Every category where a model named Aryaka 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
SD-WAN	Network and edge	5%	4 of 53	0%	10	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Aryaka 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 Aryaka across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labels1

Comparative14 labelsNone

Budget-constrained9 labels1

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative37 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“Aryaka offers entry-level pricing starting at $150 per site per month, making it suitable for small to medium-sized enterprises.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SD-WAN · budget prompt · first choice

“I'd suggest starting with Cisco Meraki or Aryaka as primary options” MiniMax M2.5 · SD-WAN · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Choose Aryaka if you prefer a managed global WAN with less operational burden.” Perplexity Sonar · SD-WAN · comparative prompt · alternative

“For global connectivity and quick deployment, consider Aryaka.” Mistral Small · SD-WAN · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Aryaka, over the 37 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Aryaka was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN32 of 377Not in the top three

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN21 of 379Not in the top three

VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN20 of 370Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN18 of 376Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN17 of 370Not in the top three

Cato Networks16 of 374Not in the top three

Versa Secure SD-WAN13 of 371Not in the top three

HPE Aruba EdgeConnect10 of 370Not in the top three

Cisco6 of 373Not in the top three

Juniper4 of 370Not 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 Aryaka. 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 33 of the 37 answers that named Aryaka and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com28

interfacesystems.com17

costbench.com16

stlpartners.com16

guideflow.com13

cisco.com12

g2.com10

zpesystems.com10

fortinet.com9

peerspot.com9

140 of the 140 domain citations in answers naming Aryaka came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/sd-wan26

interfacesystems.com/blog/top-sd-wan-vendors17

stlpartners.com/articles/network-innovation/sd-wan-providers16

guideflow.com/blog/sd-wan-software13

cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/sdwan-routers/sdwan-competitive-comparison.html10

costbench.com/best/sd-wan-for-enterprise10

zpesystems.com/sd-wan-leaders-zs10

techtarget.com/it-infrastructure/tip/SD-WAN-comparison-chart-10-vendors-to-assess7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Aryaka

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

Aryaka Networks 1Aryaka SmartConnect SD-WAN 1

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