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Index › Vendors › Hillstone · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Hillstone

3Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Hillstone was named 2 times 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-market99 of 100

under the label threshold

Enterprise69 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 Hillstone 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%	99 of 100	100%	2	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 Hillstone 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 Hillstone across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Negative	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	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	1

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-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Smaller / less-proven vendors (Sangfor, Hillstone, Huawei, Forcepoint) – CAUTION” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Firewalls · negative prompt · soft negative

“XSS vulnerability (CVE-2023-46964) disclosed in 2023” MiniMax M2.5 · Firewalls · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Hillstone, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hillstone was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet3 of 31Not in the top three

Check Point2 of 31Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks2 of 31Not in the top three

Huawei2 of 30Not in the top three

SonicWall2 of 30Not in the top three

Arista NG Firewall1 of 30Not in the top three

Cisco1 of 30Not in the top three

Cisco Firepower1 of 30Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Firewall1 of 30Not in the top three

Cloudflare One1 of 30Not 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 Hillstone. 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 3 answers that named Hillstone and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bishopfox.com2

comparitech.com2

gbhackers.com2

reddit.com2

sol.sbc.org.br2

advisories.checkpoint.com1

app.opencve.io1

atera.com1

bleepingcomputer.com1

blogs.cisco.com1

Fifteen of the fifteen domain citations in answers naming Hillstone came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bishopfox.com/blog/its-2024-and-over-178-000-sonicwall-firewalls-are-publicly-exploitable2

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

gbhackers.com/ngfw-solutions-compared-features-pricing2

sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/sbseg/article/download/30071/298782

advisories.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2025/cpai-2024-1351.html1

app.opencve.io/cve1

atera.com/blog/best-firewall-appliances1

bishopfox.com/blog/arista-nextgen-firewall-xss-to-rce-chain1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Is this your product?

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 Hillstone'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 Hillstone, 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 hillstone.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.