Every category where a model named Fortinet FortiSASE 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
SASE platforms	Network and edge	0%	10 of 43	15%	41	accepted challenger
Next-generation firewalls	Network and edge	0%	51 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 FortiSASE 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 FortiSASE across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	2	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	4	1	1	6
Perplexity Sonar	3	1	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	1	1	5
Mistral Small	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	4	0	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	1	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	1	2	5
Kimi K2	1	0	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	4	0	1	5
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	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

Direct24 labelsNone

Paraphrase20 labels1

Comparative30 labelsNone

Budget-constrained18 labels4

Scale-constrained13 labelsNone

Negative20 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative125 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.

“A high-performance platform that converges networking, security, and AI-driven protection into one solution.” Llama 4 Maverick · SASE · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“If your company is already in the Fortinet ecosystem, FortiSASE is by far your most cost-effective path.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SASE · budget prompt · alternative

“If your physical offices already use FortiGate firewalls, Fortinet's unified SASE is a strong option” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SASE · scale prompt · alternative

“often recommended for SMB/mid-market balance, but ... higher spend than the cheapest entry options” Perplexity Sonar · SASE · 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.

“has historically suffered from a steep learning curve and complex setup compared to born-in-the-cloud alternatives” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SASE · negative prompt · soft negative

“it comes with a heavy caveat regarding interoperability... difficult to migrate away from once you start” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SASE · negative prompt · soft negative

“Fortinet FortiSASE: Pricing confusion... poor support response... below-average customer experience” Grok 4.1 Fast · SASE · negative prompt · soft negative

“FortiSASE: Users find customer support unhelpful, especially for complex implementations” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SASE · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Fortinet FortiSASE, over the 124 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fortinet FortiSASE was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange96 of 1247Not in the top three

Cloudflare One89 of 12431Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE72 of 12417Not in the top three

Netskope One70 of 1248Not in the top three

Cato Networks64 of 12425Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony SASE33 of 1242Not in the top three

Cato SASE Cloud27 of 12412Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Access27 of 1243Not in the top three

Cisco25 of 1240Not in the top three

Versa SASE20 of 1240Not 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 FortiSASE. 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 99 of the 124 answers that named Fortinet FortiSASE and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com53

sase.cloud47

fortinet.comYour site40

pickmysoft.com36

techrepublic.com36

blog.openvpn.net31

cybervendorguide.com28

sasecompare.com26

costbench.com25

jimber.io25

307 of the 347 domain citations in answers naming Fortinet FortiSASE came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/single-vendor-sase43

pickmysoft.com/blog/best-secure-access-service-edge-sase-platforms36

techrepublic.com/article/secure-access-service-edge-platforms36

blog.openvpn.net/best-sase-solution31

viewpointanalysis.com/post/sase-software-options-202625

sase.cloud/guides/sase-vendor-comparison24

cybervendorguide.com/guides/sase-zero-trust23

sasecompare.com/blog/best-sase-providers-2026-comparison-criteria23

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Fortinet FortiSASE

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

Fortinet 9Fortinet (FortiSASE) 9FortiSASE 3Fortinet Unified SASE 2FortiSASE/Fortinet 1Fortinet (Fortinet Unified SASE) 1Fortinet Unified SASE / FortiSASE 1

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