# Hillstone: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/hillstone

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [SD-WAN](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/sd-wan/index.md) | 0% | 29 | 0% | 1 |

## What the models said for it

- "Strong contenders if your primary concern is next-gen firewalling combined with WAN." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, SD-WAN)

## 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 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Hillstone, from 1 of the 2 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- csrc.nist.gov: 1
- nvd.nist.gov: 1
- nvlpubs.nist.gov: 1

### Pages cited

- https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/cswp/50/small-business-cybersecurity-non-employer-firms/ipd: 1
- https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/1314/final: 1
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2025-2239: 1
- https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2016/NIST.IR.7621r1.pdf: 1

## 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.