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Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance

15Judge labels
6First choices
0Negative labels
10 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
7% in Client-side protection for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 120 in the mid-market standing
3 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 7 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In client-side protection · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Client-side protectionSecurity operations7%5 of 1200%7under 10 labels · led by cside at 13%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar10001
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small10001
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick10001
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna01001
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct6 labels5
Paraphrase1 label1
Comparative8 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 7 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance and Jscrambler are both highly recommended for mid-market and enterprise teams” Mistral Small · Client-side protection · direct prompt · first choice
“such as Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance or Jscrambler Client-Side Protection and Compliance Platform” Llama 4 Maverick · Client-side protection · direct prompt · first choice
“the strongest default choice is Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance” Perplexity Sonar · Client-side protection · direct prompt · first choice
“For e-commerce-focused businesses, Akamai provides superior detection for skimming attacks.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Client-side protection · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Jscrambler Webpage Integrity9 of 152Not among the top eight
Imperva Client-Side Protection9 of 150Not among the top eight
Reflectiz6 of 151Not among the top eight
Feroot Security6 of 150Not among the top eight
Cloudflare Client-Side Security5 of 152Not among the top eight
Source Defense5 of 151Not among the top eight
cside4 of 150Not among the top eight
HUMAN Security3 of 151Not among the top eight
Cloudflare Page Shield3 of 150Not among the top eight
F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side Defense2 of 150Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 15 of the 15 answers that named Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

akamai.comYour site10
cside.com10
slashdot.org9
g2.com8
sourceforge.net8
us.fitgap.com7
cybersectools.com6
reflectiz.com6
developers.cloudflare.com5
startupstash.com5

Sixty-four of the seventy-four domain citations in answers naming Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Searches for its name, Google
not counted (“akamai client-side protection & compliance”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
0 a month
Its own site
It sits on Akamai's site (akamai.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
7%
rank 5 of 120 in client-side protection
Segment leader
13%
cside
First choices
6 across its categories
Named in
15 answers
Its own site cited
in 15 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance; a claim can dispute any of them.
Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance (Page Integrity Manager) 1

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