HPE Aruba CX
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Arista Networks is first at 22%.
Arista Networks is first at 42%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Arista Networks is first at 52%.
Why models recommend it
“or HPE Aruba CX (if you want a lower total‑cost‑of‑ownership, simpler cloud‑based management, and a strong ecosystem for campus‑to‑DC fabrics)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Direct question · first choice
“If you want maximum ease-of-use and lower cost: HPE Aruba CX with Fabric Composer.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Mid-market budgets | ~40% cheaper than Cisco; good automation”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Ensure that product lines with overlapping capabilities (such as HPE Aruba CX vs. Juniper QFX/Junos) have clear long-term support roadmaps”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as HPE Aruba CX, over the 14 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 3 | View → | |
| 7 | 4 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | 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.
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 12 of the 14 answers that named HPE Aruba CX and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for HPE Aruba CX, so its own site is not marked. Four 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 | 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 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |