Managed detection and response · RankedExpel MDR
Expel MDR is a managed detection and response service from Expel · expel.com ↗
Strongest at mid-market. Ranked 13 of 55 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Huntress Managed EDR is first at 83%.
Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response is first at 31%. 3 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is first at 33%.
Why models recommend it
“Best For: Companies with a modern cloud/SaaS-heavy stack looking for complete transparency and a "Bring Your Own Tool" (BYOT) strategy.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch or Expel MDR are top recommendations”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
“choose Expel for a heterogeneous stack and operational transparency”GPT-6 Luna · Direct question · first choice
“### 1. Expel - Best For: Companies wanting SOC transparency”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid "enterprise-tier" providers on a budget: ... Expel, and Red Canary”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Expel MDR, over the 92 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 73 | 19 | Compare → | |
| 72 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 54 | 19 | Compare → | |
| 51 | 21 | Compare → | |
| 44 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 32 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 31 | 1 | View → | |
| 22 | 1 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Expel MDR →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Expel MDR's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Tailored solutions for any size org offering 24×7 protection
- Customers named
- Affirm, Visa, Estes Express Lines, Inductive Automation, Qlik, Dayton Children’s Hospital, Data Intelligence, Scale Venture Partners
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 88 of the 92 answers that named Expel MDR and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
241 of the 262 domain citations in answers naming Expel MDR 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 661 | 11 | 2026-09-24 | MDR, SIEM | |
| Glossary or explainer | 77 | 1 | 2026-07-13 | SIEM, MDR | |
| Case study | 31 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 27 | undated | MDR | ||
| Conference or event | 21 | 0 | 2025-12-15 | MDR | |
| Comparison | 17 | undated | MDR, EDR | ||
| Podcast or video | 9 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 6 | undated | MDR | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | undated | MDR | ||
| News or press | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Are we secure against ai agents is a question we couldnt answer well blog
- 2026-09-21What changed in the 2026 gartner market guide for managed detection and response blog
- 2026-09-15Meet the expletive todd bane director of professional services blog
- 2026-09-10New ruxie ai power up precedent engine blog
- 2026-09-09Patch tuesday september 2026 expels version blog
- 2026-09-01What we built august 2026 blog
Events in person
- June 1, 2026 to June 3, 2026Gartner Security & Risk Management SummitNational Harbor, US · exhibited
- June 1, 2026The human-AI SOC: A framework for building SecOps that actually scaleNational Harbor, US · spoke
- June 1, 2026Mythos (Un) Happy Hour?Silver Diner, National Harbor, US · took part
- March 24, 2026VIP Lunch Experience at RSAC with Kevin MandiaLao Table, San Francisco, United States · took part
As the event pages on expel.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page expel.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.