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Index › Vendors › Untangle NG Firewall · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Untangle NG Firewall

2Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

2 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. Untangle NG Firewall 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 businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market13 of 100

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

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 Untangle NG Firewall 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	2%	13 of 100	50%	2	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 Untangle NG Firewall 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 Untangle NG Firewall across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“the Untangle NG Firewall is a top pick for budget and software-first deployments” Llama 4 Maverick · Firewalls · 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.

“Arista (the parent company) is winding down its hardware roadmap, so be sure to stick to the software/virtual license track” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Firewalls · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Untangle NG Firewall, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Untangle NG Firewall was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SonicWall2 of 20Not in the top three

Fortinet1 of 21Not in the top three

Check Point1 of 20Not in the top three

Firewalla Purple SE1 of 20Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiGate 40F Hardware1 of 20Not in the top three

Palo Alto1 of 20Not in the top three

WatchGuard Firebox1 of 20Not 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 Untangle NG Firewall. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named Untangle NG Firewall and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org2

cybersecuritynews.com2

esecurityplanet.com2

atera.com1

comparitech.com1

linuxblog.io1

reddit.com1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Untangle NG Firewall came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

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

cybersecuritynews.com/best-next-generation-firewall2

esecurityplanet.com/products/top-ngfw2

atera.com/blog/best-firewall-appliances1

comparitech.com/net-admin/next-gen-firewalls1

linuxblog.io/choosing-the-perfect-network-firewall-device-for-under-3001

reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1rvo6eg/firewall_recommendations_small_business1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Untangle NG Firewall

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

Untangle NG Firewall (Arista) 1Untangle NG Firewall (Virtual Edition) 1

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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 untangle.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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