Every category where a model named Tanium 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	0%	16 of 87	13%	15	accepted challenger
Unified endpoint management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	21 of 52	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Intune at 43%
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	36 of 80	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%
Extended detection and response	Security operations	0%	47 of 61	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender XDR at 63%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Tanium 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 Tanium across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	1	2	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	0	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	1	1	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	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

Direct14 labels4

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative27 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained7 labelsNone

Scale-constrained10 labelsNone

Negative12 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative74 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 8 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 For: Massive global enterprises requiring real-time, planet-scale endpoint visibility” Gemini 3.5 Flash · UEM · comparative prompt · alternative

“Ivanti Neurons and Tanium stand out when patch decisions need to be tied to vulnerability.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Patching · comparative prompt · alternative

“often differentiate on endpoint security, compliance, remediation, asset visibility” GPT-5.4 mini · UEM · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for very large enterprises (100k+ endpoints)... More complex and expensive” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Patching · comparative 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.

“Don't overspend on enterprise behemoths (Tanium-class) built for hundreds of thousands of endpoints” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Patching · scale prompt · hard negative

“leaders like Microsoft/Tanium appear, but they're enterprise-heavy” Grok 4.1 Fast · Patching · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Tanium, over the 74 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Tanium was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

NinjaOne53 of 7415Not in the top three

Automox47 of 747Not in the top three

Action134 of 748Not in the top three

Microsoft Intune29 of 7410Not in the top three

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus21 of 742Not in the top three

ManageEngine Endpoint Central19 of 741Not in the top three

HCL BigFix19 of 740Not in the top three

Ivanti17 of 740Not in the top three

Atera15 of 741Not in the top three

Patch My PC15 of 741Not 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 Tanium. 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 58 of the 74 answers that named Tanium and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com43

expertinsights.com30

cyberpress.org29

heimdalsecurity.com28

acronis.com25

ninjaone.com23

learn.g2.com20

motadata.com20

cybersecuritynews.com19

thectoclub.com16

253 of the 253 domain citations in answers naming Tanium came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-patch-management-compared-241

cyberpress.org/patch-management-by-business-size-227

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-patch-management-software-and-tools-202625

expertinsights.com/it-management/the-top-patch-management-software-for-business25

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/automated-patch-management-software22

learn.g2.com/best-patch-management-software19

motadata.com/blog/best-patch-management-software19

cybersecuritynews.com/best-patch-management-software14

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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