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Portnox Cloud NAC

5Judge labels
3First choices
0Negative labels
2 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
1 label, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Portnox Cloud NAC was named 1 time in NAC, where Portnox Cloud led with 35%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market17 of 111
2%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprise6 of 95
4%4 labels
under the label threshold
In nac · 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 Portnox Cloud NAC 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 rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Network access controlNetwork and edge2%17 of 1110%1under 10 labels · led by Portnox Cloud at 35%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Portnox Cloud NAC yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Portnox Cloud NAC across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast10001
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase1 label1
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained2 labels2
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 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.

“I'd recommend Portnox Cloud NAC.” Grok 4.1 Fast · NAC · paraphrase 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Portnox Cloud NAC, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Portnox Cloud NAC was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Forescout3 of 50Not among the top eight
Cisco Identity Services Engine2 of 52Not among the top eight
Cisco ISE2 of 50Not among the top eight
FortiNAC2 of 50Not among the top eight
Fortinet FortiNAC2 of 50Not among the top eight
Juniper Mist Access Assurance2 of 50Not among the top eight
Aruba ClearPass1 of 50Not among the top eight
ClearPass1 of 50Not among the top eight
Forescout eyeExtend1 of 50Not among the top eight
Genians1 of 50Not among the top eight
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 Portnox Cloud NAC. 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 5 of the 5 answers that named Portnox Cloud NAC and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cybersecuritynews.com4
us.fitgap.com4
cloudnuro.ai3
cyberpress.org3
geekflare.com3
omr.com3
portnox.comYour site3
purple.ai3
comparitech.com2
ec-undp-electoralassistance.org2

Twenty-seven of the thirty domain citations in answers naming Portnox Cloud NAC came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cybersecuritynews.com/best-nac-solutions4
us.fitgap.com/search/network-access-control-software4
cloudnuro.ai/blog/top-10-network-access-control-nac-solutions-for-zero-trust-implementatio3
cyberpress.org/nac-solutions-by-business-size3
geekflare.com/cybersecurity/best-nac-software3
omr.com/en/reviews/category/network-access-control-nac3
portnox.com/pricing3
purple.ai/en-us/blogs/best-network-access-control3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

portnox.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Portnox Cloud NAC takes 2% of first choices and Portnox Cloud takes 35%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “network access control solution”
7
Position for “network access control solutions”
–
not in the top ten
Organic visits to its site
about 77,065 a month
Searches its site ranks for
10,721 · 752 in the top three
Sites linking to it
2,262
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
79 ads · 56 text, 15 image, 8 video · 11 shown in the last 30 days

First shown March 2023, as Portnox, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 20 in the year, 59 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
2%
rank 17 of 111 in NAC
Segment leader
35%
Portnox Cloud
First choices
3 across its categories
Named in
5 answers
Its own site cited
in 5 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on portnox.com
2,255
subdomains included
Content
1,190
counted in the table below
Documentation
3
Product · Integration
44 · 11
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog781112026-09-24ZTNA, MFA
Glossary or explainer16642026-09-11ZTNA, MFA
News or press15532026-09-23ZTNA, MFA
Report or ebook2502026-04-23SD-WAN, SASE
Comparison2442026-08-17MFA, SASE
Webinar or virtual event1912026-09-10ZTNA
Case study1102026-04-22
Conference or event602025-04-29
Template or tool302025-07-15ZTNA

Most recent

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page portnox.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name ZTNA (29); 0 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

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The company

Portnox Cloud NAC is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Cloud-native NAC & Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
portnox.com
For
Enterprise
portnox.com
Price stated
$1 / device portnox.com/pricing
Free plan or trial
Start a free trial. portnox.com
Certifications
SOC 2 Type IIHIPAAPCI DSSGLBAGDPR
Hosting
USEUAPAC
Not stated on the pages read
Starting price, integrations, customers

What Portnox Cloud NAC's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: portnox.com, portnox.com/pricing, portnox.com/use-cases/compliance, portnox.com/use-cases, portnox.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where Portnox Cloud NAC is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Portnox Cloud NAC, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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