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Purple

3Judge labels
0First 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. Purple 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 business39 of 91
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market86 of 111
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprise65 of 95
0%1 label
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 Purple 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 edge0%86 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 Purple 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 Purple 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 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00101
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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative1 label1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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 Purple, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Purple was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Portnox Cloud3 of 31Not among the top eight
Cisco ISE3 of 30Not among the top eight
Forescout3 of 30Not among the top eight
Aruba ClearPass2 of 31Not among the top eight
macmon1 of 31Not among the top eight
Arista1 of 30Not among the top eight
Fortinet1 of 30Not among the top eight
Impulse1 of 30Not among the top eight
PacketFence1 of 30Not among the top eight
SecureW21 of 30Not 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 Purple. 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 3 of the 3 answers that named Purple and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org3
purple.aiYour site3
us.fitgap.com3
cdn.ttgtmedia.com2
networkworld.com2
portnox.com2
telectronichub.com2
virima.com2
arista.com1
arubanetworking.hpe.com1

Eighteen of the twenty-one domain citations in answers naming Purple came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/nac-solutions-by-business-size3
purple.ai/en-gb/blogs/best-network-access-control3
cdn.ttgtmedia.com/searchSecurity/downloads/Network_Access_Control_NAC_Buyers_Guide_.pdf2
portnox.com/buyers-guide-to-nac-network-access-control2
telectronichub.com/electronics/networking-nac2
us.fitgap.com/search/network-access-control-software/small-business2
virima.com/blog/best-network-access-control-solutions2
openaiclaude.com/7-best-nac-software-for-enterprise-networks-to-strengthen-access-control-1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

What it publishes

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Addresses on purple.ai
15,808
subdomains included
Content
1,924
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
4 · 2
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Report or ebook95442026-08-13ZTNA
Blog751272026-09-28ZTNA
Case study71242026-09-07
Glossary or explainer64102026-09-19
Comparison58242026-09-14
Template or tool20undated
Conference or event402026-04-27
Webinar or virtual event202026-05-18

Most recent

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page purple.ai 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. 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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An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Purple is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Enterprise WiFi solutions for any venue.
purple.ai
For
Venues; hospitality, retail, stadiums, healthcare, transport hubs, local government, student accommodation and multi-tenant residential buildings
purple.ai
Price stated
Connect is free. purple.ai
Free plan or trial
Connect is free. purple.ai
Certifications
ISO 27001B CorpGDPRCCPAregional legislationISO-compliant
Hosting
Worldwideবিশ্বব্যাপী
Customers named
Stonegate Pub CompanyPizza ExpressPizzaExpress UAEThe Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation TrustSt George’s Healthcare NHS TrustCroydon Health Services NHS TrustAvanti West CoastC2C Rail
Not stated on the pages read
Integrations

What Purple's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: purple.ai, purple.ai/en-gb/guest-wifi/pricing, purple.ai/en-gb/solutions/wifi-for-marketing-teams, purple.ai/bn-in/case-studies, purple.ai/bn-in/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 Purple'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 Purple, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Purple by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Purple 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 Purple, 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.
The subscriber app

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at purple.ai is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.