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Cloudflare WAF + Cloudflare Bot Management

1Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

1 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.

Best standing

2% in WAF for mid-market buyers

Rank 5 of 87 in the mid-market standing

0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 1 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market5 of 87

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

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 WAF + Cloudflare Bot Management 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
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	2%	5 of 87	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 55%

Movement

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

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

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative1 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.

“I'd usually recommend Cloudflare WAF + Cloudflare Bot Management as the default choice” GPT-5.4 mini · WAF · paraphrase 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare WAF + Cloudflare Bot Management, 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 WAF + Cloudflare Bot Management was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Akamai1 of 10Not in the top three

Fastly Next-Gen WAF1 of 10Not in the top three

Imperva1 of 10Not 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 WAF + Cloudflare Bot Management. 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 1 of the 1 answers that named Cloudflare WAF + Cloudflare Bot Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

akamai.com1

cloudflare.comYour site1

developers.cloudflare.comYour site1

fastly.com1

imperva.com1

Three of the five domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare WAF + Cloudflare Bot Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

akamai.com/site/en/documents/checklist/2025/waf-evaluation-checklist.pdf1

cloudflare.com/solutions/security1

developers.cloudflare.com/waf1

fastly.com/blog/best-waf-solutions-2025-20261

imperva.com/resources/reports/SecureIQLab-2024-Cloud-WAAP-CyberRisk-Comparative-Validation1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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