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Index › IT › Products › ESET PROTECT › Alternatives · November 2026 Edition
Two categories · what the models named instead

Alternatives to ESET PROTECT, as AI models named them

In the November 2026 Edition, 457 of the 504 answers collected in the two categories where ESET PROTECT holds a standing named it neither as a first choice nor as an alternative. These are the products those answers put first, category by category and buyer by buyer. The output is the models' output.

Named instead, most often
Microsoft Defender XDR91
Microsoft Defender for Cloud55
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint43
CrowdStrike Falcon33
CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR29
Sophos Intercept X21
First choices in the 457 answers that did not name ESET PROTECT, every category and segment above added together; a product can be counted in several. Each category below keeps its own denominator.

Extended detection and response

Security operations. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when ESET PROTECT is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessESET PROTECT is #9 of 12 here at 0% of first choices, 10 labels.

Eighty of the eighty-four answers did not name ESET PROTECT; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those eighty answers, eleven products in all, the eight most named:

Microsoft Defender XDR26 of 80Head to head →
Coro15 of 80
Microsoft Defender for Cloud14 of 80
Huntress Managed EDR6 of 80
Sophos Intercept X5 of 80Head to head →
Microsoft 3653 of 80
SentinelOne Singularity3 of 80Head to head →
Bitdefender GravityZone XDR1 of 80Head to head →
3 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketESET PROTECT is #5 of 12 here at 5% of first choices, 11 labels.

Seventy-seven of the eighty-four answers did not name ESET PROTECT; it was the first choice in three. The first choices in those seventy-seven answers, fourteen products in all, the eight most named:

Microsoft Defender XDR28 of 77Head to head →
CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR12 of 77Head to head →
SentinelOne Singularity5 of 77Head to head →
Sophos Intercept X5 of 77Head to head →
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR4 of 77
Microsoft Defender for Cloud2 of 77
Blumira1 of 77
Coro1 of 77
6 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseESET PROTECT holds 1 label here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

Eighty-four of the eighty-four answers did not name ESET PROTECT; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those eighty-four answers, nine products in all, the eight most named:

Microsoft Defender XDR37 of 84Head to head →
CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR17 of 84Head to head →
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR11 of 84
SentinelOne Singularity2 of 84Head to head →
Arctic Wolf1 of 84
Palo Alto1 of 84
Palo Alto Networks1 of 84
ReliaQuest GreyMatter1 of 84
1 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

Endpoint protection

IT operations and endpoint. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when ESET PROTECT is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessESET PROTECT is #8 of 13 here at 0% of first choices, 34 labels.

Sixty-two of the eighty-four answers did not name ESET PROTECT; it was the first choice in one. The first choices in those sixty-two answers, ten products in all, the eight most named:

Microsoft Defender for Cloud29 of 62Head to head →
Sophos Intercept X6 of 62Head to head →
Huntress Managed EDR5 of 62
Bitdefender GravityZone4 of 62Head to head →
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint2 of 62Head to head →
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint2 of 62
Acronis EDR1 of 62
Bitdefender Business Security1 of 62
2 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketESET PROTECT is #7 of 12 here at 2% of first choices, 23 labels.

Seventy-two of the eighty-four answers did not name ESET PROTECT; it was the first choice in one. The first choices in those seventy-two answers, twelve products in all, the eight most named:

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint11 of 72Head to head →
CrowdStrike Falcon10 of 72Head to head →
Microsoft Defender for Cloud10 of 72Head to head →
Bitdefender GravityZone5 of 72Head to head →
SentinelOne Singularity5 of 72Head to head →
Sophos Intercept X5 of 72Head to head →
Comodo Dragon Platform1 of 72
CrowdStrike1 of 72
4 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseESET PROTECT is #10 of 12 here at 0% of first choices, 10 labels.

Eighty-two of the eighty-four answers did not name ESET PROTECT; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those eighty-two answers, ten products in all, the eight most named:

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint30 of 82Head to head →
CrowdStrike Falcon23 of 82Head to head →
CrowdStrike5 of 82
SentinelOne Singularity3 of 82Head to head →
Bitdefender GravityZone1 of 82Head to head →
Huntress Managed EDR1 of 82
Microsoft1 of 82
Microsoft Defender1 of 82
2 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

How to read this

A category is asked six ways of each of fourteen models on behalf of each buyer segment, so a segment is eighty-four answers. An answer belongs on this page when the judge labeled ESET PROTECT neither its first choice nor an alternative in it; the products listed are the first choices those answers made, counted once per answer. An answer that named nothing first, or named ESET PROTECT only in passing, is in the denominator and adds to no product. The counts are not the category standing, which is on the category page with its share and rank; they are the same record read from ESET PROTECT's side.

The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index, and a product named instead of ESET PROTECT was named by a model, not endorsed by anyone.

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