Best endpoint security software (search query)

We asked 10 models: best endpoint security software for business 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

80%

Same model, run twice

91%

Different picks

21

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.

#	Pick	Score	Listed by	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
1	CrowdStrike Falcon		10/10	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint		10/10	3	1	3	2	2	3	2	2	3	3
3	SentinelOne		10/10	2	3	2	3	3	2	3	3	2	2
4	Sophos Intercept X		10/10	6	4	5	5	6	5	5	8	4	5
5	Bitdefender GravityZone		10/10	7	5	7	4	7	4	6	5	7	8
6	Cortex XDR		8/10	4	6	4		4	9	4		6	4
7	Trend Micro Vision One		7/10	5		6	10	5	6		4		6
8	ESET Protect		9/10	8	8	10	8	8	8	9	7	9
9	Trend Micro Apex One		5/10		7		6			7		5	9
10	Symantec Endpoint Security		2/10						7		6
11	VMware Carbon Black Cloud		3/10			9		9				8
12	Kaspersky Endpoint Security		3/10	10							10		7
13	Cisco Secure Endpoint		2/10		9	8
14	Carbon Black Defense		1/10				7
15	Cybereason		1/10							8

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

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. Cortex XDR
5. Trend Micro Vision One
6. Sophos Intercept X
7. Bitdefender GravityZone
8. ESET Protect
9. Broadcom Symantec Endpoint Security
10. Kaspersky Endpoint Security

83% with consensus · 96% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

1. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
2. CrowdStrike Falcon
3. SentinelOne
4. Sophos Intercept X
5. Bitdefender GravityZone
6. Cortex XDR
7. Trend Micro Apex One
8. ESET Protect
9. Cisco Secure Endpoint
10. Malwarebytes Endpoint Detection and Response

81% with consensus · 96% 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. Cisco Secure Endpoint
9. VMware Carbon Black Cloud
10. ESET Protect

83% with consensus · 95% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

1. CrowdStrike Falcon
2. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
3. SentinelOne
4. Bitdefender GravityZone
5. Sophos Intercept X
6. Trend Micro Apex One
7. Carbon Black Defense
8. ESET Protect
9. Webroot Business Endpoint Protection
10. Trend Micro Vision One

89% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

1. CrowdStrike Falcon
2. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
3. SentinelOne
4. Cortex XDR
5. Trend Micro Vision One
6. Sophos Intercept X
7. Bitdefender GravityZone
8. ESET Protect
9. VMware Carbon Black Cloud
10. Check Point Harmony Endpoint

90% with consensus · 96% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

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

85% with consensus · 78% self-consistent

Kimi K3

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

90% with consensus · 88% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

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

86% with consensus · 93% 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. Cortex XDR
7. Bitdefender GravityZone
8. VMware Carbon Black Cloud
9. ESET Protect
10. Webroot Business Endpoint Protection

85% with consensus · 89% 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 Vision One
7. Kaspersky Endpoint Security
8. Bitdefender GravityZone
9. Trend Micro Apex One
10. Check Point Harmony Endpoint

83% with consensus · 86% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 64 (lightest) to 95 (darkest)

	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5		64	94	75	91	88	83	79	85	93
GPT-6 Luna	64		66	75	71	66	77	67	71	64
Gemini 4 Argon	94	66		75	89	88	85	75	88	95
Qwen 3.8 Flash	75	75	75		82	83	87	83	81	75
DeepSeek V4 Pro	91	71	89	82		81	90	86	80	86
GLM-5.3	88	66	88	83	81		79	84	84	86
Kimi K3	83	77	85	87	90	79		79	84	84
MiniMax M3	79	67	75	83	86	84	79		71	74
Mistral Large 4	85	71	88	81	80	84	84	71		86
Nemotron 3 Ultra	93	64	95	75	86	86	84	74	86