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Check Point CloudGuard WAF

18Judge labels

2First choices

3Negative labels

8 / 14Models named it

2Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Check Point CloudGuard WAF was named 7 times in API security and 1 other category, where Aikido Security led with 12%. 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-market21 of 93

under the label threshold

Enterprise10 of 82

under the label threshold

In api security · 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 Check Point CloudGuard WAF 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	2%	21 of 93	40%	5	under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12%
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0%	24 of 82	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare WAF at 69%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	0	2
Grok 4.20	0	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	1	1
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	1	0	0	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	1	0	2

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

Direct6 labels2

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative9 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 3 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 evaluation shortlist is commonly Traceable, Check Point CloudGuard WAF, Treblle for cost” Muse Glimmer 30B · API security · direct prompt · first choice

“99.3% detection rate, 0.81% false positive rate (2025 test) | High-security enterprises” GLM 4.7 FlashX · WAF · comparative prompt · first choice

“Check Point CloudGuard WAF is also a strong mid-market fit” Perplexity Sonar · API security · direct 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.

“this tool is frequently cited as having a steep learning curve and complex setup... Avoid if you are a small team” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API security · negative prompt · soft negative

“Many traditional WAF vendors (e.g., Imperva, F5, Check Point) offer API security as an extension” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API security · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Check Point CloudGuard WAF, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Check Point CloudGuard WAF was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Salt Security8 of 185Not among the top eight

Akamai API Security7 of 181Not among the top eight

Cloudflare WAF6 of 184Not among the top eight

Imperva Cloud WAF5 of 182Not among the top eight

AWS WAF5 of 180Not among the top eight

Akamai App & API Protector4 of 181Not among the top eight

Fastly Next-Gen WAF4 of 180Not among the top eight

Imperva API Security4 of 180Not among the top eight

Radware Cloud WAF4 of 180Not among the top eight

Wallarm API Security3 of 181Not 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 Check Point CloudGuard WAF. 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 18 of the 18 answers that named Check Point CloudGuard WAF and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

radware.com15

g2.com10

checkpoint.comYour site9

expertinsights.com9

indusface.com9

learn.g2.com9

peerspot.com7

zuplo.com7

akamai.com6

gartner.com6

Seventy-eight of the eighty-seven domain citations in answers naming Check Point CloudGuard WAF came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/choosing-api-security-solutions10

learn.g2.com/best-api-security-tools9

g2.com/categories/api-security7

zuplo.com/learning-center/best-api-security-tools-20267

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-api-security-tools6

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/api-security-platforms6

imperva.com/blog/best-waap-solutions5

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/most-reliable-web-application-firewalls5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Check Point CloudGuard WAF stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 50 a month (“check point cloudguard waf”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Its own site: It sits on Check Point's site (checkpoint.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 21 of 93 in API security

Segment leader

12%

Aikido Security

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 18 answers
Its own site cited: in 18 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 Check Point CloudGuard WAF

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

Check Point 2Check Point WAF 1Check Point WAF (CloudGuard WAF) 1

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The company

Check Point is the company behind Check Point CloudGuard WAF.

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On record

Company records

Also from Check Point: Check Point AI Agent Security, Check Point AI Security, Check Point Browser Security, Check Point Cloud Firewall, Check Point CloudGuard, Check Point CloudGuard Network Security Next-Gen Firewall, Check Point DLP, Check Point Data Loss Prevention and 17 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Cloud-native Web & API security that provides precise threat prevention using contextual AI to protect your Apps against known and unknown threats, without relying on signatures.
checkpoint.com/cloudguard
For: Apps and APIs
checkpoint.com/cloudguard/waf
Price stated: Pay-as-you-go. Free for 7 days or the first 1M requests. checkpoint.com/cloudguard/waf/marketplace
Free plan or trial: Free for 7 days or the first 1M requests. checkpoint.com/cloudguard/waf/marketplace
Certifications: LEXFO-certified open-source WAF
Customers named: Volkswagen Financial ServicesCity of Ramat-GanHallmarkSallieMaeBBVASt. Joseph’s Healthcare HamiltonUnitelDenver Broncos
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, hosting

What Check Point CloudGuard WAF's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: checkpoint.com/cloudguard, checkpoint.com/cloudguard/waf, checkpoint.com/lp/waf-comparison-gsem, checkpoint.com/cloudguard/cloud-security-solutions, checkpoint.com/cloudguard/waf/marketplace. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Check Point CloudGuard WAF by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Check Point CloudGuard WAF 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 Check Point CloudGuard WAF, 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.