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	Since September 2026
Bot management	Network and edge	22%	2 of 83	12%	49	accepted challenger
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0%	36 of 82	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare WAF at 69%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

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 and per category, 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. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	3	1	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	1	1	2	7
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1	0	2
Grok 4.20	2	3	0	1	6
Mistral Small	2	0	1	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	2	1	1	6
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	0	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	1	0	3
Kimi K2	1	2	2	0	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	1	3
MiniMax M2.5	2	1	0	0	3
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	0	1	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	1	0	2

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

Direct30 labels10

Paraphrase40 labels9

Comparative27 labels7not counted in share

Budget-constrained19 labels1

Scale-constrained16 labels3

Negative17 labels5not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative149 labels in all, every segment counted; 23 of the 35 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.

“DataDome | Real-time, multi-surface protection | Sub-2ms latency, <0.01% false positives, strong API/mobile coverage, 24/7 SOC | Can be pricier” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Bot management · scale prompt · first choice

“If you have the budget (~$45k/year) and want the highest protection with the least amount of internal work, go with DataDome.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Bot management · direct prompt · first choice

“DataDome (Leader in Forrester Wave) ... Superior AI-agent trust management, zero-friction UX, and excellent API-level protection.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Bot management · comparative prompt · first choice

“DataDome and Akamai Bot Manager are the top choices due to their balance of effectiveness, scalability, and pricing” Mistral Small · Bot management · 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.

“If you are currently evaluating dedicated bot-management vendors (such as DataDome, HUMAN, Kasada, Akamai, or F5), watch out for these contract and technical warning signs” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Bot management · negative prompt · soft negative

“DataDome's published Essentials plan starts at $3,830/month, so I'd reserve it for a clear need and budget.” GPT-6 Luna · Bot management · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“No free tier (free trial only) | Enterprise‑only pricing (custom quotes) ... can budget >$200/mo” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Bot management · budget prompt · soft negative

“you do not need to pay for high-end enterprise solutions like DataDome, Akamai, or HUMAN Security” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Bot management · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DataDome, over the 149 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.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare Bot Management121 of 14966Compare →

Akamai Bot Manager95 of 1495Compare →

Imperva Advanced Bot Protection79 of 1491Not among the top eight

HUMAN Security53 of 1490Compare →

Kasada33 of 1490Not among the top eight

Radware Bot Manager31 of 1490Not among the top eight

Indusface AppTrana29 of 1496Compare →

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense22 of 1490Not among the top eight

Arkose Labs18 of 1490Not among the top eight

Fastly Bot Management17 of 1490Compare →

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 DataDome. 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 138 of the 149 answers that named DataDome and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

indusface.com77

cequence.ai76

radware.com71

securityboulevard.com63

g2.com62

datadome.coYour site53

developers.cloudflare.com49

cside.com47

techtimes.com42

cloudflare.com40

527 of the 580 domain citations in answers naming DataDome came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

indusface.com/blog/top-bot-management-software75

securityboulevard.com/2024/02/13-top-bot-management-software-in-the-market-for-202451

cside.com/blog/best-bot-detection-software43

radware.com/cyberpedia/bot-management/best-botnet-protection-tools39

forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-tm-bot-management-software-q3-2024/RES18101337

cequence.ai/learn/bot-management/choosing-bot-management-vendors-top-8-compared33

geetest.com/en/article/best-bot-management-software32

techtimes.com/articles/319760/20260706/best-bot-detection-mitigation-software-2026.htm32

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

datadome.co ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, DataDome takes 22% of first choices and Cloudflare Bot Management takes 56%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “bot management solution”

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not in the top ten

Position for “bot management solutions”

Searches for its name, Google: 1,900 a month (“datadome”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 33 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 15,592 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 3,164 · 192 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 4,582
Paid Google search: 8 searches its ads show for, about 48 clicks and $364 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 68 image, 40 video, 12 text · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown May 2023, as DataDome, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 62 in the year, 58 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

22%

rank 2 of 83 in bot management

Segment leader

56%

Cloudflare Bot Management

First choices: 23 across its categories
Named in: 149 answers
Its own site cited: in 138 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on datadome.co

100

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	2025-10 to 2026-09	Latest	Categories named
Blog	50	undated
News or press	3	3		2026-09-22

Most recent

2026-09-22State of bot and agent security report 2026 news or press
2026-08-21Ddr5 scalper bots now outnumber shoppers 10 to 1 news or press
2026-08-140dwwnt6c news or press

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page datadome.co 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. Read September 29, 2026.

Follow DataDome

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

DataDome is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Bot Management & Agent Trust Platform
datadome.co
For: businesses
datadome.co
Price stated: 3690.00 datadome.co
Starting price: 3690.00 datadome.co
Free plan or trial: Test your site now—it’s free datadome.co
Integrations claimed: 80 datadome.co
Certifications: SOC 2GDPRCCPAAWS Security Competency
Hosting: WorldwideEurope
Customers named: EtsyPayPalBlaBlaCarSoundCloudLeboncoin

What DataDome's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: datadome.co, trust.datadome.co. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

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 DataDome'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 DataDome, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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

where DataDome 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 DataDome, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where DataDome is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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DataDome is among the products AI models recommend first in Bot management this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/bot-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/datadome--bot-management-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Bot management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Bot management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/bot-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/datadome--bot-management-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Bot management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Bot management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/bot-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/datadome--bot-management-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Bot management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Bot management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.