Small business▼−3Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 4 → 5 of 42
OpenVPN · 2 categories · RankedOpenVPN CloudConnexa
35Judge labels
4First choices
1Negative labels
11 / 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.
Best standing
3% in ZTNA for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 66 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 11 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of OpenVPN CloudConnexa →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 46
2%19 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market5 of 66
3%11 labels
accepted challenger
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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zero trust network access | Network and edge | 3% | 5 of 66 | 0% | 11 | accepted challenger | ▼−6Since September 2026: 10% → 4%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| SASE platforms | Network and edge | 0% | 23 of 45 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cato Networks at 35% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, OpenVPN CloudConnexa held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · ZTNA · by segment
Mid-market▼−6Since September 2026: 10% → 4%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 10% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 4 → 5 of 64
EnterprisegoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsNot ranked
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZTNA | 10% | 4% | ▼−6Since September 2026: 10% → 4%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 4 → 5 of 66 |
| SASE | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 8 → 23 of 45 |
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 OpenVPN CloudConnexa 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 OpenVPN CloudConnexa 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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
Direct7 labels2
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative6 labelsNone
Budget-constrained15 labels2
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative4 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative35 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.
“Best Overall for Small Budgets ... Recommendation: Start with CloudConnexa.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ZTNA · budget prompt · first choice
“The best ZTNA solution for a company with a limited budget is OpenVPN CloudConnexa” Llama 4 Maverick · ZTNA · budget prompt · first choice
“Specifically designed for small and mid-sized businesses without enterprise budgets” Kimi K2 · ZTNA · budget prompt · alternative
“highlighted as an accessible option for SMBs that want Zero Trust principles” Perplexity Sonar · 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 OpenVPN CloudConnexa, over the 35 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as OpenVPN CloudConnexa, over the 35 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.
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 OpenVPN CloudConnexa. 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 35 of the 35 answers that named OpenVPN CloudConnexa and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cybersecuritynews.com31
petronellatech.com27
startwithidentity.com24
cyberpress.org21
zendikt.com13
comparitech.com12
costbench.com12
en.softonic.com11
guideflow.com10
it-ai-index.com10
171 of the 171 domain citations in answers naming OpenVPN CloudConnexa came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
openvpn.net is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, OpenVPN CloudConnexa takes 3% of first choices and Twingate takes 39%.ShowHide
Search and answers
openvpn.net is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, OpenVPN CloudConnexa takes 3% of first choices and Twingate takes 39%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ztna solution”
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not in the top ten
Position for “ztna solutions”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 90 a month (“openvpn cloudconnexa”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3 a month
- Its company's site
- openvpn.net shared with OpenVPN's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 71,447 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 3,481 · 757 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 19,663
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
3%
rank 5 of 66 in ZTNA
Segment leader
39%
Twingate
- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 35 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 35 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
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.
OpenVPN Cloud Connexa 6CloudConnexa 2CloudConnexa (by OpenVPN) 1
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The company
OpenVPN is the company behind OpenVPN CloudConnexa.ShowHide
The company
OpenVPN is the company behind OpenVPN CloudConnexa.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- our cloud-delivered service
- For
- businesses
- Price stated
- free tier and straightforward per-connection licensing as deployments scale blog.openvpn.net/best-cloud-vpn-for-businesses
- Free plan or trial
- free tier blog.openvpn.net/best-cloud-vpn-for-businesses
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What OpenVPN CloudConnexa's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: blog.openvpn.net/introducing-cloudconnexa, blog.openvpn.net/cloud-security-framework, blog.openvpn.net/cloud-security-standards, blog.openvpn.net/cloud-security-architecture, blog.openvpn.net/best-cloud-vpn-for-businesses. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for OpenVPN CloudConnexa by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where OpenVPN CloudConnexa 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 OpenVPN CloudConnexa, 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.