Every category where a model named WatchGuard Firebox T45 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	4%	3 of 100	0%	3	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 WatchGuard Firebox T45 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 WatchGuard Firebox T45 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	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	1	1
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	1	0	1

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

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labels2

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“Both are praised for delivering robust security features...at a price point suitable for small businesses” Mistral Small · Firewalls · budget prompt · first choice

“SonicWall TZ270 or WatchGuard Firebox T45 would be your best bet” MiniMax M2.5 · Firewalls · budget prompt · first choice

“Simple setup, all-in-one suites” Grok 4.1 Fast · Firewalls · budget 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 WatchGuard Firebox T45, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and WatchGuard Firebox T45 was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SonicWall TZ2703 of 51Not in the top three

Sophos XGS 873 of 50Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiGate 90G2 of 51Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiGate1 of 51Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiGate 70G1 of 51Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiGate Virtual Appliance1 of 51Not in the top three

Cisco Firepower Virtual1 of 50Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks VM-Series1 of 50Not in the top three

SonicWall TZ 2701 of 50Not in the top three

SonicWall TZ Series1 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 WatchGuard Firebox T45. 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 5 of the 5 answers that named WatchGuard Firebox T45 and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

firewalls.com5

cybersecuritynews.com4

strategicaitsolutions.com4

cyberpress.org3

comparitech.com2

d.meter.com2

perkinssecurity.com2

smbsecureguide.com2

4tekgear.com1

alekseycheremnykh.ru1

Twenty-six of the twenty-six domain citations in answers naming WatchGuard Firebox T45 came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

firewalls.com/blog/best-firewalls-for-small-businesses-20245

cybersecuritynews.com/best-next-generation-firewall4

strategicaitsolutions.com/blog/small-business-it/best-firewall.html4

cyberpress.org/best-next-generation-firewall-ngfw-solutions-for-every-business-size3

perkinssecurity.com/index-9.html2

comparitech.com/net-admin/best-small-business-firewalls2

d.meter.com/resources/best-firewall-for-small-business2

smbsecureguide.com/network-security/small-business-firewall-buyers-guide-20262

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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