5 categories · Named, not rankedDefender
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Defender has 6.
Why models recommend it
“First test Sentinel's built-in automation and Logic Apps playbooks; you may not need a separate SOAR tool yet.”GPT-6 Luna · Direct question · alternative
“Best suited for Azure-heavy and Microsoft 365 environments, offering native integration with Copilot”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Best for Microsoft environments: Microsoft Defender and Purview”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Defender, over the 16 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Defender's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Price stated
- Freemium
- Free plan or trial
- Freemium
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 16 of the 16 answers that named Defender and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty of the thirty-three domain citations in answers naming Defender came from a third party's page. Three were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison | 53 | 0 | 2026-05-17 | GRC, Email security | |
| Report or ebook | 12 | 3 | 2026-09-04 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-04Exploitation timing report or ebook
- 2026-09-04Pipeline accuracy report or ebook
- 2026-09-04Cvss vs epss vs kev report or ebook
- 2026-05-171password vs bitwarden comparison
- 2026-05-171password vs dashlane business comparison
- 2026-05-17Abnormal security vs mimecast comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page defend.network exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.