# FortiGate VM: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 1 category by 3 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/fortigate-vm

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Next-generation firewalls](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/next-generation-firewalls/index.md) | 0% | 19 | 0% | 3 |

## What the models said for it

- "For workloads hosted in a public cloud or virtualized data center, use a virtual firewall—for example, FortiGate VM" (GPT-6 Luna, Firewalls)
- "The virtual version of FortiGate is ideal for cloud or hybrid environments" (Mistral Small, Firewalls)
- "FortiGate-VM (runs on VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure)" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Firewalls)

## 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named FortiGate VM, from 6 of the 6 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- fortinet.com: 5
- expertinsights.com: 3
- firewalls.com: 3
- trustradius.com: 3
- atera.com: 2
- enterprisenetworkingplanet.com: 2
- geekflare.com: 2
- learn.g2.com: 2
- peerspot.com: 2
- thetoolstrunk.com: 2

### Pages cited

- https://expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-network-firewalls: 3
- https://trustradius.com/blog/best-firewall-for-business: 3
- https://atera.com/blog/best-firewall-appliances: 2
- https://enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/guides/best-firewalls-for-small-medium-business: 2
- https://firewalls.com/blog/best-enterprise-firewalls: 2
- https://fortinet.com/products/smallbusiness/virtual-firewall: 2
- https://geekflare.com/cloud/best-managed-firewall: 2
- https://learn.g2.com/best-firewall-software: 2

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.