Every category where a model named macmon NAC 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	2%	5 of 111	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Portnox Cloud at 35%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for macmon NAC 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 macmon NAC across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labels1

Scale-constrained4 labels2

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“macmon NAC - a multi-vendor NAC solution suitable for SMBs and mid-sized enterprises.” Llama 4 Maverick · NAC · budget prompt · first choice

“Other options to consider are OPSWAT MetaAccess, Extreme Networks, and macmon NAC” Llama 4 Maverick · NAC · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Need a low-cost commercial on-prem with vendor support: Look at macmon NAC” Muse Glimmer 30B · NAC · budget prompt · alternative

“macmon NAC | Budget multi-vendor | 7.8/10 | Affordable for mid-sized” Grok 4.1 Fast · NAC · paraphrase 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 macmon NAC, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and macmon NAC was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Portnox Cloud13 of 1610Not among the top eight

Cisco ISE8 of 160Not among the top eight

Aruba ClearPass5 of 160Not among the top eight

Forescout5 of 160Not among the top eight

OPSWAT MetaAccess5 of 160Not among the top eight

FortiNAC4 of 160Not among the top eight

Cisco Meraki3 of 160Not among the top eight

Fortinet FortiNAC3 of 160Not among the top eight

NordLayer2 of 161Not among the top eight

PacketFence2 of 161Not 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 macmon NAC. 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 16 of the 16 answers that named macmon NAC and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org15

portnox.com11

us.fitgap.com11

cybersecuritynews.com9

comparitech.com8

g2.com8

capterra.com7

esecurityplanet.com7

thectoclub.com7

blog.domotz.com6

No domain is on file for macmon NAC, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/nac-solutions-by-business-size15

comparitech.com/net-admin/network-access-control-software8

cybersecuritynews.com/best-nac-solutions8

capterra.com/network-access-control-software/s/small-businesses7

portnox.com/cybersecurity-101/access-control/top-nac-solutions7

thectoclub.com/tools/best-network-access-control-software7

us.fitgap.com/search/network-access-control-software/small-business7

blog.domotz.com/all/network-access-control6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where macmon NAC 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: 10 a month (“macmon nac”)
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 5 of 111 in NAC

Segment leader

35%

Portnox Cloud

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 16 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 macmon NAC 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 macmon NAC, 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;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.