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Cloudflare Business Plan

1Judge labels
1First choices
0Negative labels
1 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
1 label, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Cloudflare Business Plan was named 1 time in WAF, where Cloudflare WAF led with 69%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Cloudflare Business Plan 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Web application firewallsNetwork and edge2%9 of 820%1under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare WAF at 69%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.

Movement

Since September 2026, Cloudflare Business Plan held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · WAF · by segment

Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 9 of 80, unchanged

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
WAF0%2%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.New this editionRank 9 of 82, unchanged

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated Cloudflare Business Plan across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K210001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Paraphrase1 label1
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative1 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.

“Top Recommendation: Cloudflare Business Plan ($200/month)” Kimi K2 · WAF · paraphrase prompt · first choice

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 Cloudflare Business Plan, over the 1 answer that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudflare Business Plan was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
AWS WAF1 of 10Not among the top eight
Akamai App & API Protector1 of 10Not among the top eight
Fastly Next-Gen WAF1 of 10Not among the top eight
Imperva Cloud WAF1 of 10Not 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 Cloudflare Business Plan. 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 1 of the 1 answers that named Cloudflare Business Plan and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cipherssecurity.com1
cloudflare.comYour site1
cyberpress.org1
devopsschool.com1
geekflare.com1
mgsoftware.nl1
predictiveanalyticstoday.com1
securityboulevard.com1
softwaretestinghelp.com1
techplained.com1

Nine of the ten domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare Business Plan came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

cloudflare.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cloudflare Business Plan takes 2% of first choices and Cloudflare WAF takes 69%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “web application firewall”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “web application firewalls”
1
Organic visits to its site
about 4,995,413 a month
Searches its site ranks for
116,199 · 19,289 in the top three
Sites linking to it
335,074
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
111+ ads · 96 text, 15 video · 111 shown in the last 30 days

First shown May 2022, as Cloudflare, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 71 in the year, 40 before. 9 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
2%
rank 9 of 82 in WAF
Segment leader
69%
Cloudflare WAF
First choices
1 across its categories
Named in
1 answers
Its own site cited
in 1 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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 cloudflare.com
15,567
subdomains included
Content
1,623
counted in the table below
Documentation
8,041
Product · Integration
76 · 1
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog690712026-09-28SASE, SIEM
Glossary or explainer458undatedSASE
Case study262undated
Report or ebook71232026-09-28
Template or tool46122026-08-14
Webinar or virtual event3212026-07-22
Podcast or video29undatedSASE
Comparison2302026-06-30SASE
News or press7undated
Conference or event502026-04-23
How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page cloudflare.com 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. Of its titles that name a category, most name SASE (11); 0 name the category the models place it in. 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.

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The company

Cloudflare Business Plan is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
For small eCommerce websites and businesses requiring advanced security and performance, PCI compliance, and prioritized email support.
For
small eCommerce websites and businesses
Price stated
$200 / mo billed annually, or $250/mo billed monthly cloudflare.com/plans
Starting price
200 cloudflare.com/plans
Free plan or trial
free plan cloudflare.com/small-business
Certifications
PCI and SOC 2 Type II compliancePCI DSS 4.0 Compliance
Not stated on the pages read
Integrations, hosting, customers

What Cloudflare Business Plan's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: cloudflare.com/plans/business, cloudflare.com/plans, cloudflare.com/small-business, blog.cloudflare.com/enterprise-mcp, blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-for-saas. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where Cloudflare Business Plan 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 Business Plan, 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;
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