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Fortinet FortiGate NGFW

2Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

2 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 NGFW 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-market50 of 100

under the label threshold

Enterprise77 of 86

under the label threshold

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 NGFW 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%	50 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 NGFW 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 NGFW 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	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
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

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 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.

“Leading in value and market share, known for robust SD-WAN capabilities and scalability” Mistral Small · Firewalls · 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 Fortinet FortiGate NGFW, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fortinet FortiGate NGFW was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Palo Alto Networks Security NGFW1 of 21Not in the top three

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall1 of 20Not in the top three

Check Point1 of 20Not in the top three

Check Point NGFW1 of 20Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Firewall1 of 20Not in the top three

Forcepoint1 of 20Not in the top three

Forcepoint NGFW1 of 20Not in the top three

Huawei NGFW1 of 20Not in the top three

Juniper Networks NGFW1 of 20Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks PA-Series1 of 20Not 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 NGFW. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named Fortinet FortiGate NGFW and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comparitech.com2

fortinet.comYour site2

softwarereviews.com2

superbcrew.com2

a10networks.com1

aws.amazon.com1

checkpoint.com1

cisco.com1

community.spiceworks.com1

csoonline.com1

Twelve of the fourteen domain citations in answers naming Fortinet FortiGate NGFW came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

comparitech.com/net-admin/next-gen-firewalls2

softwarereviews.com/awards/data-quadrant-awards-2024-next-generation-firewall2

superbcrew.com/top-6-next-generation-enterprise-firewalls-compared2

perkinssecurity.com/index-9.html1

a10networks.com/wp-content/uploads/A10-WP-21116-EN.pdf1

aws.amazon.com/marketplace/reviews/reviews-list/B077Y8WBVQ1

checkpoint.com/comparison/top-4-ngfw-compared1

cisco.com/site/us/en/learn/topics/security/what-is-a-next-generation-firewall.html1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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