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Index › Vendors › BunkerWeb · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

BunkerWeb

6Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

1Category

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

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. BunkerWeb was named 3 times in WAF, where Cloudflare led with 55%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business9 of 77

under the label threshold

Mid-market19 of 87

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In waf · 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 BunkerWeb 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
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0%	19 of 87	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 55%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for BunkerWeb 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 BunkerWeb across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained6 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.

“if your team is comfortable with open-source/self-managed tooling ... though it may require more operational effort” Perplexity Sonar · WAF · budget prompt · alternative

“Modern UI, Docker/Kubernetes support, full feature set in free version” GLM 4.7 FlashX · WAF · budget prompt · alternative

“Best Open-Source for Self-Hosters” Gemini 3.5 Flash · WAF · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as BunkerWeb, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BunkerWeb was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare4 of 64Not in the top three

Sucuri4 of 60Not in the top three

Cloudflare WAF2 of 62Not in the top three

ModSecurity2 of 60Not in the top three

open-appsec2 of 60Not in the top three

AWS WAF1 of 60Not in the top three

CacheGuard-OS1 of 60Not in the top three

Imperva1 of 60Not in the top three

Microsoft Azure WAF1 of 60Not in the top three

ModSecurity + OWASP CRS1 of 60Not 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 BunkerWeb. 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 5 of the 6 answers that named BunkerWeb and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

geekflare.com5

wafplanet.com5

bunkerweb.ioYour site4

cyberpress.org4

comparitech.com3

github.com3

openappsec.io3

reddit.com3

sourceforge.net2

statewp.com2

Thirty of the thirty-four domain citations in answers naming BunkerWeb came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

geekflare.com/cybersecurity/best-web-application-firewall5

bunkerweb.io/4

cyberpress.org/waf-solutions-by-business-size4

wafplanet.com/best-waf-for/free4

wafplanet.com/best-waf-for/small-business4

comparitech.com/net-admin/best-web-application-firewall3

github.com/bunkerity/bunkerweb2

openappsec.io/post/top-10-free-wafs-web-application-firewalls-for-20242

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as BunkerWeb

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

BunkerWeb (Community Edition) 1

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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 BunkerWeb'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 BunkerWeb, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at bunkerweb.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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