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Netskope One

95Judge labels
5First choices
19Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
7% in SASE for enterprise buyers
Rank 7 of 43 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 10% of its 30 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In sase · 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 Netskope One 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
SASE platformsNetwork and edge2%7 of 4310%30accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Netskope One 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 Netskope One across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini11103
Gemini 3.5 Flash02204
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast02305
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash10124
Llama 4 Maverick01001
Qwen 3.7 Flash01102
Kimi K203003
GLM 4.7 FlashX03014
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Direct16 labels2
Paraphrase13 labels1
Comparative28 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained8 labelsNone
Scale-constrained13 labels2
Negative17 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative95 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 9 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.

“I'd usually recommend Netskope as the best starting point for SASE/SSE” GPT-5.4 mini · SASE · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Best SSE depth in the market — strongest data loss prevention (DLP)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SASE · comparative prompt · first choice
“Do you need deep data‑protection (CASB/DLP) and compliance reporting? - Yes → Netskope” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SASE · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“If you need deep app-level controls and advanced DLP, look at Netskope” GPT-5.4 mini · SASE · 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.

“these lean toward large-enterprise and many have immature SD-WAN, making them less ideal for mid-market consolidation” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SASE · direct prompt · soft negative
“Netskope: Users report sluggish, inadequate, and nearly ineffective customer support with slow response times” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SASE · negative prompt · soft negative
“Customer support is repeatedly flagged as the biggest weakness” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SASE · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Netskope One, over the 95 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Netskope One was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange90 of 9510Not in the top three
Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE71 of 9517Not in the top three
Fortinet FortiSASE70 of 951Not in the top three
Cloudflare One67 of 9514Not in the top three
Cato Networks54 of 9513Not in the top three
Check Point Harmony SASE23 of 950Not in the top three
Cisco Secure Access22 of 951Not in the top three
Cisco21 of 950Not in the top three
Cato SASE Cloud20 of 958Not in the top three
Versa SASE20 of 950Not 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 Netskope One. 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 75 of the 95 answers that named Netskope One and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com49
sase.cloud42
fortinet.com29
crn.com28
techrepublic.com28
macronetservices.com24
pickmysoft.com24
blog.openvpn.net22
sasecompare.com22
cyberhaven.com21

289 of the 289 domain citations in answers naming Netskope One came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Netskope One

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Netskope One; a claim can dispute any of them.
Netskope 20Netskope (Netskope One) 2Netskope SASE 2Netskope (One SASE) 1Netskope ONE 1
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