Data center networking for small business buyers
Asked as “data center switching platform”, and as “data center network fabric”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 44 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories: how the two compare.
Standing · first-choice share
11%
Cisco Nexus HyperfabricContested · Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric 11%
11Arista Networks11Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric05Cisco Nexus73others
11% of first choices, contested.
By buyer segment
The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
For buyers
All six head-to-head pages: the top four products, each against each
Recommended versus criticized
Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.
Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
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09Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative30%
Key
01Arista Networks11%
Arista Networks11%02MikroTik CRS Series5%
MikroTik CRS Series5%03Cisco Nexus5%
Cisco Nexus5%04Aruba Instant On2%
05Cisco Meraki2%
Cisco Meraki2%06Ubiquiti UniFi0%
Ubiquiti UniFi0%07Juniper Networks0%
Juniper Networks0%08VMware NSX0%
VMware NSX0%09Cisco ACI0%
Cisco ACI0%What they warned about
One of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-6 Luna and Muse Glimmer 30B changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
VMware NSX74%
14 of 19 labels negative · 12 of 14 models · 7 hard negative
“Users find the **cost prohibitive**, making VMware NSX unsuitable for smaller businesses or those with limited resources.” Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt
Cisco ACI92%
12 of 13 labels negative · 8 of 14 models · 6 hard negative
“A small business should avoid or exercise extreme caution with the following data center networking platforms: ... Cisco ACI is designed to manage massive, policy-driven data centers.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure100%
5 of 5 labels negative · 5 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“**Why to avoid**: Enterprise-grade SDN solution that's overly complex and expensive for small business needs” MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt
Cisco Nexus43%
6 of 14 labels negative · 5 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“**Avoid:** New Cisco Nexus or Arista switches for small deployments” Kimi K2, budget prompt
What they cite
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the fourteen in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.
Sites the answers cite
70 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1043 links across 284 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. None of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category.
vendor site · Cisco43 answers · 95 citations · 13 models
vendor site · FitGap35 answers · 44 citations · 11 models
27 answers · 37 citations · 11 models
vendor site · G226 answers · 59 citations · 12 models
22 answers · 25 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Juniper19 answers · 39 citations · 11 models
vendor site · HPE18 answers · 24 citations · 8 models
16 answers · 34 citations · 8 models
16 answers · 21 citations · 8 models
vendor site · SourceForge15 answers · 21 citations · 9 models
15 answers · 16 citations · 8 models
15 answers · 15 citations · 9 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
29 answers · 10 models
15 answers · 8 models
15 answers · 9 models
12 answers · 8 models
12 answers · 8 models
11 answers · 5 models
11 answers · 7 models
11 answers · 9 models
11 answers · 9 models
11 answers · 6 models
Search against answers
Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best data center switching platform”, “data center networking platforms”, “data center switching platform”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
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| Cisco parent site Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric 11%, Cisco Nexus 5%, Cisco Meraki 2%, Cisco Meraki MS Series 2% and 3 more | 27% | 46 | 165,000 | 48,352 | ||||
| Arista Networks arista.com Arista Networks 11%, Arista 7010T Series 2% | 14% | 101 | 33,100 | 278 | 46,898 | 3 | ||
| MikroTik CRS Series mikrotik.com | 5% | 14 | 10 | 0 | 41,064 | |||
| Cisco Catalyst cisco.com Cisco Catalyst 2%, Cisco Catalyst 9300 2% | 5% | 4 | 5,114,808 | $683 | 91 | 2 | ||
| Ubiquiti ubiquiti.com Ubiquiti UniFi Switching Platform 2%, Ubiquiti UniFi switches 2% | 5% | 2 | 15,584 company | |||||
| Aruba Instant On | 2% | 1,900 | 222 | |||||
| Arista 7050 Series | 2% | |||||||
| HPE hpe.com | 2% | 66 | 27,100 | 5,522 | 1,000,636 | $3,018 | 74 | 4 |
| Arista Networks Platform | 2% | |||||||
| Cumulus Linux | 2% | 260 | 52 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 23 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (cisco.com, gartner.com, hpe.com, reddit.com). The first result for “best data center switching platform” is gartner.com.
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.ShowHide
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best data center switching platform for a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which data center network fabric would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top data center networking platforms for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best data center switching platform for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a data center switching platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which data center networking platforms should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceno first choiceHeldManageEngine OpManager, Megaportagainst: Cisco ACI, VMware NSXUbiquiti UniFi Switch 24 PoEno first choiceagainst: Broadcom
Four alternatives
Cisco Catalyst 1300, Netgear GS108, Netgear GS724Tv4 Smart Managed Pro Switch, TP-Link Omada TL-SG2008GPT-5.4 miniCisco Nexus Hyperfabric, Nexusno first choiceChangedJuniper Apstraagainst: HPE Aruba Central / data center switching stackCisco Catalyst 1300/1200no first choiceagainst: Arista EOS, Cisco Nexus, Cisco's DCNM line, Juniper EX/QFX
One alternative
HPE Aruba CX data center switchesTwo alternatives
Arista EOS + CloudVision, Cisco NexusTwo alternatives
NETGEAR managed switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switching PlatformGemini 3.5 FlashArista Networksagainst: Ubiquiti UniFiAWS Transit Gateway, Azure Virtual WANChangedArista CloudVisionagainst: Cisco Nexus DashboardArista 7050X Seriesagainst: Cisco NexusArista Networksagainst: Cisco, Edgecore, FS.comagainst: Cisco ACI, Juniper Apstra, SONiC, VMware NSX
Two alternatives
Dell PowerSwitch, HPE ArubaFive alternatives
Aruba CX, Cisco Meraki MS Series, Cisco Nexus, HPE Aruba Networking CX Fabric, Nutanix FlowThree alternatives
Dell Technologies PowerSwitch, Juniper Apstra, Ubiquiti UniFiFour alternatives
Cisco Nexus, FS.com (FiberStore) S5850 or S5860 Series, MikroTik CRS Series, Ubiquiti UniFi Pro AggregationTwo alternatives
Juniper Networks, Nvidia SpectrumPerplexity SonarCisco NexusCisco Nexus HyperfabricChangedCisco DCNM / NexusAruba Instant On, Cisco Catalystagainst: Cisco Nexus, Dell PowerSwitchno first choiceagainst: Arista Networks, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, VMware NSX
One alternative
Arista Networks platformThree alternatives
Extreme Fabric, Juniper EVPN-VXLAN + Apstra, Nokia SR Linux + EDAFive alternatives
Arista Networks, Calico, HPE Apstra, Juniper QFX, VMware NSXGrok 4.1 FastCisco Nexusagainst: Arista 7050X3/7200 SeriesCisco Nexus HyperfabricChangedagainst: Cisco MerakiNVIDIA Cumulus Linux, SONiCagainst: Cisco ACIUbiquiti UniFi switchesagainst: Arista Networks, Cisco Meraki, Cisco Nexusno first choiceagainst: Juniper Networksagainst: Arista Networks, Cisco ACI, Cisco Nexus, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, Juniper Networks, VMware NSX
Three alternatives
Dell PowerSwitch, HPE Aruba CX, Juniper QFXFour alternatives
Cumulus, Juniper Apstra, MikroTik CRS Series, Ubiquiti UniFiThree alternatives
Arista EOS + CloudVision, IP Infusion OcNOS / Kubo, Juniper ApstraTwo alternatives
Cisco Catalyst 1200/1300, NETGEAR 10G modelsSeven alternatives
Aruba CX, Cisco Catalyst/Nexus 9000 lite, Cisco Nexus 9000 entry, Dell PowerSwitch, HPE Aruba, NVIDIA Spectrum-X, Ubiquiti UniFiMistral SmallArista Networks Platform, Cisco Nexus Seriesno first choiceChangedFlannel, NetBirdagainst: Juniper Networks, ManageEngine OpManagerArista Networksno first choiceagainst: Ciscoagainst: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, Extreme Networks, OpManager Nexus, VMware NSX
Two alternatives
Dell PowerEdge R-Series, Juniper QFX Series SwitchesTwo alternatives
Gluware, openQRMTwo alternatives
Fortinet FortiSwitch, HPE Aruba EdgeConnectDeepSeek V4 FlashCisco Catalyst 9300against: Arista 7050X Series, MikroTik CRS Series, Ubiquiti UniFiCisco Nexus HyperfabricChangedagainst: Arista Networks, Cisco Meraki, Dell Active Fabric, HPE JuniperTigera Calicoagainst: Cisco ACI, VMware NSXUbiquiti UniFi Switching Platformagainst: Cisco Catalyst 1200 Series, Cisco Merakino first choiceagainst: Arista Networks, Cisco, Huawei CloudEngineagainst: Arista Networks, Cisco ACI, Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco Meraki, Juniper Apstra, VMware NSX
Two alternatives
Aruba CX, Cisco Nexus 9000 SeriesFive alternatives
Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco Meraki, HashiCorp Consul, Juniper Apstra, ManageEngine OpManagerThree alternatives
Aruba Instant On, MikroTik CRS Series, TP-Link OmadaOne alternative
Aruba CXLlama 4 Maverickno first choiceJuniper's ACX7020, Nokia's Data Center Fabric solutionChangedno first choiceArista Networks, ExtremeSwitchingno first choiceagainst: TierPoint, VMware NSX
One alternative
Extreme NetworksTwo alternatives
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series, NetgearQwen 3.7 FlashCisco Catalyst 9000 Seriesagainst: EdgecoreArista NetworksChangedCisco MerakiMikroTik CRS Seriesagainst: Netgear, TPLinkDell, HPEagainst: Ciscoagainst: Arista CloudVision, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, Juniper Networks Fabric, VMware NSX
Two alternatives
Arista 7050 Series, Cisco Meraki MS SeriesFour alternatives
Cisco HyperFabric, Cisco Meraki, NVIDIA (formerly Pica8) with Cumulus Linux, VMware NSXFour alternatives
Arista vEOS, Dell PowerSwitch, NVIDIA Cumulus Linux, VMware NSXFour alternatives
Aruba Instant On, Cisco Catalyst, Dell Networking Z Series, Ubiquiti EdgeSwitchOne alternative
Arista NetworksKimi K2Arista 7010T SeriesJuniper Networks with ApstraChangedagainst: Cisco ACI, VMware NSXArista CloudVision, VMware NSXagainst: Cisco ACIArista 7050 Seriesagainst: Cisco NexusCisco Merakiagainst: Aruba CX, Cisco Catalyst 1200/1300, Fortinet FortiSwitchagainst: Arista Networks, Cisco ACI, Juniper Apstra / Contrail, VMware NSX
Two alternatives
Cisco Nexus 3000 Series, HPE Aruba CXThree alternatives
Aruba CX, Aruba Instant On, Ubiquiti UniFiTwo alternatives
HashiCorp Consul, Juniper Cloud-Native Contrail NetworkingTwo alternatives
MikroTik CRS Series, White Box + SONiCThree alternatives
Aruba Instant On, NETGEAR Insight, Ubiquiti UniFiGLM 4.7 FlashXHPE Aruba Networking CX 6400 Seriesagainst: Cisco 3750 series, Cisco Nexus 9300 Series, HP ProCurveCisco Nexus HyperfabricChangedCisco Catalyst 9200/9300 SeriesCisco Catalyst 9200L Seriesno first choiceagainst: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
One alternative
HPE Aruba CXTwo alternatives
Extreme Networks, HPE Aruba EdgeConnectFour alternatives
Fortinet FortiSwitch 124F/148F/600/2000, HPE Aruba CX, Juniper EX 2300/3400/4100, Ubiquiti UniFi SwitchThree alternatives
Netgear ProSAFE XS712T, TP-Link Managed Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi switchesMiniMax M2.5Aruba CX Series, Cisco Meraki MS Seriesagainst: Ubiquiti UniFino first choiceChangedCisco Nexus Hyperfabric, HPE Synergyagainst: Cisco ACIno first choiceno first choiceagainst: Arista EOS, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, Juniper Networks, OpenDaylight, VMware NSX
One alternative
Dell PowerSwitchTwo alternatives
Extreme Networks, VMware NSXGPT-6 LunaDell PowerSwitch running SmartFabric OS10no first choiceChangedCisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controlleragainst: SONiCMikroTik CRS Seriesno first choiceagainst: Cisco ACI, SONiC, VMware NSX
Three alternatives
Arista EOS, Cisco Nexus, QFXThree alternatives
Arista EOS + CloudVision, Juniper Apstra Data Center Director, NVIDIA Cumulus LinuxOne alternative
Aruba CXMuse Glimmer 30BCisco SMB / mid-marketno first choiceChangedCisco Merakiagainst: Cisco ACICumulus Linuxno first choiceagainst: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, ACI, VMware NSX
Five alternatives
Arista Networks, Aruba Instant On, HPE Business Switch Series CW 2050, HPE Networking Comware 5120v3 Campus Switch Series, Juniper NetworksFour alternatives
Apstra, Arista CloudVision, Juniper Networks Mist AI, VMware Cloud Foundation NetworkingSeven alternatives
Accton, Arista Networks, Asterfusion, Edge-Core, MikroTik CRS Series, SONiC, Ubiquiti UniFiBold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:16 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 00:54 | yes | 3 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 23:54 | yes | 11 | 28 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:37 | yes | 20 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:18 | yes | 24 | 13 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:28 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 23:15 | yes | 25 | 42 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:08 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 23:43 | no | 0 | 31 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:00 | yes | 19 | 30 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:52 | yes | 25 | 33 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:37 | yes | 21 | 57 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 23:58 | yes | 4 | 21 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:20 | yes | 15 | 21 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:51 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:26 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:25 | yes | 14 | 33 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:27 | yes | 19 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 22:45 | yes | 23 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:12 | no | 0 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 22:18 | yes | 23 | 25 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:05 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:08 | yes | 10 | 81 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:56 | yes | 18 | 25 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:22 | yes | 21 | 35 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:38 | no | 0 | 56 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 01:11 | yes | 1 | 16 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:02 | yes | 21 | 35 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 23:32 | yes | 17 | 9 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:37 | yes | 5 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:04 | yes | 18 | 32 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 22:30 | yes | 16 | 5 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 22:11 | yes | 23 | 12 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:42 | yes | 13 | 12 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 00:29 | yes | 20 | 53 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 23:26 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 22:09 | no | 0 | 31 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 22:53 | yes | 16 | 35 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:19 | yes | 19 | 55 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:51 | yes | 18 | 34 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:06 | yes | 6 | 26 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:17 | yes | 23 | 33 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:31 | yes | 9 | 8 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 22:43 | yes | 2 | 6 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 23:02 | yes | 17 | 36 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:40 | yes | 20 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:51 | yes | 24 | 10 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:54 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 22:50 | yes | 25 | 53 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:35 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 23:15 | no | 0 | 28 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:08 | yes | 19 | 34 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:36 | yes | 25 | 25 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 23:20 | no | 0 | 54 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:05 | yes | 3 | 16 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:20 | yes | 23 | 30 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:35 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:48 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:22 | no | 0 | 18 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:46 | yes | 33 | 4 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:00 | yes | 19 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:21 | no | 0 | 12 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:14 | yes | 22 | 48 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:26 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 00:23 | no | 0 | 30 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 22:47 | yes | 10 | 15 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:03 | yes | 14 | 32 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 23:07 | yes | 5 | 12 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:39 | yes | 3 | 20 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:36 | yes | 14 | 21 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:44 | yes | 18 | 11 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:37 | yes | 4 | 7 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 23:51 | yes | 20 | 22 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:52 | yes | 18 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 23:24 | yes | 23 | 13 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:28 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 23:54 | yes | 24 | 51 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:59 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 22:22 | yes | 10 | 25 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:59 | yes | 24 | 39 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 23:35 | yes | 21 | 44 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:44 | yes | 12 | 25 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:40 | yes | 4 | 15 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:07 | yes | 22 | 26 s |
Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
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Category-scoped readings
Arista read as Arista Networks
Juniper read as Juniper Networks
Juniper (EX/QFX) read as Juniper Networks
MikroTik read as MikroTik CRS Series
MikroTik (RouterBoard / Cloud Router Switch) read as MikroTik CRS Series
NVIDIA read as NVIDIA Spectrum-X
Ubiquiti read as Ubiquiti UniFi
Unresolved, counted raw
AWS Transit Gateway
Accton
Arista 7010T Series
Arista 7050X3/7200 Series
Arista Networks Platform
Arista Networks platform
Arista vEOS
Aruba CX Series
Azure Virtual WAN
Cisco 3750 series
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, ACI
Cisco Catalyst
Cisco Catalyst (IOS-XE)
Cisco Catalyst 1200 Series
Cisco Catalyst 1300
Cisco Catalyst 1300/1200
Cisco Catalyst 9300
Cisco Catalyst Series
Cisco Catalyst/Nexus 9000 lite
Cisco DCNM / Nexus
Cisco HyperFabric
Cisco N3000 Series Switches
Cisco Nexus 9000 entry
Cisco Nexus with standard NX-OS
Cisco SMB / mid-market
Cisco data center
Cisco's DCNM line
Dell Active Fabric
Dell Networking Z Series
Dell PowerSwitch running SmartFabric OS10
Dell Technologies PowerSwitch (with SmartFabric Services / Enterprise SONiC)
EdgeRouter
Extreme Fabric
ExtremeSwitching
FS.com (FiberStore) S5850 or S5860 Series
Flannel
Fortinet FortiSwitch 124F/148F/600/2000
HP ProCurve
HPE Apstra (Apstra Data Center Director)
HPE Aruba CX data center switches
HPE Aruba Central / data center switching stack
HPE Aruba Networking CX 6400 Series
HPE Aruba Networking CX Fabric (with Aruba Central)
HPE Business Switch Series CW 2050
HPE M-Series
HPE Networking Comware 5120v3 Campus Switch Series
Huawei CloudEngine
IP Infusion OcNOS / Kubo
Juniper Apstra Data Center Director
Juniper Cloud-Native Contrail Networking (CN2)
Juniper EVPN-VXLAN + Apstra
Juniper EX 2300/3400/4100
Juniper EX/QFX
Juniper Networks Fabric
Juniper Networks Mist AI
Juniper Networks with Apstra
Juniper QFX5100/5110 Series
Juniper's ACX7020
NETGEAR 10G models
NETGEAR managed switches
NVIDIA (formerly Pica8) with Cumulus Linux
Netgear GS108
Netgear GS724Tv4 Smart Managed Pro Switch
Netgear GS752TXPv3
Netgear ProSAFE XS712T
Nexus Dashboard
Nexus switches
Nokia SR Linux + EDA
Nokia's Data Center Fabric solution
Nvidia Spectrum
QFX
Racksnet
TP-Link Managed Switches
TP-Link Omada TL-SG2008
TPLink
Tigera Calico
Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch
Ubiquiti Networks
Ubiquiti UniFi Pro Aggregation (USW-Pro-Aggregation)
Ubiquiti UniFi Switch
Ubiquiti UniFi Switch 24 PoE
VMware Cloud Foundation Networking
White Box + SONiC
openQRM
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.