Index › Products › macmon · October 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

macmon

3Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

3 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, 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. macmon was named 2 times in NAC, where Portnox Cloud led with 35%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business77 of 91

under the label threshold

Mid-market11 of 111

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In nac · 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 macmon 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%	11 of 111	0%	2	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 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 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	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained2 labels1

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Cloud-native or hybrid options from vendors like Portnox or macmon are generally the right weight class” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NAC · scale prompt · first choice

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, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and macmon was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cisco ISE3 of 30Not among the top eight

Portnox Cloud3 of 30Not among the top eight

PacketFence1 of 31Not among the top eight

Aruba ClearPass1 of 30Not among the top eight

Atera1 of 30Not among the top eight

Forescout1 of 30Not among the top eight

Fortinet1 of 30Not among the top eight

Genian1 of 30Not among the top eight

NordLayer1 of 30Not among the top eight

Pulse Secure1 of 30Not 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. 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 3 of the 3 answers that named macmon and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org3

portnox.com3

omr.com2

openaiclaude.com2

purple.ai2

us.fitgap.com2

alternativeto.net1

blueteamsecurity.org1

capterra.com1

cisco.getuniqcli.com1

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

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/nac-solutions-by-business-size3

openaiclaude.com/7-best-nac-software-for-enterprise-networks-to-strengthen-access-control-2

omr.com/en/reviews/category/network-access-control-nac2

portnox.com/buyers-guide-to-nac-network-access-control2

purple.ai/en-us/blogs/best-network-access-control2

us.fitgap.com/search/network-access-control-software/small-business2

openaiclaude.com/7-network-access-control-software-reviews-to-cut-security-risk-and-choose1

alternativeto.net/software/sophos-endpoint-security-and-data-protection1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for macmon by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where macmon 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, 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.