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Index › Vendors › DataDome · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

DataDome

5Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

3 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.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. DataDome was named 3 times in WAF, where Cloudflare led with 55%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business26 of 77

under the label threshold

Mid-market20 of 87

under the label threshold

Enterprise38 of 94

under the label threshold

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 DataDome 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	0%	20 of 87	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 55%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	1
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	1	1
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

Paraphrase5 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“If you discover you need deeper bot specialization, add DataDome in front of it.” Kimi K2 · WAF · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“DataDome is a strong add-on or alternative for bot mitigation” Perplexity Sonar · WAF · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Best if Bot Mitigation/Scraping is Your #1 Threat” Gemini 3.5 Flash · WAF · paraphrase 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DataDome, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DataDome was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare5 of 55Not in the top three

AWS WAF2 of 50Not in the top three

Akamai2 of 50Not in the top three

Azure WAF2 of 50Not in the top three

HUMAN Security2 of 50Not in the top three

AWS WAF + Bot Control1 of 50Not in the top three

Barracuda WAF1 of 50Not in the top three

Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service1 of 50Not in the top three

Cequence Security1 of 50Not in the top three

F5 BIG-IP1 of 50Not 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 DataDome. 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 3 of the 5 answers that named DataDome and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aimultiple.com3

cyberpress.org3

cybersecuritynews.com3

wafplanet.com3

cequence.ai2

cisco.com2

expertinsights.com2

fastly.com2

gartner.com2

geekflare.com2

Twenty-four of the twenty-four domain citations in answers naming DataDome came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/waf-solutions-by-business-size3

cybersecuritynews.com/best-web-application-firewall-waf3

aimultiple.com/waf-solutions2

cequence.ai/learn/application-security/top-8-web-application-and-api-protection-providers2

cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/advanced-waf-bot-aag.html2

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-web-application-firewalls2

fastly.com/blog/best-waf-solutions-2025-20262

gartner.com/reviews/market/cloud-web-application-and-api-protection2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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