F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| API security platforms | Security operations | 2% | 17 of 93 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated F5 Distributed Cloud API Security across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“My default pick would be F5 Distributed Cloud API Security” GPT-6 Luna · API security · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Scalable, multi-cloud protection with DDoS and bot mitigation.” Mistral Small · API security · comparative 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.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as F5 Distributed Cloud API Security, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and F5 Distributed Cloud API Security was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 4 of the 4 answers that named F5 Distributed Cloud API Security and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fourteen of the sixteen domain citations in answers naming F5 Distributed Cloud API Security came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
f5.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, F5 Distributed Cloud API Security takes 2% of first choices and Aikido Security takes 12%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Its company's site
- f5.com shared with F5's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 178,423 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 34,068 · 1,976 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 36,879
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 136 clicks and $5 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 4 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 4 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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.
Follow F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
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The company
F5 is the company behind F5 Distributed Cloud API Security.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Automatically discover endpoints mapped to your applications, allow or deny list unwanted connections, and monitor for anomalous behavior and sensitive data.
- For
- organizations
- Free plan or trial
- Request a trial f5.com/products/distributed-cloud-services/api-security
- Hosting
- Public cloudOn-premisesF5 Global PoPs
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, customers
What F5 Distributed Cloud API Security's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: f5.com/products/distributed-cloud-services/api-security, f5.com/resources/demos/distributed-cloud-api-security-demo, f5.com/go/report/distributed-cloud-web-app-and-api-protection-overview, community.f5.com/t/f5-distributed-cloud-services-api-security-and-control/68882, community.f5.com/t/australia-virtual-f5-distributed-cloud-hands-on-lab-api-security/71852. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for F5 Distributed Cloud API Security by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where F5 Distributed Cloud API Security 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 F5 Distributed Cloud API Security, 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.