# Cloudflare Legacy WAF: how AI models rank it, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge labels across 1 categories by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/cloudflare-legacy-waf/

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web application firewalls | 0% | 79 | 100% | 1 |

## And against it

- "Avoid products that are officially deprecated or end-of-life (e.g., Cloudflare legacy WAF, older on-prem appliances)." (MiniMax M2.5, WAF)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise.

- Web application firewalls: 0% to 0%, ±0. New · not ranked in September 2026 · rank 79 of 82.

## In its own words

What Cloudflare Legacy WAF's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) blocks more than 57 billion cyber threats per day. (https://blog.cloudflare.com/new-cloudflare-waf)
- For: all Cloudflare paid zone customers (https://blog.cloudflare.com/new-cloudflare-waf)
- Certifications: highest score for ability to execute in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAF

## What it publishes

Every page cloudflare.com exposes, read 2026-09-29: 15567 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 690 pages, 71 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-28
- case study: 262 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- webinar or virtual event: 32 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-07-22
- conference or event: 5 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-04-23
- report or ebook: 71 pages, 23 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-28
- comparison: 23 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-06-30
- template or tool: 46 pages, 12 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-08-14
- glossary or explainer: 458 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- podcast or video: 29 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- news or press: 7 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- Recent: 2026-09-28 blog: Introducing the cold start https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-the-cold-start/
- Recent: 2026-09-28 blog: Vinext nextjs on vite https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext-nextjs-on-vite/
- Recent: 2026-09-28 blog: Cloudflare cf cli launch https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-cf-cli-launch/
- Recent: 2026-09-28 blog: Forge open source generation pipeline https://blog.cloudflare.com/forge-open-source-generation-pipeline/
- Recent: 2026-09-28 blog: How fast is the web https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-fast-is-the-web/
- Recent: 2026-09-28 blog: Emdash cms plugin registry https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-cms-plugin-registry/

## Record

- Method: https://it-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://it-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, it-ai-index.com.