Every category where a model named Cloudflare Page Shield 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
Client-side protection	Security operations	0%	25 of 120	17%	12	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cloudflare Page Shield 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 Page Shield across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	0	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct9 labels1

Paraphrase7 labelsNone

Comparative11 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained8 labels3

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative41 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 5 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.

“If you already use Cloudflare or Akamai for your CDN, their built-in client-side protection modules are worth evaluating first” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Client-side protection · scale prompt · alternative

“Choose CDN-Integrated Edge Add-ons (Cloudflare Page Shield / Akamai) if you are already using their enterprise CDN/WAF services” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Client-side protection · comparative prompt · alternative

“Broad edge platform with client-side script analysis, integrity checks, and bot detection; scales for high-traffic sites.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Client-side protection · comparative prompt · alternative

“If you're already on Cloudflare or Akamai and want quick integration → Page Shield” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Client-side protection · comparative 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.

“free/cheap add-on for script tracking via CSP reporting, but sampled/not as comprehensive for PCI” Grok 4.1 Fast · Client-side protection · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“More expensive than other options; advanced features require Enterprise plan” Kimi K2 · Client-side protection · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare Page Shield, over the 41 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudflare Page Shield was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Jscrambler Webpage Integrity25 of 412Not among the top eight

cside24 of 4113Not among the top eight

Imperva Client-Side Protection23 of 410Not among the top eight

Reflectiz21 of 414Not among the top eight

Source Defense19 of 415Not among the top eight

Feroot PaymentGuard15 of 413Not among the top eight

Feroot Security12 of 414Not among the top eight

HUMAN Security12 of 412Not among the top eight

Akamai9 of 410Not among the top eight

c/side7 of 414Not 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 Page Shield. 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 41 of the 41 answers that named Cloudflare Page Shield and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cside.com41

g2.com30

sourceforge.net24

geeksframework.com23

reflectiz.com21

us.fitgap.com20

slashdot.org17

startupstash.com14

imperva.com13

f6s.com12

215 of the 215 domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare Page Shield came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cside.com/blog/top-client-side-security-tools-full-guide31

g2.com/categories/client-side-protection23

geeksframework.com/software/client-side-protection-solutions23

startupstash.com/top-client-side-protection-tools14

cside.com/blog/best-digital-skimming-protection13

cside.com/compare12

reflectiz.com/blog/pci-dss-6-4-3-11-6-1-solution-comparison12

us.fitgap.com/search/client-side-protection-solutions/enterprise12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Cloudflare Page Shield 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: 140 a month (“cloudflare page shield”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 3 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

rank 25 of 120 in client-side protection

Segment leader

13%

cside

First choices: 4 across its categories
Named in: 41 answers
Its own site cited: in 41 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 Page Shield

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

Cloudflare Page Shield/Application Security 1

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The company

Cloudflare is the company behind Cloudflare Page Shield.

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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: a client-side security product customers can use to detect attacks in end-user browsers
blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-page-shield
For: Business and Enterprise customers
blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-page-shield
Price stated: at no extra charge blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-page-shield
Free plan or trial: closed beta blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-page-shield
Integrations claimed: 4373 blog.cloudflare.com/page-shield-positive-blocking-policies
Certifications: PCI DSS 4.0
Customers named: TicketmasterNeweggBritish Airways
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, hosting

What Cloudflare Page Shield's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-page-shield, developers.cloudflare.com/client-side-security, blog.cloudflare.com/page-shield-connection-monitor, blog.cloudflare.com/page-shield-generally-available, blog.cloudflare.com/page-shield-positive-blocking-policies. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cloudflare Page Shield by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Cloudflare Page Shield 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 Page Shield, 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.