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Index › Vendors › DDoS-Guard · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

DDoS-Guard

12Judge labels

0First choices

12Negative labels

7 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

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. DDoS-Guard was named 7 times in DDoS, where Cloudflare led with 93%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business39 of 41

under the label threshold

Mid-market51 of 51

under the label threshold

Enterprise31 of 31

under the label threshold

In ddos · 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 DDoS-Guard 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
DDoS protection	Network and edge	0%	51 of 51	100%	7	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 93%

Movement

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

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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative12 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Why to avoid: If you host your legitimate business behind DDoS-Guard, your traffic may be routed through IP addresses that are pre-blocked or blacklisted” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDoS · negative prompt · hard negative

“DDoS-Guard.net - Mixed Reputation - Trustpilot reviews raise concerns about: Being used by "dodgy websites" to remain anonymous” Kimi K2 · DDoS · negative prompt · hard negative

“## Specific Services to Avoid DDoS-Guard: DDoS-Guard is suspected of hosting multiple Internet scammers” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DDoS · negative prompt · hard negative

“Be cautious with DDoS-GUARD (ddos-guard.net), as it stands out in reviews for major red flags” Grok 4.1 Fast · DDoS · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DDoS-Guard, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DDoS-Guard was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare10 of 127Not in the top three

Akamai Prolexic10 of 121Not in the top three

AWS Shield9 of 120Not in the top three

Imperva6 of 120Not in the top three

Sucuri4 of 121Not in the top three

Cosmic Guard3 of 120Not in the top three

Path.net3 of 120Not in the top three

Azure DDoS Protection2 of 120Not in the top three

Gcore2 of 120Not in the top three

Gcore DDoS Protection2 of 120Not 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 DDoS-Guard. 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 11 of the 12 answers that named DDoS-Guard and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

trustpilot.com11

lowendtalk.com10

cyberpress.org9

cybersecuritynews.com8

g2.com8

gartner.com7

reddit.com7

esecurityplanet.com6

flowtriq.com6

geekflare.com6

Seventy-eight of the seventy-eight domain citations in answers naming DDoS-Guard came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

trustpilot.com/review/ddos-guard.net10

cyberpress.org/ddos-protection-services-to-consider9

cybersecuritynews.com/ddos-protection-tools8

lowendtalk.com/discussion/74798/review-of-ddos-mitigation-solutions-providers8

gartner.com/reviews/market/ddos-mitigation-solutions7

esecurityplanet.com/products/distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-protection-vendors6

geekflare.com/cybersecurity/ddos-protection-service6

g2.com/products/gcore-ddos-protection/reviews5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as DDoS-Guard

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

DDOS-GUARD 1DDoS-Guard (ddos-guard.net) 1DDoS-Guard.net 1

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at ddos-guard.net is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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