Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 9 → 14 of 42
2 categories · Named, not rankedNetBird
11Judge labels
1First choices
1Negative labels
5 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
4 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. NetBird was named 4 times in ZTNA and 1 other category, where Twingate led with 39%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business14 of 46
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market35 of 66
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zero trust network access | Network and edge | 0% | 35 of 66 | 33% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Twingate at 39% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Microsegmentation | Network and edge | 0% | 43 of 94 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by ColorTokens Xshield at 25% |
Movement
Since September 2026, NetBird held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · ZTNA · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 20 → 52 of 64
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZTNA | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 20 → 35 of 66 |
| Microsegmentation | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 43 of 94, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated NetBird across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated NetBird across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 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
Comparative4 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained7 labels1
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.
“If you are a small, hybrid team: Use NetBird or Tailscale to easily microsegment remote servers” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Microsegmentation · budget prompt · alternative
“An open-source mesh-VPN platform built on WireGuard ... fully self-hosted ... for zero licensing costs” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ZTNA · budget prompt · alternative
“NetBird is worth comparing if you need private network connectivity between users, servers, or sites.” GPT-6 Luna · 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.
“may lack full enterprise ZTNA compliance (e.g., advanced posture or auditing) without self-hosting effort” Grok 4.20 · ZTNA · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as NetBird, over the 11 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as NetBird, over the 11 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 NetBird. 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 11 of the 11 answers that named NetBird and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
netbird.ioYour site6
tailscale.com6
reddit.com5
cloudflare.com4
cyberpress.org4
docs.netbird.ioYour site4
itechguides.com4
twingate.com4
checkthat.ai3
zerotrustcost.com3
Thirty-three of the forty-three domain citations in answers naming NetBird came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on netbird.io
502
subdomains included
Content
34
counted in the table below
Documentation
295
Product · Integration
7 · 1
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison | 18 | 2 | 2026-08-27 | ZTNA | |
| News or press | 8 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 6 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | 0 | 2024-06-25 |
Most recent
- 2026-08-27Self hosted vs cloud comparison
- 2026-08-07Tailscale vs netbird comparison
- 2026-06-19Netbird vs traditional vpn comparison
- 2026-04-17Cloudflare mesh vs netbird vs tailscale comparison
- 2026-03-12Netbird reverse proxy vs cloudflare comparison
- 2026-02-20Netbird vs pangolin comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page netbird.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow NetBird
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
NetBird is its own company.ShowHide
The company
NetBird is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Only Secure Access Platform You'll Ever Need
- For
- IT and Engineering teams
- Price stated
- Try NetBird Cloud Free netbird.io
- Starting price
- 0 netbird.io/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Try NetBird Cloud Free netbird.io
- Certifications
- GDPRISO 27001DORASOC 2 Type IIDORA 2025
- Customers named
- KubermaticDeltaQuadnetgoNortechZerodhaDentoloAxirosSelect Technology Group
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What NetBird's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: netbird.io, netbird.io/pricing, trust.netbird.io, netbird.io/use-cases/msp, netbird.io/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
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 NetBird'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 NetBird, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for NetBird by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where NetBird 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 NetBird, 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.