Every category where a model named Cloudflare Gateway 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
DNS filtering	Network and edge	22%	2 of 94	2%	48	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cloudflare Gateway 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 Cloudflare Gateway 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	1	2	0	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	3	1	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	0	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	0	0	2
Grok 4.20	1	2	1	0	4
Mistral Small	0	0	2	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	1	0	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	2	0	0	4
Kimi K2	1	3	1	1	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	0	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	2	0	4
GPT-6 Luna	1	2	0	0	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	3	0	0	4

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

Direct30 labels7

Paraphrase28 labels3

Comparative32 labels8not counted in share

Budget-constrained27 labels11

Scale-constrained12 labels2

Negative15 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative144 labels in all, every segment counted; 23 of the 32 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.

“I'd suggest starting with Cloudflare Gateway if you want free tier flexibility, or Control D if you want predictable low-cost pricing” MiniMax M2.5 · DNS filtering · budget prompt · first choice

“The Best Overall Balance: Cloudflare Gateway ... If you want speed and cost-efficiency, go with Cloudflare Gateway.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DNS filtering · direct prompt · first choice

“Cloudflare is currently the market leader in this space... If yes, Cloudflare is usually the superior choice” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DNS filtering · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“DNSFilter or Cloudflare Gateway are typically the best fits for mid-market B2B companies” MiniMax M2.5 · DNS filtering · direct 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.

“powerful but come with cautionary notes” Kimi K2 · DNS filtering · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare Gateway, over the 144 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudflare Gateway was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

DNSFilter118 of 14452Compare →

Cisco Umbrella106 of 14430Compare →

Control D42 of 1445Compare →

NextDNS40 of 1443Compare →

Infoblox Threat Defense31 of 1441Not among the top eight

Quad926 of 1441Not among the top eight

OpenDNS21 of 1441Not among the top eight

Zscaler Internet Access21 of 1441Not among the top eight

WebTitan19 of 1442Not among the top eight

Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector17 of 1440Not 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 Gateway. 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 136 of the 144 answers that named Cloudflare Gateway and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cybersecuritynews.com92

controld.com87

aimultiple.com73

dnsfilter.com69

expertinsights.com56

cyberpress.org52

sourceforge.net51

thectoclub.com47

gbhackers.com43

g2.com40

610 of the 610 domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare Gateway came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aimultiple.com/dns-security73

cybersecuritynews.com/best-dns-security-solutions61

thectoclub.com/tools/best-dns-security-software47

expertinsights.com/web-security/the-top-dns-web-filtering-platforms-for-businesses42

cybersecuritynews.com/bst-protective-dns-services41

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-dns-filtering-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison39

simplyit.biz/resources/best-dns-filtering-small-business-202636

cyberpress.org/best-dns-filtering-solutions34

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Cloudflare Gateway 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: 390 a month (“cloudflare gateway”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 49 a month
Its own site: It sits on Cloudflare's site (cloudflare.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

22%

rank 2 of 94 in DNS filtering

Segment leader

59%

DNSFilter

First choices: 23 across its categories
Named in: 144 answers
Its own site cited: in 136 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 Cloudflare Gateway

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

Cloudflare Gateway (Cloudflare One) 4Cloudflare Gateway (Free Tier) 2

Follow Cloudflare Gateway

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.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Cloudflare is the company behind Cloudflare Gateway.

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On record

Company records

Also from Cloudflare: Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 for Families, Cloudflare AI Gateway, Cloudflare API Gateway, Cloudflare API Security, Cloudflare API Shield, Cloudflare Access, Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One, Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare Zero Trust and 41 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: We’re going to completely replace your existing gateway at a fraction of the cost
blog.cloudflare.com/api-gateway
For: Enterprise customers
blog.cloudflare.com/api-gateway
Price stated: at a fraction of the cost blog.cloudflare.com/api-gateway
Free plan or trial: The Monetization Gateway waitlist is open now for Cloudflare customers. blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway
Hosting: our global networkour networkour edge
Customers named: api.cloudflare.com
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, certifications

What Cloudflare Gateway's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: blog.cloudflare.com/api-gateway, blog.cloudflare.com/gateway-swg, blog.cloudflare.com/gateway-swg-3, developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway, blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 Gateway'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 Gateway, 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 Gateway by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Cloudflare Gateway 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 Gateway, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Cloudflare Gateway is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Cloudflare Gateway is among the products AI models recommend first in DNS filtering this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

Show the code

<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/dns-filtering/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cloudflare-gateway--dns-filtering-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in DNS filtering, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the DNS filtering standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/dns-filtering/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cloudflare-gateway--dns-filtering-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in DNS filtering, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the DNS filtering standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

Show the code

<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/dns-filtering/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cloudflare-gateway--dns-filtering-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in DNS filtering, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the DNS filtering standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.