Small business=heldSince September 2026: 40% → 39%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
39%from 40% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 1 of 69, unchanged
Cisco · 1 category · RankedCisco Meraki SD-WAN
126Judge labels
32First choices
23Negative labels
14 / 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.
Best standing
42% in SD-WAN for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 73 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 19% of its 43 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Cisco Meraki SD-WAN →By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.
Small business1 of 71
42%65 labels
endorsed leader
Mid-market2 of 73
19%43 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise50 of 52
0%17 labels
criticized challenger
In sd-wan · 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 SD-WAN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD-WAN | Network and edge | 19% | 2 of 73 | 19% | 43 | accepted challenger | ▼−11Since September 2026: 30% → 18%, −11 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN moved past the floor in its one category, SD-WAN, −11 points to 18%.
Best category · SD-WAN · by segment
Mid-market▼−11Since September 2026: 30% → 18%, −11 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
18%from 30% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 0 pointsRank 2 of 67, unchanged
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 26 → 48 of 48
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD-WAN | 30% | 18% | ▼−11Since September 2026: 30% → 18%, −11 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. | Moved past the floor | Rank 2 of 73, 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 Cisco Meraki SD-WAN 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 Cisco Meraki SD-WAN 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct24 labels12
Paraphrase26 labels15
Comparative21 labels12not counted in share
Budget-constrained22 labels3
Scale-constrained10 labels2
Negative23 labels5not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative126 labels in all, every segment counted; 32 of the 49 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.
“I would generally recommend Cisco Meraki SD-WAN if you want the best balance of simplicity, fast deployment, and reliable midmarket fit” Perplexity Sonar · SD-WAN · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Cloud-managed, dead-simple setup (zero-touch provisioning), great for distributed B2B sites... Meraki/Fortinet shine for ease/cost” Grok 4.20 · SD-WAN · direct prompt · first choice
“If your budget is tight right now and you cannot afford large upfront hardware purchases, Meraki is arguably the best option.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SD-WAN · budget prompt · first choice
“the market has coalesced around two primary leaders for this segment: Fortinet Secure SD-WAN and Cisco Meraki SD-WAN” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SD-WAN · direct 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.
“Unlike competitors (like Cisco Meraki or VeloCloud), you do not need to pay a premium bandwidth-based or SD-WAN-specific license” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SD-WAN · budget prompt · soft negative
“Great for ease of use and unified Wi-Fi management, though slightly less granular control than the dedicated players above.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SD-WAN · scale prompt · soft negative
“there is no escape valve. Once you commit to Meraki licenses, you will pay their price increases indefinitely” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative
“describe it as easier to use but more limited, with fewer and more basic features than Cisco Viptela” Perplexity Sonar · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, over the 126 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Meraki SD-WAN was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, over the 126 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Meraki SD-WAN 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 Cisco Meraki SD-WAN. 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 119 of the 126 answers that named Cisco Meraki SD-WAN and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com75
fortinet.com51
g2.com49
us.fitgap.com45
interfacesystems.com43
cisco.comYour site42
gartner.com42
it-ai-index.com33
reddit.com32
myhospitalnow.com31
401 of the 443 domain citations in answers naming Cisco Meraki SD-WAN came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Cisco Meraki SD-WAN stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Cisco Meraki SD-WAN stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 170 a month (“cisco meraki sd-wan”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 7 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Cisco's site (cisco.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
19%
rank 2 of 73 in SD-WAN
Segment leader
50%
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
- First choices
- 32 across its categories
- Named in
- 126 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 119 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 Cisco Meraki SD-WAN
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cisco Meraki SD-WAN; a claim can dispute any of them.
Cisco Meraki 16Cisco Meraki MX 4Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (formerly Viptela) & Cisco Meraki 1Cisco Meraki (Meraki SD-WAN) 1Cisco Meraki MX Series 1Meraki 1Meraki SD-WAN 1
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The company
Cisco is the company behind Cisco Meraki SD-WAN.ShowHide
The company
Cisco is the company behind Cisco Meraki SD-WAN.
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In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Customers named
- Fortune 500 client
- Not stated on the pages read
- Positioning, who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Cisco Meraki SD-WAN's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: talentbridge.cisco.com/job/cisco-sd-wan-engineer-56524, talentbridge.cisco.com/job/senior-wired-network-engineer-design-implementation-cisco-sd-wan-56544. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cisco Meraki SD-WAN by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cisco Meraki SD-WAN 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 Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Cisco Meraki SD-WAN is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Cisco Meraki SD-WAN is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideCisco Meraki SD-WAN is among the products AI models recommend first in SD-WAN this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.