Network access control · RankedPortnox Cloud
Portnox Cloud is a cloud-native network access control (NAC) product delivered as software as a service, formerly called Portnox CLEAR · portnox.com ↗
Leads at mid-market. Ranked 2 of 88 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first. Next is PacketFence at 16%.
Ranked first. Next is PacketFence at 20%. 10 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Cisco Identity Services Engine is first at 39%.
Why models recommend it
“Portnox Cloud appears to be the best overall choice based on its high rating, cloud-native architecture, strong ROI metrics”MiniMax M2.5 · Direct question · first choice
“Portnox and OPSWAT MetaAccess are the top picks due to their cloud-native approach, ease of use, and scalability”Mistral Small · Direct question · first choice
“Portnox Cloud — The clear front-runner for mid-market. SaaS, agentless, published pricing, deploys in days”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“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
What gives them pause
“Portnox has raised several security and usability concerns... Unencrypted RADIUS traffic”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Portnox Cloud, over the 151 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 111 | 32 | Compare → | |
| 73 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 64 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 53 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 51 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 41 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 38 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 30 | 0 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Portnox Cloud →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Portnox Cloud's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- enterprise
- Price stated
- Volume discounts available for all products.
- Starting price
- $1 / device
- Free plan or trial
- Start a free trial.
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II
- Hosting
- US, EU, APAC, United States, Europe, Asia/Pacific
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 145 of the 151 answers that named Portnox Cloud and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
388 of the 501 domain citations in answers naming Portnox Cloud came from a third party's page. Thirty-nine 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| 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 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24The systems that grant access are now the ones under attack blog
- 2026-09-24Your firewall doesnt know who your ip is blog
- 2026-09-23Portnox closes the gap on shadow ai visibility control news or press
- 2026-09-22Once its in where can an unauthorized device go blog
- 2026-09-22Your employees already gave chatgpt and half a dozen other tools access to everything blog
- 2026-09-22The three parties now asking manufacturers to prove whats on their network blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
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.