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Index › Vendors › SonicWall NSa Series · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

SonicWall NSa Series

2Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

1 of 12Models named it

1Category

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

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. SonicWall NSa Series was named 2 times in Firewalls, where Fortinet FortiGate led with 61%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market30 of 100

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In firewalls · 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 SonicWall NSa Series 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
Next-generation firewalls	Network and edge	0%	30 of 100	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 61%

Movement

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 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.

“Best for: Price-conscious mid-market with cloud management preferences” Kimi K2 · Firewalls · direct prompt · alternative

“## Budget-Friendly Alternative: SonicWall NSa Series” Kimi K2 · Firewalls · paraphrase 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 SonicWall NSa Series, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SonicWall NSa Series was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet FortiGate2 of 22Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks PA-Series1 of 20Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks VM-Series1 of 20Not in the top three

WatchGuard Firebox1 of 20Not 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 SonicWall NSa Series. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named SonicWall NSa Series and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org2

g2.com2

gartner.com2

techrepublic.com2

aibusinessinsider.org1

cipherssecurity.com1

comparitech.com1

crn.com1

cybersecuritynews.com1

decryptiondigest.com1

Fourteen of the fourteen domain citations in answers naming SonicWall NSa Series came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/best-next-generation-firewall-ngfw-solutions-for-every-business-size2

techrepublic.com/article/fortinet-vs-palo-alto2

aibusinessinsider.org/best-firewall-appliances-for-it-directors-10-reviewed-and-ranked1

cipherssecurity.com/fortinet-vs-palo-alto-firewalls1

comparitech.com/net-admin/next-gen-firewalls1

crn.com/annual-report-card/2024/c231

cybersecuritynews.com/best-next-generation-firewall1

decryptiondigest.com/blog/enterprise-ngfw-comparison-20261

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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