DDoS protection
Asked as “DDoS protection service”, and as “DDoS mitigation provider”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 45 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
82%
Clear leader
82Cloudflare04AWS Shield02Cloudflare Business or Cloudflare Contract11others
82% of first choices, clear leader.
Since September 2026▼−9Since September 2026: 93% → 84%, −9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Cloudflare held the lead, −9 points on 93%, inside the 11-point floor.
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.
Small business
Cloudflare100%Consensus▲+11Since September 2026: 89% → 100%, +11 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.Standing →Mid-marketCloudflare82%Clear leader▼−9Since September 2026: 93% → 84%, −9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.This pageEnterpriseCloudflare57%Clear leader▼−24Since September 2026: 80% → 56%, −24 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.Standing →
Cloudflare100%Consensus▲+11Since September 2026: 89% → 100%, +11 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.Standing →Mid-marketCloudflare82%Clear leader▼−9Since September 2026: 93% → 84%, −9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.This pageEnterpriseCloudflare57%Clear leader▼−24Since September 2026: 80% → 56%, −24 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.Standing →The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
01Cloudflare82%6%69endorsed leader▼−9Since September 2026: 93% → 84%, −9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.93% → 84%
Cloudflare82%6%69endorsed leader▼−9Since September 2026: 93% → 84%, −9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.93% → 84%02
AWS Shield4%11%62accepted challenger▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 5%
AWS Shield4%11%62accepted challenger▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 5%03
Imperva DDoS Protection2%9%43accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
Imperva DDoS Protection2%9%43accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%04
Radware Cloud DDoS Protection2%6%33accepted challenger▲+3Since September 2026: 0% → 3%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 3%
Radware Cloud DDoS Protection2%6%33accepted challenger▲+3Since September 2026: 0% → 3%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 3%Show the five products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
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Akamai Prolexic0%30%44criticized challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
Akamai Prolexic0%30%44criticized challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%09
Gcore DDoS Protection0%20%10accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
Gcore DDoS Protection0%20%10accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%07
Google Cloud Armor Lab in the set0%19%16accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
Google Cloud Armor Lab in the set0%19%16accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%06
Azure DDoS Protection0%18%22accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
Azure DDoS Protection0%18%22accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%08
Sucuri0%10%10accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
Sucuri0%10%10accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured
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.
Google Cloud Armor is made by Google, whose model Gemini 3.5 Flash is in the set. On the four share prompts that model made it the first choice zero times of 4; the other thirteen models zero times of 52. Lab treatment is defined on the method page; the row is marked, not excluded.
Head to head
All six head-to-head pages: the top four products, each against each
One product takes 82% of first choices here, so the chart would put eight 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. One product carries a negative rate above 25% in this category.
What they warned about
Seven of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Perplexity Sonar, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, MiniMax M2.5 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 Prolexic30%
13 of 44 labels negative · 8 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“Providers to Skip for This Use Case - **Akamai Prolexic** — Excellent technology but enterprise-first pricing and complexity” DeepSeek V4 Flash, paraphrase prompt
AWS Shield11%
7 of 62 labels negative · 7 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“A Budget Trap to Avoid ... Costs a flat **$3,000/month** with a 1-year commitment, plus data transfer fees.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt
DDoS-Guard71%
5 of 7 labels negative · 5 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“"Stay away from them; at best, you will simply lose $100." Multiple user-review sites report serious service and policy concerns.” Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt
Azure DDoS Protection18%
4 of 22 labels negative · 4 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“Azure DDoS Protection is primarily for Azure public IPs and virtual networks rather than unrelated internet hosts” Perplexity Sonar, 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
74 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. 897 links across 168 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. 16 of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category; the method page measures whether that reading tilts an answer.
53 answers · 63 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Radware46 answers · 106 citations · 12 models
37 answers · 39 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Indusface26 answers · 31 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Flowtriq25 answers · 57 citations · 10 models
vendor site · CyberPress21 answers · 25 citations · 9 models
20 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
20 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
19 answers · 19 citations · 10 models
vendor site · SourceForge19 answers · 19 citations · 10 models
vendor site · G216 answers · 28 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Guideflow15 answers · 15 citations · 9 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.
53 answers · 12 models
37 answers · 11 models
31 answers · 11 models
24 answers · 10 models
21 answers · 9 models
20 answers · 9 models
20 answers · 9 models
19 answers · 10 models
16 answers · 9 models
15 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 ddos protection service”, “ddos protection service”, “ddos protection services”. 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 cloudflare.com Cloudflare 82%, Cloudflare Business or Cloudflare Contract 2% | 84% | 430 | 550,000 | 10,897 | 4,995,413 | 111 | 2 | |
| AWS parent site AWS Shield 4%, AWS WAF 0% | 4% | 187 | 368,000 | 114,001 | ||||
| Imperva Incapsula imperva.com Imperva DDoS Protection 2%, Imperva Incapsula 2% | 4% | 104 | 50 | 0 | 417,309 | 6 | ||
| Radware Cloud DDoS Protection radware.com | 2% | 80 | 0 | 43,076 | $21 | 13 | 9 | |
| LevelBlue levelblue.com | 2% | 15 | ||||||
| Cloudflare parent site Cloudflare Magic Transit 2% | 2% | 7 | 550,000 | 10,897 | ||||
| Akamai parent site Akamai Prolexic 0%, Akamai Kona Site Defender 0% | 0% | 138 | 27,100 | 1,614 | ||||
| Azure parent site Azure DDoS Protection 0% | 0% | 71 | 301,000 | 47,904 | ||||
| Google Cloud google.dev Google Cloud Armor 0% | 0% | 57 | 165,000 | 7,596 | 881,346 | 109 | ||
| Sucuri sucuri.net | 0% | 57 | 5,400 | 211 | 87,613 | 15 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 18 sites; 2 of them are among the sites the models cited here (g2.com, radware.com). The first result for “best ddos protection service” is omr.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 DDoS protection service for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which DDoS mitigation provider would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top DDoS protection services and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best DDoS protection service for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a DDoS protection service. What should we look at?”Negative“Which DDoS protection services should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Cloudflareagainst: Akamai ProlexicCloudflareHeldCloudflareCloudflareno first choiceagainst: Cloudflare
Three alternatives
Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS Protection, VercaraFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Azure DDoS Protection, Imperva DDoS ProtectionFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Azure DDoS Protection, Indusface AppTranaThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Flowtriq, SucuriGPT-5.4 miniCloudflare Business or Cloudflare Contractagainst: Akamai ProlexicCloudflareChangedCloudflareCloudflareagainst: AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS Protectionno first choicenothing named
One alternative
AWS ShieldFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Azure DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Azure DDoS Protection, Imperva DDoS ProtectionOne alternative
AWS ShieldGemini 3.5 FlashCloudflareCloudflareHeldCloudflareCloudflareagainst: AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, Google Cloud Armorno first choiceagainst: DDoS-Guard
Three alternatives
AWS Shield, Fastly DDoS Protection, Imperva DDoS ProtectionFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, Fastly DDoS Protection, Imperva DDoS ProtectionFive alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Azure DDoS Protection, Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud & DefenseProTwo alternatives
Bunny Shield, SucuriPerplexity SonarLevelBlueCloudflareChangedCloudflareCloudflareagainst: Sucurino first choiceagainst: AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Azure DDoS Protection, Cloudflare, Fastly DDoS Protection, Netlify DDoS protection
Two alternatives
Cloudflare, Imperva DDoS ProtectionThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionSix alternatives
AWS Shield, F5 Silverline, Google Cloud Armor, Imperva DDoS Protection, NETSCOUT Arbor Cloud, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, OVHcloud Anti-DDoSGrok 4.1 FastCloudflareCloudflareHeldagainst: Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS ProtectionCloudflareCloudflareagainst: AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, Google Cloud Armorno first choiceagainst: Cosmic Guard, DDoS-Guard, Gcore DDoS Protection, Path.net
Four alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Kona Site Defender, Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware DefenseProTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, SucuriFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionTwo alternatives
Gcore DDoS Protection, Sucuri FirewallMistral SmallAWS Shield, CloudflareCloudflareChangedCloudflareCloudflareno first choicenothing named
Two alternatives
Nexusguard, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionTwo alternatives
Akamai Prolexic, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionThree alternatives
Flowtriq, Google Cloud Armor, SucuriDeepSeek V4 FlashCloudflareagainst: Akamai ProlexicCloudflareHeldagainst: Akamai Prolexic, NETSCOUT ArborCloudflareCloudflareagainst: AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Cloudflare Magic Transit, Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS Protectionno first choiceagainst: BHost, DDoS-Guard, FrontRangeHosting, NeoProtect, SecureDragon, Urpad, Voxility
Three alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, Imperva DDoS ProtectionThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionTwo alternatives
Gcore DDoS Protection, SucuriLlama 4 Maverickno first choiceCloudflare, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionChangedno first choiceCloudflareno first choicenothing named
One alternative
AWS ShieldThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, Google Cloud ArmorQwen 3.7 FlashAWS Shield, Cloudflareagainst: Akamai ProlexicCloudflareChangedCloudflareCloudflareno first choiceagainst: Bluehost, Citrix, F5, GoDaddy, Namecheap
Two alternatives
Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionTwo alternatives
Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Azure DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, FlowtriqKimi K2Cloudflareagainst: Akamai ProlexicCloudflareHeldCloudflareCloudflareno first choiceagainst: Akamai Prolexic, DDoS-Guard
One alternative
Imperva DDoS ProtectionTwo alternatives
Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, Flowtriq, Google Cloud ArmorGLM 4.7 FlashXCloudflareCloudflareHeldCloudflareCloudflareagainst: Imperva DDoS Protectionno first choiceagainst: Cloudflare, StackPath
Two alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai ProlexicTwo alternatives
Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionSeven alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Azure DDoS Protection, Google Cloud Armor, Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS Protection, VercaraTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, DigitalOceanMiniMax M2.5Cloudflare Magic Transitno first choiceChangedCloudflareCloudflareno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
AWS Shield, Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionTen alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Azure DDoS Protection, DDoS-Guard, F5 Networks, Google Cloud Armor, Imperva DDoS Protection, Link11, OVHcloud, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, Google Cloud Armor, SucuriGPT-6 LunaCloudflareCloudflareHeldCloudflare, Fastly DDoS ProtectionCloudflareagainst: Business planno first choiceagainst: "Booter" or "stresser" services, AWS Shield, Azure's DDoS products, Cloudflare
Three alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Magic TransitTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai ProlexicSix alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Azure DDoS Protection, Google Cloud Armor, NETSCOUT Arbor Cloud, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionOne alternative
AWS ShieldMuse Glimmer 30BCloudflare, Imperva DDoS Protection, Imperva Incapsulaagainst: AWS Shield, Akamai ProlexicCloudflareChangedagainst: Akamai ProlexicCloudflareCloudflareagainst: Azure DDoS Protection, Google Cloud Armorno first choiceagainst: DDoS-Guard, Gcore DDoS Protection, NeoProtect
One alternative
Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Imperva Incapsula, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, Gcore DDoS ProtectionBold 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 | 2026-10-01 13:53 | yes | 17 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 12:35 | yes | 4 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 10:54 | yes | 15 | 30 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 09:11 | yes | 20 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 08:47 | yes | 20 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 13:22 | yes | 13 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 12:04 | yes | 24 | 38 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 12:40 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 13:46 | yes | 9 | 43 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 12:50 | yes | 14 | 32 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 13:51 | yes | 19 | 23 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 12:00 | yes | 5 | 21 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 11:26 | yes | 4 | 12 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 08:36 | yes | 14 | 31 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 09:34 | yes | 9 | 6 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 10:32 | yes | 3 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 13:11 | yes | 5 | 21 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 13:39 | yes | 20 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 12:48 | yes | 15 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 12:22 | yes | 9 | 7 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 13:20 | yes | 15 | 29 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 12:06 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 08:53 | yes | 9 | 24 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 13:42 | yes | 13 | 17 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 12:14 | yes | 11 | 37 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 11:05 | yes | 5 | 7 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 11:56 | yes | 4 | 12 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 08:24 | yes | 11 | 17 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 11:16 | yes | 9 | 8 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 07:49 | yes | 7 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 08:50 | yes | 11 | 22 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 12:29 | yes | 19 | 5 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 08:55 | yes | 16 | 9 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 13:44 | yes | 10 | 10 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 07:52 | yes | 21 | 60 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 07:44 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 11:38 | yes | 9 | 28 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 11:04 | yes | 11 | 30 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 11:28 | yes | 13 | 74 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 11:05 | no | 0 | 46 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 10:31 | yes | 7 | 23 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 08:12 | yes | 14 | 36 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 09:08 | yes | 10 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 07:56 | yes | 3 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 08:08 | yes | 19 | 27 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 11:02 | yes | 26 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 11:16 | yes | 14 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 08:35 | yes | 7 | 6 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 13:47 | yes | 20 | 46 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 13:46 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 09:06 | yes | 8 | 17 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 08:43 | yes | 9 | 19 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 12:49 | yes | 22 | 140 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 10:27 | yes | 5 | 19 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 09:14 | yes | 3 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 10:00 | yes | 13 | 12 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 12:32 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 13:13 | no | 0 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 11:19 | no | 0 | 15 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 07:53 | yes | 19 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 07:48 | yes | 12 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 11:00 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 11:06 | yes | 11 | 31 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 07:54 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 11:30 | no | 0 | 32 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 08:07 | yes | 9 | 21 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 08:40 | yes | 12 | 70 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 08:57 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 08:18 | yes | 3 | 20 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 10:16 | yes | 13 | 27 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 12:09 | yes | 18 | 7 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 09:44 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 13:20 | yes | 17 | 32 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 13:46 | yes | 28 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 09:47 | yes | 22 | 13 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 10:54 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 10:26 | yes | 23 | 25 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 12:55 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 09:34 | no | 0 | 47 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 09:20 | yes | 22 | 28 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 11:53 | yes | 23 | 28 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 11:52 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 12:42 | yes | 3 | 24 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 07:54 | yes | 14 | 19 s |
Normalization in this category
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Category-scoped readings
Akamai read as Akamai Prolexic
Akamai (Prolexic) read as Akamai Prolexic
Azure DDoS read as Azure DDoS Protection
Fastly read as Fastly DDoS Protection
GCore read as Gcore DDoS Protection
Gcore read as Gcore DDoS Protection
Google Cloud Platform read as Google Cloud Armor
Imperva read as Imperva DDoS Protection
Imperva (Incapsula) read as Imperva DDoS Protection
Imperva (by Thales) read as Imperva DDoS Protection
NETSCOUT read as NETSCOUT Arbor
NetScout read as NETSCOUT Arbor
Netscout read as NETSCOUT Arbor
Radware read as Radware Cloud DDoS Protection
Radware DDoS Protection read as Radware Cloud DDoS Protection
Unresolved, counted raw
"Booter" or "stresser" services
Azion
Azure's DDoS products
BHost
Business plan
Cloudflare Business or Cloudflare Contract
Conoha
EdgeOne – Tencent Cloud
FrontRangeHosting
NETSCOUT Arbor Cloud
Netlify DDoS protection
OVHcloud Anti-DDoS
Radware Cloud & DefensePro
SecureDragon
Sucuri Firewall
Urpad
Voxility
Zayo
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.