1 category · RankedAruba ClearPass
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Network access control | Network and edge | 2% | 19 of 111 | 43% | 21 | criticized challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Aruba ClearPass across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Best overall: Aruba ClearPass” GPT-5.4 mini · NAC · direct prompt · first choice
“Choose Aruba ClearPass for multi-vendor flexibility with mature policy capabilities” Kimi K2 · NAC · comparative prompt · alternative
“ClearPass is famous for its flexibility and ability to handle complex BYOD” Qwen 3.7 Flash · NAC · comparative prompt · alternative
“Aruba ClearPass if you have a more complex, multi-vendor environment” Perplexity Sonar · NAC · paraphrase 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.
“What to Avoid - Cisco ISE and Aruba ClearPass – While excellent solutions, they are typically expensive and complex” Kimi K2 · NAC · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Cisco/Aruba/Forescout – these are enterprise-priced” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NAC · budget prompt · hard negative
“Support ticket resolution delays; challenging to identify responsible support teams; additional costs for maintenance and regional service” Kimi K2 · NAC · negative prompt · soft negative
“Steep learning curve; traditionally requires appliance/VM management and significant administrative time.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · NAC · scale prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Aruba ClearPass, over the 79 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Aruba ClearPass was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 71 of the 79 answers that named Aruba ClearPass and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
305 of the 305 domain citations in answers naming Aruba ClearPass came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
arubanetworks.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Aruba ClearPass takes 2% of first choices and Portnox Cloud takes 35%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 880 a month (“aruba clearpass”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 52 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 2,865 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 769 · 74 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 11,070
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 7 across its categories
- Named in
- 79 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 71 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison | 96 | 0 | 2022-07-01 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 51 | undated | SD-WAN | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 28 | 0 | 2022-08-01 | SD-WAN, SASE | |
| Report or ebook | 12 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 11 | undated | |||
| News or press | 3 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2022-08-01What is asymmetric routing and does clearpass allow asymmetric routing glossary or explainer
- 2022-08-01What is the default tls version for clearpass version 69 onwards glossary or explainer
- 2022-07-01Aruba os cx switch acl logging output details vs summary comparison
- 2022-07-01What is the maximum number of overlay tunnel ssid that could be created in an aos 10x deployment glossary or explainer
- 2022-07-01What is the maximum number of overlay tunnel ssid that could be created in an aos 10x deployment glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page arubanetworks.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.
Names read as Aruba ClearPass
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The company
Aruba ClearPass is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Customers named
- Norfolk SouthernEverton Football Club
- Not stated on the pages read
- Positioning, who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Aruba ClearPass's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: arubanetworks.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Aruba ClearPass by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Aruba ClearPass 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 Aruba ClearPass, 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.