4 categories · RankedCilium
Cilium is an open-source product for container and Kubernetes networking and security · cilium.io ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Zero Networks Segment is first at 30%.
ColorTokens Xshield is first at 36%.
Illumio Segmentation is first at 77%.
Why models recommend it
“Cilium if you want eBPF-based L7 policy and observability with Hubble is the typical starting point”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best Choice: Cilium or Project Calico (Open-Source Editions)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“prefer kernel-native approaches (such as eBPF-based tooling like Cilium) or CNI-integrated microsegmentation over bulky host agents”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“open-source Cilium or Calico give you free, Kubernetes-native segmentation if you have the internal engineering capacity”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cilium, over the 29 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 10 | 3 | View → | |
| 9 | 3 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 3 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cilium's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Free plan or trial
- Quickly get started with Cilium. Read the documentation or use our interactive tutorial in a live environment.
- Customers named
- Digital Ocean, Trip.com, WSO2, Post Finance, Form3, Bloomberg, Datadog, Alibaba
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 19 of the 29 answers that named Cilium and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty-two of the sixty-eight domain citations in answers naming Cilium came from a third party's page. Six were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 16 | 3 | 2026-09-23 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-23Cilium at kubecon na 26 blog
- 2026-08-28Zero trust developer platforms with cilium network policies blog
- 2026-07-08How k0rdent and cilium turn kubernetes sprawl into a platform blog
- 2026-06-13Multi cluster kubernetes explained blog
- 2026-06-07Kubernetes runtime security the guide blog
- 2026-06-07Understanding kubernetes network security blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cilium.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.