Best endpoint security software

We asked 10 models: The best endpoint security software for businesses. 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

81%

Same model, run twice

91%

Different picks

17

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	2	1	3	2	2	3	2	2	3	3
3	SentinelOne		10/10	3	3	2	3	3	2	3	3	2	2
4	Sophos Intercept X		10/10	4	5	5	7	5	9	5	5	4	4
5	Cortex XDR		10/10	5	4	4	6	4	6	4	9	6	6
6	Bitdefender GravityZone		10/10	7	6	7	4	6	5	6	4	10	9
7	Trend Micro Vision One		6/10	6		6	8	7	4		6
8	ESET PROTECT		9/10	8	8	10	10	8	7	9	7	8
9	Trend Micro Apex One		6/10		7		9	10		7		5	5
10	Carbon Black Cloud		6/10			9	5	9		10		7	10
11	Kaspersky Endpoint Security		4/10	10					10		10		7
12	Broadcom Symantec Endpoint Security		2/10	9					8
13	Cisco Secure Endpoint		2/10			8						9
14	Trellix Endpoint Security		2/10		9						8
15	ESET Endpoint Security		1/10							8

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

97% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

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

78% with consensus · 94% 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. Carbon Black Cloud
10. ESET PROTECT

86% with consensus · 99% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

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

89% with consensus · 86% 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. Carbon Black Cloud
10. Trend Micro Apex One

97% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

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

81% with consensus · 93% 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. ESET Endpoint Security
9. ESET PROTECT
10. Carbon Black Cloud

93% with consensus · 86% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

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

90% 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. Carbon Black Cloud
8. ESET PROTECT
9. Cisco Secure Endpoint
10. Bitdefender GravityZone

83% with consensus · 85% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

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

82% with consensus · 91% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 62 (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		75	87	85	94	83	89	90	81	81
GPT-6 Luna	75		69	71	80	62	82	72	67	65
Gemini 4 Argon	87	69		80	89	86	85	81	87	85
Qwen 3.8 Flash	85	71	80		89	80	87	88	78	76
DeepSeek V4 Pro	94	80	89	89		81	95	90	81	78
GLM-5.3	83	62	86	80	81		76	82	80	79
Kimi K3	89	82	85	87	95	76		85	82	81
MiniMax M3	90	72	81	88	90	82	85		75	74
Mistral Large 4	81	67	87	78	81	80	82	75		94
Nemotron 3 Ultra	81	65	85	76	78	79	81	74	94