63% of first choices, clear leader.
“Tech giants like Microsoft (Defender XDR), Palo Alto Networks (Cortex XDR), and Fortinet (FortiXDR) offer incredibly powerful native XDR suites. However, they are optimized for their own security tools.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
“deeply embedded within massive, enterprise-grade licensing suites like Microsoft and CrowdStrike... requires an exorbitant financial commitment” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
“If you're looking for alternatives to Trend Micro, consider options like CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender XDR + Sentinel, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity, and others.” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
“Complex policy tuning/detections leading to high false positives/noise (requires expertise), steep learning curve ... aggressive pricing” Grok 4.20, negative prompt
66 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 893 links across 195 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Defender parent site Microsoft Defender XDR 63%, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint 0% | 63% | 264 | 18,100 | 3,525 | ||||
| Coro coro.net | 7% | 90 | 49,500 | 4,833 | 3,791 | 3 | ||
| SentinelOne sentinelone.com SentinelOne Singularity 5% | 5% | 499 | 33,100 | 1,675 | 446,702 company | $780 | 22 | 1 |
| CrowdStrike parent site CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR 5% | 5% | 166 | 74,000 | 5,130 | ||||
| Bitdefender parent site Bitdefender GravityZone XDR 5% | 5% | 42 | 90,500 | 3,261 | ||||
| Sophos sophos.com Sophos Intercept X 5% | 5% | 304 | 18,100 | 2,046 | 186,716 company | $1,427 | 65 | |
| Cynet 360 AutoXDR cynet.com | 5% | 24 | 10 | 0 | 13,782 | 43 | 7 | |
| ESET eset.com ESET PROTECT 2% | 2% | 111 | 18,100 | 1,812 | 637,959 company | $4,397 | 75 | |
| Sophos parent site Sophos Intercept X + Sophos MDR 2% | 2% | 18,100 | 2,046 | |||||
| Stellar Cyber Open XDR stellarcyber.ai | 0% | 101 | 0 | 3,048 | 31 | 6 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 22 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (gartner.com, paloaltonetworks.com, sentinelone.com). The first result for “best xdr platform” is gartner.com.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 13:42 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 09:46 | yes | 4 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 09:32 | yes | 17 | 26 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 09:22 | yes | 20 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 14:01 | yes | 35 | 19 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 11:27 | yes | 11 | 9 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 13:21 | yes | 18 | 19 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 10:00 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 13:02 | yes | 19 | 72 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 09:51 | yes | 8 | 18 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 13:21 | yes | 13 | 60 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 11:44 | yes | 7 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 13:28 | yes | 17 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 11:23 | yes | 2 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 13:10 | yes | 10 | 20 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 13:10 | yes | 20 | 6 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 14:11 | yes | 42 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 11:25 | yes | 7 | 8 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-09-17 12:10 | yes | 14 | 34 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 12:02 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 13:06 | yes | 5 | 15 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 11:24 | yes | 16 | 32 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 14:09 | yes | 24 | 35 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 11:03 | yes | 5 | 33 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 12:44 | yes | 9 | 11 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 12:50 | yes | 5 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 10:30 | yes | 26 | 28 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 11:52 | yes | 20 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 12:23 | yes | 26 | 15 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 13:33 | yes | 5 | 9 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 13:10 | yes | 13 | 25 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 13:53 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 11:00 | yes | 5 | 30 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 09:45 | yes | 12 | 33 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 13:20 | yes | 5 | 78 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 12:06 | yes | 12 | 31 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 13:48 | yes | 9 | 8 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 13:43 | yes | 3 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 11:47 | yes | 19 | 26 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 12:27 | yes | 20 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 11:55 | yes | 39 | 23 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 10:30 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 12:55 | yes | 17 | 17 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 09:39 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 10:20 | yes | 5 | 29 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 10:46 | yes | 8 | 17 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 13:38 | yes | 8 | 19 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 09:55 | yes | 5 | 18 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 13:14 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 14:01 | no | 0 | 11 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 12:08 | yes | 15 | 26 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 09:34 | yes | 20 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 12:06 | yes | 16 | 11 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 14:05 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 11:05 | yes | 14 | 21 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 12:40 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 09:59 | no | 0 | 39 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 11:24 | yes | 10 | 25 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 12:43 | yes | 7 | 62 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 12:39 | no | 0 | 59 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 13:26 | yes | 17 | 10 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 09:27 | yes | 9 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 12:34 | yes | 10 | 24 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 11:13 | yes | 20 | 7 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 12:11 | yes | 39 | 16 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 10:31 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-09-17 13:42 | yes | 26 | 64 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 13:20 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 12:14 | yes | 8 | 81 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 12:49 | yes | 24 | 37 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 10:05 | yes | 24 | 104 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 11:01 | yes | 9 | 45 s |
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