Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 37 → 35 of 35
Akamai · 1 category · RankedAkamai Prolexic
150Judge labels
14First choices
47Negative labels
14 / 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
26% in DDoS for enterprise buyers
Rank 9 of 58 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 30% of its 44 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Akamai Prolexic →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business38 of 38
0%38 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market9 of 58
0%44 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise2 of 41
26%68 labels
accepted challenger
In ddos · 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 Prolexic 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.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDoS protection | Network and edge | 0% | 9 of 58 | 30% | 44 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Akamai Prolexic held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · DDoS · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 6 → 9 of 52
Enterprise▲+13Since September 2026: 13% → 27%, +13 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
27%from 13% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 2 pointsRank 2 of 41, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDoS | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 6 → 9 of 58 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
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 · The editions
By model
How each model treated Akamai Prolexic across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Akamai Prolexic across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
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
Direct29 labels4
Paraphrase29 labels9
Comparative31 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained18 labelsNone
Scale-constrained20 labels1
Negative23 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative150 labels in all, every segment counted; 14 of the 17 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, Google Cloud Armor, AWS Shield, and Azure DDoS are the natural choices if you're already embedded in their cloud ecosystems” MiniMax M2.5 · DDoS · comparative prompt · alternative
“Akamai Prolexic remains the enterprise benchmark where SOC-led mitigation and network-range protection justify the contract” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DDoS · comparative prompt · alternative
“Compare Cloudflare Magic Transit with Akamai Prolexic, which supports cloud, on-premises, and hybrid deployments.” GPT-6 Luna · DDoS · direct prompt · alternative
“is the go‑to for large enterprises needing SLA‑backed, deep L3/L4 scrubbing with human‑managed incident response.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DDoS · comparative 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.
“Providers to Skip for This Use Case - Akamai Prolexic — Excellent technology but enterprise-first pricing and complexity” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DDoS · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Enterprise-grade with SLAs you likely don't need” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DDoS · budget prompt · hard negative
“Cloudflare, Fastly, and Akamai are all noted as needing careful configuration to avoid blocking legitimate traffic” Perplexity Sonar · DDoS · negative prompt · soft negative
“Akamai / AWS Shield Advanced are typically reserved for larger budgets or regulatory/compliance requirements.” Muse Glimmer 30B · DDoS · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Akamai Prolexic, over the 150 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Akamai Prolexic was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Akamai Prolexic, over the 150 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Akamai Prolexic was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Prolexic. 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 138 of the 150 answers that named Akamai Prolexic and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
esecurityplanet.com96
radware.com91
cybersecuritynews.com81
indusface.com58
flowtriq.com53
cyberpress.org49
expertinsights.com39
geekflare.com39
myrasecurity.com39
sourceforge.net35
580 of the 580 domain citations in answers naming Akamai Prolexic came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Akamai Prolexic stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Akamai Prolexic stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 140 a month (“akamai prolexic”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 9 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 editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 9 of 58 in ddos
Segment leader
82%
Cloudflare
- First choices
- 14 across its categories
- Named in
- 150 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 138 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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 Prolexic
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Akamai Prolexic; a claim can dispute any of them.
Akamai 9Akamai (Prolexic) 3Akamai Prolexic / Akamai 1Akamai Prolexic / Akamai security stack 1
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The company
Akamai is the company behind Akamai Prolexic.ShowHide
The company
Akamai is the company behind Akamai Prolexic.
ShowHideOn record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Akamai's Prolexic managed services help protect your network infrastructure against DDoS attacks.
- For
- your entire data center; individual internet-facing applications
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Akamai Prolexic's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: techdocs.akamai.com/prolexic/changelog, techdocs.akamai.com/prolexic/reference/400, techdocs.akamai.com/prolexic/reference/403, techdocs.akamai.com/prolexic/reference/404, techdocs.akamai.com/prolexic/reference/405. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Akamai Prolexic by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Akamai Prolexic 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 Prolexic, 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.