Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 49 → 69 of 69
Palo Alto Networks · 2 categories · RankedPalo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
110Judge labels
2First choices
24Negative labels
14 / 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
2% in SD-WAN for enterprise buyers
Rank 8 of 73 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 17% of its 35 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business71 of 71
0%28 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market8 of 73
2%35 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise6 of 52
2%46 labels
accepted challenger
In sd-wan · 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 SD-WAN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD-WAN | Network and edge | 2% | 8 of 73 | 17% | 35 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| SASE platforms | Network and edge | 0% | 35 of 45 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cato Networks at 35% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · SD-WAN · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 13 → 8 of 67
Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 5% → 3%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
3%from 5% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 of 48, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD-WAN | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 13 → 8 of 73 |
| SASE | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 35 of 45, unchanged |
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 Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN 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 Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN 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 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct21 labelsNone
Paraphrase16 labels2
Comparative35 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained15 labelsNone
Negative21 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative110 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 3 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.
“Prisma SD-WAN is the best pick if you're an enterprise team that wants cloud-delivered, application-aware routing tied to unified Prisma SASE security governance” Muse Glimmer 30B · SD-WAN · comparative prompt · first choice
“my default recommendation would be Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN” GPT-5.4 mini · SD-WAN · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“If you are a cloud-first enterprise prioritizing deep application visibility, AIOps, and premium cloud security, choose Palo Alto Networks.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SD-WAN · comparative prompt · alternative
“Prisma SD-WAN is best for SASE-aligned modernization with AI-assisted path steering and cloud-first architecture” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SD-WAN · 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.
“Avoid ... Prisma SD-WAN due to quality, support, or flexibility concerns.” Mistral Small · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative
“Prisma SD-WAN is also mentioned as a platform to avoid” Llama 4 Maverick · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative
“strong products, but they skew more toward enterprise or converged SASE use cases than a straightforward mid-market recommendation” Perplexity Sonar · SD-WAN · direct prompt · soft negative
“multiple sources flag higher pricing and note that its SD-WAN and on-prem security capabilities can be hard to balance” Perplexity Sonar · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN, over the 108 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 SD-WAN was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN, over the 108 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 SD-WAN 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 Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN. 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 101 of the 108 answers that named Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com66
cisco.com55
g2.com39
interfacesystems.com37
gartner.com36
fortinet.com35
peerspot.com34
paloaltonetworks.comYour site30
datacipher.com27
it-ai-index.com26
355 of the 385 domain citations in answers naming Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 90 a month (“palo alto networks prisma sd-wan”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Palo Alto Networks's site (paloaltonetworks.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 8 of 73 in SD-WAN
Segment leader
50%
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 108 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 101 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 Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN; a claim can dispute any of them.
Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN 10Palo Alto Networks (Prisma SD-WAN) 5Palo Alto 3Prisma SD-WAN 3Palo Alto Networks 2CloudGenix 1Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN (formerly CloudGenix) 1Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD‑WAN 1Palo Alto Prisma 1Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN (formerly CloudGenix) 1Prisma SD-WAN (Palo Alto Networks) 1Prisma SD-WAN/SASE 1
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