Every category where a model named HPE Aruba ClearPass 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	Since September 2026
Network access control	Network and edge	0%	23 of 111	0%	12	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for HPE Aruba ClearPass yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated HPE Aruba ClearPass across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	2
Perplexity Sonar	2	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct10 labels1

Paraphrase8 labels2

Comparative11 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained4 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative4 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative38 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 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.

“ClearPass is the go‑to alternative to ISE for multi‑vendor networks and BYOD‑heavy environments” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NAC · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best if you want broader multivendor support and don't mind higher cost: HPE Aruba ClearPass” GPT-5.4 mini · NAC · budget prompt · alternative

“the best alternative is often HPE Aruba ClearPass for policy control automation” Perplexity Sonar · NAC · direct prompt · alternative

“often ranked highly for multi-vendor networks and ease of use/administration” Perplexity Sonar · NAC · 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 HPE Aruba ClearPass, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HPE Aruba ClearPass was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Portnox Cloud28 of 3812Not among the top eight

Forescout23 of 380Not among the top eight

Cisco Identity Services Engine18 of 3812Not among the top eight

Cisco ISE18 of 384Not among the top eight

Fortinet FortiNAC17 of 380Not among the top eight

Ivanti Policy Secure6 of 380Not among the top eight

SecureW23 of 381Not among the top eight

Juniper Mist Access Assurance3 of 380Not among the top eight

OPSWAT MetaAccess3 of 380Not among the top eight

PacketFence3 of 380Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 HPE Aruba ClearPass. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 38 of the 38 answers that named HPE Aruba ClearPass and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cybersecuritynews.com28

portnox.com27

cyberpress.org25

purple.ai20

gartner.com19

us.fitgap.com18

geekflare.com17

cloudnuro.ai16

g2.com16

virima.com16

No domain is on file for HPE Aruba ClearPass, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

cybersecuritynews.com/best-nac-solutions27

cyberpress.org/nac-solutions-by-business-size25

portnox.com/cybersecurity-101/access-control/top-nac-solutions18

geekflare.com/cybersecurity/best-nac-software17

purple.ai/en-us/blogs/best-network-access-control17

cloudnuro.ai/blog/top-10-network-access-control-nac-solutions-for-zero-trust-implementatio16

virima.com/blog/best-network-access-control-solutions16

comparitech.com/net-admin/network-access-control-software15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where HPE Aruba ClearPass stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 880 a month (“hpe aruba clearpass”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 23 of 111 in NAC

Segment leader

35%

Portnox Cloud

First choices: 4 across its categories
Named in: 38 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

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where HPE Aruba ClearPass is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name HPE Aruba ClearPass, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
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