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Palo Alto Networks · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Palo Alto Networks NGFWs

2Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

1 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.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Palo Alto Networks NGFWs was named 1 time in Firewalls, where Fortinet FortiGate led with 61%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market96 of 100

under the label threshold

Enterprise70 of 86

under the label threshold

In firewalls · 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 Palo Alto Networks NGFWs 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
Next-generation firewalls	Network and edge	0%	96 of 100	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 61%

Movement

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

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

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“a critical zero-day vulnerability (PAN-SA-2024-0015, CVSS 9.3) was discovered in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS software... being actively exploited” Mistral Small · Firewalls · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Palo Alto Networks NGFWs, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Palo Alto Networks NGFWs was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cisco ASA and FTD1 of 20Not in the top three

Cisco ASA and FTD Firewalls1 of 20Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiGate1 of 20Not 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 Palo Alto Networks NGFWs. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named Palo Alto Networks NGFWs and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

checkpoint.com2

kudelskisecurity.com2

linkedin.com2

paloaltonetworks.com2

reddit.com2

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Palo Alto Networks NGFWs came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

checkpoint.com/comparison/top-4-ngfw-compared2

kudelskisecurity.com/research/critical-zero-day-vulnerability-in-palo-alto-networks-next-g2

linkedin.com/posts/emannon_the-perils-of-next-gen-firewalls-i-love-activity-733585838951362

paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/what-is-a-next-generation-firewall-ngfw2

reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1sv8t0c/next_gen_firewall_suggestions2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Palo Alto Networks NGFWs

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

Palo Alto Networks NGFWs (PAN-OS) 1

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