HPE Aruba ClearPass
Strongest at enterprise. Thin evidence at small business: two labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Portnox Cloud is first at 41%.
Portnox Cloud is first at 46%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Cisco Identity Services Engine is first at 39%.
Why models recommend it
“I'd usually recommend HPE Aruba ClearPass as the default NAC choice”GPT-5.4 mini · Paraphrase question · first choice
“For large enterprises: Start with Cisco ISE or Aruba ClearPass”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · first choice
“Best for Complex Environments (Incumbents) Recommendation: Cisco ISE or HPE Aruba ClearPass”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Choose Aruba ClearPass for a multi-vendor campus or complex BYOD/guest environment.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as HPE Aruba ClearPass, over the 53 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 16 | Compare → | |
| 42 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 41 | 14 | Compare → | |
| 25 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 3 | View → |
What the models named instead of HPE Aruba ClearPass →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
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 51 of the 53 answers that named HPE Aruba ClearPass and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for HPE Aruba ClearPass, so its own site is not marked.
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |