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1 category · Named, not ranked

BlueCat

6Judge labels
0First choices
0Negative labels
5 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
1 label, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. BlueCat was named 1 time in DNS filtering, where DNSFilter led with 59%. 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-market45 of 94
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprise19 of 73
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
In dns filtering · 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 BlueCat 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
DNS filteringNetwork and edge0%45 of 940%1under 10 labels · led by DNSFilter at 59%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for BlueCat 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 BlueCat across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as BlueCat, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BlueCat was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Cisco Umbrella5 of 63Not among the top eight
DNSFilter5 of 62Not among the top eight
Zscaler Internet Access4 of 62Not among the top eight
Cloudflare Gateway4 of 60Not among the top eight
Infoblox Threat Defense4 of 60Not among the top eight
Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector2 of 60Not among the top eight
EfficientIP2 of 60Not among the top eight
Quad92 of 60Not among the top eight
Cisco Secure Access1 of 61Not among the top eight
Cloudflare One1 of 61Not 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 BlueCat. 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 6 of the 6 answers that named BlueCat and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

controld.com5
cybersecuritynews.com5
cyberpress.org4
dnsfilter.com4
aimultiple.com3
comparitech.com3
f6s.com3
g2.com3
gbhackers.com3
thectoclub.com3

Thirty-six of the thirty-six domain citations in answers naming BlueCat came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/best-dns-filtering-solutions4
aimultiple.com/dns-security3
comparitech.com/net-admin/best-dns-protection-solutions3
cybersecuritynews.com/best-dns-security-solutions3
cybersecuritynews.com/bst-protective-dns-services3
thectoclub.com/tools/best-dns-security-software3
cloudflare.com/zero-trust/compare/cloudflare-vs-cisco-umbrella2
controld.com/blog/best-enterprise-web-filtering-software2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

bluecatnetworks.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, BlueCat takes 0% of first choices and DNSFilter takes 59%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “dns filtering service”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “dns filtering services”
–
not in the top ten
Organic visits to its site
about 49,586 a month
Searches its site ranks for
3,087 · 166 in the top three
Sites linking to it
2,517
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
3 ads · 3 text · 2 shown in the last 30 days

First shown June 2025, as BlueCat Networks Inc, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 2 in the year, 1 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 45 of 94 in DNS filtering
Segment leader
59%
DNSFilter
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
6 answers
Its own site cited
in 6 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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Addresses on bluecatnetworks.com
3,305
subdomains included
Content
1,022
counted in the table below
Documentation
596
Product · Integration
68 · 23
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-11 to 2026-10LatestCategories named
Blog782422026-10-02SD-WAN, DDI and IPAM
News or press11712026-08-03Infra monitoring, DDI and IPAM
Webinar or virtual event2912026-09-29
Glossary or explainer2902025-03-05Firewalls
Case study1802025-06-01
Conference or event1772026-11-09
Comparison1412026-08-04
Report or ebook1302026-04-10
Template or tool2undated
Podcast or video112026-07-09

Most recent

Events in person

Upcoming
Last twelve months

As the event pages on bluecatnetworks.com state them, read October 5, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page bluecatnetworks.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.

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The company

BlueCat is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Intelligent NetOps solutions that unify core DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) network infrastructure with observability, intelligence, and security.
bluecatnetworks.com
For
NetOps, SecOps, DevOps, CloudOps, and networking teams
bluecatnetworks.com
Free plan or trial
Start a free trial bluecatnetworks.com
Certifications
ISO 27001
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, integrations, hosting, customers

What BlueCat's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: bluecatnetworks.com, trust.bluecatnetworks.com, bluecatnetworks.com/products. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where BlueCat 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 BlueCat, 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.
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