Every category where a model named Cato Networks 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
SASE platforms	Network and edge	26%	2 of 43	8%	25	accepted challenger
Zero trust network access	Network and edge	12%	3 of 71	0%	16	accepted challenger
SD-WAN	Network and edge	0%	12 of 53	6%	18	accepted challenger
Next-generation firewalls	Network and edge	0%	35 of 100	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 61%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	1	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	3	4	0	10
Perplexity Sonar	1	4	2	0	7
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	1	4	0	7
Mistral Small	2	1	1	0	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	4	1	2	1	8
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	2	0	0	4
Kimi K2	3	3	0	0	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	1	1	5
MiniMax M2.5	0	5	0	1	6

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

Direct47 labels17

Paraphrase20 labels4

Comparative35 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained26 labels8

Scale-constrained15 labels5

Negative21 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative164 labels in all, every segment counted; 34 of the 44 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.

“Widely praised for being built from the ground up as a single cloud network, making it exceptionally easy to manage for mid-sized IT teams.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SASE · scale prompt · first choice

“For most mid-sized B2B companies, I recommend: Cato Networks if you want a single-vendor SASE with global backbone and strong security.” Mistral Small · SASE · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Cato Networks is frequently cited by analysts in 2026 as the top choice specifically for the mid-market segment.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SASE · direct prompt · first choice

“aim for platforms with strong mid-market traction like Cato or Cloudflare—easier to deploy/manage than behemoths” Grok 4.1 Fast · SASE · scale prompt · first choice

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.

“Pricing model is complex and expensive — proposals "can be high and/or difficult to understand,"... Limited SaaS control/visibility” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SASE · negative prompt · soft negative

“Cato Networks: Mixed reviews with some users reporting poor support responsiveness” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SASE · negative prompt · soft negative

“Lack of pricing transparency – users cite hidden fees” MiniMax M2.5 · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cato Networks, over the 164 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cato Networks was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare One84 of 16422Compare →

Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange73 of 1644Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiSASE64 of 1643Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE57 of 16415Not in the top three

Netskope One54 of 1642Not in the top three

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN41 of 16416Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony SASE39 of 1641Not in the top three

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN31 of 1648Not in the top three

VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN27 of 1640Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN25 of 16410Not 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 Cato Networks. 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 136 of the 164 answers that named Cato Networks and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com81

sase.cloud45

guideflow.com38

fortinet.com37

g2.com35

pickmysoft.com35

comparitech.com33

costbench.com33

techrepublic.com33

blog.openvpn.net30

400 of the 400 domain citations in answers naming Cato Networks came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/single-vendor-sase40

pickmysoft.com/blog/best-secure-access-service-edge-sase-platforms33

techrepublic.com/article/secure-access-service-edge-platforms33

gartner.com/reviews/market/sd-wan30

blog.openvpn.net/best-sase-solution25

guideflow.com/blog/sase-platform23

cotocus.com/blog/top-10-sase-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison21

crn.com/news/security/2024/palo-alto-networks-cato-netskope-top-gartner-s-sase-magic-quadr20

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cato Networks

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

Cato Networks (Cato SASE Cloud) 4Cato 1Cato Networks (Cato SASE) 1Cato Networks (SASE Cloud) 1Cato Networks (SASE) 1

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