Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 of 35, unchanged
Azure · 1 category · RankedAzure DDoS Protection
78Judge labels
0First choices
13Negative 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
0% in DDoS for mid-market buyers
Rank 10 of 58 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 18% of its 22 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Azure DDoS Protection →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business4 of 38
0%18 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market10 of 58
0%22 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise9 of 41
0%38 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 Azure DDoS Protection 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% | 10 of 58 | 18% | 22 | accepted 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, Azure DDoS Protection 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 8 of 52, unchanged
Enterprise=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 7 → 9 of 41
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 8 → 10 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 Azure DDoS Protection 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 Azure DDoS Protection 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 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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
Direct12 labelsNone
Paraphrase6 labelsNone
Comparative23 labelsNone
Budget-constrained20 labelsNone
Scale-constrained9 labelsNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative78 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.
“AWS Shield and Azure DDoS Protection are the strongest choices inside their respective clouds” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DDoS · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Best if you're on Azure... Downsides: Azure-only; similar pricing to AWS Shield.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DDoS · direct prompt · alternative
“AWS Shield (Advanced) & Azure DDoS Protection (Best for Cloud-Native Workloads)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDoS · comparative prompt · alternative
“Azure DDoS Protection (Network) ... Deep integration with respective clouds” MiniMax M2.5 · 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.
“Azure DDoS Protection is primarily for Azure public IPs and virtual networks rather than unrelated internet hosts” Perplexity Sonar · DDoS · negative prompt · hard negative
“Costs approximately $2,944/month flat.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDoS · budget prompt · hard negative
“they are cloud-locked and the paid tiers are $2,944\u2013$3,000/mo, making Cloudflare the cheaper cross-platform option” Muse Glimmer 30B · DDoS · budget prompt · soft negative
“Similar to AWS—platform-locked.” Grok 4.20 · DDoS · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Azure DDoS Protection, over the 78 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Azure DDoS Protection was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Azure DDoS Protection, over the 78 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Azure DDoS Protection 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 Azure DDoS Protection. 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 71 of the 78 answers that named Azure DDoS Protection and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
esecurityplanet.com43
flowtriq.com38
cybersecuritynews.com36
radware.com35
indusface.com28
guideflow.com22
cyberpress.org21
sourceforge.net20
myrasecurity.com18
tech-insider.org18
279 of the 279 domain citations in answers naming Azure DDoS Protection came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Azure DDoS Protection stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Azure DDoS Protection stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 590 a month (“azure ddos protection”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 20 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Azure's site (azure.cn), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 10 of 58 in ddos
Segment leader
82%
Cloudflare
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 78 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 71 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 Azure DDoS Protection
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Azure DDoS Protection; a claim can dispute any of them.
Azure DDoS 3Azure DDoS Protection Basic 2Azure DDoS Basic 1Azure DDoS Infrastructure Protection 1Azure DDoS Network Protection 1Microsoft Azure DDoS Protection 1
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The company
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The company
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- where Azure DDoS 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 Azure DDoS 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;
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