IT AI Index

Index › Vendors › Pomerium · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Pomerium

8Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Pomerium was named 4 times in ZTNA and 1 other category, where Cloudflare One led with 35%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business20 of 65

under the label threshold

Mid-market21 of 71

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In ztna · 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 Pomerium 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
Zero trust network access	Network and edge	0%	21 of 71	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare One at 35%
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	54 of 78	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	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-constrained6 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 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.

“Self-host NetBird (for network-wide secure access) or Pomerium (for clientless access to web apps and APIs)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ZTNA · budget prompt · alternative

“If you prefer open‑source / self‑hosting: Pomerium, OpenZiti, NetBird, or Octelium” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ZTNA · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Pomerium, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Pomerium was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Twingate7 of 82Not in the top three

Cloudflare One5 of 84Not in the top three

Tailscale5 of 80Not in the top three

NordLayer4 of 81Not in the top three

NetBird3 of 80Not in the top three

Zscaler Private Access3 of 80Not in the top three

Cloudflare Access2 of 81Not in the top three

OpenVPN CloudConnexa2 of 81Not in the top three

JumpCloud2 of 80Not in the top three

OpenZiti2 of 80Not 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 Pomerium. 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 7 of the 8 answers that named Pomerium and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

petronellatech.com6

cyberpress.org5

cybersecuritynews.com5

meshwg.com5

aimultiple.com3

costbench.com3

itbusinessedge.com3

startwithidentity.com3

zerotrustcost.com3

blog.openvpn.net2

Thirty-eight of the thirty-eight domain citations in answers naming Pomerium came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

petronellatech.com/blog/zero-trust-vendors-compared-top-10-smbs-20266

cybersecuritynews.com/best-ztna-solutions5

meshwg.com/ztna-for-small-business5

cyberpress.org/ztna-solutions-by-business-size4

aimultiple.com/ztna-solutions3

costbench.com/best/ztna-for-small-business3

itbusinessedge.com/security/smb-zero-trust-solutions3

aimultiple.com/ztna-open-source2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Pomerium's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Pomerium, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at pomerium.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.