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Netskope Private Access

29Judge labels
0First choices
6Negative labels
10 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
0% in ZTNA for mid-market buyers
Rank 14 of 71 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 10 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Netskope Private Access 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
Zero trust network accessNetwork and edge0%14 of 710%10accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Netskope Private Access 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 Private Access across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast01102
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.500101

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
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative15 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative4 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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 your chief concern is preventing data loss to SaaS and AI tools, choose Netskope.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ZTNA · comparative prompt · alternative
“Universal ZTNA, AI-powered policy optimization, strong for legacy app access.” Mistral Small · ZTNA · comparative prompt · alternative
“Netskope Private Access — strong data protection depth (CASB/DLP origin)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ZTNA · comparative prompt · alternative
“Gartner SSE Leader (top Ability to Execute in 2024); excels in innovation.” Grok 4.1 Fast · ZTNA · comparative 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 Netskope Private Access, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Netskope Private Access was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Zscaler Private Access28 of 2916Not in the top three
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access25 of 291Not in the top three
Twingate16 of 292Not in the top three
Cloudflare One14 of 293Not in the top three
Check Point Harmony SASE12 of 290Not in the top three
Akamai Enterprise Application Access11 of 290Not in the top three
Cisco Secure Access11 of 290Not in the top three
Appgate SDP9 of 290Not in the top three
Cato Networks9 of 290Not in the top three
Cloudflare Access9 of 290Not 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 Private Access. 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 23 of the 29 answers that named Netskope Private Access and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aimultiple.com19
akamai.com14
cybersecuritynews.com14
expertinsights.com14
cipherssecurity.com13
guptadeepak.com12
gartner.com11
portnox.com11
seanfraser.io10
devopsschool.com9

127 of the 127 domain citations in answers naming Netskope Private Access came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Netskope Private Access

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Netskope Private Access; a claim can dispute any of them.
Netskope Private Access (NPA) 3
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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 Netskope Private Access'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 Netskope Private Access, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at netskope.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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