Akamai · 1 category · Named, not rankedAkamai Client-Side Protection
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Client-side protection | Security operations | 0% | 28 of 120 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by cside at 13% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Akamai Client-Side Protection across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Great if you're already using Akamai CDN/edge services... may feel heavier for smaller mid-market setups.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Client-side protection · direct prompt · alternative
“their built-in client-side protection modules are worth evaluating first for ease of procurement” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Client-side protection · scale prompt · alternative
“Best for large-scale retail/e-commerce operations where downtime is critical.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · 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.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Akamai Client-Side Protection, over the 10 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 was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 10 of the 10 answers that named Akamai Client-Side Protection and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-six of the forty-nine domain citations in answers naming Akamai Client-Side Protection came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Akamai Client-Side Protection stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 30 a month (“akamai client-side protection”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 2 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- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 10 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 10 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.
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The company
Akamai is the company behind Akamai Client-Side Protection.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company recordsClaim this page
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Akamai Client-Side Protection by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Akamai Client-Side Protection is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Akamai Client-Side Protection, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.