NordLayer NAC
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.
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
“Cloud-Native SaaS | Portnox, NordLayer, Mist (Juniper) | "Set it and forget it." Lower OpEx, easier to manage”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“For the most budget-conscious organizations, NordLayer and PacketFence are the best choices.”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Combines NAC-like access control with VPN and threat protection in a user-friendly cloud platform”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“a cheap commercial cloud solution is better than a complex open-source one you can't maintain”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as NordLayer NAC, over the 52 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 23 | Compare → | |
| 23 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 22 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 20 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 20 | 2 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 9 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of NordLayer NAC →
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 52 of the 52 answers that named NordLayer NAC and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
219 of the 234 domain citations in answers naming NordLayer NAC came from a third party's page. Fifteen 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 436 | undated | DLP, SASE | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 371 | undated | SASE, ZTNA | ||
| Comparison | 68 | undated | SASE, ZTNA | ||
| Case study | 38 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 16 | undated | SASE, DLP | ||
| Template or tool | 14 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 2 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page nordlayer.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name SASE (13); 0 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.