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Index › Vendors › NetBird · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

NetBird

6Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative 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. NetBird was named 2 times in ZTNA, where Cloudflare One led with 35%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business9 of 65

under the label threshold

Mid-market24 of 71

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In ztna · 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 NetBird 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
Zero trust network access	Network and edge	0%	24 of 71	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare One at 35%

Movement

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

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

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.

“WireGuard‑based mesh, zero‑config remote access | Small teams that need a simple, peer‑to‑peer overlay” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ZTNA · budget prompt · alternative

“NetBird combines the peer-to-peer speed of WireGuard with a central control panel” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ZTNA · budget 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 NetBird, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and NetBird was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Twingate6 of 63Not in the top three

Tailscale6 of 60Not in the top three

Cloudflare One4 of 63Not in the top three

Pomerium3 of 60Not in the top three

Zscaler Private Access3 of 60Not in the top three

OpenVPN CloudConnexa2 of 61Not in the top three

Cloudflare Access2 of 60Not in the top three

OpenZiti2 of 60Not in the top three

Teleport2 of 60Not in the top three

Firezone1 of 60Not 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 NetBird. 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 6 answers that named NetBird and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aimultiple.com2

costbench.com2

cybersecuritynews.com2

itbusinessedge.com2

petronellatech.com2

startwithidentity.com2

zerotrustcost.com2

cloudflare.com1

cyberpress.org1

guideflow.com1

Seventeen of the seventeen domain citations in answers naming NetBird came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aimultiple.com/ztna-open-source2

aimultiple.com/ztna-solutions2

costbench.com/best/ztna-for-small-business2

cybersecuritynews.com/best-ztna-solutions2

itbusinessedge.com/security/smb-zero-trust-solutions2

petronellatech.com/blog/zero-trust-vendors-compared-top-10-smbs-20262

startwithidentity.com/articles/top-7-open-source-zero-trust-tools2

zerotrustcost.com/small-business-cost2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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