DDoS protection for small business buyers
Asked as “DDoS protection service”, and as “DDoS mitigation provider”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 50 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
100%
Consensus
100Cloudflare
100% of first choices, consensus.
Since September 2026▲+11Since September 2026: 89% → 100%, +11 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.Cloudflare held the lead, +11 points on 89%, past the 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.This pageMid-marketCloudflare82%Clear leader▼−9Since September 2026: 93% → 84%, −9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Standing →EnterpriseCloudflare57%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.This pageMid-marketCloudflare82%Clear leader▼−9Since September 2026: 93% → 84%, −9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Standing →EnterpriseCloudflare57%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 small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
01Cloudflare100%1%76endorsed leader▲+11Since September 2026: 89% → 100%, +11 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.89% → 100%
Cloudflare100%1%76endorsed leader▲+11Since September 2026: 89% → 100%, +11 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.89% → 100%Show the nine products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
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Akamai Prolexic0%74%38criticized 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%74%38criticized 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
Radware Cloud DDoS Protection0%62%16criticized challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
Radware Cloud DDoS Protection0%62%16criticized 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
Imperva DDoS Protection0%46%28criticized 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 Protection0%46%28criticized challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%02
AWS Shield0%19%83accepted challenger▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.2% → 0%
AWS Shield0%19%83accepted challenger▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.2% → 0%04
Azure DDoS Protection0%17%18accepted challenger▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.2% → 0%
Azure DDoS Protection0%17%18accepted challenger▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.2% → 0%06
Fastly DDoS Protection0%17%12accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
Fastly DDoS Protection0%17%12accepted 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
Flowtriq0%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%
Flowtriq0%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%05
Google Cloud Armor Lab in the set0%9%11accepted 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%9%11accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%03
Sucuri0%0%45accepted challenger▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.2% → 0%
Sucuri0%0%45accepted challenger▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.2% → 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 100% of first choices here, so the chart would put nine 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. Three products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category.
What they warned about
Thirteen of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Llama 4 Maverick 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 Prolexic74%
28 of 38 labels negative · 12 of 14 models · 11 hard negative
“"Avoid over-paying – services like Akamai Prolexic, Radware, and F5 are excellent for massive enterprises but are rarely justified for a small team."” Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt
Radware Cloud DDoS Protection62%
10 of 16 labels negative · 8 of 14 models · 4 hard negative
“"High Cost: The licensing model and managed services represent a significant cost, which often deters small and medium-sized enterprises"” Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt
Imperva DDoS Protection46%
13 of 28 labels negative · 8 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“**Radware / Imperva:** ... steep price tags and complex configuration requirements that a small IT team cannot maintain effectively” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
AWS Shield19%
16 of 83 labels negative · 7 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“Why avoid: Unless your business is entirely hosted on AWS and generating significant revenue, the cost-to-benefit ratio for a small business is terrible.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, 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
77 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. 965 links across 154 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.
52 answers · 58 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Indusface47 answers · 57 citations · 12 models
45 answers · 45 citations · 11 models
vendor site · CyberPress39 answers · 49 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Flowtriq38 answers · 75 citations · 11 models
33 answers · 35 citations · 11 models
vendor site · SourceForge30 answers · 34 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Radware29 answers · 54 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Cloudflare22 answers · 43 citations · 9 models
vendor site · G221 answers · 33 citations · 9 models
18 answers · 18 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Cloudflare16 answers · 26 citations · 6 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.
52 answers · 12 models
45 answers · 11 models
35 answers · 12 models
33 answers · 11 models
29 answers · 10 models
22 answers · 8 models
22 answers · 8 models
19 answers · 8 models
19 answers · 9 models
19 answers · 10 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 100%, Cloudflare Free or Pro 0% | 100% | 430 | 550,000 | 10,897 | 4,995,413 | 111 | 2 | |
| AWS parent site AWS Shield 0%, AWS WAF 0% | 0% | 187 | 368,000 | 114,001 | ||||
| Sucuri sucuri.net | 0% | 57 | 5,400 | 211 | 87,613 | 15 | ||
| Azure parent site Azure DDoS Protection 0% | 0% | 71 | 301,000 | 47,904 | ||||
| Indusface indusface.com Indusface AppTrana 0%, Indusface 0% | 0% | 81 | 10 | 0 | 15,007 | 0 | ||
| Google Cloud google.dev Google Cloud Armor 0% | 0% | 57 | 165,000 | 7,596 | 881,346 | 109 | ||
| Fastly DDoS Protection fastly.com | 0% | 19 | 70 | 0 | 107,961 | $2,460 | 120 | 6 |
| Flowtriq flowtriq.com | 0% | 15 | 10 | 0 | 245 | |||
| Gcore DDoS Protection gcore.com | 0% | 18 | 20 | 0 | 23,524 | 9 | ||
| CDN5 cdn5.com | 0% | 2 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 18 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (cloudflare.com, 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 small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which DDoS mitigation provider would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top DDoS protection services for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best DDoS protection service for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a DDoS protection service. What should we look at?”Negative“Which DDoS protection services should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5CloudflareCloudflareHeldCloudflareCloudflareno first choiceagainst: AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, Cloudflare, DDoS-Guard, F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Mitigation Service, Fastly DDoS Mitigation, NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS Protection
Two alternatives
Indusface AppTrana, SucuriTwo alternatives
CDN5, SucuriThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Flowtriq, Indusface AppTranaFour alternatives
AWS Shield, CDN5, Flowtriq, SucuriGPT-5.4 miniCloudflareCloudflareHeldCloudflareagainst: Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionCloudflareagainst: AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS Protectionno first choiceagainst: AWS Shield, Google Project Shield
Two alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai ProlexicTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, Cloudflare Magic TransitOne alternative
AWS ShieldOne alternative
AWS ShieldGemini 3.5 FlashCloudflareagainst: AWS Shield, Akamai ProlexicCloudflareHeldagainst: AWS ShieldCloudflareCloudflareagainst: AWS ShieldCloudflareagainst: Akamai Prolexic, Fastly DDoS Protectionagainst: AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Azure DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS Protection
Two alternatives
Indusface AppTrana, SucuriTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, SucuriFive alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, Google Cloud Armor, Project Shield, SucuriThree alternatives
AWS Shield, OVHcloud, SucuriFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, GCP Cloud Armor, SucuriPerplexity SonarCloudflareCloudflareHeldCloudflareagainst: Akamai Prolexic, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionCloudflareno first choiceagainst: Akamai Prolexic, F5, Project Shield
Three alternatives
AWS Shield, Fastly DDoS Protection, SucuriThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS ProtectionThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Imperva DDoS Protection, SucuriThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Indusface AppTrana, SucuriGrok 4.1 FastCloudflareagainst: Akamai Prolexic, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionCloudflareHeldagainst: Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS ProtectionCloudflareCloudflareCloudflareagainst: Akamai Prolexic, DDoS-Guard, Imperva DDoS Protection, NeoProtect, Radware Cloud DDoS Protection
Four alternatives
AWS Shield, Gcore DDoS Protection, Imperva DDoS Protection, SucuriTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, SucuriTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, SucuriFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, Google Cloud Armor, SucuriSix alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Gcore DDoS Protection, Imperva DDoS Protection, Indusface, SucuriMistral SmallCloudflareCloudflareHeldagainst: Akamai Prolexic, NETSCOUT ArborCloudflareagainst: Akamai ProlexicCloudflareCloudflareagainst: NETSCOUT Arbornothing named
Two alternatives
AWS Shield, SucuriTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, SucuriTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, Fastly DDoS ProtectionDeepSeek V4 FlashCloudflareCloudflareHeldCloudflareagainst: Fastly DDoS Protection, Google Cloud Armor, Imperva DDoS ProtectionCloudflareagainst: AWS Shield, Akamai ProlexicCloudflareagainst: AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexicagainst: Akamai Prolexic, DDoS-Guard, Imperva DDoS Protection, NeoProtect, Radware Cloud DDoS Protection
Two alternatives
AWS Shield, SucuriOne alternative
SucuriTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, SucuriTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, SucuriOne alternative
Imperva DDoS ProtectionLlama 4 MaverickCloudflareno first choiceChangedno first choiceCloudflareagainst: Akamai Prolexicno first choiceagainst: Akamai Prolexic
Two alternatives
AWS Shield, SucuriTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, SucuriQwen 3.7 FlashCloudflareagainst: Akamai ProlexicCloudflareHeldCloudflareagainst: Azure DDoS ProtectionCloudflareagainst: Corero, FlowtriqCloudflareagainst: Akamai Prolexic, NETSCOUT Arboragainst: Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS Protection
Three alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, DMIT.ioTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS ProtectionThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Google Cloud Armor, SucuriTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, Google Cloud ArmorTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, Fastly DDoS ProtectionKimi K2Cloudflareagainst: Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS ProtectionCloudflareHeldCloudflareCloudflareCloudflareagainst: Akamai Prolexicagainst: DDoS-Guard, FastNetMon
Three alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, SucuriOne alternative
SucuriFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, Imperva DDoS Protection, SucuriThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, SucuriThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Indusface AppTrana, SucuriGLM 4.7 FlashXCloudflareCloudflareHeldCloudflareagainst: Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS ProtectionCloudflareagainst: Imperva DDoS ProtectionCloudflareagainst: Akamai Prolexicagainst: AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Barracuda, F5, Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS Protection
Four alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS Protection, SucuriFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS Protection, SucuriFive alternatives
AWS Shield, Fastly DDoS Protection, Google Cloud Armor, Indusface AppTrana, SucuriTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, SucuriTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, StackPathMiniMax M2.5CloudflareCloudflareHeldCloudflareCloudflareCloudflareagainst: Akamai Prolexic, F5 Networks, Radware Cloud DDoS Protection
Three alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, SucuriThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Imperva DDoS Protection, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Fastly DDoS Protection, SucuriThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Azure DDoS ProtectionThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Flowtriq, SucuriGPT-6 LunaCloudflareagainst: AWS ShieldCloudflareHeldagainst: AWS ShieldCloudflareagainst: AWS Shield, Imperva DDoS ProtectionCloudflareno first choiceagainst: AWS Shield
Two alternatives
AWS Shield, Free and ProTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, Cloudflare Free or ProFour alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, Fastly DDoS Protection, Google Cloud ArmorOne alternative
AWS ShieldMuse Glimmer 30BCloudflareCloudflareHeldagainst: Akamai Prolexic, Imperva DDoS ProtectionCloudflareagainst: Akamai Prolexic, Radware Cloud DDoS ProtectionCloudflareCloudflareagainst: AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, F5, Radware Cloud DDoS Protection
One alternative
AWS ShieldThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Flowtriq, SucuriThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Imperva Incapsula, SucuriThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, FlowtriqThree alternatives
AWS Shield, Akamai Prolexic, Imperva 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 08:34 | yes | 9 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 10:24 | yes | 3 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 09:12 | yes | 13 | 23 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 08:53 | yes | 23 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 13:36 | yes | 16 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 10:59 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 13:44 | yes | 22 | 24 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 10:14 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 09:44 | yes | 10 | 36 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 11:14 | yes | 14 | 20 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 10:21 | yes | 9 | 42 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 12:50 | yes | 13 | 39 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 09:13 | yes | 4 | 12 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 08:46 | yes | 12 | 16 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 13:21 | yes | 9 | 7 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 11:55 | yes | 3 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 12:47 | yes | 9 | 22 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 12:39 | yes | 19 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 08:06 | yes | 13 | 6 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 12:40 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 08:07 | yes | 20 | 22 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 10:01 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 12:16 | yes | 6 | 42 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 11:43 | yes | 19 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 13:35 | yes | 15 | 20 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 10:11 | yes | 5 | 19 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 08:37 | yes | 4 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 07:45 | yes | 12 | 16 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 12:11 | yes | 10 | 9 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 12:25 | yes | 8 | 7 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 08:01 | yes | 17 | 25 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 07:49 | yes | 20 | 6 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 11:50 | yes | 18 | 12 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 11:02 | yes | 11 | 10 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 09:53 | yes | 22 | 39 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 13:20 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 10:39 | yes | 15 | 41 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 08:01 | yes | 15 | 29 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 10:50 | yes | 23 | 160 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 08:58 | yes | 10 | 13 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 08:51 | yes | 5 | 18 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 10:26 | yes | 13 | 30 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 09:13 | yes | 9 | 8 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 07:47 | yes | 3 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 11:37 | yes | 14 | 20 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 11:06 | yes | 24 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 08:24 | yes | 16 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 11:44 | yes | 12 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 12:32 | yes | 23 | 24 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 11:02 | yes | 5 | 1 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 11:45 | yes | 5 | 37 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 08:10 | yes | 15 | 21 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 10:43 | yes | 12 | 19 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 11:25 | no | 0 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 10:21 | yes | 4 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 08:32 | yes | 15 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 07:50 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 12:52 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 08:57 | no | 0 | 15 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 12:34 | yes | 20 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 13:45 | yes | 13 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 10:27 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 09:22 | yes | 23 | 68 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 13:31 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 11:22 | no | 0 | 38 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 09:04 | yes | 13 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 12:13 | no | 0 | 86 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 12:25 | yes | 5 | 19 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 13:17 | yes | 5 | 16 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 13:52 | yes | 14 | 28 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 09:00 | yes | 16 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 10:50 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 13:42 | yes | 19 | 28 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 09:03 | yes | 25 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 09:57 | yes | 20 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 08:33 | yes | 9 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 12:42 | yes | 20 | 32 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 10:24 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 10:39 | yes | 10 | 43 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 07:50 | yes | 20 | 25 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 08:41 | yes | 21 | 56 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 12:30 | yes | 21 | 48 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 10:55 | yes | 5 | 20 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 07:42 | yes | 20 | 30 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 read as AWS Shield
Akamai read as Akamai Prolexic
Akamai (Incapsula) read as Akamai Prolexic
Azure read as Azure DDoS Protection
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 read as Google Cloud Armor
Imperva read as Imperva DDoS Protection
Imperva (Incapsula) read as Imperva DDoS Protection
Radware read as Radware Cloud DDoS Protection
Unresolved, counted raw
Cloudflare Free or Pro
DMIT.io
F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Mitigation Service
FastNetMon
Fastly DDoS Mitigation
Free and Pro
Google Project Shield
NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS Protection
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.