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Endpoint protection · November 2026 Edition

Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs SentinelOne Singularity

One of fourteen models named Microsoft Defender for Cloud first on the direct prompt; three named SentinelOne Singularity. Microsoft Defender for Cloud was named by twelve of the fourteen models and SentinelOne Singularity by thirteen and Microsoft Defender for Cloud carries 16 labels and SentinelOne Singularity 24, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

accepted challenger

Named in fifteen categories this edition.

SentinelOne Singularity

accepted challenger

Named in eleven categories this edition.

First-choice share25%10%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#5A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels1624A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Microsoft Defender for Cloud reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Microsoft Defender for Endpoint was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Microsoft Defender for Endpoint · Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Bitdefender GravityZone · Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Sophos Intercept X

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the endpoint protection page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Microsoft Defender for CloudFirst choices, of fourteen modelsSentinelOne Singularity
Direct13
Paraphrase52
Comparative02
Budget-constrained70
Scale-constrained00
Negative00
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and SentinelOne Singularity were named in the same answer 117 times, of the 719 answers naming Microsoft Defender for Cloud and the 561 naming SentinelOne Singularity. In those answers SentinelOne Singularity took the first choice four times and Microsoft Defender for Cloud seventy-five.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Microsoft Defender for Cloud and SentinelOne Singularity stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Microsoft Defender for Cloud SentinelOne Singularity first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Microsoft Defender for Cloud on the left and SentinelOne Singularity on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Microsoft Defender for Cloud and SentinelOne Singularity stood in it.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud first, SentinelOne Singularity not the choice

1 of 14 modelsSentinelOne Singularity was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
MiniMax M2.5CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Cloud alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, Sophos Intercept X

SentinelOne Singularity first, Microsoft Defender for Cloud not the choice

3 of 14 modelsMicrosoft Defender for Cloud was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Gemini 3.5 FlashSentinelOne Singularity alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Sophos Intercept X with MDR
Llama 4 MaverickSentinelOne Singularity alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Kimi K2SentinelOne Singularity alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Neither was the first choice, one was named

5 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Perplexity SonarSophos Intercept X alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone, Huntress Managed EDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity
Grok 4.20CrowdStrike Falcon alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity, Sophos Intercept X
DeepSeek V4 FlashMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity, Sophos Intercept X
GLM 4.7 FlashXSophos Intercept X alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity
Muse Glimmer 30BMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity, Sophos Intercept X

Neither was named

5 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
GPT-5.4 miniMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint
Mistral SmallCrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone, Sophos Intercept X
Qwen 3.7 FlashSophos Intercept X alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint
GPT-6 LunaSophos Endpoint with Sophos MDR alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Microsoft Defender for Cloud leads by forty-nine points.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud49%#1 of 13
SentinelOne Singularity0%#10 of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Microsoft Defender for Cloud leads by fifteen points.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud25%#1 of 12
SentinelOne Singularity10%#5 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: SentinelOne Singularity leads at enterprise.
SentinelOne Singularity2%#3 of 12
Microsoft Defender for Cloud0%#– of 12
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Microsoft Defender for Cloud

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about SentinelOne Singularity

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared
Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Microsoft Defender for EndpointMicrosoft Defender for Cloud vs Bitdefender GravityZoneMicrosoft Defender for Cloud vs Sophos Intercept XMicrosoft Defender for Cloud vs CrowdStrike FalconMicrosoft Defender for Cloud vs ESET PROTECTMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint vs SentinelOne SingularityBitdefender GravityZone vs SentinelOne SingularitySophos Intercept X vs SentinelOne SingularitySentinelOne Singularity vs CrowdStrike FalconSentinelOne Singularity vs ESET PROTECTAll twenty-one head-to-head pages and the full endpoint protection standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.