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Cloudflare CASB

6Judge labels

1First choices

2Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Cloudflare CASB was named 2 times in CSPM, where Wiz led with 43%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business47 of 64

under the label threshold

Mid-market43 of 53

under the label threshold

Enterprise6 of 42

under the label threshold

In cspm · 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 CASB 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
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	43 of 53	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 43%

Movement

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

By model

How each model treated Cloudflare CASB across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained4 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.

“Best "light-SaaS" option: Cloudflare CASB free plan for teams that want a quick, managed solution.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CSPM · budget 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.

“Cloudflare CASB (free-$7/user/month, but more CASB-focused)” Grok 4.1 Fast · CSPM · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare CASB, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudflare CASB was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender for Cloud6 of 63Not in the top three

Prowler5 of 64Not in the top three

Wiz5 of 60Not in the top three

AWS Security Hub3 of 61Not in the top three

CSPM.io3 of 60Not in the top three

Orca Security3 of 60Not in the top three

Prisma Cloud3 of 60Not in the top three

Uptycs3 of 60Not in the top three

Google Security Command Center2 of 60Not in the top three

Orca2 of 60Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 CASB. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 6 of the 6 answers that named Cloudflare CASB and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

costbench.com6

cloudaware.com5

complyjet.com5

cyberpress.org5

busistack.com4

gbhackers.com4

aikido.dev3

aws.amazon.com3

azure.microsoft.com3

cspm.io3

Forty-one of the forty-one domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare CASB came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

costbench.com/software/cloud-security-posture6

cloudaware.com/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-vendors5

complyjet.com/blog/best-cspm-tools5

cyberpress.org/cspm-tools-by-business-size-25

busistack.com/best-cloud-security-posture-management-tools-20264

gbhackers.com/best-cspm-compared4

aikido.dev/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-cspm-tools3

aws.amazon.com/security-hub/cspm/pricing3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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