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Check Point Quantum

18Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

9 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Check Point Quantum was named 7 times in Firewalls, where Fortinet FortiGate led with 61%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business72 of 110

under the label threshold

Mid-market18 of 100

under the label threshold

Enterprise15 of 86

under the label threshold

In firewalls · 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 Quantum 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
Next-generation firewalls	Network and edge	0%	18 of 100	0%	7	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 Check Point Quantum 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 Check Point Quantum across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative10 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 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.

“Best if you prioritize centralized enterprise security management: Check Point.” GPT-5.4 mini · Firewalls · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for regulated industries and organizations prioritizing sandboxing” Perplexity Sonar · Firewalls · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best-in-class sandboxing capabilities (Threat Emulation/Threat Extraction)” Kimi K2 · Firewalls · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for: Regulated industries ... prioritizing threat prevention efficacy” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Firewalls · comparative 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Check Point Quantum, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Check Point Quantum was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet FortiGate16 of 185Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Firewall13 of 180Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks PA-Series10 of 188Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks7 of 185Not in the top three

Juniper SRX6 of 180Not in the top three

Barracuda CloudGen5 of 180Not in the top three

Sophos Firewall4 of 180Not in the top three

Sophos XGS4 of 180Not in the top three

Forcepoint3 of 180Not in the top three

Juniper Networks2 of 180Not 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 Check Point Quantum. 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 18 of the 18 answers that named Check Point Quantum and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

checkpoint.comYour site14

cybersecuritynews.com13

comparitech.com12

esecurityplanet.com11

cyberpress.org10

fortinet.com10

cisco.com9

decryptiondigest.com8

paloaltonetworks.com8

networkworld.com6

Eighty-seven of the 101 domain citations in answers naming Check Point Quantum came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cybersecuritynews.com/best-next-generation-firewall13

comparitech.com/net-admin/next-gen-firewalls12

esecurityplanet.com/products/top-ngfw11

checkpoint.com/comparison/top-4-ngfw-compared10

cyberpress.org/best-next-generation-firewall-ngfw-solutions-for-every-business-size9

decryptiondigest.com/blog/enterprise-ngfw-comparison-20268

fortinet.com/products/next-generation-firewall7

networkworld.com/article/970700/ngfw-buyers-guide-7-leading-next-generation-firewall-vendo6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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