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Endpoint protection · November 2026 Edition

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs SentinelOne Singularity

Four of fourteen models named Microsoft Defender for Endpoint first on the direct prompt; three named SentinelOne Singularity. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and SentinelOne Singularity by thirteen and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint carries 50 labels and SentinelOne Singularity 24, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

SentinelOne Singularity

accepted challenger

Named in eleven categories this edition.

First-choice share23%10%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate8%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#5A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels5024A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.CrowdStrike Falcon was named alongside these two in ten of the fourteen direct answers. Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Microsoft Defender for Endpoint · Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs SentinelOne Singularity · Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs Bitdefender GravityZone

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 EndpointFirst choices, of fourteen modelsSentinelOne Singularity
Direct43
Paraphrase42
Comparative22
Budget-constrained20
Scale-constrained20
Negative104 against Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
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 Endpoint and SentinelOne Singularity were named in the same answer 208 times, of the 324 answers naming Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and the 561 naming SentinelOne Singularity. In those answers SentinelOne Singularity took the first choice twenty-four times and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint seventy.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Microsoft Defender for Endpoint 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 Endpoint SentinelOne Singularity first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint 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 Endpoint and SentinelOne Singularity stood in it.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint first, SentinelOne Singularity an alternative

4 of 14 modelsSentinelOne Singularity was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
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
DeepSeek V4 FlashMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity, Sophos Intercept X
Muse Glimmer 30BMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity, Sophos Intercept X

SentinelOne Singularity first, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint an alternative

3 of 14 modelsMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint 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
Qwen 3.7 FlashSophos Intercept X alternatives: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint
GLM 4.7 FlashXSophos Intercept X alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity
GPT-6 LunaSophos Endpoint with Sophos MDR alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Neither was named

2 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
MiniMax M2.5CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Cloud alternatives: Bitdefender GravityZone, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, Sophos Intercept X

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 Endpoint leads by five points.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint5%#5 of 13
SentinelOne Singularity0%#10 of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leads by thirteen points.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint23%#2 of 12
SentinelOne Singularity10%#5 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leads by fifty-one points.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint53%#1 of 12
SentinelOne Singularity2%#3 of 12
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.

“While leading enterprise EDRs (CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne, Palo Alto Cortex XDR) are highly effective, you must evaluate vendor operational maturity.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“Defender is usually the most natural choice because it connects closely with Intune, Entra ID, Microsoft Sentinel, and Microsoft 365 security workflows.” Perplexity Sonar · comparative prompt · first choice

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 SentinelOne SingularityMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint vs Bitdefender GravityZoneMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint vs Sophos Intercept XMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint vs CrowdStrike FalconMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint vs ESET PROTECTBitdefender 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.