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Index › Vendors › Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine · September 2026 Edition

Ubiquiti · 2 categories · Named, not ranked

Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine

4Judge labels

2First choices

0Negative labels

2 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.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine was named 2 times in SD-WAN and 1 other category, where Fortinet Secure SD-WAN led with 41%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business22 of 53

under the label threshold

Mid-market11 of 53

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In sd-wan · 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 Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine 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
SD-WAN	Network and edge	2%	11 of 53	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Fortinet Secure SD-WAN at 41%
Next-generation firewalls	Network and edge	2%	12 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 Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine 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 Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labels2

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“If you want the absolute lowest total cost with no recurring licensing: → Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine Pro (UDM Pro)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Firewalls · budget prompt · first choice

“Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine (UDM) or Cloud Gateway series stands out as one of the most affordable SD-WAN options” Grok 4.1 Fast · SD-WAN · 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 Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN2 of 41Not in the top three

pfSense Community Edition1 of 41Not in the top three

Cisco1 of 40Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki MX671 of 40Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN1 of 40Not in the top three

FortiGate 30G/60F1 of 40Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiGate 30E / 40F1 of 40Not in the top three

OPNsense1 of 40Not in the top three

Palo Alto1 of 40Not in the top three

Peplink1 of 40Not 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 Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine. 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 4 answers that named Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comparitech.com3

fortinet.com3

reddit.com3

buypeplink.com2

costbench.com2

cyberpress.org2

cybersecuritynews.com2

encomputers.com2

g2.com2

gartner.com2

Twenty-three of the twenty-three domain citations in answers naming Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

buypeplink.com/peplink-business-routers2

costbench.com/best/sd-wan-for-small-business2

costbench.com/software/sd-wan/fortinet-sd-wan2

cyberpress.org/best-next-generation-firewall-ngfw-solutions-for-every-business-size2

cybersecuritynews.com/best-next-generation-firewall2

encomputers.com/2024/02/sdwan-cost-pricing2

fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/data-sheets/og-secure-sdwan.pdf2

fortinet.com/products/sd-wan2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine; a claim can dispute any of them.

Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine (UDM) 1Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine Pro (UDM Pro) 1

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