Small business=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 46 → 67 of 69
Check Point · 4 categories · RankedCheck Point CloudGuard
56Judge labels
2First choices
15Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in CNAPP for enterprise buyers
Rank 8 of 80 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 22% of its 9 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business70 of 72
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market8 of 80
2%9 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise12 of 52
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
In cspm · 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 Check Point CloudGuard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud security posture management | Cloud and infrastructure | 2% | 8 of 80 | 22% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 37% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Cloud-native application protection | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 26 of 70 | 14% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 37% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Application security posture management | Developer platform | 0% | 32 of 70 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 37% | |
| Web application firewalls | Network and edge | 0% | 28 of 82 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare WAF at 69% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Check Point CloudGuard held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CSPM · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 14 → 8 of 73
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 14 → 12 of 46
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSPM | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 14 → 8 of 80 |
| CNAPP | 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 18 → 26 of 70 |
| ASPM | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 32 of 70, unchanged |
| WAF | 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 57 → 28 of 82 |
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 Check Point CloudGuard 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 Check Point CloudGuard 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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
Direct4 labelsNone
Paraphrase5 labelsNone
Comparative22 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labels2
Scale-constrained6 labelsNone
Negative16 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative56 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 3 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.
“CloudGuard Lite stands out as an affordable, read-only AWS security and compliance scanner designed specifically for startups, small teams, and founders” Mistral Small · CSPM · budget prompt · first choice
“Prioritize WAFs scoring high on *balanced accuracy* ... like Check Point CloudGuard (top in 2025–2026 tests)” Grok 4.20 · WAF · negative prompt · first choice
“Strong choice if you already use Palo Alto Networks/Check Point firewalls” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CSPM · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Popular in TrustRadius mid-sized reviews; good for regulated B2B.” Grok 4.20 · CSPM · 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.
“CSPM capabilities are thin relative to dedicated vendors. Users report higher false positive rates and slower detection.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CSPM · negative prompt · hard negative
“⚠️ Check Point CloudGuard: Avoid if you have strict data sovereignty requirements.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CNAPP · negative prompt · hard negative
“Mentioned in the same context as Palo Alto for setup issues, suggesting it may also require significant time and expertise” Mistral Small · CSPM · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Check Point CloudGuard, over the 56 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Check Point CloudGuard was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Check Point CloudGuard, over the 56 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Check Point CloudGuard 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 Check Point CloudGuard. 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 53 of the 56 answers that named Check Point CloudGuard and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
expertinsights.com27
cybersecuritynews.com21
g2.com20
orca.security18
wiz.io18
cloudaware.com17
cyberpress.org17
fidelissecurity.com16
peerspot.com12
sentinelone.com12
178 of the 178 domain citations in answers naming Check Point CloudGuard came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Check Point CloudGuard stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Check Point CloudGuard stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 70 a month (“check point cloudguard”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Check Point's site (checkpoint.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 8 of 80 in CSPM
Segment leader
37%
Wiz
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 56 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 53 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.
Names read as Check Point CloudGuard
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Check Point CloudGuard; a claim can dispute any of them.
Check Point CloudGuard/Cloud Firewall 2CloudGuard 1CloudGuard Lite 1
Follow Check Point CloudGuard
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.
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The company
Check Point is the company behind Check Point CloudGuard.ShowHide
The company
Check Point is the company behind Check Point CloudGuard.
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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 Check Point CloudGuard'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 Check Point CloudGuard, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Check Point CloudGuard by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Check Point CloudGuard 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 Check Point CloudGuard, 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.