Portnox CLEAR is a cloud-native network access control product from Portnox · portnox.com ↗
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%. 2 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Cisco Identity Services Engine is first at 39%.
“Portnox CLEAR — Best Cloud-Native Option ... Most experts recommend Portnox specifically for mid-market businesses”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“Best Overall for Cloud-First & Lean IT Teams: Portnox CLEAR”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Top Recommendation: Portnox CLEAR”Kimi K2 · Direct question · first choice
“Consider Portnox CLEAR if you prefer cloud-managed, low-maintenance solution”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
No model argued against it.
The products named in the same answers as Portnox CLEAR, over the 17 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 5 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
Stated on Portnox CLEAR's own site, not checked by Gane.
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 →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 9 of the 17 answers that named Portnox CLEAR and are not a share of its labels.
Thirty-six of the forty-four domain citations in answers naming Portnox CLEAR came from a third party's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 781 | 11 | 2026-09-24 | ZTNA, MFA | |
| Glossary or explainer | 166 | 4 | 2026-09-11 | ZTNA, MFA | |
| News or press | 155 | 3 | 2026-09-23 | ZTNA, MFA | |
| Report or ebook | 25 | 0 | 2026-04-23 | SD-WAN, SASE | |
| Comparison | 24 | 4 | 2026-08-17 | MFA, SASE | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 19 | 1 | 2026-09-10 | ZTNA | |
| Case study | 11 | 0 | 2026-04-22 | ||
| Conference or event | 6 | 0 | 2025-04-29 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | 0 | 2025-07-15 | ZTNA |
Every page portnox.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 ZTNA (29); 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.