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Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE

98Judge labels
13First choices
33Negative 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
31% in SASE for enterprise buyers
Rank 13 of 43 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 36% of its 33 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business or mid-market.
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 Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE 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 edge0%13 of 4336%33criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE 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 Prisma SASE 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 mini02103
Gemini 3.5 Flash00145
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.1 Fast01124
Mistral Small00303
DeepSeek V4 Flash10113
Llama 4 Maverick01001
Qwen 3.7 Flash01034
Kimi K210012
GLM 4.7 FlashX11114
MiniMax M2.510001

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
Direct21 labels8
Paraphrase15 labels4
Comparative23 labels9not counted in share
Budget-constrained9 labelsNone
Scale-constrained10 labels1
Negative20 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative98 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 23 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.

“Leader (top of vision & execution) | Strongest security-first story, deep threat intel, longest-standing SASE vendor” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SASE · comparative prompt · first choice
“Leaders are Palo Alto Networks, Cato Networks, and Netskope ... Strongest security sophistication” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SASE · comparative prompt · first choice
“Palo Alto Networks - Ranked #1 for both vision and execution (second year in a row)” MiniMax M2.5 · SASE · comparative prompt · first choice
“Leader (ranked #1 for vision and execution)” Kimi K2 · SASE · comparative 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.

“you might want to avoid the enterprise-heavy giants like Cisco and Palo Alto” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SASE · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: Pure enterprise platforms like Palo Alto Prisma SASE” Kimi K2 · SASE · direct prompt · hard negative
“generally not recommended for mid-sized B2B companies” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SASE · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“notoriously complex to deploy and maintain ... complex "credit-based" subscription model that makes predicting renewal costs highly difficult” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SASE · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE, over the 98 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange87 of 989Not in the top three
Fortinet FortiSASE72 of 980Not in the top three
Netskope One71 of 985Not in the top three
Cloudflare One63 of 9815Not in the top three
Cato Networks57 of 9817Not in the top three
Cato SASE Cloud24 of 988Not in the top three
Check Point Harmony SASE22 of 981Not in the top three
Versa SASE22 of 981Not in the top three
Cisco21 of 981Not in the top three
Cisco Secure Access20 of 980Not 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 Prisma SASE. 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 76 of the 98 answers that named Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com49
sase.cloud34
techrepublic.com27
macronetservices.com26
pickmysoft.com26
fortinet.com25
blog.openvpn.net24
crn.com24
thenetworkdna.com21
cybervendorguide.com20

276 of the 276 domain citations in answers naming Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE; a claim can dispute any of them.
Palo Alto Prisma SASE 11Palo Alto Networks (Prisma SASE) 8Palo Alto Networks 4Palo Alto Networks (Prisma Access) 2Palo Alto 1
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