Cloudflare · 2 categories · Named, not rankedCloudflare Application Security and Performance
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certificate lifecycle management | Identity and access | 0% | 33 of 104 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Sectigo Certificate Manager at 27% | |
| Client-side protection | Security operations | 0% | 46 of 120 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by cside at 13% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Cloudflare Application Security and Performance 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If your environment is cloud-heavy, Cloudflare is also an excellent choice.” Mistral Small · Certificate management · direct prompt · alternative
“Primary Strength: Global protection with minimal performance impact.” Mistral Small · Client-side protection · comparative prompt · alternative
“For web performance + security: Cloudflare.” Mistral Small · Certificate management · comparative 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 Cloudflare Application Security and Performance, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudflare Application Security and Performance 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 13 of the 13 answers that named Cloudflare Application Security and Performance and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-two of the forty-two domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare Application Security and Performance came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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The company
Cloudflare is the company behind Cloudflare Application Security and Performance.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- keep their applications secure, available, and performant
- For
- Developers, bloggers, business owners, and large corporations
- Free plan or trial
- closed beta blog.cloudflare.com/application-profiles
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Cloudflare Application Security and Performance's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: blog.cloudflare.com/application-security, blog.cloudflare.com/application-profiles, blog.cloudflare.com/application-security-2023, blog.cloudflare.com/secure-generative-ai-applications, blog.cloudflare.com/new-application-security-experience. 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 Cloudflare Application Security and Performance'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 Cloudflare Application Security and Performance, 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 Cloudflare Application Security and Performance by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cloudflare Application Security and Performance 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 Cloudflare Application Security and Performance, 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.