Every category where a model named DexGuard 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
Application shielding	Developer platform	0%	29 of 87	25%	8	under 10 labels · led by Appdome at 33%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for DexGuard 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 DexGuard 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	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	1	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative6 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained7 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative3 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative23 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 3 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.

“DexGuard offers the most comprehensive code transformation” GLM 4.7 FlashX · App shielding · comparative prompt · first choice

“Choose DexGuard / LIAPP / ByteHide Shield if your top need is post-install tampering and instrumentation detection” Perplexity Sonar · App shielding · direct prompt · alternative

“DexGuard (Top for Android-focused B2B)” Grok 4.1 Fast · App shielding · direct 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.

“DexGuard or Appdome, but these are not the most budget-friendly options in the results” Perplexity Sonar · App shielding · budget prompt · soft negative

“is stronger but quote-based/expensive (~thousands/year)” Grok 4.1 Fast · App shielding · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DexGuard, over the 23 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DexGuard was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Appdome18 of 235Not among the top eight

Promon SHIELD9 of 231Not among the top eight

AppTego8 of 235Not among the top eight

DoveRunner AppSealing8 of 231Not among the top eight

ProGuard6 of 231Not among the top eight

Verimatrix Application Shielding6 of 230Not among the top eight

PreEmptive Dotfuscator5 of 230Not among the top eight

R84 of 231Not among the top eight

AppSealing3 of 231Not among the top eight

LIAPP3 of 231Not 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 DexGuard. 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 22 of the 23 answers that named DexGuard and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com19

zipdo.co19

worldmetrics.org17

us.fitgap.com16

sourceforge.net13

gartner.com12

preemptive.com12

softwaresuggest.com11

luciq.ai10

topbusinesssoftware.com10

No domain is on file for DexGuard, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

zipdo.co/best/application-shielding-software19

worldmetrics.org/best/application-shielding-software17

g2.com/categories/application-shielding14

gartner.com/reviews/market/in-app-protection12

us.fitgap.com/search/application-shielding-software/small-business12

softwaresuggest.com/application-shielding-software11

g2.com/categories/application-security10

luciq.ai/blog/top-mobile-app-protection-and-shielding-tools10

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where DexGuard 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 (“dexguard”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 3 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 29 of 87 in app shielding

Segment leader

33%

Appdome

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 23 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

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 DexGuard

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

DexGuard (Guardsquare) 1DexGuard/iXGuard (Guardsquare) 1

Follow DexGuard

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.

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

where DexGuard 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 DexGuard, 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.