Network access control · Named, not rankedFreeRADIUS
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. FreeRADIUS has 4.
Why models recommend it
“free and effective for 802.1X/RADIUS authentication, but it lacks PacketFence's broader device profiling”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Use 802.1X with FreeRADIUS for basic access control if you only need authentication”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“avoid heavy on-premises appliances like Cisco ISE or raw FreeRADIUS implementations”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as FreeRADIUS, over the 6 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 2 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on FreeRADIUS's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- ISPs, enterprises, and telecommunications companies
- Customers named
- eduroam
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 3 of the 6 answers that named FreeRADIUS and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Nineteen of the nineteen domain citations in answers naming FreeRADIUS came from a third party's page.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |