Cisco · 3 categories · RankedCisco Umbrella
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SASE platforms | Network and edge | 7% | 4 of 43 | 18% | 17 | accepted challenger |
| Multi-factor authentication | Identity and access | 0% | 52 of 78 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cisco Duo at 42% |
| Threat intelligence platforms | Security operations | 0% | 109 of 128 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by NordStellar at 13% |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Cisco Umbrella and Cloudflare generally offer the lowest barriers to entry” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SASE · budget prompt · first choice
“The best SASE platform for a company with a limited budget is Cisco Umbrella” Llama 4 Maverick · SASE · budget prompt · first choice
“Cisco Umbrella if you need basic security at the lowest cost” MiniMax M2.5 · SASE · budget prompt · first choice
“Cheapest paid tier, simple DNS/SWG focus, easy for mid-market | Less full SASE (add-ons for SD-WAN/ZTNA raise costs)” Grok 4.1 Fast · SASE · 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.
“integrates multiple products with no single centralized interface to track all of them conveniently, and there are reports of issues accessing customer services” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SASE · negative prompt · soft negative
“Not a full TIP – more of a security stack, but includes threat intelligence” MiniMax M2.5 · Threat intel · budget prompt · soft negative
“more of a lower-cost security layer than a full all-in-one SASE platform” Perplexity Sonar · SASE · budget prompt · soft negative
“it's more of an SSE/security tool than a full converged SASE platform” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SASE · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 25 of the 31 answers that named Cisco Umbrella and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
124 of the 124 domain citations in answers naming Cisco Umbrella came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Cisco Umbrella
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