1 category · RankedColorTokens Xshield
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsegmentation | Network and edge | 25% | 1 of 94 | 5% | 38 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated ColorTokens Xshield across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“The best microsegmentation solution for a mid-market B2B company is ColorTokens, which is considered the best mid-market fast start with a score of 7.6/10.” Llama 4 Maverick · Microsegmentation · direct prompt · first choice
“starting with ColorTokens for speed, or Akamai Guardicore if agentless legacy coverage is critical, is the most realistic east-west segmentation path” Muse Glimmer 30B · Microsegmentation · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend ColorTokens (now part of their Xtended ZeroTrust Platform with Xshield) as a strong east-west network segmentation tool.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Microsegmentation · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“ColorTokens Xshield as the primary choice — it offers the best balance of affordability, deployment speed, and coverage” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Microsegmentation · 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.
“host agent-based solutions (like some older versions of Illumio, Guardicore, ColorTokens, or TrueFort) can be effective, they require deploying and maintaining agents on every workload” Mistral Small · Microsegmentation · negative prompt · soft negative
“While host agent solutions (like Illumio, Guardicore, ColorTokens, TrueFort) work anywhere, they introduce operational overhead” MiniMax M2.5 · Microsegmentation · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as ColorTokens Xshield, over the 83 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ColorTokens Xshield was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 83 of the 83 answers that named ColorTokens Xshield and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
388 of the 388 domain citations in answers naming ColorTokens Xshield came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where ColorTokens Xshield stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 30 a month (“colortokens xshield”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 693 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 238 · 7 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,159
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- Named in
- 83 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 83 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 688 | undated | Microsegmentation, EDR | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 118 | undated | Microsegmentation, Cyber risk quant | ||
| News or press | 116 | undated | Microsegmentation | ||
| Conference or event | 46 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 18 | undated | Microsegmentation | ||
| Case study | 14 | undated | Microsegmentation | ||
| Comparison | 6 | undated | Microsegmentation | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page colortokens.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.
Names read as ColorTokens Xshield
Follow ColorTokens Xshield
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
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The company
ColorTokens Xshield is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Enterprise Microsegmentation Platform
- For
- organizations
- Certifications
- FedRAMP ModerateFIPS 140-2ISO/IEC 27001:2022SOC 2 Type 2SOC 3TX-RAMPXshield™ earned a spot on Constellation's Shortlist™ for Microsegmentation
- Customers named
- California BioenergyPersistentLivi BankVirtusaShriram Capital LtdEstia HealthJM Financial Asset Management Ltd.
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What ColorTokens Xshield's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: colortokens.com, trust.colortokens.com, colortokens.com/solutions/xassure-breach-protection, colortokens.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when ColorTokens Xshield's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as ColorTokens Xshield, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for ColorTokens Xshield by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where ColorTokens Xshield 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 ColorTokens Xshield, 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 ColorTokens Xshield 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
AI models recommend ColorTokens Xshield first in Microsegmentation 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.
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.