November 2026 Edition

136 buying questions, six ways each

Each category is one buying question, put to fourteen models in six framings: 84 answers a category per segment. Share counts the four framings that ask for a pick, so 56 of the 84. The verdict comes first: whether the models agree, whether one product leads clearly, or whether the order is still contested. The page for each category shows who leads, who is warned against, how every model answered, and every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers. Ten categories also have a guide, walked product by product.

All categories

136 categories · 80 contested
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136 categories: 2 consensus, 54 with a clear leader, 80 contested. Share counts the four framings that ask for a pick.
What the verdicts meanThe leader changes here
Security operations31 categories. Detecting, investigating and reducing threats: SIEM, endpoint and extended detection, vulnerability and attack surface management, email security, awareness, data loss prevention, and the governance, risk and compliance that reports on it.Function page →
IT operations and endpoint28 categories. Running the estate day to day: observability and monitoring, incidents and on-call, service management, and the laptops, phones and servers an IT team manages and patches.Function page →
Cloud and infrastructure12 categories. Where workloads run and how they are secured and paid for: hosting, posture management, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, cost, backup and storage.Function page →
Developer platform16 categories. How software is built and shipped: source control, CI/CD, feature flags, APIs, AI coding assistants, code security and error monitoring.Function page →
Data platform22 categories. Where data is stored, moved and modelled: databases, warehouses, streaming, pipelines, orchestration, vector search and machine learning.Function page →
Identity and access11 categories. Who and what may reach a system: workforce and customer identity, MFA, privileged access, governance, passwords and secrets.Function page →
Network and edge16 categories. Connecting and protecting traffic: SASE, zero trust access, firewalls, SD-WAN, web application firewalls, DDoS protection and content delivery.Function page →
Fourteen models, six framings per category. November 2026 Edition.