Web application firewalls
Asked as “web application firewall”, and as “WAF and bot protection service”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 51 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
69%
Clear leader
69Cloudflare WAF08ModSecurity04AWS WAF20others
69% of first choices, clear leader.
Since September 2026▼−21Since September 2026: 89% → 67%, −21 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.Cloudflare WAF held the lead, −21 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
Cloudflare WAF79%Clear leader▼−11Since September 2026: 93% → 83%, −11 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Standing →Mid-marketCloudflare WAF69%Clear leader▼−21Since September 2026: 89% → 67%, −21 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.This pageEnterpriseCloudflare WAF59%Clear leader▲+3Since September 2026: 53% → 57%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Standing →
Cloudflare WAF79%Clear leader▼−11Since September 2026: 93% → 83%, −11 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Standing →Mid-marketCloudflare WAF69%Clear leader▼−21Since September 2026: 89% → 67%, −21 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.This pageEnterpriseCloudflare WAF59%Clear leader▲+3Since September 2026: 53% → 57%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. 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
01Cloudflare WAF69%7%67endorsed leader▼−21Since September 2026: 89% → 67%, −21 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.89% → 67%
Cloudflare WAF69%7%67endorsed leader▼−21Since September 2026: 89% → 67%, −21 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.89% → 67%02
ModSecurity8%54%26criticized challenger▲+7Since September 2026: 0% → 7%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 7%
ModSecurity8%54%26criticized challenger▲+7Since September 2026: 0% → 7%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 7%03
AWS WAF4%20%54accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 4% → 5%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.4% → 5%
AWS WAF4%20%54accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 4% → 5%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.4% → 5%04
Radware Cloud WAF2%17%12accepted challenger▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 2%
Radware Cloud WAF2%17%12accepted challenger▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 2%Show the seven products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
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Azure WAF0%31%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%
Azure WAF0%31%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%09
F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF0%24%21accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF0%24%21accepted 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
Akamai App & API Protector0%23%30accepted 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 App & API Protector0%23%30accepted 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
Imperva Cloud WAF0%19%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 Cloud WAF0%19%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%10
Fortinet FortiWeb0%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%
Fortinet FortiWeb0%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%06
Fastly Next-Gen WAF0%9%22accepted challenger▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.2% → 0%
Fastly Next-Gen WAF0%9%22accepted challenger▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.2% → 0%08
Sucuri WAF0%6%17accepted challenger▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.2% → 0%
Sucuri WAF0%6%17accepted 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.
Head to head
All six head-to-head pages: the top four products, each against each
One product takes 69% of first choices here, so the chart would put ten 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. Two 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, Llama 4 Maverick, Kimi K2 and MiniMax M2.5 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.
ModSecurity54%
14 of 26 labels negative · 9 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“ModSecurity, the classic open-source WAF engine, has reached End-of-Life (EOL).” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt
AWS WAF20%
11 of 54 labels negative · 8 of 14 models
“using the provider's native WAF (e.g., AWS WAF) is highly convenient... but may require more manual configuration and rule writing” Gemini 3.5 Flash, scale prompt
Akamai App & API Protector23%
7 of 30 labels negative · 5 of 14 models
“if you configure your WAF/CDN (like Cloudflare or Akamai) but **fail to implement proper Origin Access Controls**... you have effectively bypassed the WAF” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Azure WAF31%
5 of 16 labels negative · 5 of 14 models
“1,207 bypasses across AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Google Cloud Armor, Cloudflare, and ModSecurity” DeepSeek V4 Flash, 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
69 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. 973 links across 225 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. 10 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.
vendor site · Radware39 answers · 76 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Imperva28 answers · 36 citations · 12 models
23 answers · 43 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Indusface21 answers · 23 citations · 10 models
vendor site · open-appsec19 answers · 21 citations · 9 models
18 answers · 21 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Check Point17 answers · 20 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Fortinet16 answers · 21 citations · 9 models
vendor site · CyberPress16 answers · 18 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Cloudflare15 answers · 33 citations · 10 models
15 answers · 15 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Guideflow15 answers · 15 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.
23 answers · 8 models
19 answers · 8 models
17 answers · 10 models
15 answers · 7 models
15 answers · 8 models
15 answers · 8 models
14 answers · 7 models
13 answers · 6 models
13 answers · 8 models
12 answers · 7 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 web application firewall”, “web application firewall”, “web application firewalls”. 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 WAF 69% | 69% | 178 | 550,000 | 10,897 | ||||
| ModSecurity modsecurity.org | 8% | 49 | 590 | 55 | 1,098 | |||
| Barracuda parent site Barracuda Web Application Firewall 4%, Barracuda WAF 2% | 6% | 10 | 201,000 | 10,561 | ||||
| AWS parent site AWS WAF 4%, AWS WAF + Bot Control 0% | 4% | 152 | 368,000 | 114,001 | ||||
| OWASP Core Rule Set owasp.org | 4% | 12 | 365,222 | 7 | ||||
| Radware Cloud WAF radware.com | 2% | 31 | 30 | 0 | 43,076 | $21 | 13 | |
| BunkerWeb bunkerweb.io | 2% | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Cloudflare Business Plan cloudflare.com | 2% | 1 | 4,995,413 | 111 | 1 | |||
| Cloudflare – WAF | 2% | |||||||
| Cloudflare's free tier WAF | 2% |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 24 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (checkpoint.com, fortinet.com, indusface.com, openappsec.io). The first result for “best web application firewall” 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 web application firewall for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which WAF and bot protection service would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top web application firewalls and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best web application firewall for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a web application firewall. What should we look at?”Negative“Which web application firewalls should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5AWS WAF, Cloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFChangedFortinet FortiWebCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: Fortinet FortiWeb WAF, ModSecurity
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFFour alternatives
Azure Application Gateway, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFFour alternatives
Azure Web Application Firewall, NAXSI, Sucuri WAF, open-appsecGPT-5.4 miniCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAFCloudflare WAFHeldno first choiceModSecurityno first choicenothing named
One alternative
Imperva Cloud WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFEight alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, Cloudflare WAF, F5 Web App and API Protection, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity, OWASP Core Rule SetTwo alternatives
Coraza, OWASP Core Rule SetGemini 3.5 FlashCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: ModSecurityno first choiceagainst: AWS WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAF, ModSecurity, Sucuri WAF, Wordfence
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service, Fastly Next-Gen WAFTwo alternatives
DataDome, Fastly Next-Gen WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, BunkerWeb, SafeLine WAF, Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
Cloudflare WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFPerplexity SonarBarracuda WAFCloudflare WAFChangedno first choiceCloudflare WAFno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API ProtectorThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Sucuri WAFGrok 4.1 FastCloudflare WAFagainst: ModSecurityCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFagainst: Coraza, ModSecurityCloudflare's free tier WAFagainst: ModSecurityno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Cloudflare WAF, F5 NGINX App Protect, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAF, Microsoft Azure WAF, Protegrity, Radware Cloud WAF
Six alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure Application Gateway WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Imperva Cloud WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Radware Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
Cloudflare WAF, Sucuri WAFMistral SmallBarracuda Web Application FirewallCloudflare WAFChangedCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Cloudflare WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Reblaze WAAPTwo alternatives
Akamai Bot Manager, F5 Advanced Web Application FirewallSeven alternatives
AWS WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware AppWall, SafeLine WAF, Sucuri WAF, open-appsecOne alternative
Sucuri WAFDeepSeek V4 FlashCloudflare WAFagainst: F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, ModSecurityCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure WAF, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAFOne alternative
AWS WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Coraza, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFThree alternatives
ModSecurity, OWASP Core Rule Set, Sucuri WAFFour alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAFLlama 4 MaverickRadware Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFChangedno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFQwen 3.7 FlashCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API ProtectorCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFagainst: ModSecurityCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: Akamai Ion / Kona, Azure WAF, Barracuda WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva SecureSphere, ModSecurity
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, FortraThree alternatives
AWS WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Coraza, ModSecurity + OWASP CRSKimi K2Cloudflare WAFCloudflare Business PlanChangedagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: IronBee, ModSecurity, NAXSI
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFOne alternative
Fastly Next-Gen WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, ModSecurity, Sucuri WAFGLM 4.7 FlashXCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: AWS WAFCheck Point CloudGuard WAF, Cloudflare WAFBunkerWeb, Cloudflare WAF, ModSecurity, OWASP Core Rule Setagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAFno first choiceagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFOne alternative
Imperva Cloud WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
Coraza, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure WAFMiniMax M2.5Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Cloudflare WAFAWS WAF, Cloudflare WAFChangedCloudflare WAFCloudflare – WAF, ModSecurityno first choiceagainst: Cisco Web Security Appliance, Cloudflare Legacy WAF, FortiADC WAF, FortiWeb, Juniper SRX-WAF modules, Oracle PeopleSoft Built-in WAF, Radware Cloud WAF, WordPress security plugins
One alternative
OpenAppSec / Check Point CloudGuard WAFFour alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Azure WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFSix alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai Kona Site Defender, Coraza, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity, SafeLine WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, StackPath WAFGPT-6 LunaCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldno first choiceCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Cloudflare WAF, ModSecurity
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure Front Door Premium with WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Akamai App & API ProtectorOne alternative
AWS WAFMuse Glimmer 30BCloudflare WAFagainst: Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAF, ModSecurity, OWASP Core Rule Setno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure WAF, Cloudflare WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Google Cloud Armor, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity
Two alternatives
Barracuda WAF, Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
Coraza, SafeLineBold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The record
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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 09:47 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 10:06 | yes | 4 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 07:27 | yes | 13 | 26 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 13:31 | yes | 18 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 13:29 | yes | 22 | 9 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 13:51 | yes | 12 | 6 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 11:04 | yes | 19 | 25 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 11:51 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 09:16 | no | 0 | 28 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 12:16 | yes | 11 | 18 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 12:31 | yes | 17 | 31 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 12:00 | yes | 10 | 16 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 10:32 | yes | 4 | 15 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 11:59 | yes | 14 | 21 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 09:20 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 09:54 | yes | 8 | 8 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 08:42 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 10:50 | yes | 23 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 11:15 | yes | 19 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 07:47 | yes | 13 | 7 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 13:28 | yes | 24 | 26 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 12:41 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 08:32 | no | 0 | 36 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 09:46 | yes | 14 | 17 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 08:38 | yes | 24 | 103 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 10:08 | no | 0 | 37 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 10:37 | yes | 3 | 12 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 07:42 | yes | 14 | 25 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 10:07 | yes | 9 | 7 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 09:44 | yes | 8 | 13 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 13:00 | yes | 17 | 30 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 12:20 | yes | 13 | 6 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 11:26 | yes | 25 | 10 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 10:53 | yes | 10 | 9 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 08:45 | yes | 22 | 38 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 13:49 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 12:41 | no | 0 | 26 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 12:49 | yes | 17 | 40 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 09:35 | yes | 10 | 16 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 08:00 | yes | 5 | 20 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 12:33 | yes | 6 | 22 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 09:37 | yes | 13 | 31 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 10:01 | yes | 9 | 8 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 12:48 | yes | 4 | 6 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 13:44 | yes | 10 | 21 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 13:19 | yes | 17 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 11:43 | yes | 23 | 6 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 11:51 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 11:26 | yes | 19 | 23 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 12:00 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 10:41 | no | 0 | 31 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 10:45 | yes | 14 | 24 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 09:48 | yes | 23 | 140 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 11:09 | no | 0 | 28 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 09:15 | yes | 4 | 14 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 07:47 | yes | 14 | 18 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 09:36 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 11:01 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 13:22 | no | 0 | 15 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 11:09 | yes | 20 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 09:14 | yes | 19 | 12 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 12:51 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 11:03 | yes | 24 | 39 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 08:48 | yes | 5 | 1 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 11:47 | no | 0 | 38 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 10:15 | yes | 24 | 34 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 07:51 | yes | 25 | 44 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 07:36 | yes | 5 | 19 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 13:08 | yes | 3 | 15 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 10:01 | yes | 14 | 50 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-01 08:36 | yes | 17 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-01 11:00 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-01 07:52 | yes | 24 | 26 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-01 12:04 | yes | 20 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-01 11:33 | yes | 23 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-01 09:56 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-01 09:01 | yes | 25 | 63 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-01 08:04 | yes | 5 | 1 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-01 09:49 | yes | 10 | 38 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-01 07:54 | yes | 25 | 24 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-01 09:34 | yes | 23 | 330 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-01 09:43 | yes | 25 | 95 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-01 13:53 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-01 11:30 | yes | 24 | 36 s |
Normalization in this category
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Akamai read as Akamai App & API Protector
Akamai (Kona Site Defender) read as Akamai App & API Protector
Akamai (WAF + Bot Manager) read as Akamai App & API Protector
Akamai (with PerimeterX) read as Akamai App & API Protector
Barracuda read as Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Check Point WAF read as Check Point CloudGuard WAF
Cloudflare read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare (Enterprise WAF) read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare (Free Plan) read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare (WAF + Bot Management) read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Business read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Free read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Pro read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare WAF / WAAP read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare's WAF read as Cloudflare WAF
F5 read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 (BIG-IP & NGINX) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 (NGINX App Protect, Advanced WAF) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
Fastly read as Fastly Next-Gen WAF
Fastly (Signal Sciences) read as Fastly Next-Gen WAF
Fastly WAF read as Fastly Next-Gen WAF
Fortinet read as Fortinet FortiWeb
Imperva read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (Cloud WAF) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (WAF + Bot Defense) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (formerly Incapsula) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (now Thales) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (now part of Thales) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (part of Thales) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva WAF read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Radware read as Radware Cloud WAF
Sucuri read as Sucuri WAF
Sucuri (WAF + Malware Scanning) read as Sucuri WAF
Sucuri Website Firewall read as Sucuri WAF
Sucuri Website Security read as Sucuri WAF
open-appsec / CloudGuard WAF read as open-appsec
Unresolved, counted raw
AWS Bot Control
Akamai App & API Protector / Site Defender
Akamai Ion / Kona
Azure Application Gateway WAF
Azure Front Door Premium with WAF
Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service
Check Point's CloudGuard WAF
Cisco Web Security Appliance
Cloudflare Business Plan
Cloudflare Legacy WAF (Firewall Rules, old Managed Rules, Rate-Limiting Rules)
Cloudflare – WAF (free tier)
Cloudflare's free tier WAF
F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF)
F5 Web App and API Protection
FortiADC WAF
FortiAppSec
Fortinet FortiWeb WAF
IronBee
Juniper SRX-WAF modules
OpenAppSec
OpenAppSec / Check Point CloudGuard WAF
OpenAppSec / CloudGuard WAF
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure WAF
Oracle PeopleSoft Built-in WAF
Reblaze WAAP
StackPath WAF
SuperWAF
WordPress security plugins
Zscaler WAF
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.