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Index Vendors › Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One · September 2026 Edition
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Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One

4Judge labels
2First choices
0Negative labels
3 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
5% in ZTNA for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 71 in the mid-market standing
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 3 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In ztna · 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 Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One 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
Zero trust network accessNetwork and edge5%5 of 710%3under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare One at 35%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One 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 Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One 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 mini10001
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar10001
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K210001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
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
Direct1 label1
Paraphrase2 labels1
Comparative1 label1not counted in share
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 3 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.

“Rating: 4.6/5 ... Fastest performance ... For Performance-Critical Apps: Cloudflare (fastest global network)” Kimi K2 · ZTNA · comparative prompt · first choice
“the best default ZTNA choice is usually Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One” Perplexity Sonar · ZTNA · direct prompt · first choice
“my default recommendation would be Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One” GPT-5.4 mini · ZTNA · paraphrase 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Zscaler Private Access4 of 41Not in the top three
Twingate3 of 40Not in the top three
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access2 of 40Not in the top three
Akamai Enterprise Application Access1 of 40Not in the top three
Appgate SDP1 of 40Not in the top three
Cato Networks1 of 40Not in the top three
Cisco Duo1 of 40Not in the top three
Cisco Duo / Secure Access1 of 40Not in the top three
Cisco Secure Access1 of 40Not in the top three
CrowdStrike1 of 40Not 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 Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One. 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 4 of the 4 answers that named Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertinsights.com3
aimultiple.com2
analyticsinsight.net2
axis-intelligence.com2
blog.openvpn.net2
cyberpress.org2
cybersecuritynews.com2
eastbaycyber.com2
petronellatech.com2
akamai.com1

Twenty of the twenty domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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