Every category where a model named VMware Carbon Black 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
Endpoint detection and response	Security operations	0%	54 of 54	58%	12	criticized challenger
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	0%	98 of 99	100%	3	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Cloud at 22%

Movement

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

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative8 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative15 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Strongly Avoid or High Caution... High false positives blocking legit apps, integration struggles post-acquisitions, premium pricing without matching value” Grok 4.1 Fast · EDR · negative prompt · hard negative

“Broadcom-owned tools (Carbon Black, Symantec, VMware Carbon Black) — recurring bugs plus high risk of price hikes and deprioritization.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · EDR · negative prompt · hard negative

“"I would probably recommend against Carbon Black" and "stay away from cb"” Mistral Small · EDR · negative prompt · hard negative

“Do not view Carbon Black as a foundational platform for new deployments” Qwen 3.7 Flash · EDR · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as VMware Carbon Black, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and VMware Carbon Black was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CrowdStrike Falcon20 of 287Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity20 of 284Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint18 of 283Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR13 of 280Not in the top three

Sophos Intercept X10 of 280Not in the top three

Trend Micro9 of 280Not in the top three

CrowdStrike6 of 281Not in the top three

Trellix EDR6 of 280Not in the top three

Huntress Managed EDR5 of 281Not in the top three

Bitdefender GravityZone5 of 280Not 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 VMware Carbon Black. 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 20 of the 28 answers that named VMware Carbon Black and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com10

gbhackers.com9

decryptiondigest.com8

medium.com8

cyberpress.org7

cybersecuritynews.com7

acronis.com6

g2.com5

gartner.com5

peerspot.com5

Seventy of the seventy domain citations in answers naming VMware Carbon Black came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

medium.com/@vvelitkn/whats-wrong-with-edr-the-flaws-limitations-and-pitfalls-fbc55173496f8

cyberpress.org/edr-solutions-by-business-size7

cybersecuritynews.com/best-edr-solutions7

gbhackers.com/best-edr-solutions-compared7

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/13exdwa/endpoint_protection_screw_gartner_lets_get_hon6

decryptiondigest.com/blog/best-edr-platforms-20265

reddit.com/r/msp/comments/1tazmfq/rant_what_is_the_worst_edr_and_why_is_it_datto_edr5

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-edr-endpoint-detection-and-response-solutions-in-20264

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as VMware Carbon Black

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

Carbon Black 4VMware Carbon Black (Broadcom) 2Broadcom Carbon Black 1Carbon Black (VMware) 1

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