Small business=heldSince September 2026: 31% → 31%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
31%from 31% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 2 of 42, unchanged
3 categories · RankedTwingate
143Judge labels
45First choices
6Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
39% in ZTNA for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 66 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
7 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 2% of its 44 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Twingate →By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business2 of 46
30%62 labels
endorsed leader
Mid-market1 of 66
39%44 labels
endorsed leader
Enterprise8 of 47
2%17 labels
accepted challenger
In ztna · 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 Twingate 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zero trust network access | Network and edge | 39% | 1 of 66 | 2% | 44 | endorsed leader | ▲+13Since September 2026: 28% → 40%, +13 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Container and Kubernetes security | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 65 of 77 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Trivy at 22% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| SASE platforms | Network and edge | 0% | 24 of 45 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cato Networks at 35% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Twingate moved past the floor in one of three categories: ZTNA, +13 points to 40%. It held within the floor in the other two.
Best category · ZTNA · by segment
Mid-market▲+13Since September 2026: 28% → 40%, +13 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
40%from 28% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 2 pointsRank 2 → 1 of 64
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 10 → 8 of 44
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZTNA | 28% | 40% | ▲+13Since September 2026: 28% → 40%, +13 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. | Moved past the floor | Rank 2 → 1 of 66 |
| Container security | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 65 of 77, unchanged |
| SASE | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 24 of 45, 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 Twingate across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Twingate across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
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
Direct24 labels14
Paraphrase30 labels17
Comparative27 labels5not counted in share
Budget-constrained26 labels7
Scale-constrained21 labels7
Negative15 labels6not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative143 labels in all, every segment counted; 45 of the 56 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.
“Pure ZTNA (e.g., Twingate, Tailscale, Cloudflare Zero Trust): Great if you just want to kill the VPN and grant app-level access. Low overhead, easy to implement.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ZTNA · scale prompt · first choice
“Midmarket teams with limited IT resources get the best return from Twingate or Cloudflare One — both deploy in hours, not months.” Muse Glimmer 30B · ZTNA · direct prompt · first choice
“Twingate (Best for Modern VPN Replacement & Dev Teams) ... incredibly fast, lightweight, and can be deployed in minutes” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ZTNA · scale prompt · first choice
“Start with Cloudflare Access or Twingate if you want a focused, affordable ZTNA solution to replace VPN quickly” Kimi K2 · ZTNA · direct 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.
“MDM deployment across NinjaRMM, Intune, and Jamf Pro can be complex” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ZTNA · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Twingate, over the 143 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Twingate was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Twingate, over the 143 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Twingate was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Twingate. 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 139 of the 143 answers that named Twingate and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cyberpress.org65
petronellatech.com63
cybersecuritynews.com61
startwithidentity.com45
portnox.com43
zendikt.com43
comparitech.com42
twingate.comYour site41
venn.com41
expertinsights.com40
443 of the 484 domain citations in answers naming Twingate came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Twingate stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Twingate stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ztna solution”
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not in the top ten
Position for “ztna solutions”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 9,900 a month (“twingate”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 126 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 119,706 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 17,354 · 483 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,452
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
39%
rank 1 of 66 in ZTNA
First choices
45
across its categories
- Named in
- 143 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 139 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
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on twingate.com
3,904
subdomains included
Content
3,211
counted in the table below
Documentation
524
Product · Integration
16 · 44
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,538 | 5 | 2026-09-22 | ZTNA, PAM | |
| Glossary or explainer | 1,321 | 0 | 2024-10-16 | DLP, EDR | |
| Comparison | 289 | 0 | 2024-09-05 | Endpoint protection, EDR | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 22 | 18 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Case study | 21 | 19 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Report or ebook | 20 | 2 | 2026-09-28 |
Most recent
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page twingate.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. 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.
Names read as Twingate
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Twingate; a claim can dispute any of them.
Twingate ZTNA 1
Follow Twingate
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.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Twingate is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Twingate is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Zero Trust Network Access / VPN Alternative / Network Security Software / Remote Access Software
- For
- the modern workforce
- Price stated
- Free; Starter $5 per user per month; Business $15 per user per month twingate.com
- Starting price
- 0 twingate.com
- Free plan or trial
- Free tier for up to 5 users twingate.com
- Integrations claimed
- 12 twingate.com/product/ztna
- Customers named
- BlendKooappsMHC SoftwareProdvanaAnvilOncoLensModern HealthAppen
- Not stated on the pages read
- Certifications, hosting
What Twingate's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: twingate.com, twingate.com/pricing, trust.twingate.com, twingate.com/product/ztna, twingate.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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 Twingate'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 Twingate, 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 Twingate by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Twingate 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 Twingate, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Twingate is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Twingate is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideAI models recommend Twingate first in Zero trust network access this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.