Every category where a model named VirusTotal 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
Threat intelligence platforms	Security operations	2%	16 of 128	12%	8	under 10 labels · led by NordStellar at 13%

Movement

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

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

Direct3 labels1

Paraphrase6 labels1

Comparative4 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained10 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.

“the best practical choice is usually AlienVault OTX or VirusTotal if you need the lowest-cost starting point” Perplexity Sonar · Threat intel · budget prompt · first choice

“If you need something simpler with zero maintenance, stick to VirusTotal and AlienVault OTX free tiers” Kimi K2 · Threat intel · budget 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.

“Free tools like VirusTotal work as starters but lack depth.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Threat intel · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as VirusTotal, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and VirusTotal was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

AlienVault OTX17 of 255Not in the top three

MISP16 of 253Not in the top three

Abuse.ch14 of 251Not in the top three

NordStellar11 of 253Not in the top three

GreyNoise11 of 251Not in the top three

Recorded Future11 of 251Not in the top three

ThreatConnect9 of 250Not in the top three

Amazon GuardDuty7 of 253Not in the top three

CISA AIS7 of 250Not in the top three

Anomali ThreatStream6 of 250Not 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 VirusTotal. 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 25 of the 25 answers that named VirusTotal and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

b2breviews.com20

learn.g2.com19

upguard.com16

sourceforge.net15

spotsaas.com14

vectra.ai14

analyticsinsight.net12

cyware.com12

esecurityplanet.com9

cotocus.com7

138 of the 138 domain citations in answers naming VirusTotal came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

b2breviews.com/threat-intelligence-platforms20

learn.g2.com/best-threat-intelligence-tools19

upguard.com/blog/best-threat-intelligence-platforms-and-vendors16

vectra.ai/topics/threat-intelligence-tools14

sourceforge.net/software/threat-intelligence/for-small-business13

spotsaas.com/list/threat-intelligence-software/for-small-business13

esecurityplanet.com/products/threat-intelligence-platforms9

analyticsinsight.net/cybersecurity/10-best-threat-intelligence-platforms-in-20267

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as VirusTotal

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

VirusTotal (Community API) 1VirusTotal (by Google) 1

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