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VMware · 1 category · Named, not ranked

VMware SASE

5Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative 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. VMware SASE was named 2 times in SASE, where Cato SASE Cloud led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business44 of 50

under the label threshold

Mid-market36 of 43

under the label threshold

Enterprise34 of 41

under the label threshold

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 VMware 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
SASE platforms	Network and edge	0%	36 of 43	50%	2	under 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 VMware 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 VMware SASE across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
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-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Platforms to exercise extreme caution with: VMware SASE ... implemented sweeping price hikes (often 300% to 500% at renewal)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SASE · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as VMware SASE, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and VMware SASE was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet FortiSASE5 of 50Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE4 of 50Not in the top three

Cloudflare One3 of 51Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony SASE3 of 50Not in the top three

Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange3 of 50Not in the top three

Cisco2 of 50Not in the top three

Netskope One2 of 50Not in the top three

Cato Networks1 of 51Not in the top three

Akamai1 of 50Not in the top three

Akamai Enterprise Application Access1 of 50Not 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 VMware 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 1 of the 5 answers that named VMware SASE and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comparitech.com1

cotocus.com1

cyberhaven.com1

devopsconsulting.in1

g2.com1

gartner.com1

reddit.com1

sase.cloud1

sasecompare.com1

techrepublic.com1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming VMware SASE came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

comparitech.com/net-admin/best-sase-tools1

cotocus.com/blog/top-10-sase-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison1

cyberhaven.com/blog/top-sase-solutions1

devopsconsulting.in/blog/top-10-sase-platforms-features-pros-cons-and-comparison1

g2.com/products/check-point-sase/reviews1

gartner.com/reviews/market/single-vendor-sase1

reddit.com/r/networking/comments/16asvdl/small_business_200ish_58_sites_looking_at_moving1

sase.cloud/vendors1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as VMware SASE

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

VMware (SASE with SD-WAN by VeloCloud) 1VMware SASE (VeloCloud + Symantec/Broadcom) 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 VMware 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 VMware 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 vmware.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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