Barracuda Bot Protection
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bot management | Network and edge | 2% | 8 of 83 | 0% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare Bot Management at 56% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Barracuda Bot 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Cloudflare and Barracuda stand out as the most feature-rich options per dollar” Mistral Small · Bot management · budget prompt · first choice
“Barracuda provides an accessible, cloud-based bot management solution that is ideal for mid-market companies” Muse Glimmer 30B · Bot management · direct prompt · alternative
“If you're already using their WAF/email security; very SMB-oriented and low-cost add-ons.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Bot management · 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.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Barracuda Bot 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 Barracuda Bot 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 Barracuda Bot Protection and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifty-four of the fifty-four domain citations in answers naming Barracuda Bot Protection came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Barracuda Bot 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
- not counted (“barracuda bot protection”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Barracuda's site (barracuda.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 1 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.
Names read as Barracuda Bot Protection
Follow Barracuda Bot Protection
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
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The company
Barracuda is the company behind Barracuda Bot Protection.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- uses artificial intelligence and machine learning in the cloud to continually improve its ability to spot and block bad bots and human-mimicking “low and slow” bots — while allowing legitimate human and bot traffic to proceed with minimal impact.
- Price stated
- Get a customized price quote. de.barracuda.com/products/application-protection/plans
- Free plan or trial
- Instant download. No form required. barracuda.com/reports/bot-threat-report
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Barracuda Bot Protection's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: de.barracuda.com/reports/bot-threat-report, barracuda.com/reports/bot-threat-report, de.barracuda.com/products/application-protection, barracuda.com/products/application-protection, de.barracuda.com/products/application-protection/plans. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Barracuda Bot Protection's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Barracuda Bot Protection, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Barracuda Bot Protection by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Barracuda Bot 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 Barracuda Bot 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.