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Cisco Meraki MX

13Judge labels
0First choices
2Negative labels
5 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.
Best standing
0% in Firewalls for small business buyers
Rank 64 of 100 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 1 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business21 of 110
0%11 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market64 of 100
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprise45 of 86
0%1 label
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 Cisco Meraki MX 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Next-generation firewallsNetwork and edge0%64 of 1000%1under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 61%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cisco Meraki MX 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 Cisco Meraki MX across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative3 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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 Cisco Meraki MX, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Meraki MX was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Fortinet FortiGate12 of 136Not in the top three
WatchGuard Firebox10 of 134Not in the top three
Sophos XGS6 of 130Not in the top three
SonicWall TZ Series5 of 130Not in the top three
Palo Alto Networks3 of 131Not in the top three
Cisco Secure Firewall3 of 130Not in the top three
Sophos Firewall XGS3 of 130Not in the top three
Sophos Firewall2 of 131Not in the top three
Palo Alto Networks PA-Series2 of 130Not in the top three
pfSense/OPNsense2 of 130Not 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 Cisco Meraki MX. 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 13 of the 13 answers that named Cisco Meraki MX and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org10
cybersecuritynews.com10
enterprisenetworkingplanet.com7
mspcompared.com7
reddit.com7
secithub.com7
cisco.comYour site6
comparitech.com5
decryptiondigest.com5
checkpoint.com4

Sixty-two of the sixty-eight domain citations in answers naming Cisco Meraki MX came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/best-next-generation-firewall-ngfw-solutions-for-every-business-size10
cybersecuritynews.com/best-next-generation-firewall10
enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/guides/best-firewalls-for-small-medium-business7
secithub.com/smb-firewall-ranking-guide-20257
mspcompared.com/best/firewall6
gbhackers.com/ngfw-solutions-compared-features-pricing4
perkinssecurity.com/index-9.html3
blog.invgate.com/best-firewall-for-small-business3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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