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
SD-WAN	Network and edge	0%	13 of 53	22%	32	accepted challenger

Movement

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

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

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

Direct12 labels1

Paraphrase9 labels1

Comparative29 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained8 labelsNone

Scale-constrained15 labelsNone

Negative18 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative91 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.

“Choose Prisma SD-WAN if you are aligning SD-WAN with a broader SASE/security modernization effort.” Perplexity Sonar · SD-WAN · comparative prompt · alternative

“Choose VMware/Palo Alto if you're moving toward SASE architecture and cloud-first strategies” MiniMax M2.5 · SD-WAN · comparative prompt · alternative

“*Best if security is your absolute #1 priority.* ... though it carries a premium price tag.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SD-WAN · scale prompt · alternative

“Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN for the fifth consecutive year” 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.

“A recent Reddit comment explicitly says "Avoid Prisma entirely."” MiniMax M2.5 · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid: Legacy Cisco Viptela hardware, old Palo Alto ION boxes” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative

“The same Reddit user advises against Prisma entirely.” Llama 4 Maverick · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative

“A Reddit user advised to “avoid Prisma entirely.”” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN, over the 89 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN82 of 8923Not in the top three

VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN67 of 890Not in the top three

HPE Aruba EdgeConnect55 of 893Not in the top three

Versa Secure SD-WAN54 of 892Not in the top three

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN51 of 8916Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN37 of 8911Not in the top three

Cisco27 of 898Not in the top three

Cato Networks22 of 891Not in the top three

Aryaka17 of 890Not in the top three

Peplink11 of 890Not 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 SD-WAN. 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 72 of the 89 answers that named Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com53

cisco.com37

interfacesystems.com37

zpesystems.com37

stlpartners.com29

fortinet.com27

digitalcarbon.io24

techtarget.com24

guideflow.com21

comparitech.com19

308 of the 308 domain citations in answers naming Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/sd-wan51

interfacesystems.com/blog/top-sd-wan-vendors37

zpesystems.com/sd-wan-leaders-zs36

stlpartners.com/articles/network-innovation/sd-wan-providers29

digitalcarbon.io/blog/sd-wan-leaders-in-the-202424

guideflow.com/blog/sd-wan-software21

comparitech.com/net-admin/best-sd-wan-vendors19

megaport.com/blog/comparing-major-sd-wan-vendors18

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 Networks 7Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN 5Palo Alto 4Palo Alto Prisma 4Palo Alto Networks (Prisma SD-WAN) 3Palo Alto (Prisma SD-WAN) 1Palo Alto Networks (Traditional PAN-OS SD-WAN Hardware) 1Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD‑WAN 1Prisma 1

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