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Zero trust network access · October 2026 Edition

Cloudflare One vs Check Point Harmony SASE

Seven of fourteen models named Cloudflare One first on the direct prompt; one named Check Point Harmony SASE. Cloudflare One was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Check Point Harmony SASE by twelve and Cloudflare One carries 56 labels and Check Point Harmony SASE 30, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Cloudflare One

endorsed leader

Named in six categories this edition.

Check Point Harmony SASE

criticized challenger

Named in five categories this edition.

First-choice share38%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate4%33%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#8A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels5630A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Cloudflare One reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Cato Networks was named alongside these two in ten of the fourteen direct answers. Twingate vs Cloudflare One · Twingate vs Check Point Harmony SASE · Cloudflare One vs Cato Networks

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the zero trust network access page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Cloudflare OneFirst choices, of fourteen modelsCheck Point Harmony SASE
Direct71
Paraphrase40
Comparative001 against Check Point Harmony SASE
Budget-constrained1001 against Check Point Harmony SASE
Scale-constrained30
Negative002 against Cloudflare One · 8 against Check Point Harmony SASE
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Cloudflare One and Check Point Harmony SASE were named in the same answer 106 times, of the 397 answers naming Cloudflare One and the 142 naming Check Point Harmony SASE. In those answers Check Point Harmony SASE took the first choice five times and Cloudflare One fifty-four.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Cloudflare One and Check Point Harmony SASE stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
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
Muse Glimmer 30B
Cloudflare One Check Point Harmony SASE first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Cloudflare One on the left and Check Point Harmony SASE on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Cloudflare One and Check Point Harmony SASE stood in it.

Cloudflare One first, Check Point Harmony SASE an alternative

7 of 14 modelsCheck Point Harmony SASE was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Perplexity SonarCloudflare One, NordLayer alternatives: Cato Networks, Cisco Secure Access, Portnox
Grok 4.1 FastCloudflare One, Twingate alternatives: Cato Networks, Microsoft Entra Private Access, OpenVPN CloudConnexa
DeepSeek V4 FlashCloudflare One, Twingate alternatives: Cato Networks, Check Point Harmony SASE, NordLayer
Kimi K2Cloudflare One, Twingate alternatives: Cato Networks, Netskope Private Access, NordLayer, Zscaler Private Access
MiniMax M2.5Cato Networks, Cloudflare One alternatives: Axis Security, Banyan Security, OpenVPN CloudConnexa
GPT-6 LunaCloudflare One alternatives: Microsoft Entra Private Access, Twingate
Muse Glimmer 30BCloudflare One, Twingate alternatives: Cato Networks, Check Point Harmony SASE, Fortinet Universal ZTNA

Check Point Harmony SASE first, Cloudflare One an alternative

1 of 14 modelsCloudflare One was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Mistral SmallCheck Point Harmony SASE, Netskope Private Access alternatives: Cloudflare One, Twingate, Zscaler Private Access

Neither was the first choice, one was named

6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Cato Networks, Twingate alternatives: Cloudflare One, NordLayer
GPT-5.4 miniZscaler Private Access alternatives: Cloudflare One, Netskope One SSE, Prisma Access
Gemini 3.5 FlashTwingate alternatives: Cato Networks, Check Point Harmony SASE, Cloudflare One, Microsoft Entra Private Access
Llama 4 MaverickCato Networks alternatives: Check Point Harmony SASE, OpenVPN CloudConnexa
Qwen 3.7 FlashTwingate alternatives: Cloudflare One, Fortinet Universal ZTNA
GLM 4.7 FlashXCato Networks alternatives: Check Point Harmony SASE, Cloudflare One, Fortinet FortiZTNA

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Cloudflare One leads by fifty-seven points.
Cloudflare One58%#1 of 10
Check Point Harmony SASE2%#4 of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Cloudflare One leads by thirty-six points.
Cloudflare One38%#2 of 11
Check Point Harmony SASE2%#8 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Cloudflare One leads by twelve points.
Cloudflare One12%#2 of 8
Check Point Harmony SASE0%#– of 8
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Cloudflare One

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.

“Pure ZTNA (e.g., Twingate, Tailscale, Cloudflare Zero Trust): Great if you just want to kill the VPN and grant app-level access. Low overhead, easy to implement.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“Cloudflare Zero Trust (specifically Cloudflare Access for ZTNA) stands out as the best option for a company with a limited budget.” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Check Point Harmony SASE

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of five in this category shown.

“Avoid or delay: Any vendor from the DEF CON research until you verify their remediation is architectural, not just patched” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · hard negative
“Hard-coded encryption keys (CVE-2025-3831) that exposed customer data through diagnostic logs” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
“When to avoid: If log security or crypto hygiene is critical.” Grok 4.1 Fast · negative prompt · hard negative
“Check Point Harmony SASE (formerly Perimeter 81) and Netskope ZTNA are the top recommendations” Mistral Small · direct prompt · first choice
“"Check Point Harmony SASE (formerly Perimeter 81) is a cloud-based zero-trust platform combining ZTNA with a Secure Web Gateway."” Muse Glimmer 30B · comparative prompt · alternative
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.