5 categories · RankedSonicWall
SonicWall is a cybersecurity product line covering next-generation firewalls, SASE and SD-WAN, with its firewalls running on the SonicOS operating system · sonicwall.com ↗
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.
Fortinet FortiGate is first at 72%.
Fortinet FortiGate is first at 71%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Palo Alto Networks NGFW is first at 44%.
Why models recommend it
“The best next-generation firewall for a company with a limited budget is the SonicWall (Gen 7 / TZ & NSa) or the Untangle NG Firewall (Arista).”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Easy management, subscription-based threat feeds | SMBs and mid-market”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Avoid: SonicWall devices running older firmware versions that are known to be unpatched (particularly the SMA 100 series).”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“SonicWall confirmed that all customers using its cloud backup service were affected by a security breach”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“High Concern: SonicWall ... Over 178,000 SonicWall NGFW devices were found publicly exploitable”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“Avoid if: ... due to update/vuln risks with SonicWall/Fortinet”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as SonicWall, over the 59 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 33 | 14 | Compare → | |
| 31 | 1 | View → | |
| 24 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 22 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 3 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 4 | View → | |
| 7 | 3 | View → |
What the models named instead of SonicWall →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on SonicWall's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- SMBs, MSPs, and IT teams
- Price stated
- competitive pricing, volume discounts
- Free plan or trial
- Free trials
- Certifications
- Common Criteria, FIPS 140-2, FIPS 140-3, SOC 2 Type II
- Hosting
- US
- Customers named
- Apex Managed Security, XimpleIT, Valiant Technology, Leaf, Utilize
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 50 of the 59 answers that named SonicWall and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
126 of the 135 domain citations in answers naming SonicWall came from a third party's page. 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 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 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 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 3,416 | undated | Email security, MDR | ||
| Conference or event | 1,540 | undated | MDR, ZTNA | ||
| Case study | 380 | undated | Firewalls, SD-WAN | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 300 | undated | SD-WAN, PAM | ||
| Report or ebook | 231 | undated | Email security, MDR | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 138 | undated | Email security, EDR | ||
| Podcast or video | 107 | undated | Email security, SD-WAN | ||
| Comparison | 16 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 5 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Events in person
- October 1, 2026SonicWall Elevate On the Road 2026 - EMEAMadrid, Spain · hosts
- October 7, 2026SonicWall Elevate On the Road 2026 - NOAMGrand Prairie, United States · hosts
- October 7, 2026SonicWall Elevate On the Road 2026 - EMEADubai, United Arab Emirates · hosts
- October 8, 2026SonicWall Elevate On the Road 2026 - EMEARome, Italy · hosts
- October 8, 2026SonicWall Elevate On the Road 2026 - EMEAUlm, Germany · hosts
- October 8, 2026Elevate: On the RoadSydney, Australia · hosts
- October 9, 2026Elevate: On the RoadNew Delhi, India · hosts
- October 15, 2026SonicWall Elevate On the Road 2026 - EMEAJohannesburg, South Africa · hosts
- October 22, 2026SonicWall Elevate On the Road 2026 - NOAMClearwater, United States · hosts
- September 24, 2026SonicWall Elevate On the Road 2026 - EMEAParis, France · hosted
As the event pages on sonicwall.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page sonicwall.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 MDR (44); 23 name its categories 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.