3 categories · RankedSophos MDR
Sophos MDR is a managed detection and response service from Sophos that provides 24/7 threat detection and response · sophos.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.
Huntress Managed EDR is first at 83%.
Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response is first at 31%. 4 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
CrowdStrike Falcon Complete is first at 33%.
Why models recommend it
“Purpose-built for companies without SOCs. Bundles tool + humans. Often the best fit for 500-person companies.”Kimi K2 · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“I'd put Expel and Sophos MDR on the shortlist—not declare one universal winner.”GPT-6 Luna · Direct question · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with Sophos MDR or CrowdStrike Falcon Complete”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Go with Sophos MDR or SentinelOne Singularity (with Vigilance MDR)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
“multiple sources note it can be expensive for smaller organizations, so it's usually better if you can stretch the budget a bit”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Expensive, especially for smaller organizations... Communication issues — slow response times and overwhelming alert volumes”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Sophos MDR has solid endpoint protection but multi-console workflows and manual triage slow response.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“Pricing is typically quote-based and may be less transparent”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Sophos MDR, over the 162 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 105 | 20 | Compare → | |
| 104 | 56 | Compare → | |
| 72 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 70 | 25 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 44 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 34 | 2 | View → | |
| 34 | 1 | View → | |
| 25 | 0 | View → | |
| 23 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Sophos MDR →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Sophos MDR's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Commercial; Mid-Market; Enterprise
- Price stated
- contact for pricing
- Integrations
- 176
- Customers named
- Vancouver Whitecaps FC, ESCO Technologies, INEOS
- Also from Sophos
- Sophos Central, Sophos Email, Sophos Endpoint, Sophos Endpoint / Intercept X, Sophos Firewall, Sophos Firewall XGS and 17 more
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 155 of the 162 answers that named Sophos MDR and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
373 of the 400 domain citations in answers naming Sophos 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 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |