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1 category · Named, not ranked

Fortinet FortiGate 30E / 40F

1Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

1 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

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Fortinet FortiGate 30E / 40F was named 1 time in Firewalls, where Fortinet FortiGate led with 61%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market47 of 100

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In firewalls · 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 Fortinet FortiGate 30E / 40F 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
Next-generation firewalls	Network and edge	0%	47 of 100	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 61%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Fortinet FortiGate 30E / 40F 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 Fortinet FortiGate 30E / 40F across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative1 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.

“If you prioritize performance‑per‑dollar and flexibility: → Fortinet FortiGate 30E / 40F” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Firewalls · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Fortinet FortiGate 30E / 40F, over the 1 answer that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fortinet FortiGate 30E / 40F was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine1 of 11Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki MX671 of 10Not in the top three

SonicWall TZ370 / TZ4701 of 10Not in the top three

WatchGuard Firebox T251 of 10Not 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 Fortinet FortiGate 30E / 40F. 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 1 of the 1 answers that named Fortinet FortiGate 30E / 40F and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

atera.com1

comparitech.com1

cyberpress.org1

cybersecuritynews.com1

drakos-systems.co.uk1

fortinet.comYour site1

gbhackers.com1

mspcompared.com1

packetperf.com1

peerspot.com1

Nine of the ten domain citations in answers naming Fortinet FortiGate 30E / 40F came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

atera.com/blog/best-firewall-appliances1

comparitech.com/net-admin/next-gen-firewalls1

cyberpress.org/best-next-generation-firewall-ngfw-solutions-for-every-business-size1

cybersecuritynews.com/best-next-generation-firewall1

drakos-systems.co.uk/blog/best-firewalls-small-business.html1

fortinet.com/products/next-generation-firewall1

gbhackers.com/ngfw-solutions-compared-features-pricing1

mspcompared.com/best/firewall1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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