4 categories · Named, not rankedMcAfee
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. McAfee has 5.
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“vendors like McAfee and Fortinet are often cited as needing more work to make their pieces flow together”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“It does not monitor the internet for hackers using your company name to scam customers.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · warning
“vulnerabilities to commodity malware or ransomware variants”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as McAfee, over the 16 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 2 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 2 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on McAfee's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- individuals
- Price stated
- Core Protection Premium $49.99*/yr; Advanced $89.99*/yr; Ultimate $199.99*/yr; Core Protection Premium $99.99*/2yrs; Advanced $179.99*/2yrs; Ultimate $399.99*/2yrs
- Starting price
- 49.99
- Free plan or trial
- Free Antivirus Trial
- Customers named
- CNET, TOM’S GUIDE, THE TELEGRAPH, U.S. NEWS
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 11 of the 16 answers that named McAfee and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Twenty-seven of the twenty-nine domain citations in answers naming McAfee came from a third party's page. Two 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 528 | 18 | 2026-09-20 | ||
| Blog | 201 | 6 | 2026-09-04 | ||
| Report or ebook | 12 | undated | |||
| News or press | 11 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 5 | 0 | 2026-04-24 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | 0 | 2026-05-04 |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page mcafee.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. Read September 29, 2026.