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Versa SASE

25Judge labels
0First choices
3Negative labels
10 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.
Best standing
0% in SASE for enterprise buyers
Rank 14 of 43 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 6 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In sase · 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 Versa SASE 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
SASE platformsNetwork and edge0%14 of 430%6under 10 labels · led by Cato SASE Cloud at 28%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Versa SASE 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 Versa SASE across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00101
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00101
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500101

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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative14 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative5 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 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.

“Versa SASE fits organizations needing deployment flexibility” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SASE · comparative 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 Versa SASE, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Versa SASE was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE22 of 258Not in the top three
Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange21 of 252Not in the top three
Cloudflare One20 of 254Not in the top three
Netskope One20 of 253Not in the top three
Fortinet FortiSASE20 of 250Not in the top three
Cato Networks17 of 255Not in the top three
Cisco11 of 250Not in the top three
HPE Aruba8 of 250Not in the top three
Check Point Harmony SASE7 of 250Not in the top three
Cato SASE Cloud5 of 250Not 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 Versa SASE. 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 24 of the 25 answers that named Versa SASE and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com19
fortinet.com12
crn.com11
macronetservices.com9
sasecompare.com9
blog.openvpn.net8
sase.cloud8
techrepublic.com8
cyberhaven.com7
linkedin.com7

Ninety-eight of the ninety-eight domain citations in answers naming Versa SASE came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Versa SASE

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Versa SASE; a claim can dispute any of them.
Versa Networks 3Versa 1
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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 Versa SASE'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 Versa SASE, 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 versa.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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