenable Vulnerability Management5 of 242Not in the top three

Rapid7 InsightVM5 of 240Not 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 Syxsense. 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 22 of the 24 answers that named Syxsense and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org14

heimdalsecurity.com12

gbhackers.com10

learn.g2.com10

techrepublic.com9

expertinsights.com7

motadata.com7

axis-intelligence.com6

g2.com6

orca.security6

Eighty-seven of the eighty-seven domain citations in answers naming Syxsense came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/patch-management-by-business-size-214

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/automated-patch-management-software12

gbhackers.com/best-patch-management-compared-210

learn.g2.com/best-patch-management-software10

techrepublic.com/article/top-vulnerability-management-tools7

axis-intelligence.com/best-vulnerability-management-tools-tested6

motadata.com/blog/best-patch-management-software6

orca.security/resources/blog/best-vulnerability-management-tools6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Syxsense

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

Syxsense Enterprise 2Syxsense Manage 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 syxsense.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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