2 categories · RankedDigital Guardian
Digital Guardian is a data loss prevention product that covers data from the endpoint to the cloud · digitalguardian.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Microsoft Purview DLP is first at 51%.
Microsoft Purview DLP is first at 48%.
Microsoft Purview DLP is first at 68%.
Why models recommend it
“Strong analytics, good compliance posture, flexible deployment (managed service option) | Complexity”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“consider platforms like Microsoft Purview DLP, Cyberhaven, or Digital Guardian”Mistral Small · Negative question · alternative
“Digital Guardian or Broadcom provide superior deep-system visibility.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“endpoint-forensics-heavy environments from Digital Guardian”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Some users report complex deployment and configuration - Customer support has received mixed reviews - Higher total cost of ownership than expected”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · warning
“Resource-intensive agents, complex policy creation, CPU performance impact, false positives”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“Opaque pricing is a recurring knock; older reviews mention rigidity and high overhead.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“High cost, requires dedicated administrators to tune. Often overkill for 500 users”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Scale-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Digital Guardian, over the 30 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 8 | View → | |
| 22 | 1 | View → | |
| 21 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Digital Guardian →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Digital Guardian's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- CISO
- Price stated
- predictable pricing
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 15 of the 30 answers that named Digital Guardian and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifty-three of the fifty-three domain citations in answers naming Digital Guardian 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 2,245 | undated | DLP, MFA | ||
| Report or ebook | 371 | undated | DLP, Email security | ||
| News or press | 368 | undated | DLP, Email security | ||
| Podcast or video | 142 | undated | DLP, PAM | ||
| Case study | 85 | undated | DLP, EDR | ||
| Comparison | 40 | undated | DLP, SASE | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 38 | undated | ZTNA | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 19 | undated | DLP | ||
| Template or tool | 13 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 8 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page digitalguardian.com 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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.