Every category where a model named Versa Secure SD-WAN 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%	7 of 53	21%	28	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Versa Secure SD-WAN 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 Secure SD-WAN across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct13 labelsNone

Paraphrase8 labelsNone

Comparative24 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained12 labels1

Negative11 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative69 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“Very strong mid-market player... Highly recommended for pure-play SD-WAN needs.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SD-WAN · scale prompt · first choice

“Versa scored "excellent for all five use cases" and was the only vendor ranked in the top five for every evaluated scenario” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SD-WAN · comparative prompt · alternative

“Choose Versa if you want flexibility and a platform that blends SD-WAN with broader networking/security features.” Perplexity Sonar · SD-WAN · comparative prompt · alternative

“Strengths: Strong in both networking and security; flexible deployment options” MiniMax M2.5 · SD-WAN · 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.

“Performance claims don't hold up ... Hidden pricing ... Questionable business tactics” MiniMax M2.5 · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative

“Versa (throughput drops with features on; "questionable business tactics" like rigged pricing in RFPs; Zscaler incompatibilities)” Grok 4.1 Fast · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative

“Certain historical Versa code versions would hit a session limit and lock up the device” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative

“Performance claims not matching reality; throughput drops when features are enabled.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Versa Secure SD-WAN, over the 69 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Versa Secure SD-WAN was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN62 of 6920Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN54 of 691Not in the top three

VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN52 of 690Not in the top three

HPE Aruba EdgeConnect45 of 692Not in the top three

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN37 of 6912Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN24 of 696Not in the top three

Cisco23 of 697Not in the top three

Cato Networks15 of 691Not in the top three

Aryaka13 of 690Not in the top three

Juniper8 of 690Not 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 Secure SD-WAN. 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 61 of the 69 answers that named Versa Secure SD-WAN and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com49

zpesystems.com35

cisco.com34

interfacesystems.com34

digitalcarbon.io27

stlpartners.com24

techtarget.com20

comparitech.com18

fortinet.com18

guideflow.com18

277 of the 277 domain citations in answers naming Versa Secure SD-WAN came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/sd-wan46

interfacesystems.com/blog/top-sd-wan-vendors34

zpesystems.com/sd-wan-leaders-zs34

digitalcarbon.io/blog/sd-wan-leaders-in-the-202427

stlpartners.com/articles/network-innovation/sd-wan-providers24

comparitech.com/net-admin/best-sd-wan-vendors18

guideflow.com/blog/sd-wan-software18

blogs.cisco.com/networking/cisco-is-a-five-time-leader-in-the-2024-gartner-magic-quadrant-16

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Versa Secure SD-WAN

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Versa Secure SD-WAN; a claim can dispute any of them.

Versa Networks 15Versa 8Versa Networks Secure SD-WAN 2Versa Networks (Versa SD-WAN) 1Versa SD-WAN 1Versa SD‑WAN 1

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