Every category where a model named Cato SASE Cloud 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	28%	1 of 43	0%	16	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cato SASE Cloud 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 SASE Cloud 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	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	0	0	2
Mistral Small	2	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	2	0	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	1	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	0	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

Direct12 labels8

Paraphrase6 labels4

Comparative9 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained9 labels4

Scale-constrained1 label1

Negative6 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative43 labels in all, every segment counted; 17 of the 20 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.

“Reviewers found Cato SASE Cloud easier to use, set up, and do business with overall, and it's particularly popular with mid-market companies” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SASE · direct prompt · first choice

“Cato Networks SASE Cloud is the best overall choice due to its single-vendor simplicity and robust global backbone” Mistral Small · SASE · direct prompt · first choice

“Cloudflare One and Cato SASE Cloud are often recommended as the best budget-friendly SASE platforms.” Mistral Small · SASE · budget prompt · first choice

“Best Overall for Mid-Market ... I'd recommend starting your evaluation with Cato Networks” Kimi K2 · SASE · paraphrase 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cato SASE Cloud, over the 43 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cato SASE Cloud was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange34 of 434Not in the top three

Cloudflare One31 of 439Compare →

Fortinet FortiSASE27 of 431Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE24 of 433Not in the top three

Netskope One20 of 432Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony SASE9 of 431Not in the top three

Cisco Umbrella8 of 430Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Access6 of 431Not in the top three

Versa SASE5 of 431Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Connect5 of 430Not 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 SASE Cloud. 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 42 of the 43 answers that named Cato SASE Cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com23

pickmysoft.com23

sase.cloud17

blog.openvpn.net16

costbench.com15

netify.co.uk14

techrepublic.com14

thenetworkdna.com13

viewpointanalysis.com13

cybervendorguide.com12

160 of the 160 domain citations in answers naming Cato SASE Cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

pickmysoft.com/blog/best-secure-access-service-edge-sase-platforms23

gartner.com/reviews/market/single-vendor-sase17

blog.openvpn.net/best-sase-solution16

techrepublic.com/article/secure-access-service-edge-platforms14

viewpointanalysis.com/post/sase-software-options-202613

costbench.com/best/sase-for-mid-market12

cybervendorguide.com/guides/sase-zero-trust12

cyberhaven.com/blog/top-sase-solutions11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cato SASE Cloud

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

Cato Networks SASE Cloud 10Cato 1Cato Networks Cato SASE 1Cato SASE Cloud Platform 1

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