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Index Vendors › Wazuh · September 2026 Edition
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Wazuh

94Judge labels
21First choices
17Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
9Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
18% in SIEM for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 49 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 7% of its 15 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
In siem · 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 Wazuh 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
SIEM platformsSecurity operations18%3 of 497%15accepted challenger
Vulnerability management platformsSecurity operations2%7 of 800%3under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%
SOAR platformsSecurity operations2%13 of 490%1under 10 labels · led by Tines at 47%
Endpoint detection and responseSecurity operations0%33 of 5433%3under 10 labels · led by Bitdefender GravityZone at 20%
Data loss preventionSecurity operations0%44 of 840%2under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview DLP at 39%
Extended detection and responseSecurity operations0%26 of 610%2under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender XDR at 63%
Container and Kubernetes securityCloud and infrastructure0%45 of 780%1under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%
Endpoint protectionIT operations and endpoint0%96 of 99100%1under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Cloud at 22%
Log managementIT operations and endpoint0%45 of 590%1under 10 labels · led by Datadog Log Management at 20%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Wazuh 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 Wazuh across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash13004
Perplexity Sonar10001
Grok 4.1 Fast11226
Mistral Small10001
DeepSeek V4 Flash11204
Llama 4 Maverick10001
Qwen 3.7 Flash03014
Kimi K221104
GLM 4.7 FlashX10102
MiniMax M2.510001

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
Direct11 labelsNone
Paraphrase10 labelsNone
Comparative12 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained41 labels21
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative15 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative94 labels in all, every segment counted; 21 of the 23 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.

“Wazuh is one of the most popular open-source SIEM platforms available today... the software is completely free to use, making it attractive for organizations with limited budgets.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SIEM · budget prompt · first choice
“The best SOAR platform for a company with a limited budget is Wazuh, an open-source SIEM/XDR solution. It is considered the best option for lean budgets.” Llama 4 Maverick · SOAR · budget prompt · first choice
“If you have zero budget for software licenses but have a capable, Linux-savvy system administrator on your team, Wazuh is the undisputed champion.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SIEM · budget prompt · first choice
“the strongest overall pick is usually Wazuh if you can handle some engineering and operations work, because it has no software license cost” Perplexity Sonar · SIEM · budget prompt · first choice

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.

“Avoid: Free/open-source like Wazuh (high setup effort/cost in time).” Grok 4.1 Fast · Endpoint protection · budget prompt · hard negative
“options like Wazuh exist but require heavy DIY effort and aren't enterprise-grade EDR” Grok 4.1 Fast · EDR · budget prompt · soft negative
“Use with extreme caution: Wazuh (only if you have engineering resources)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SIEM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Wazuh, over the 94 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Wazuh was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Blumira42 of 9417Not in the top three
Elastic Security33 of 941Not in the top three
Splunk25 of 940Not in the top three
IBM QRadar22 of 940Not in the top three
Graylog18 of 940Not in the top three
ManageEngine Log36017 of 941Not in the top three
Sumo Logic14 of 941Not in the top three
Huntress Managed SIEM13 of 943Not 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 Wazuh. 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 71 of the 94 answers that named Wazuh and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com45
q-sec.com30
nohack.net27
underdefense.com26
costbench.com25
solutionsinsider.com23
blogs.fluencysecurity.com22
subrosacyber.com20
comparitech.com19
capterra.com18

255 of the 255 domain citations in answers naming Wazuh came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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