Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 77 of 80, unchanged
1 category · Named, not rankedCloudflare Legacy WAF
1Judge labels
0First choices
1Negative 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 Legacy WAF 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.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market79 of 82
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
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 Legacy WAF 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web application firewalls | Network and edge | 0% | 79 of 82 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare WAF at 69% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Cloudflare Legacy WAF held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · WAF · by segment
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAF | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 79 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 Legacy WAF across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Cloudflare Legacy WAF across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 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
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative1 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.
No positive label carried a quote.
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.
“Avoid products that are officially deprecated or end-of-life (e.g., Cloudflare legacy WAF, older on-prem appliances).” MiniMax M2.5 · WAF · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare Legacy WAF, 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 Legacy WAF was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare Legacy WAF, 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 Legacy WAF was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Legacy WAF. 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 Legacy WAF and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
arxiv.org1
community.cloudflare.comYour site1
comparitech.com1
cve.circl.lu1
cybersecuritynews.com1
dbugs.ptsecurity.com1
developers.cloudflare.comYour site1
docs.azure.cn1
esecurityplanet.com1
geekflare.com1
Eight of the ten domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare Legacy WAF 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 Legacy WAF takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare WAF takes 69%.ShowHide
Search and answers
cloudflare.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cloudflare Legacy WAF takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare WAF takes 69%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition 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
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 79 of 82 in WAF
Segment leader
69%
Cloudflare WAF
- First choices
- 0 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on cloudflare.com
15,567
subdomains included
Content
1,623
counted in the table below
Documentation
8,041
Product · Integration
76 · 1
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 690 | 71 | 2026-09-28 | SASE, SIEM | |
| Glossary or explainer | 458 | undated | SASE | ||
| Case study | 262 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 71 | 23 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Template or tool | 46 | 12 | 2026-08-14 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 32 | 1 | 2026-07-22 | ||
| Podcast or video | 29 | undated | SASE | ||
| Comparison | 23 | 0 | 2026-06-30 | SASE | |
| News or press | 7 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 5 | 0 | 2026-04-23 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Introducing the cold start blog
- 2026-09-28Vinext nextjs on vite blog
- 2026-09-28Cloudflare cf cli launch blog
- 2026-09-28Forge open source generation pipeline blog
- 2026-09-28How fast is the web blog
- 2026-09-28Emdash cms plugin registry blog
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.
Names read as Cloudflare Legacy WAF
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cloudflare Legacy WAF; a claim can dispute any of them.
Cloudflare Legacy WAF (Firewall Rules, old Managed Rules, Rate-Limiting Rules) 1
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The company
Cloudflare Legacy WAF is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Cloudflare Legacy WAF is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) blocks more than 57 billion cyber threats per day.
- For
- all Cloudflare paid zone customers
- Certifications
- highest score for ability to execute in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAF
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting, customers
What Cloudflare Legacy WAF's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: developers.cloudflare.com/waf, blog.cloudflare.com/new-cloudflare-waf, blog.cloudflare.com/l34-ddos-managed-rules, blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-new-waf-compiling-to-lua, blog.cloudflare.com/tag/waf-rules. 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 Legacy WAF'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 Legacy WAF, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cloudflare Legacy WAF by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cloudflare Legacy WAF 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 Legacy WAF, 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.