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1 category · Named, not ranked

flexiWAN

4Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative 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.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. flexiWAN was named 3 times in SD-WAN, where Fortinet Secure SD-WAN led with 41%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business24 of 53

under the label threshold

Mid-market27 of 53

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 flexiWAN 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
SD-WAN	Network and edge	0%	27 of 53	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by Fortinet Secure SD-WAN at 41%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“flexiWAN is a dedicated open-source SD-WAN platform with a modular architecture.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SD-WAN · budget prompt · alternative

“Recommended: flexiWAN (open‑source core + SaaS).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SD-WAN · 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.

“open-source like VyOS or FlexiWAN require expertise/time” Grok 4.1 Fast · SD-WAN · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as flexiWAN, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and flexiWAN was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN4 of 41Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN3 of 41Not in the top three

Aryaka2 of 40Not in the top three

Cisco2 of 40Not in the top three

QuickSDWAN1 of 41Not in the top three

Ubiquiti UniFi1 of 41Not in the top three

Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine1 of 41Not in the top three

Bigleaf1 of 40Not in the top three

Cato Networks1 of 40Not in the top three

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN1 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 flexiWAN. 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 3 of the 4 answers that named flexiWAN and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

costbench.com3

gartner.com3

reddit.com3

encomputers.com2

guideflow.com2

solveforce.com2

thectoclub.com2

us.fitgap.com2

vendorbenchmark.com2

aerocominc.com1

Twenty-two of the twenty-two domain citations in answers naming flexiWAN came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

costbench.com/best/sd-wan-for-small-business3

gartner.com/reviews/market/sd-wan3

encomputers.com/2024/02/sdwan-cost-pricing2

guideflow.com/blog/sd-wan-software2

reddit.com/r/networking/comments/1kuoatj/best_sdwan_providers_to_offer_small_businesses2

solveforce.com/2024/09/13/the-top-10-most-affordable-sd-wan-providers-offered-by-telarus-a2

thectoclub.com/tools/best-sd-wan-solutions2

us.fitgap.com/search/sd-wan-solutions/small-business2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as flexiWAN

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

FlexiWAN 1

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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 flexiWAN'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 flexiWAN, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at flexiwan.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.