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Index › Vendors › Twingate · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Ranked

Twingate

124Judge labels

25First choices

7Negative labels

12 of 12Models named it

2Categories

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

Best standing

31% in ZTNA for small business buyers

Rank 2 of 71 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger

3 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 44 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.

Small business2 of 65

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
Zero trust network access	Network and edge	28%	2 of 71	0%	44	accepted challenger
Next-generation firewalls	Network and edge	0%	70 of 100	0%	1	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 Twingate 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 Twingate across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	2	1	4
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	2	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	3	1	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	5	0	5
Mistral Small	1	1	1	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	2	0	4
Kimi K2	2	3	0	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	2	1	5
MiniMax M2.5	1	2	1	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

Direct23 labels8

Paraphrase25 labels11

Comparative25 labels12not counted in share

Budget-constrained27 labels4

Scale-constrained13 labels2

Negative11 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative124 labels in all, every segment counted; 25 of the 41 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.

“Twingate is a software-first remote access platform using a software-defined perimeter, best for small and mid-market teams” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ZTNA · direct prompt · first choice

“Twingate (free tier) or CloudConnexa (5‑seat free) | Very low price, simple SaaS, quick setup” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ZTNA · budget prompt · first choice

“Rating: 4.8/5 (highest rated) ... For SMBs/Fast Deployment: Twingate or Cloudflare” Kimi K2 · ZTNA · comparative prompt · first choice

“Twingate is arguably the best overall choice for the mid-market” Gemini 3.5 Flash · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Twingate, over the 124 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare One78 of 12440Compare →

Check Point Harmony SASE60 of 1241Not in the top three

Tailscale60 of 1241Not in the top three

Zscaler Private Access50 of 12415Not in the top three

NordLayer34 of 1241Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access32 of 1241Not in the top three

Cloudflare Access24 of 1242Not in the top three

OpenVPN CloudConnexa22 of 1241Not in the top three

Zscaler20 of 1242Not in the top three

Cato Networks19 of 1245Compare →

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 Twingate. 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 105 of the 124 answers that named Twingate and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cybersecuritynews.com80

petronellatech.com69

cyberpress.org59

aimultiple.com51

expertinsights.com36

portnox.com32

startwithidentity.com30

meshwg.com27

itbusinessedge.com26

costbench.com23

433 of the 433 domain citations in answers naming Twingate came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cybersecuritynews.com/best-ztna-solutions77

petronellatech.com/blog/zero-trust-vendors-compared-top-10-smbs-202669

aimultiple.com/ztna-solutions51

cyberpress.org/ztna-solutions-by-business-size49

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-zero-trust-network-access-solutions36

startwithidentity.com/articles/top-8-zero-trust-network-access-tools28

itbusinessedge.com/security/smb-zero-trust-solutions26

portnox.com/cybersecurity-101/zero-trust/who-are-the-best-ztna-providers26

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 Starter 1

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.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at twingate.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.