3 categories · RankedMicrosoft Defender for Office 365
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is an email security product that protects Exchange Online mailboxes and is also available as an add-on for on-premises Exchange mailboxes · microsoft.com ↗
Leads at mid-market. Ranked 2 of 74 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first. Next is IRONSCALES at 12%.
Ranked first. Next is Abnormal AI at 8%. 6 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Proofpoint Email Protection is first at 41%.
Why models recommend it
“Integrated cloud-native solutions: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Google Workspace security (native integration, no MX changes)”Kimi K2 · Negative question · first choice
“Best for Microsoft 365 Users: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (Plan 1) ... often the cheapest path to enterprise-grade features”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“If I had to pick one default answer: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 if you're Microsoft-centric and want the least friction.”GPT-5.4 mini · Direct question · first choice
“Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a recommended phishing and email threat protection tool for a mid-sized B2B company”Llama 4 Maverick · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Microsoft 365 users experience 3x more email-related incidents than Google Workspace users”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Good value, but many orgs find native M365 needs supplementing.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Scale-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Defender for Office 365, over the 193 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 154 | 28 | Compare → | |
| 127 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 98 | 16 | Compare → | |
| 83 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 73 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 57 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 34 | 0 | View → | |
| 24 | 1 | View → | |
| 23 | 0 | View → | |
| 22 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Microsoft Defender for Office 365's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Kunden mit lokalen Postfächern
- Price stated
- €0.87 потребител/месец, годишно плащане
- Starting price
- €0.87
- Free plan or trial
- Изпробвайте сега
- Hosting
- réseau mondial de centres de données
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 166 of the 193 answers that named Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
408 of the 482 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Defender for Office 365 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 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |