Small businessgoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsNot ranked
5 categories · Named, not rankedBarracuda
12Judge labels
1First choices
7Negative labels
8 / 14Models named it
5Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
6 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Barracuda was named 6 times in SD-WAN and 4 other categories, where Fortinet Secure SD-WAN led with 50%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market66 of 73
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise47 of 52
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
In sd-wan · 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 Barracuda 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD-WAN | Network and edge | 0% | 66 of 73 | 100% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Fortinet Secure SD-WAN at 50% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| API security platforms | Security operations | 0% | 81 of 93 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12% | |
| DNS filtering | Network and edge | 0% | 43 of 94 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by DNSFilter at 59% | |
| Extended detection and response | Security operations | 0% | 44 of 58 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender XDR at 40% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Vulnerability management platforms | Security operations | 0% | 44 of 77 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 30% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Barracuda held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · SD-WAN · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 51 → 44 of 67
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 31 → 33 of 48
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD-WAN | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 51 → 66 of 73 |
| API security | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 81 of 93, unchanged |
| DNS filtering | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 43 of 94, unchanged |
| XDR | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 44 of 58, unchanged |
| Vuln management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 44 of 77, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Barracuda across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Barracuda across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labels1
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.
No positive label carried a quote.
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.
“"Barracuda is a Niche Player in this Magic Quadrant." ... "Barracuda has low market visibility"” Muse Glimmer 30B · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative
“Gartner ranks them as Niche Players or worse—limited visibility” Grok 4.20 · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative
“Legacy WAFs rebranded (some F5, Barracuda, ThreatX deployments)” Kimi K2 · API security · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Barracuda, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Barracuda was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Barracuda, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Barracuda was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Barracuda. 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 12 of the 12 answers that named Barracuda and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
g2.com7
gartner.com5
guideflow.com4
checkpoint.com3
cyberpress.org3
devopsschool.com3
expertinsights.com3
it-ai-index.com3
learn.microsoft.com3
myhospitalnow.com3
Thirty-seven of the thirty-seven domain citations in answers naming Barracuda came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
barracuda.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Barracuda takes 0% of first choices and Fortinet Secure SD-WAN takes 50%.ShowHide
Search and answers
barracuda.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Barracuda takes 0% of first choices and Fortinet Secure SD-WAN takes 50%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “sd-wan platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “sd-wan platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 201,000 a month (“barracuda”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 10,561 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 64,778 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 9,391 · 659 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 12,916
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 66 of 73 in SD-WAN
Segment leader
50%
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 12 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 12 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on barracuda.com
10,000
subdomains included
Content
5,051
counted in the table below
Documentation
27
Product · Integration
376 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 4,766 | 244 | 2026-12-01 | Email security, XDR | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 115 | 0 | 2025-12-01 | SD-WAN, XDR | |
| Glossary or explainer | 70 | 2 | 2026-07-01 | SASE, RMM | |
| Comparison | 27 | 0 | 2026-06-01 | Email security | |
| Report or ebook | 22 | 0 | 2024-02-01 | ||
| Conference or event | 21 | 0 | 2023-08-01 | ||
| Case study | 14 | 4 | 2026-08-01 | Email security | |
| Template or tool | 8 | 0 | 2024-04-01 | ||
| Podcast or video | 5 | 2 | 2026-09-01 | ||
| News or press | 3 | 0 | 2022-03-01 |
Most recent
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page barracuda.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name email security (49); 58 name its categories the models place it in. 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 September 29, 2026.
Names read as Barracuda
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Barracuda; a claim can dispute any of them.
Check Point / Barracuda 1
Follow Barracuda
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.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Barracuda is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Barracuda is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Cybersecurity Platform
- For
- all size business
- Price stated
- Pricing barracuda.com
- Free plan or trial
- Free Trial barracuda.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2 certificationISO certificationEsquema Nacional de Seguridad (ENS)
- Customers named
- MSS SecurityTurlock Unified School DistrictMizar TechMacmillan Cancer SupportCentric Technology ServicesComputing Technologies Inc.CTN Solutions
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, hosting
What Barracuda's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: barracuda.com, trust.barracuda.com, barracuda.com/products/msp, barracuda.com/products/managed-xdr/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
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 Barracuda'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 Barracuda, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Barracuda by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Barracuda 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 Barracuda, 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.