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Index › Vendors › Huawei · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Huawei

16Judge labels

0First choices

7Negative labels

10 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Huawei was named 5 times in Firewalls and 1 other category, 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-market79 of 100

under the label threshold

Enterprise62 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 Huawei 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%	79 of 100	50%	4	under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 61%
Cloud hosting	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	35 of 78	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 29%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Huawei 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 Huawei 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	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	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

Comparative8 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 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.

“Best For: Large data centers and enterprise campuses, particularly in regions where Huawei is a primary infrastructure provider.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · 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.

“Brands to avoid: Huawei, ZTE, and Kaspersky.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Firewalls · negative prompt · hard negative

“geopolitical concerns may matter to you; also less transparent with advisories” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Firewalls · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Huawei, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Huawei was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Check Point9 of 162Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks8 of 166Not in the top three

Fortinet8 of 165Not in the top three

Cisco5 of 160Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Firewall5 of 160Not in the top three

Sophos5 of 160Not in the top three

Amazon Web Services4 of 163Not in the top three

Google Cloud4 of 161Not in the top three

Barracuda4 of 160Not in the top three

Forcepoint4 of 160Not 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 Huawei. 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 15 of the 16 answers that named Huawei and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

decryptiondigest.com7

checkpoint.com6

gartner.com6

comparitech.com5

esecurityplanet.com5

reddit.com5

fortinet.com4

gbhackers.com4

guptadeepak.com4

softwarereviews.com4

Fifty of the fifty domain citations in answers naming Huawei came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

checkpoint.com/comparison/top-4-ngfw-compared5

comparitech.com/net-admin/next-gen-firewalls5

decryptiondigest.com/blog/enterprise-ngfw-comparison-20265

esecurityplanet.com/products/top-ngfw5

gbhackers.com/ngfw-solutions-compared-features-pricing4

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-ngfw-firewall-platforms-20264

softwarereviews.com/awards/data-quadrant-awards-2024-next-generation-firewall4

decryptiondigest.com/blog/data-center-firewall-comparison-20263

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Huawei

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

Huawei (USG) 1Huawei Cloud 1

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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 Huawei'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 Huawei, 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 huawei.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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