Every category where a model named Cloudflare Access 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
Zero trust network access	Network and edge	0%	12 of 71	0%	14	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cloudflare Access 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 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1
Mistral Small	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	2
Kimi K2	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	2

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

Direct6 labels3

Paraphrase8 labels1

Comparative15 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative1 label1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative38 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 6 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.

“Cloudflare Zero Trust Teams ($7 / user) ... Good balance of features, support, and per‑user cost” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ZTNA · budget prompt · alternative

“Best for simple edge-delivered access and browser-based use cases: Cloudflare Access” GPT-5.4 mini · ZTNA · comparative prompt · alternative

“Cloudflare Access - Best for any-size teams replacing VPN with cloud-native ZTNA.” Llama 4 Maverick · ZTNA · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Excellent user ratings (~4.6/5); simple deployment model; competitive pricing” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ZTNA · comparative 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare Access, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudflare Access was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zscaler Private Access28 of 3814Not in the top three

Twingate24 of 387Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access19 of 382Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony SASE16 of 381Not in the top three

Tailscale11 of 381Not in the top three

NordLayer10 of 380Not in the top three

Netskope Private Access9 of 380Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Access8 of 380Not in the top three

Akamai Enterprise Application Access7 of 380Not in the top three

Cato Networks5 of 381Not 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. 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 35 of the 38 answers that named Cloudflare Access and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cybersecuritynews.com20

aimultiple.com16

expertinsights.com14

portnox.com12

guptadeepak.com11

cyberpress.org10

startwithidentity.com8

akamai.com7

cloudflare.comYour site7

gartner.com7

105 of the 112 domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare Access came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cybersecuritynews.com/best-ztna-solutions19

aimultiple.com/ztna-solutions16

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-zero-trust-network-access-solutions14

portnox.com/cybersecurity-101/zero-trust/who-are-the-best-ztna-providers12

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-ztna-solutions-202610

akamai.com/site/en/documents/analyst-report/2024/kuppingercole-ztna-analyst-report.pdf7

guideflow.com/blog/zero-trust-network-access-software7

petronellatech.com/blog/zero-trust-vendors-compared-top-10-smbs-20267

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cloudflare Access

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cloudflare Access; a claim can dispute any of them.

Cloudflare Access (Cloudflare One) 1

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