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1 category · Named, not ranked

SonicWall TZ series, Gen 7

2Judge labels
1First 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. SonicWall TZ series, Gen 7 was named 1 time in Firewalls, where Fortinet FortiGate led with 73%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 TZ series, Gen 7 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
Next-generation firewallsNetwork and edge2%13 of 830%1under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 73%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.

Movement

Since September 2026, SonicWall TZ series, Gen 7 held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · Firewalls · by segment

Small businessnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 36 of 87, unchanged

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
Firewalls0%2%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.New this editionRank 13 of 83, unchanged

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated SonicWall TZ series, Gen 7 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 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B10001

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
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 label1
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“FortiGate FG-40F/FG-60F or SonicWall TZ470/TZ570” Muse Glimmer 30B · Firewalls · budget 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 SonicWall TZ series, Gen 7, 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 TZ series, Gen 7 was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Fortinet FortiGate2 of 21Not among the top eight
Sophos Firewall2 of 20Not among the top eight
Cisco Secure Firewall1 of 20Not among the top eight
Palo Alto Networks PA-2201 of 20Not among the top eight
Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro1 of 20Not among the top eight
Untangle NG Firewall1 of 20Not among the top eight
WatchGuard Firebox1 of 20Not among the top eight
WatchGuard Firebox T Series1 of 20Not among the top eight
pfSense1 of 20Not 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 SonicWall TZ series, Gen 7. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named SonicWall TZ series, Gen 7 and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org2
cybersecuritynews.com2
gbhackers.com2
accio.com1
accyotta.com1
amazon.com1
atera.com1
avfirewalls.com1
business.org1
comparitech.com1

Thirteen of the thirteen domain citations in answers naming SonicWall TZ series, Gen 7 came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

sonicwall.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, SonicWall TZ series, Gen 7 takes 2% of first choices and Fortinet FortiGate takes 73%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “next-generation firewall”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “next-generation firewalls”
–
not in the top ten
Organic visits to its site
about 60,229 a month
Searches its site ranks for
7,590 · 1,023 in the top three
Sites linking to it
13,868
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
114 ads · 62 text, 35 image, 17 video · 79 shown in the last 30 days

First shown April 2024, as SonicWall, Inc, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 28 in the year, 86 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
2%
rank 13 of 83 in firewalls
Segment leader
73%
Fortinet FortiGate
First choices
1 across its categories
Named in
2 answers
Its own site cited
in 2 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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 sonicwall.com
9,999
subdomains included
Content
6,134
counted in the table below
Documentation
3,616
Product · Integration
107 · 83
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog3,416undatedEmail security, MDR
Conference or event1,540undatedMDR, ZTNA
Case study380undatedFirewalls, SD-WAN
Glossary or explainer300undatedSD-WAN, PAM
Report or ebook231undatedEmail security, MDR
Webinar or virtual event138undatedEmail security, EDR
Podcast or video107undatedEmail security, SD-WAN
Comparison16undated
Template or tool5undated
News or press1undated

Events in person

Upcoming
Last twelve months

As the event pages on sonicwall.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page sonicwall.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 MDR (44); 23 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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  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
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  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
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