Every category where a model named SonicWall TZ 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	4%	4 of 100	25%	4	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 TZ 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 TZ Series across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labels3

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 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.

“the SonicWall TZ series (especially Gen 7 models like the TZ270) and WatchGuard Firebox T45 are frequently recommended as the best next-generation firewall (NGFW) options” Mistral Small · Firewalls · budget prompt · first choice

“1. SonicWall TZ Series \u2013 Best Budget Branded NGFW ... Go with SonicWall TZ series or FortiGate 40F” Kimi K2 · Firewalls · budget prompt · first choice

“Best Budget-Friendly / Easiest: SonicWall TZ Series” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Firewalls · 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.

“Budget‑friendly, widely deployed in SMB/branch environments, but with less transparency on licensing and fewer advanced features.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Firewalls · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SonicWall TZ Series, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SonicWall TZ Series was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet FortiGate12 of 166Not in the top three

WatchGuard Firebox9 of 164Not in the top three

Sophos Firewall5 of 163Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki MX5 of 160Not in the top three

pfSense/OPNsense4 of 160Not in the top three

Sophos XGS3 of 160Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony SASE2 of 160Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki MX Series2 of 160Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks PA-400 Series2 of 160Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks PA-Series2 of 160Not 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 TZ 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 16 of the 16 answers that named SonicWall TZ Series and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org11

cybersecuritynews.com11

enterprisenetworkingplanet.com11

mspcompared.com10

firewalls.com7

gbhackers.com7

secithub.com7

blog.invgate.com5

smbsecureguide.com5

comparitech.com4

Seventy-eight of the seventy-eight domain citations in answers naming SonicWall TZ Series came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/best-next-generation-firewall-ngfw-solutions-for-every-business-size11

cybersecuritynews.com/best-next-generation-firewall11

enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/guides/best-firewalls-for-small-medium-business11

gbhackers.com/ngfw-solutions-compared-features-pricing7

mspcompared.com/best/firewall7

secithub.com/smb-firewall-ranking-guide-20257

blog.invgate.com/best-firewall-for-small-business5

firewalls.com/blog/best-firewalls-for-small-businesses-20245

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as SonicWall TZ Series

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as SonicWall TZ Series; a claim can dispute any of them.

SonicWall TZ series 1

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