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Sophos XGS Series

7Judge labels
0First choices
0Negative labels
5 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. Sophos XGS 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 business23 of 110
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market32 of 100
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
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 Sophos XGS 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Next-generation firewallsNetwork and edge0%32 of 1000%2under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 61%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Sophos XGS 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 Sophos XGS Series across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative3 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 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.

“Top G2 ratings (4.7/5, #1 overall firewall 15+ quarters)... Great for simpler ops” Grok 4.1 Fast · Firewalls · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“the Sophos XGS 87 or 107 is a very strong contender” Gemini 3.5 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sophos XGS Series, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sophos XGS Series was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Fortinet FortiGate5 of 74Not in the top three
WatchGuard Firebox3 of 71Not in the top three
Cisco2 of 70Not in the top three
Cisco Meraki MX Series2 of 70Not in the top three
OPNsense2 of 70Not in the top three
SonicWall TZ Series2 of 70Not in the top three
Ubiquiti UniFi2 of 70Not in the top three
Zenarmor2 of 70Not in the top three
pfSense2 of 70Not in the top three
Fortinet FortiGate 60F1 of 71Not 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 Sophos XGS 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 4 of the 7 answers that named Sophos XGS Series and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comparitech.com3
cyberpress.org3
mspcompared.com3
aibusinessinsider.org2
blog.invgate.com2
cybersecuritynews.com2
enterprisenetworkingplanet.com2
expertinsights.com2
learn.secbyte.org2
paloaltonetworks.com2

Twenty-three of the twenty-three domain citations in answers naming Sophos XGS Series came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/best-next-generation-firewall-ngfw-solutions-for-every-business-size3
aibusinessinsider.org/best-firewall-appliances-for-it-directors-10-reviewed-and-ranked2
blog.invgate.com/best-firewall-for-small-business2
comparitech.com/net-admin/best-small-business-firewalls2
cybersecuritynews.com/best-next-generation-firewall2
enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/guides/best-firewalls-for-small-medium-business2
expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-network-firewalls2
learn.secbyte.org/blog/fortinet-firewall-pricing2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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