5 categories · Named, not rankedPalo Alto Cortex
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Palo Alto Cortex has 6.
Why models recommend it
“Bundles application security with broader CNAPP and cloud-security capabilities”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Platforms to Avoid in Mid-Market ... historically complex to deploy, agent-heavy, and operationally burdensome”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · warning
“Avoid for tight budgets: Enterprise-heavy tools like ... Palo Alto Cortex”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Palo Alto Cortex, over the 18 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 2 | View → | |
| 4 | 2 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 2 | View → | |
| 2 | 2 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Palo Alto Cortex's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Security Analysts
- Integrations
- 900 · 1000 (its own pages disagree)
- Certifications
- FedRAMP, HIPAA
- Customers named
- The State of North Dakota Information Technology (NDIT), BNL, Logicalis, Infosys, Esri, Naranja, Flex, PLDT
- Also from Palo Alto
- Palo Alto DNS Security, Palo Alto Enterprise DLP, Palo Alto GlobalProtect, Palo Alto Industrial OT, Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto PA-140 and 9 more
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 17 of the 18 answers that named Palo Alto Cortex and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty-four of the thirty-seven domain citations in answers naming Palo Alto Cortex came from a third party's page. Three 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |