Small businessnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 60 of 87, unchanged
Check Point · 1 category · Named, not rankedCheck Point Spark
5Judge labels
0First choices
2Negative 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
3 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Check Point Spark was named 3 times in Firewalls, where Fortinet FortiGate led with 73%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business69 of 99
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market32 of 83
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
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 Spark 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Next-generation firewalls | Network and edge | 0% | 32 of 83 | 33% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 73% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Check Point Spark held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Firewalls · by segment
Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 28 of 73, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firewalls | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 32 of 83, unchanged |
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 Spark 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 Spark 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained4 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.
“higher-end but still SMB-focused alternative, Check Point Spark is worth a look” GPT-5.4 mini · Firewalls · budget prompt · alternative
“Check Point Spark (for SMBs needing easy cloud/web management)” Mistral Small · Firewalls · budget 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.
“Often a bit pricier than the competition for the same throughput; licensing can become expensive” MiniMax M2.5 · Firewalls · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Check Point Spark, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Check Point Spark was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Check Point Spark, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Check Point Spark 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 Spark. 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 5 of the 5 answers that named Check Point Spark and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
checkpoint.comYour site5
sangfor.com4
fortinet.com3
itcompanies.net3
perkinssecurity.com3
comparitech.com2
firewalls.com2
ittsystems.com2
strategicaitsolutions.com2
virtual-pc.com2
Twenty-three of the twenty-eight domain citations in answers naming Check Point Spark came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Check Point Spark
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Check Point Spark; a claim can dispute any of them.
Check Point Spark (NGFW for SMB) 1
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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 Spark.ShowHide
The company
Check Point is the company behind Check Point Spark.
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Claim this page
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 Spark'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 Spark, 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 Spark by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Check Point Spark 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 Spark, 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.