6 categories · RankedPalo Alto
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Next-generation firewalls | Network and edge | 0% | 22 of 100 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 61% |
| Extended detection and response | Security operations | 0% | 61 of 61 | 67% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender XDR at 63% |
| Zero trust network access | Network and edge | 0% | 69 of 71 | 67% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare One at 35% |
| Endpoint protection | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 64 of 99 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Cloud at 22% |
| Attack surface management | Security operations | 0% | 80 of 104 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 59% |
| SOAR platforms | Security operations | 0% | 40 of 49 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Tines at 47% |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“look elsewhere (Palo Alto, Check Point, or Juniper have better security track records in the near-term)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Firewalls · negative 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.
“Enterprise-heavy like Zscaler/Palo Alto? Avoid—custom pricing often $15+/user, no free tiers.” Grok 4.1 Fast · ZTNA · budget prompt · hard negative
“buying a native XDR platform (such as those from CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, Microsoft, ...) and then trying to feed it third-party logs through generic connectors” Mistral Small · XDR · negative prompt · soft negative
“Full enterprise suites (like Palo Alto or Zscaler) are often prohibitively expensive and complex for smaller organizations.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ZTNA · budget prompt · soft negative
“Palo Alto and CrowdStrike are strongest in their own ecosystems; outside those contexts, fit can be much weaker.” Perplexity Sonar · XDR · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 48 of the 56 answers that named Palo Alto and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
153 of the 153 domain citations in answers naming Palo Alto came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Palo Alto
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