Next-generation firewalls for enterprise buyers
Asked as “next-generation firewall”, and as “enterprise firewall appliance or virtual firewall”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 57 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
37%
Contested · Palo Alto Networks NGFW 35%
37Fortinet FortiGate35Palo Alto Networks NGFW05Palo Alto Networks VM-Series23others
37% of first choices, contested.
Since September 2026▼−4Since September 2026: 42% → 38%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Fortinet FortiGate held the lead, −4 points on 42%, inside the 11-point floor.
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.
Small business
Fortinet FortiGate51%Clear leader▲+7Since September 2026: 48% → 55%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Standing →Mid-marketFortinet FortiGate73%Clear leader▲+1Since September 2026: 74% → 74%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Standing →EnterpriseFortinet FortiGate37%Contested▼−4Since September 2026: 42% → 38%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.This page
Fortinet FortiGate51%Clear leader▲+7Since September 2026: 48% → 55%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Standing →Mid-marketFortinet FortiGate73%Clear leader▲+1Since September 2026: 74% → 74%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Standing →EnterpriseFortinet FortiGate37%Contested▼−4Since September 2026: 42% → 38%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.This pageThe standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
01Fortinet FortiGate37%12%66endorsed leader▼−4Since September 2026: 42% → 38%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.42% → 38%
Fortinet FortiGate37%12%66endorsed leader▼−4Since September 2026: 42% → 38%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.42% → 38%02
Palo Alto Networks NGFW35%11%54endorsed leader▲+6Since September 2026: 32% → 38%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.32% → 38%
Palo Alto Networks NGFW35%11%54endorsed leader▲+6Since September 2026: 32% → 38%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.32% → 38%03
Check Point Quantum4%9%53accepted challenger▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 2%
Check Point Quantum4%9%53accepted challenger▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 2%04
Cisco Secure Firewall4%16%50accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 4% → 4%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.4% → 4%
Cisco Secure Firewall4%16%50accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 4% → 4%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.4% → 4%Show the one product at 0%, ordered by negative rate
05
Sophos Firewall0%20%10accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
Sophos Firewall0%20%10accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured
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.
Head to head
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 →
0102030405Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative50%
Key
01Fortinet FortiGate37%
Fortinet FortiGate37%02Palo Alto Networks NGFW35%
Palo Alto Networks NGFW35%03Check Point Quantum4%
Check Point Quantum4%04Cisco Secure Firewall4%
Cisco Secure Firewall4%05Sophos Firewall0%
Sophos Firewall0%What they warned about
Two of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 3.5 Flash, 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.
Fortinet FortiGate12%
8 of 66 labels negative · 8 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“Large enterprises should be especially vigilant about **Fortinet FortiGate** given the recent critical vulnerabilities (FortiBleed, SSO exploits) and the high frequency of security patches required.” MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt
AWS Network Firewall
100%
6 of 6 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“Ones to **Avoid or Exercise Extreme Caution**: Native Cloud Firewalls from Hyperscalers (e.g., AWS Network Firewall...) ... 0% Security Effectiveness” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
Cisco Secure Firewall16%
8 of 50 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“Received a "Caution" rating from CyberRatings, with a protection rate as low as 37.01%... not recommended for short-listing or renewal” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Palo Alto Networks NGFW11%
6 of 54 labels negative · 6 of 14 models
“even market leaders like Fortinet and Palo Alto require careful evaluation due to complexity, performance impacts, and ongoing security vulnerabilities” Kimi K2, negative 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
81 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. 1156 links across 278 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. 45 of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category; the method page measures whether that reading tilts an answer.
vendor site · Fortinet46 answers · 96 citations · 13 models
vendor site · Check Point46 answers · 82 citations · 14 models
vendor site · G240 answers · 40 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Palo Alto Networks32 answers · 44 citations · 12 models
32 answers · 33 citations · 10 models
29 answers · 33 citations · 12 models
25 answers · 34 citations · 10 models
vendor site · CyberPress23 answers · 24 citations · 10 models
18 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Cisco16 answers · 26 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Palo Alto Networks16 answers · 21 citations · 7 models
16 answers · 18 citations · 8 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.
40 answers · 12 models
32 answers · 10 models
28 answers · 12 models
22 answers · 8 models
21 answers · 9 models
18 answers · 9 models
17 answers · 8 models
15 answers · 9 models
15 answers · 8 models
14 answers · 7 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 next-generation firewall”, “next-generation firewall”, “next-generation firewalls”. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palo Alto Networks parent site Palo Alto Networks NGFW 35%, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 5%, Palo Alto Networks PA-Series 4%, Palo Alto Networks NGFWs 2% and 1 more | 46% | 117 | 40,500 | 1,088 | ||||
| Fortinet parent site Fortinet FortiGate 37%, Fortinet FortiGate-VM 2%, Fortinet FortiSASE 2% | 40% | 184 | 49,500 | 2,339 | ||||
| Check Point parent site Check Point Quantum 4%, Check Point Harmony 0% | 4% | 87 | 14,800 | 4,487 | ||||
| Cisco parent site Cisco Secure Firewall 4%, Cisco Secure Access 0% | 4% | 100 | 165,000 | 48,352 | ||||
| FortiGate-VM NGFW | 2% | |||||||
| FortiGate | 2% | |||||||
| Palo Alto Networks PA-5400 Series or PA-7000 Series paloaltonetworks.com | 2% | 1 | 951,391 | $383 | 106 | 2 | ||
| Palo Alto Networks Software Firewalls | 2% | |||||||
| Juniper Networks juniper.net Juniper Networks 0%, Juniper SRX Series 0% | 0% | 69 | 14,800 | 696 | 267,308 | 0 | ||
| Prisma Access | 0% |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 23 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (checkpoint.com, cisco.com, fortinet.com, paloaltonetworks.com). The first result for “best next-generation firewall” is nomios.nl.
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 next-generation firewall for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which enterprise firewall appliance or virtual firewall would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade next-generation firewalls and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best next-generation firewall for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a next-generation firewall. What should we look at?”Negative“Which next-generation firewalls should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceFortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NGFWChangedPalo Alto Networks NGFWFortinet FortiGateagainst: Palo Alto Networks NGFWno first choiceagainst: Arista NGFW, FortiCloud, SonicWall
One alternative
Check Point QuantumThree alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGateGPT-5.4 miniPalo Alto Networks NGFWagainst: Check Point QuantumPalo Alto Networks NGFWHeldPalo Alto Networks NGFWagainst: Juniper SRX Series, Sophos FirewallFortinet FortiGateagainst: Check Point Quantum, Palo Alto Networks NGFWno first choiceagainst: Cisco Secure Firewall FTD, Fortinet FortiOS/FortiProxy, Palo Alto PAN-OS
One alternative
Fortinet FortiGateTwo alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Fortinet FortiGateThree alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGateGemini 3.5 FlashPalo Alto Networks NGFWFortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NGFWChangedPalo Alto Networks NGFWFortinet FortiGateagainst: AWS Network Firewall, Azure Firewall, Cato Networks Network Firewall, Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access, ZscalerPalo Alto Networks NGFWagainst: Cisco Secure Firewall, HPE Juniper SRX Series, OPNsense, SonicWall, Sophos Firewall, Ubiquiti UniFi, pfSense
Three alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGateOne alternative
Check Point QuantumThree alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGateOne alternative
Palo Alto Networks NGFWTwo alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Fortinet FortiGatePerplexity SonarPalo Alto Networks NGFWPalo Alto Networks NGFWHeldPalo Alto Networks PA-Seriesagainst: WatchGuard FireboxFortinet FortiGateagainst: Palo Alto Networks NGFWno first choiceagainst: Untangle, VyOS, WatchGuard Firebox
Two alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Fortinet FortiGateThree alternatives
Check Point Quantum NGFW, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGateFive alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Forcepoint NGFW, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX SeriesGrok 4.1 FastFortinet FortiGateagainst: Cisco Secure FirewallPalo Alto Networks NGFWChangedFortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks PA-SeriesFortinet FortiGateagainst: Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks PA-Series, Zscalerno first choiceagainst: AWS Network Firewall, Check Point CloudGuard, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Google Cloud Firewall, Microsoft Azure Firewall
Two alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Palo Alto Networks NGFWTwo alternatives
Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGateTwo alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure FirewallFour alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NGFWMistral SmallFortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NGFWFortinet FortiGate, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks PA-Series, Palo Alto Networks VM-SeriesChangedPalo Alto Networks NGFWFortinet FortiGateagainst: Palo Alto Networks PA-Seriesno first choiceagainst: AWS Network Firewall, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Google Cloud NGFW, Palo Alto Networks NGFW, SonicWall
Three alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos FirewallTwo alternatives
Cisco Secure Firewall, Juniper Networks SRX SeriesFour alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper NetworksOne alternative
Check Point QuantumDeepSeek V4 FlashFortinet FortiGatePalo Alto Networks PA-5400 Series or PA-7000 Series, Palo Alto Networks VM-SeriesChangedPalo Alto Networks NGFWFortinet FortiGateFortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NGFWagainst: Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Native Cloud Firewalls
Three alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NGFWTwo alternatives
Fortinet FortiGate 6000F / 7000F Series, Fortinet FortiGate-VMFour alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper NetworksOne alternative
Palo Alto Networks NGFWTwo alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure FirewallLlama 4 MaverickCheck Point QuantumPalo Alto Networks VM-SeriesChangedFortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NGFWFortiGate-VM NGFWPalo Alto Networks Software Firewallsagainst: AWS Network Firewall, Check Point CloudGuard Network Security Next-Gen Firewall, Microsoft Azure Firewall
Two alternatives
FortiGate-VM NGFW, Palo Alto Networks' NGFWTwo alternatives
FortiGate-VM NGFW, WatchGuard Firebox M4800One alternative
WatchGuard FireboxFour alternatives
Cato Networks Network Firewall, Fortinet Secure Networking, SonicWall firewalls, Sophos FirewallQwen 3.7 FlashPalo Alto Networks NGFWCisco Secure FirewallChangedPalo Alto Networks NGFWFortinet FortiGateno first choiceagainst: Check Point Quantum, Fortinet FortiGate, SonicWall
Three alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGateTwo alternatives
Fortinet FortiGate-VM NGFW, Juniper SRX SeriesThree alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGateOne alternative
Palo Alto Networks NGFWKimi K2Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NGFWPalo Alto Networks NGFWChangedFortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks PA-SeriesFortinet FortiGatePalo Alto Networks NGFWagainst: Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NGFW, SonicWall
One alternative
Check Point QuantumThree alternatives
Check Point Quantum, FortiGate VM, Fortinet FortiGateTwo alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure FirewallThree alternatives
Check Point Harmony, Fortinet FortiSASE, Palo Alto Networks NGFWThree alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGateGLM 4.7 FlashXPalo Alto Networks NGFWFortinet FortiGateChangedPalo Alto Networks NGFWFortinet FortiGateno first choiceagainst: AWS Network Firewall, Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, CloudGuard Network Security, Forcepoint NGFW, Fortinet FortiGate, Microsoft Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS, SonicWall NGFW / SSL-VPN
Two alternatives
Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGateThree alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks PA-5400 SeriesThree alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGateTwo alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Palo Alto Networks NGFWMiniMax M2.5Palo Alto Networks NGFWCisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NGFWChangedFortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NGFWFortinet FortiSASEPalo Alto Networks NGFWagainst: Fortinet FortiGate
Four alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos FirewallOne alternative
Fortinet FortiGateThree alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, WatchGuard FireboxThree alternatives
Cisco Secure Access, FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks Prisma AccessFour alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, ZscalerGPT-6 LunaCheck Point QuantumPalo Alto Networks NGFWsChangedPalo Alto Networks NGFWFortinet FortiGateagainst: FortiFlexno first choiceagainst: AWS Network Firewall, Azure Firewall, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet’s FortiGate-200G, GCP NGFW Enterprise, Palo Alto’s PA-1410
Two alternatives
Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NGFWTwo alternatives
Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGateFour alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, HPE Juniper SRXOne alternative
Palo Alto Networks NGFWMuse Glimmer 30BPalo Alto Networks NGFWFortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks PA-SeriesChangedPalo Alto Networks Next-Generation FirewallsFortiGateagainst: Palo Alto Networks NGFWno first choiceagainst: Forcepoint, Fortinet FortiGate, Hillstone Networks, Huawei USG, Sangfor, SonicWall Gen 7
Three alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGateTwo alternatives
Juniper SRX5400, Prisma AccessThree alternatives
Check Point Quantum, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGateTwo alternatives
Cisco Secure Firewall, Prisma AccessBold 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 | 2026-10-01 11:10 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 11:12 | yes | 3 | 6 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 13:32 | yes | 10 | 18 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 11:10 | yes | 18 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 13:51 | yes | 20 | 11 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 10:33 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 07:49 | yes | 19 | 37 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 13:19 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 08:11 | yes | 5 | 22 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 10:49 | yes | 15 | 27 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 11:43 | yes | 24 | 38 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 10:22 | yes | 5 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 11:10 | yes | 3 | 22 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 11:56 | yes | 20 | 27 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 10:16 | yes | 17 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 08:51 | yes | 4 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 08:14 | yes | 17 | 26 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 09:21 | yes | 18 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 10:51 | yes | 24 | 8 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 11:39 | yes | 10 | 6 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 10:44 | yes | 25 | 37 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 12:32 | yes | 5 | 1 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 08:53 | yes | 5 | 34 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 10:01 | yes | 24 | 43 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 09:40 | yes | 18 | 207 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 09:25 | yes | 5 | 13 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 09:46 | yes | 3 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 09:07 | yes | 20 | 40 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 11:07 | yes | 18 | 11 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 10:44 | yes | 4 | 9 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 13:02 | yes | 20 | 24 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 10:40 | yes | 23 | 6 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 09:24 | yes | 24 | 17 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 09:55 | yes | 8 | 6 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 08:58 | yes | 21 | 34 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 09:32 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 12:52 | yes | 10 | 37 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 12:33 | yes | 20 | 30 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 07:59 | yes | 23 | 89 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 09:14 | yes | 10 | 24 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 13:00 | yes | 7 | 35 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 10:43 | yes | 13 | 28 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 11:20 | yes | 16 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 11:43 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 08:06 | yes | 16 | 28 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 10:57 | yes | 16 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 11:34 | yes | 22 | 10 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 11:16 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 08:54 | yes | 24 | 24 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 09:56 | yes | 5 | 1 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 09:03 | yes | 9 | 43 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 07:39 | yes | 20 | 29 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 08:42 | yes | 22 | 40 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 10:13 | yes | 18 | 105 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 12:56 | yes | 3 | 16 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 10:48 | yes | 15 | 38 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 08:39 | yes | 18 | 11 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 09:14 | yes | 4 | 80 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 10:31 | yes | 10 | 34 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 11:35 | yes | 17 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 08:00 | yes | 15 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 08:51 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 13:30 | yes | 23 | 70 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 11:46 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 08:32 | no | 0 | 32 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 12:20 | yes | 20 | 34 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 09:50 | yes | 13 | 14 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 07:45 | yes | 9 | 33 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 11:48 | yes | 3 | 24 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 10:21 | yes | 12 | 34 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 11:23 | yes | 25 | 10 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 10:16 | yes | 5 | 7 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 09:20 | yes | 25 | 28 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 13:46 | yes | 17 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 12:03 | yes | 24 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 13:15 | yes | 15 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 08:39 | yes | 24 | 53 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 08:25 | yes | 5 | 1 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 11:51 | yes | 23 | 66 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 12:55 | yes | 25 | 34 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 12:38 | yes | 24 | 138 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 08:29 | yes | 18 | 43 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 12:54 | yes | 4 | 24 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 09:58 | yes | 24 | 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
Barracuda read as Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
Cato read as Cato Networks Network Firewall
Check Point read as Check Point Quantum
Check Point (Quantum Spark) read as Check Point Quantum
Check Point (Quantum) read as Check Point Quantum
Check Point (Quantum/Quantum Force) read as Check Point Quantum
Check Point NGFW read as Check Point Quantum
Check Point Quantum Security Gateways read as Check Point Quantum
Check Point Quantum Series read as Check Point Quantum
Check Point Software (Quantum / Infinity) read as Check Point Quantum
Cisco read as Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco (Firepower / ThousandEyes) read as Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco (Secure Firewall / Firepower) read as Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco (Secure Firewall) read as Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco (Secure Firewall, formerly Firepower) read as Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco Firepower read as Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco Firepower (with Threat Defense) read as Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco Secure Firewall / Firepower read as Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco Secure Firewall 4200 Series read as Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual read as Cisco Secure Firewall
Fortinet read as Fortinet FortiGate
Fortinet (FortiGate) read as Fortinet FortiGate
Fortinet FortiGate NGFW read as Fortinet FortiGate
Huawei read as Huawei NGFW
Juniper read as Juniper SRX Series
Juniper SRX read as Juniper SRX Series
Palo Alto read as Palo Alto Networks NGFW
Palo Alto Networks read as Palo Alto Networks NGFW
Palo Alto Networks (NGFW) read as Palo Alto Networks NGFW
Palo Alto Networks (PA-Series / Strata) read as Palo Alto Networks NGFW
Palo Alto Networks (PA-Series) read as Palo Alto Networks NGFW
Palo Alto Networks (PAN-OS) read as Palo Alto Networks NGFW
Palo Alto Networks (Panorama/PA series) read as Palo Alto Networks NGFW
Palo Alto Networks (Prisma Access/NGFW) read as Palo Alto Networks NGFW
Palo Alto Networks (VM-Series / Software NGFW) read as Palo Alto Networks NGFW
Palo Alto Networks Security NGFW read as Palo Alto Networks NGFW
Palo Alto PA-Series read as Palo Alto Networks PA-Series
Sophos read as Sophos Firewall
Sophos XGS read as Sophos Firewall
WatchGuard read as WatchGuard Firebox
Unresolved, counted raw
Arista NGFW
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security
Check Point Quantum NGFW
Cisco Secure Firewall FTD
Cloud NGFW
CloudGuard Network Security (Check Point Cloud)
FortiCloud
FortiFlex
Fortinet FortiGate 6000F / 7000F Series
Fortinet FortiGate-VM NGFW
Fortinet FortiOS/FortiProxy
Fortinet Secure Networking
Fortinet’s FortiGate-200G
GCP NGFW Enterprise
Google Cloud Firewall
Google Cloud NGFW (with default settings)
HPE Juniper SRX
HPE Juniper SRX Series
Huawei USG
Juniper Networks SRX Series
Juniper Networks vSRX
Juniper SRX5400
Juniper SRX5400 Series
Native Cloud Firewalls (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Palo Alto Networks PA-5400 Series
Palo Alto Networks PA-5400 Series or PA-7000 Series
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS
Palo Alto Networks Software Firewalls
Palo Alto Networks' NGFW
Palo Alto’s PA-1410
SonicWall NGFW / SSL-VPN
SonicWall firewalls
Versa Networks NGFW
VyOS
WatchGuard Firebox M4800
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.