Every category where a model named Akamai Guardicore Segmentation for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Microsegmentation	Network and edge	12%	3 of 94	20%	51	accepted challenger
Breach and attack simulation	Security operations	0%	28 of 74	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Cymulate at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Akamai Guardicore Segmentation across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	2	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	2	0	2	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	3	0	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	1	0	3	6
Mistral Small	2	1	0	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	5	0	1	6
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	4	0	4
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1	2
Kimi K2	1	2	1	1	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	1	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	1	2	0	0	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	3	0	1	5

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct31 labels7

Paraphrase24 labels8

Comparative40 labels10not counted in share

Budget-constrained19 labels1

Scale-constrained21 labels4

Negative14 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative149 labels in all, every segment counted; 20 of the 31 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is a top choice due to its strong east-west visibility, ease of deployment, and support for hybrid environments” Mistral Small · Microsegmentation · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Illumio and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation are generally considered the top contenders for this segment” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Microsegmentation · direct prompt · first choice

“For most mid-sized B2B companies, I'd recommend Akamai Guardicore Segmentation as your primary choice.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Microsegmentation · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend prioritizing Akamai Guardicore Segmentation as your primary candidate” Kimi K2 · Microsegmentation · paraphrase prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid first if budget is tight: Akamai Guardicore, because pricing can be a constraint.” GPT-5.4 mini · Microsegmentation · budget prompt · hard negative

“some users report agent overhead, integration bugs, complex maps/visuals, and accuracy limits in risk detection” Grok 4.1 Fast · Microsegmentation · negative prompt · soft negative

“Initial mapping complexity and operational overhead... can be overwhelming to organize manually” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Microsegmentation · negative prompt · soft negative

“Example: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation - Major concern: Requires kernel module installation” Kimi K2 · Microsegmentation · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, over the 149 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Illumio Segmentation127 of 14946Compare →

Zero Networks Segment75 of 14913Compare →

Cisco Secure Workload72 of 1490Not among the top eight

VMware NSX68 of 1491Compare →

ColorTokens Xshield64 of 14917Compare →

Elisity63 of 1496Not among the top eight

Zscaler Private Access28 of 1492Compare →

Cisco16 of 1490Not among the top eight

Faddom14 of 1494Compare →

Illumio Core11 of 1493Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 147 of the 149 answers that named Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

elisity.com110

cyberpress.org76

tigera.io72

peerspot.com65

gartner.com64

forrester.com63

cybersecuritynews.com60

zeronetworks.com57

aimultiple.com53

g2.com48

668 of the 668 domain citations in answers naming Akamai Guardicore Segmentation came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

elisity.com/blog/top-microsegmentation-solutions96

cyberpress.org/microsegmentation-tools-by-business-size74

cybersecuritynews.com/best-microsegmentation-tools58

forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-tm-microsegmentation-solutions-q3-2024/RES18130251

peerspot.com/categories/microsegmentation-software51

gartner.com/reviews/market/microsegmentation47

aimultiple.com/microsegmentation-tools44

tigera.io/learn/guides/microsegmentation/microsegmentation-software44

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Akamai Guardicore Segmentation stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 90 a month (“akamai guardicore segmentation”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 a month
Its own site: It sits on Akamai's site (akamai.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

12%

rank 3 of 94 in microsegmentation

Segment leader

25%

ColorTokens Xshield

First choices: 20 across its categories
Named in: 149 answers
Its own site cited: in 147 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Akamai Guardicore Segmentation; a claim can dispute any of them.

Akamai Guardicore 31Akamai Guardicore Centra 1

Follow Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Akamai is the company behind Akamai Guardicore Segmentation.

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On record

Company records

Also from Akamai: Akamai, Akamai API Security, Akamai App & API Protector, Akamai Bot Manager, Akamai Client-Side Protection, Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance, Akamai Connected Cloud, Akamai Edge DNS and 14 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: in limited availability
techdocs.akamai.com/guardicore-platform-agent/changelog/akamai-guardicore-platform-agent-710-v519-general-availability
For: Eligible customers
techdocs.akamai.com/guardicore-platform-agent/changelog/akamai-guardicore-platform-agent-710-v519-limited-availability
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Akamai Guardicore Segmentation's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: techdocs.akamai.com/guardicore-platform-agent/changelog/akamai-guardicore-platform-agent-722-limited-availability, techdocs.akamai.com/guardicore-platform-agent/changelog/akamai-guardicore-platform-agent-710-v519-general-availability, techdocs.akamai.com/guardicore-platform-agent/changelog/akamai-guardicore-platform-agent-710-v519-limited-availability, techdocs.akamai.com/guardicore-platform-agent/changelog/akamai-guardicore-platform-agent-711-v519-limited-availability, techdocs.akamai.com/guardicore-platform-agent/changelog/akamai-guardicore-platform-agent-712-v519-limited-availability. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Akamai Guardicore Segmentation's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is among the products AI models recommend first in Microsegmentation this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

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Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.