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Best endpoint security software (buyer asking for advice)

We asked 10 models: We need to protect our company's laptops and servers from malware and attacks. Which endpoint security software would you recommend? Each named its own top 10.

Asked 4 ways: List request · Buyer asking for advice · Search query · Worth paying for?. Share of voice pools every wording.

Agreement between models
78%
Same model, run twice
88%
Different picks
16

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#PickScoreListed byClaude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra

1 lower-scoring picks are not shown; every ballot below lists them in full.

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Hot takes

Picks that appear on only one ballot

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Haiku 5.5

  1. CrowdStrike Falcon
  2. SentinelOne
  3. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  4. Sophos Intercept X
  5. Trend Micro Vision One
  6. Bitdefender GravityZone
  7. ESET PROTECT
  8. Cortex XDR
  9. Kaspersky Endpoint Security
  10. Trellix ePO

92% with consensus · 92% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

  1. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  2. CrowdStrike Falcon
  3. SentinelOne
  4. Sophos Intercept X
  5. Cortex XDR
  6. Bitdefender GravityZone
  7. Trend Micro Apex One
  8. ESET PROTECT
  9. Trellix ePO
  10. Carbon Black

74% with consensus · 93% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

  1. CrowdStrike Falcon
  2. SentinelOne
  3. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  4. Cortex XDR
  5. Sophos Intercept X
  6. Trend Micro Vision One
  7. Bitdefender GravityZone
  8. Carbon Black
  9. Cisco Secure Endpoint
  10. ESET PROTECT

89% with consensus · 100% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

  1. CrowdStrike Falcon
  2. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  3. SentinelOne
  4. Bitdefender GravityZone
  5. Sophos Intercept X
  6. Cortex XDR
  7. Trellix ePO
  8. Carbon Black
  9. Cisco Secure Endpoint
  10. Trend Micro Apex One

84% with consensus · 75% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

  1. CrowdStrike Falcon
  2. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  3. SentinelOne
  4. Cortex XDR
  5. Sophos Intercept X
  6. Bitdefender GravityZone
  7. Trend Micro Vision One
  8. ESET PROTECT
  9. Trend Micro Apex One
  10. Kaspersky Endpoint Security

86% with consensus · 92% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

  1. CrowdStrike Falcon
  2. SentinelOne
  3. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  4. Trend Micro Vision One
  5. Cortex XDR
  6. Sophos Intercept X
  7. Bitdefender GravityZone
  8. Symantec Endpoint Security
  9. ESET PROTECT
  10. Cisco Secure Endpoint

88% with consensus · 83% self-consistent

Kimi K3

  1. CrowdStrike Falcon
  2. SentinelOne
  3. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  4. Sophos Intercept X
  5. Bitdefender GravityZone
  6. ESET Endpoint Security
  7. Cortex XDR
  8. Trend Micro Apex One
  9. ESET PROTECT
  10. Carbon Black

95% with consensus · 85% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

  1. CrowdStrike Falcon
  2. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  3. SentinelOne
  4. Bitdefender GravityZone
  5. Trend Micro Apex One
  6. Sophos Intercept X
  7. ESET PROTECT
  8. Trellix ePO
  9. Trend Micro Vision One
  10. Kaspersky Endpoint Security

82% with consensus · 77% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

  1. CrowdStrike Falcon
  2. SentinelOne
  3. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  4. Sophos Intercept X
  5. Trend Micro Apex One
  6. Bitdefender GravityZone
  7. Cortex XDR
  8. ESET PROTECT
  9. SentinelOne Vigilance
  10. Carbon Black

94% with consensus · 92% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

  1. CrowdStrike Falcon
  2. SentinelOne
  3. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  4. Cortex XDR
  5. Sophos Intercept X
  6. Trend Micro Apex One
  7. Kaspersky Endpoint Security
  8. Bitdefender GravityZone
  9. Trend Micro Vision One
  10. ESET Endpoint Security

90% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 65 (lightest) to 93 (darkest)

Claude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5688979849089809085
GPT-6 Luna686775786571727368
Gemini 4 Argon896783889286748691
Qwen 3.8 Flash797583887882888079
DeepSeek V4 Pro847888888482868386
GLM-5.3906592788484758486
Kimi K3897186828284799386
MiniMax M3807274888675798378
Mistral Large 4907386808384938388
Nemotron 3 Ultra856891798686867888