Bot management for small business buyers
Asked as “bot management solution”, and as “bot detection and mitigation tool”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 52 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories: how the two compare.
Standing · first-choice share
60%
Cloudflare Bot ManagementClear leader
60Cloudflare Bot Management10Indusface AppTrana06DataDome25others
60% of first choices, clear leader.
By buyer segment
The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Head to head
All fifteen head-to-head pages: the top six products, each against each
Cloudflare Bot Management vs Indusface AppTranaCloudflare Bot Management vs Akamai Bot ManagerDataDome vs Fastly Bot ManagementDataDome vs HUMAN SecurityDataDome vs Indusface AppTranaDataDome vs Akamai Bot ManagerFastly Bot Management vs HUMAN SecurityFastly Bot Management vs Indusface AppTranaFastly Bot Management vs Akamai Bot ManagerHUMAN Security vs Indusface AppTranaHUMAN Security vs Akamai Bot ManagerIndusface AppTrana vs Akamai Bot Manager
One product takes 60% of first choices here, so the chart would put six markers in one corner and one at the far edge. The two measurements it plots are columns in the standing above: share, and the negative label rate. Four products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category.
What they warned about
Eight of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Perplexity Sonar, Mistral Small, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and Muse Glimmer 30B changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Akamai Bot Manager68%
25 of 37 labels negative · 11 of 14 models · 9 hard negative
“you want to avoid expensive enterprise-grade bot management platforms (like DataDome, Akamai, or HUMAN Security)” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt
DataDome47%
20 of 43 labels negative · 10 of 14 models · 7 hard negative
“you want to avoid expensive enterprise-grade bot management platforms (like DataDome, Akamai, or HUMAN Security)” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt
Imperva Advanced Bot Protection64%
18 of 28 labels negative · 9 of 14 models · 4 hard negative
“Dashboard limitations and multi-layered detection across 700+ signals can overwhelm small teams.” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
86%
6 of 7 labels negative · 5 of 14 models · 3 hard negative
“Enterprise-Grade Solutions (Generally Overkill) - F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense ... ❌ Typical cost: $50K-$150K+ annually” Kimi K2, negative prompt
What they cite
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the fourteen in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.
Sites the answers cite
75 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1048 links across 179 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. None of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category.
vendor site · Indusface48 answers · 51 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Radware38 answers · 64 citations · 12 models
vendor site · G233 answers · 56 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Cequence32 answers · 43 citations · 12 models
32 answers · 43 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Cloudflare31 answers · 80 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Cloudflare26 answers · 39 citations · 11 models
23 answers · 28 citations · 10 models
vendor site · DataDome22 answers · 29 citations · 10 models
vendor site · cside18 answers · 23 citations · 10 models
18 answers · 20 citations · 8 models
16 answers · 16 citations · 8 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
47 answers · 12 models
27 answers · 8 models
24 answers · 9 models
21 answers · 9 models
18 answers · 9 models
17 answers · 9 models
17 answers · 10 models
16 answers · 8 models
15 answers · 7 models
14 answers · 9 models
Search against answers
Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best bot management solution”, “bot management solution”, “bot management solutions”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare parent site Cloudflare Bot Management 60%, Cloudflare Bot Manager 4%, Cloudflare Super Bot Fight Mode 4%, Cloudflare Turnstile 2% | 69% | 163 | 550,000 | 10,897 | ||||
| Indusface AppTrana indusface.com | 10% | 81 | 10 | 0 | 15,007 | 0 | 4 | |
| DataDome datadome.co | 6% | 138 | 1,900 | 33 | 15,592 | $364 | 120 | 6 |
| CHEQ cheq.ai | 2% | 12 | 1,600 | 55 | 7,629 | $1,062 | 21 | |
| ClickCease clickcease.com | 2% | 7 | 1,300 | 50 | 2,517 | $394,547 | 12 | |
| ClickGuard | 2% | 320 | 5 | |||||
| Super Bot Fight Mode | 2% | |||||||
| Cloudflare's free tier cloudflare.com | 2% | 1 | 4,995,413 | 111 | 2 | |||
| SiteGPT sitegpt.ai | 2% | 6 | ||||||
| Turnstile | 2% |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 23 sites; 7 of them are among the sites the models cited here (cequence.ai, cloudflare.com, comparitech.com, datadome.co, indusface.com, myhospitalnow.com, radware.com). The first result for “best bot management solution” is gartner.com.
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.ShowHide
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best bot management solution for a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which bot detection and mitigation tool would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top bot management solutions for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best bot management solution for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a bot management solution. What should we look at?”Negative“Which bot management solutions should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Cloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, Imperva Advanced Bot ProtectionRadware Bot ManagerChangedCloudflare Bot ManagementIndusface AppTranano first choiceagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, DataDome, HUMAN Bot Defender
One alternative
AWS WAFTwo alternatives
Akamai Bot Manager, ClickGuardFour alternatives
DataDome, GeeTest, Indusface AppTrana, NetaceaOne alternative
CloudFiltGPT-5.4 miniCloudflare Super Bot Fight ModeCloudflare Super Bot Fight ModeHeldCloudflare Bot solutionsagainst: Akamai Bot ManagerCloudflare Bot Managementno first choicenothing named
One alternative
Cloudflare Bot ManagementOne alternative
AWS WAF + Bot ControlTwo alternatives
DataDome, Imperva Advanced Bot ProtectionGemini 3.5 FlashCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, Google reCAPTCHA, HUMAN Security, Imperva Advanced Bot ProtectionCloudflare Bot ManagementHeldagainst: reCAPTCHACloudflare Bot Managementagainst: DataDome, Google reCAPTCHA, HUMAN Security, KasadaCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, DataDome, Google reCAPTCHA, HUMAN SecurityCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, Arkose Labs, Cloudflare’s "Bot Fight Mode", DataDome, F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, Google reCAPTCHA, Imperva Advanced Bot Protection, Kasada
Two alternatives
Cloudflare Turnstile, DataDomeThree alternatives
DataDome, Fingerprint, Friendly CaptchaFour alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, CrowdSec, Prosopo, hCaptchaThree alternatives
Cloudflare Turnstile, CrowdSec, hCaptchaFour alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, CrowdSec, DataDome, FingerprintPerplexity SonarCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Radware Bot ManagerDataDomeChangedIndusface AppTranaCloudflare Bot Manager, Indusface AppTranano first choicenothing named
Two alternatives
DataDome, Indusface AppTranaTwo alternatives
CHEQ, Indusface AppTranaFive alternatives
AWS Bot Control, Botpress, Cloudflare Bot Manager, DataDome, Fastly Bot ManagementGrok 4.1 FastCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Fail2ban, Imperva Advanced Bot Protection, ModSecurityCloudflare Bot ManagementHeldagainst: DataDomeCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, Imperva Advanced Bot ProtectionCloudflare's free tier, Turnstileagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, DataDome, HUMAN Security, Imperva Advanced Bot ProtectionCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, Imperva Advanced Bot Protectionagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, DataDome, F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, HUMAN Bot Defender, Imperva Advanced Bot Protection, Radware Bot Manager
Two alternatives
CHEQ, DataDomeOne alternative
Indusface AppTranaTwo alternatives
DataDome, HUMAN Bot DefenderThree alternatives
Google reCAPTCHA, Indusface AppTrana, open-appsecTwo alternatives
DataDome, Indusface AppTranaMistral SmallCHEQ, DataDomeDataDomeChangedagainst: Akamai Bot ManagerCHEQ Essentials Bot Mitigation, Cloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Barracuda Bot Protection, HUMAN Bot DefenderCloudflare Bot Management, Indusface AppTranano first choiceagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, Imperva Advanced Bot Protection, Radware Bot Manager
Two alternatives
Akamai Bot Manager, Imperva Advanced Bot ProtectionOne alternative
AWS WAF + Bot ControlTwo alternatives
Botpress, DataDomeDeepSeek V4 FlashCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, DataDome, Imperva Advanced Bot Protection, PerimeterXCloudflare Bot ManagementHeldagainst: AWS WAF, DataDome, HUMAN Security, csideno first choiceCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai Bot Manager, Imperva Advanced Bot Protection, Radware Bot ManagerCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, Radware Bot Manageragainst: Akamai Bot Manager, Cloudflare Bot Management, Imperva Advanced Bot Protection, Indusface AppTrana, Kasada, Netacea
Two alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, MoonitoOne alternative
Indusface AppTranaTwo alternatives
ModSecurity, OWASP Core Rule SetOne alternative
DataDomeLlama 4 Maverickno first choiceno first choiceHeldIndusface AppTranaSiteGPTno first choicenothing named
Two alternatives
Akamai Bot Manager, CBOTThree alternatives
Botpress, Cloudflare Bot Manager, Indusface AppTranaQwen 3.7 FlashCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, Imperva Advanced Bot ProtectionCloudflare Bot ManagementHeldCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: DataDomeCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: DataDome, PerimeterXCloudflare Bot Managementnothing named
One alternative
Arkose LabsTwo alternatives
hCaptcha, reCAPTCHAThree alternatives
GeeTest, Indusface AppTrana, KasadaTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Google reCAPTCHAThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Bot Manager, Fastly Bot ManagementKimi K2Cloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, DataDome, HUMAN SecurityCloudflare TurnstileChangedagainst: DataDome, PerimeterX/HUMANCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: DataDomeCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, DataDome, F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, Google reCAPTCHA, HUMAN Security, KasadaCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, reCAPTCHA
One alternative
Indusface AppTranaTwo alternatives
Cloudflare Bot Management, Indusface AppTranaThree alternatives
Arcjet, ClickCease, FingerprintThree alternatives
Cloudflare Turnstile, Indusface AppTrana, hCaptchaThree alternatives
DataDome, Fastly Bot Management, ReblazeGLM 4.7 FlashXCloudflare Bot ManagerCloudflare Bot ManagementChangedagainst: DataDome, Imperva Advanced Bot Protection, Kasada, PerimeterXCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Google reCAPTCHAClickCease, ClickGuardno first choiceagainst: Cloudflare Bot Management
Three alternatives
ClickCease, ClickGuard, Indusface AppTranaTwo alternatives
IPQualityScore, MoonitoFour alternatives
AWS WAF, BitNinja, Indusface AppTrana, MTCaptchaTwo alternatives
IPQS, csideMiniMax M2.5Cloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, Imperva Advanced Bot ProtectionCloudflare Bot ManagementHeldagainst: DataDomeCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, Imperva Advanced Bot ProtectionIndusface AppTranano first choicenothing named
One alternative
DataDomeTwo alternatives
CHEQ, Google reCAPTCHAOne alternative
AppTrana Bot ProtectionTwo alternatives
Mailwasher, SpamTitanGPT-6 LunaCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Bot ManagementHeldagainst: DataDomeCloudflare Bot Fight Mode / Super Bot Fight Modeagainst: DataDomeCloudflare Bot Managementno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF + Bot Control, Akamai Bot Manager, Cloudflare Bot Management
One alternative
AWS WAF + Bot ControlTwo alternatives
Cloudflare Turnstile, Super Bot Fight ModeTwo alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Vercel BotIDOne alternative
AWS WAF + Bot ControlMuse Glimmer 30BCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Bot Management, Super Bot Fight ModeChangedagainst: DataDomeBotpress, Cloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, Fastly Bot ManagementCloudflare Bot Managementagainst: Imperva Advanced Bot Protectionno first choiceagainst: Akamai Bot Manager, Cloudflare Bot Management, F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, Imperva Advanced Bot Protection
Two alternatives
DataDome Bot Protect, Indusface AppTranaTwo alternatives
Google Dialogflow / Dialogflow CX, RasaTwo alternatives
Botpress, Indusface AppTranaBold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 22:56 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:41 | yes | 2 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:07 | yes | 16 | 25 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:00 | yes | 13 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:20 | yes | 20 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:10 | yes | 15 | 8 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 23:52 | yes | 24 | 59 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:24 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 00:52 | yes | 10 | 45 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:29 | yes | 24 | 33 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 23:05 | yes | 23 | 35 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:57 | yes | 13 | 17 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 23:52 | yes | 3 | 15 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:47 | yes | 14 | 15 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 23:30 | yes | 9 | 7 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:56 | yes | 3 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:32 | yes | 11 | 24 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:59 | yes | 19 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 22:32 | yes | 24 | 8 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:02 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:00 | yes | 23 | 25 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:39 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:05 | yes | 5 | 28 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:54 | yes | 23 | 30 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:46 | yes | 20 | 56 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:14 | yes | 15 | 29 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 01:18 | yes | 3 | 15 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:44 | yes | 15 | 14 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 22:29 | yes | 16 | 10 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 00:48 | yes | 6 | 7 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 22:09 | yes | 22 | 32 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:58 | yes | 13 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:16 | yes | 22 | 11 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:35 | yes | 24 | 15 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:04 | yes | 25 | 18 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 22:55 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:33 | yes | 23 | 79 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 00:41 | yes | 23 | 32 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:38 | yes | 24 | 53 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 23:20 | yes | 18 | 27 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 01:19 | yes | 4 | 18 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:55 | yes | 15 | 22 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 00:32 | yes | 9 | 6 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:28 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:52 | yes | 15 | 34 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:53 | yes | 16 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:47 | yes | 24 | 8 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:51 | yes | 9 | 6 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 22:56 | yes | 20 | 25 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:16 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:22 | no | 0 | 27 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:04 | yes | 20 | 40 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:11 | yes | 10 | 27 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 23:04 | yes | 10 | 21 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 23:32 | yes | 3 | 10 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:05 | yes | 18 | 22 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:49 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 22:41 | no | 0 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:15 | no | 0 | 15 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:52 | yes | 18 | 4 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:22 | yes | 18 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 22:20 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 22:17 | yes | 19 | 30 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:01 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:54 | yes | 10 | 34 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:17 | yes | 20 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:22 | no | 0 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:22 | no | 0 | 10 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:40 | yes | 3 | 18 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:42 | yes | 14 | 21 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 23:14 | yes | 16 | 11 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:02 | yes | 1 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:21 | yes | 14 | 25 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:58 | yes | 16 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:03 | yes | 18 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 22:48 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 22:36 | yes | 22 | 56 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:47 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 00:21 | no | 0 | 30 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:33 | yes | 19 | 24 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:52 | yes | 21 | 47 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 22:34 | yes | 17 | 29 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:10 | yes | 2 | 18 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:31 | yes | 19 | 28 s |
Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
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Category-scoped readings
AWS WAF with Bot Control read as AWS WAF + Bot Control
Akamai read as Akamai Bot Manager
Barracuda read as Barracuda Bot Protection
Cequence read as Cequence Bot Management
Cloudflare read as Cloudflare Bot Management
Cloudflare (Business Plan) read as Cloudflare Bot Management
Cloudflare (Free Plan) read as Cloudflare Bot Management
Cloudflare (Super Bot Fight Mode & Turnstile) read as Cloudflare Bot Management
Cloudflare (Super Bot Fight Mode) read as Cloudflare Bot Management
Cloudflare Free read as Cloudflare Bot Management
Cloudflare Pro read as Cloudflare Bot Management
F5 read as F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
F5 Bot Defense read as F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
F5 Shape read as F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Fastly read as Fastly Bot Management
HUMAN read as HUMAN Security
HUMAN (PerimeterX) read as HUMAN Security
Imperva read as Imperva Advanced Bot Protection
Imperva (by Thales) read as Imperva Advanced Bot Protection
Imperva Advanced Bot Management read as Imperva Advanced Bot Protection
Imperva Bot Protection read as Imperva Advanced Bot Protection
Incapsula read as Imperva Advanced Bot Protection
Indusface read as Indusface AppTrana
Radware read as Radware Bot Manager
Unresolved, counted raw
AWS Bot Control
BitNinja
Botmother
BuiltABot
CBOT
CloudFilt
Cloudflare Bot solutions
Cloudflare's free tier (with Bot Management basics)
Cloudflare’s "Bot Fight Mode"
Friendly Captcha
GeeTest CAPTCHA & CaptchaFox
Google Dialogflow / Dialogflow CX
IPQS
MTCaptcha
Prosopo (Procaptcha & Prosopo Protect)
Queue-it Virtual Waiting Room
Sensfrx - Online Fraud Prevention
Vercel BotID
Voiceflow
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.