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Index › Vendors › Azure Front Door · September 2026 Edition

Azure · 2 categories · Named, not ranked

Azure Front Door

11Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Azure Front Door was named 5 times in CDN and 1 other category, where Cloudflare led with 80%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market13 of 40

under the label threshold

Enterprise9 of 39

under the label threshold

In cdn · 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 Front Door 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
Content delivery networks	Network and edge	0%	13 of 40	25%	4	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 80%
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0%	36 of 87	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 55%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Azure Front Door yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Azure Front Door across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	1	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 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.

“The Best for Cloud Consolidation: AWS CloudFront or Azure Front Door.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CDN · scale prompt · alternative

“if you are a Microsoft shop, Azure Front Door is your answer” Qwen 3.7 Flash · WAF · paraphrase 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.

“Hyperscalers with High Egress Fees (Be Cautious of Cost Traps)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CDN · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Azure Front Door, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Azure Front Door was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare11 of 118Not in the top three

Amazon CloudFront10 of 110Not in the top three

Fastly9 of 111Not in the top three

Akamai8 of 113Not in the top three

Google Cloud CDN7 of 110Not in the top three

Bunny.net6 of 111Not in the top three

Edgio4 of 110Not in the top three

KeyCDN4 of 110Not in the top three

Alibaba Cloud CDN2 of 110Not in the top three

CDNetworks2 of 110Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Front Door. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 11 answers that named Azure Front Door and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

accio.com1

astravconsulting.com1

best4beginners.com1

blog.blazingcdn.com1

blog.openreplay.com1

cdn07.com1

comparethestack.com1

egresscost.com1

fastly.com1

flashedgecdn.com1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Azure Front Door came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

accio.com/biz-cheap/affordable-cdn1

accio.com/biz-cheap/low-cost-cdn1

accio.com/business/cheap-cdn1

astravconsulting.com/research/2026/03/23/Cloudflare-vs-Akamai-vs-Fastly1

best4beginners.com/best-cdn-providers-for-small-business-beginners1

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/best-enterprise-cdn-providers-compared1

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/cdn-streaming-services-comparison-fastly-akamai-cloudflare-amazo1

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/content-delivery-networks-cdns-compared-fastly-akamai-cloudflare1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Azure Front Door

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Azure Front Door; a claim can dispute any of them.

Microsoft Azure Front Door 1

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