Cloudflare · 1 category · Named, not rankedCloudflare Bot Manager
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bot management | Network and edge | 2% | 9 of 83 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare Bot Management at 56% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Cloudflare Bot Manager 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 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.
“Cloudflare Bot Manager - Often recommended for smaller organizations due to its pricing structure and included features” MiniMax M2.5 · Bot management · budget prompt · first choice
“For edge-scale protection within a CDN, Cloudflare is ideal.” Mistral Small · Bot management · comparative prompt · first choice
“If you want cost-effective, easy deployment with good protection” MiniMax M2.5 · 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 Cloudflare Bot Manager, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudflare Bot Manager 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 8 of the 8 answers that named Cloudflare Bot Manager and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-three of the forty-three domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare Bot Manager came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Follow Cloudflare Bot Manager
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
Cloudflare is the company behind Cloudflare Bot Manager.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- blocking undesired or malicious Internet bot traffic while still allowing useful bots to access web properties by detecting bot activity, discerning between desirable and undesirable bot behavior, and identifying the sources of the undesirable activity
- For
- customers who want to protect their websites, mobile applications, or APIs
- Free plan or trial
- Start building for free — no credit card required. cloudflare.com/products/bot-management
- Customers named
- Carrefour
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Cloudflare Bot Manager's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-bot-management-machine-learning-and-more, blog.cloudflare.com/tag/bot-management, cloudflare.com/products/bot-management, cloudflare.com/products/bot-mitigation, learn.cloudflare.com/courses/explore-bot-management. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
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 Bot Manager'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 Bot Manager, 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 Bot Manager by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cloudflare Bot Manager 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 Bot Manager, 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.