2 categories · RankedAbnormal AI
Abnormal AI is a cloud-native email security platform from Abnormal that uses AI-based behavioral data science to stop socially-engineered and never-seen-before email attacks that evade traditional secure email gateways · abnormal.ai ↗
Strongest at enterprise. Ranked 15 of 87 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is first at 43%.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is first at 45%. 3 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Proofpoint Email Protection is first at 41%.
Why models recommend it
“Add Abnormal AI (or an equivalent AI-based layer) to catch the sophisticated BEC and social engineering threats that generic gateways miss”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“Consider modern platforms like Abnormal Security, Material Security, or Microsoft Defender for Office 365”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“My default pick: Abnormal AI for a mid-market B2B company using Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace”GPT-6 Luna · Direct question · first choice
“Consider Abnormal Security or Avanan. API integrations avoid MX record routing complexity”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid for Budget Scenarios - Abnormal Security - ... pricing starts at $25,000/year”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Abnormal Security — powerful but requires expensive add-ons”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“without the complexity or high costs of tools like Abnormal Security (which starts at $25K+/year)”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Caveat for mid-market: Pricing starts around $35–$60/mailbox/year with minimum commitments”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Abnormal AI, over the 117 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99 | 22 | Compare → | |
| 98 | 30 | Compare → | |
| 90 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 61 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 54 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 42 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 25 | 0 | View → | |
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Abnormal AI →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Abnormal AI's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- finance teams
- Customers named
- Valvoline
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 107 of the 117 answers that named Abnormal AI and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
314 of the 334 domain citations in answers naming Abnormal AI came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |