Every category where a model named Cequence Unified API 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
API security platforms	Security operations	0%	23 of 93	6%	17	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cequence Unified API Protection yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Cequence Unified API Protection across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	0	0	2
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	2	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	2	0	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	0	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

Direct7 labelsNone

Paraphrase6 labels1

Comparative16 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative46 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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 you need to actively block brute-force, scraping, and credential stuffing bots on your APIs at the gateway level, choose Cequence Security.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API security · comparative prompt · alternative

“Cequence processes over 10 billion API interactions daily and was named a Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole API Security Leadership Compass” Muse Glimmer 30B · API security · direct prompt · alternative

“For bot and fraud abuse challenges: Choose Cequence — it's the leader in combining API security with bot defense.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API security · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for: Organizations needing a comprehensive, lifecycle-wide solution with strong integration capabilities.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API security · 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.

“positioned more toward large enterprise environments” Perplexity Sonar · API security · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cequence Unified API Protection, over the 46 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cequence Unified API Protection was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Akamai API Security44 of 467Not among the top eight

Salt Security41 of 4615Not among the top eight

Wallarm API Security28 of 461Not among the top eight

42Crunch25 of 460Not among the top eight

Traceable AI22 of 465Not among the top eight

Imperva API Security19 of 460Not among the top eight

Cloudflare API Shield11 of 461Not among the top eight

StackHawk11 of 461Not among the top eight

Traceable10 of 460Not among the top eight

Radware7 of 460Not among the top eight

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 Cequence Unified API 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 45 of the 46 answers that named Cequence Unified API Protection and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

radware.com30

akamai.com20

learn.g2.com19

getastra.com16

appsecsanta.com15

axis-intelligence.com14

beaglesecurity.com14

expertinsights.com14

zuplo.com14

ciopages.com13

169 of the 169 domain citations in answers naming Cequence Unified API Protection came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/choosing-api-security-solutions26

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/api-security-platforms20

learn.g2.com/best-api-security-tools19

akamai.com/products/api-security14

axis-intelligence.com/best-api-security-tools-2026-tested-guide14

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-api-security-tools14

getastra.com/blog/api-security/api-security-companies14

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/api-security13

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

cequence.ai ranks 8 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cequence Unified API Protection takes 0% of first choices and Aikido Security takes 12%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “api security platform”

Position for “api security platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: not counted (“cequence unified api protection”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 950 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 555 · 8 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,699
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

33 ads · 25 text, 4 image, 4 video · 10 shown in the last 30 days

First shown May 2022, as Cequence Security, Inc, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 22 in the year, 11 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 23 of 93 in API security

Segment leader

12%

Aikido Security

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 46 answers
Its own site cited: in 45 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on cequence.ai

684

subdomains included

Content

495

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

24 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	300	12	2026-09-28	API gateways, CDN
News or press	101	4	2026-09-10	WAF
Glossary or explainer	45	26	2026-09-01	LLM gateways
Case study	26	1	2026-08-27
Comparison	14	3	2026-08-20
Conference or event	4	0	2026-04-13
Report or ebook	2	0	2023-07-01
Webinar or virtual event	1	1	2026-08-31
Template or tool	1	0	2023-01-06
Podcast or video	1	0	2019-10-18

Most recent

2026-09-28Agentic ai zero trust governance scorecard blog
2026-09-24Agent trust explained blog
2026-09-17Agentic ai behavior governance blog
2026-09-10Ai gateway owasp top 10 agentic applications blog
2026-09-10Battling bots in the age of ai news or press
2026-09-01Api security best practices glossary or explainer

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page cequence.ai exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Cequence Unified API Protection

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

Cequence 6Cequence Security 6Cequence (or Firetail) 1Cequence Security (API Sentinel) 1

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The company

Cequence Unified API Protection is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Application & API Protection
cequence.ai
For: organizations
trust.cequence.ai
Certifications: PCIDSS v4.0.1ISO 27001:2022SOC 2 Type 2
Customers named: U.S. federal agenciesmajor financial institutionsFortune and Global 500 enterprisesSnap Finance
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting

What Cequence Unified API Protection's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: cequence.ai, trust.cequence.ai, cequence.ai/platform, cequence.ai/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cequence Unified API Protection by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Cequence Unified API 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 Cequence Unified API 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.