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Index › Vendors › Appgate SDP · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Appgate SDP

11Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

8 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Appgate SDP was named 8 times in ZTNA, where Cloudflare One led with 35%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business44 of 65

under the label threshold

Mid-market15 of 71

under the label threshold

Enterprise30 of 64

under the label threshold

In ztna · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Appgate SDP 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
Zero trust network access	Network and edge	0%	15 of 71	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare One at 35%

Movement

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

By model

How each model treated Appgate SDP across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1
Kimi K2	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative9 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Granular access policies; strong for complex environments with many private applications” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ZTNA · comparative prompt · alternative

“For identity-centric or hybrid cloud, Okta Access Gateway and Appgate SDP are notable.” Mistral Small · ZTNA · comparative prompt · alternative

“For Security-First Organizations: Zscaler or Appgate SDP” Kimi K2 · ZTNA · comparative prompt · alternative

“Appgate SDP offers the best free tier among ZTNA tools” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ZTNA · budget prompt · alternative

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Appgate SDP, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Appgate SDP was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zscaler Private Access10 of 118Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access10 of 110Not in the top three

Netskope Private Access9 of 111Not in the top three

Twingate8 of 112Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Access8 of 110Not in the top three

Tailscale5 of 111Not in the top three

Akamai Enterprise Application Access5 of 110Not in the top three

Cloudflare Access5 of 110Not in the top three

NordLayer5 of 110Not in the top three

Cloudflare One4 of 112Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Appgate SDP. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 11 of the 11 answers that named Appgate SDP and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aimultiple.com11

akamai.com7

seanfraser.io7

sf-cdn.iansresearch.com7

cybersecuritynews.com6

worldmetrics.org6

cipherssecurity.com5

expertinsights.com5

guptadeepak.com5

peerspot.com4

Sixty-three of the sixty-three domain citations in answers naming Appgate SDP came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aimultiple.com/ztna-solutions11

akamai.com/site/en/documents/analyst-report/2024/kuppingercole-ztna-analyst-report.pdf7

seanfraser.io/blog/2024-03-26-insiders-guide-top-10-ztna-vendors-20247

sf-cdn.iansresearch.com/sitefinity/docs/default-source/ians-documents/zerotrust-ztna-marke7

cybersecuritynews.com/best-ztna-solutions6

worldmetrics.org/best/ztna-software6

cipherssecurity.com/best-ztna-platforms-20265

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-zero-trust-network-access-solutions5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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