3 categories · RankedFortinet FortiGate
Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall, positioned by Fortinet as a hybrid mesh firewall, for network security · fortinet.com ↗
Leads at small business. Ranked 2 of 70 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first. Next is Sophos Firewall at 7%.
Ranked first. Next is Palo Alto Networks NGFW at 8%. 12 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Palo Alto Networks NGFW is first at 44%.
Why models recommend it
“For most mid-sized B2B companies, Fortinet FortiGate (hardware or virtual) and Palo Alto Networks PA-Series are top recommendations”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Market leader in price-to-performance ratio; exceptional hardware specs; built-in SD-WAN and ZTNA capabilities without extra licensing.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“Top Hardware Appliance Recommendation: Fortinet FortiGate ... Fortinet is widely considered the "gold standard" for the mid-market.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“For most budget-conscious companies: Choose Fortinet FortiGate. It offers the best balance of performance, features, and value.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Multiple critical vulnerabilities exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-21762, CVE-2023-27997)”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · warning
“Avoid if: ... due to update/vuln risks with SonicWall/Fortinet”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Fortinet has recently published incident analysis and advisories tied to FortiOS/FortiCloud-related issues”GPT-5.4 mini · Negative question · warning
“Fortinet products have had several high-profile exploited vulnerabilities requiring urgent patching”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Fortinet FortiGate, over the 221 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 157 | 39 | Compare → | |
| 123 | 0 | View → | |
| 108 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 97 | 1 | View → | |
| 55 | 3 | View → | |
| 33 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 30 | 0 | View → | |
| 29 | 0 | View → | |
| 26 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Fortinet FortiGate →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Fortinet FortiGate's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- enterprise
- Free plan or trial
- FREE PRODUCT DEMO
- Customers named
- Fortinet
- Also from Fortinet
- Fortinet FortiADC, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Fortinet FortiClient, Fortinet FortiClient / FortiNAC, Fortinet FortiDeceiver, Fortinet FortiDeceptor and 19 more
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 179 of the 221 answers that named Fortinet FortiGate and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
338 of the 483 domain citations in answers naming Fortinet FortiGate came from a third party's page. Thirty-three 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 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |