Every category where a model named OpenVPN CloudConnexa 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	10%	4 of 71	0%	11	accepted challenger
SASE platforms	Network and edge	2%	8 of 43	20%	5	under 10 labels · led by Cato SASE Cloud at 28%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	2	0	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	0	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	2	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	0	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	2	0	2

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

Direct9 labels2

Paraphrase8 labels2

Comparative7 labelsNone

Budget-constrained13 labels3

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative39 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 7 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.

“CloudConnexa - designed for small and medium-sized businesses that want scalable Zero Trust security without significant infrastructure or management overhead.” Llama 4 Maverick · ZTNA · direct prompt · first choice

“For the absolute lowest cost (≤ 5 users, no existing licences): Twingate (free tier) or CloudConnexa (5‑seat free starter).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ZTNA · budget prompt · first choice

“CloudConnexa and NordLayer are the top picks due to their scalability, ease of use, and direct fit for the mid-market segment” Mistral Small · ZTNA · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“start with CloudConnexa's free tier or Twingate's free plan” Mistral Small · ZTNA · budget 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.

“may be simpler fits, but the search results position them more toward SMBs or lighter mid-market needs” Perplexity Sonar · SASE · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as OpenVPN CloudConnexa, over the 39 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and OpenVPN CloudConnexa was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare One24 of 3916Not in the top three

Twingate22 of 398Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony SASE22 of 392Not in the top three

Tailscale14 of 392Not in the top three

NordLayer11 of 391Not in the top three

Zscaler Private Access10 of 391Not in the top three

Cato Networks9 of 392Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiSASE5 of 391Not in the top three

Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange5 of 390Not in the top three

Cloudflare Access4 of 390Not 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 OpenVPN CloudConnexa. 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 39 of the 39 answers that named OpenVPN CloudConnexa and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cybersecuritynews.com28

petronellatech.com20

cyberpress.org19

blog.openvpn.netYour site17

aimultiple.com14

startwithidentity.com14

costbench.com12

itbusinessedge.com11

zerotrustcost.com10

guideflow.com9

137 of the 154 domain citations in answers naming OpenVPN CloudConnexa came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cybersecuritynews.com/best-ztna-solutions26

petronellatech.com/blog/zero-trust-vendors-compared-top-10-smbs-202620

aimultiple.com/ztna-solutions14

cyberpress.org/ztna-solutions-by-business-size14

blog.openvpn.net/best-sase-solution13

itbusinessedge.com/security/smb-zero-trust-solutions11

startwithidentity.com/articles/top-8-zero-trust-network-access-tools11

techrepublic.com/article/secure-access-service-edge-platforms8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as OpenVPN CloudConnexa

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as OpenVPN CloudConnexa; a claim can dispute any of them.

CloudConnexa 4CloudConnexa (OpenVPN) 1CloudConnexa (OpenVPN-based) 1OpenVPN's CloudConnexa 1

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