Every category where a model named F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense 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	0%	70 of 83	40%	10	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense 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 F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative13 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative9 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative35 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

“Want web + mobile bot defense with F5 integration: F5” GPT-5.4 mini · Bot management · 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.

“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

“Dated user interface • Limited efficacy transparency • Higher setup effort” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Bot management · negative prompt · soft negative

“More enterprise-oriented but scalable” Kimi K2 · Bot management · direct prompt · soft negative

“Good policy control | Niche fit” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Bot management · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, over the 35 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Akamai Bot Manager31 of 352Not among the top eight

Cloudflare Bot Management29 of 3511Not among the top eight

Imperva Advanced Bot Protection23 of 351Not among the top eight

DataDome22 of 358Not among the top eight

Radware Bot Manager13 of 351Not among the top eight

HUMAN Security12 of 352Not among the top eight

Kasada11 of 350Not among the top eight

Arkose Labs9 of 350Not among the top eight

PerimeterX5 of 351Not among the top eight

Indusface AppTrana5 of 350Not 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 F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense. 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 30 of the 35 answers that named F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cequence.ai22

radware.com20

securityboulevard.com16

forrester.com11

humansecurity.com11

indusface.com11

datadome.co10

developers.cloudflare.com10

akamai.com9

geetest.com9

129 of the 129 domain citations in answers naming F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cequence.ai/learn/bot-management/choosing-bot-management-vendors-top-8-compared14

securityboulevard.com/2024/02/13-top-bot-management-software-in-the-market-for-202413

indusface.com/blog/top-bot-management-software11

radware.com/cyberpedia/bot-management/best-botnet-protection-tools11

forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-tm-bot-management-software-q3-2024/RES18101310

cequence.ai/learn/bot-management/best-bot-management-solutions-for-large-enterprises9

geetest.com/en/article/best-bot-management-software9

techtimes.com/articles/319760/20260706/best-bot-detection-mitigation-software-2026.htm8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

f5.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare Bot Management takes 56%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “bot management solution”

Position for “bot management solutions”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 50 a month (“f5 distributed cloud bot defense”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
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)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 94 text, 14 video, 12 image · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown June 2024, as F5, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 115 in the year, 5 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 70 of 83 in bot management

Segment leader

56%

Cloudflare Bot Management

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 35 answers
Its own site cited: in 30 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.

Names read as F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense; a claim can dispute any of them.

F5 4F5 (Shape/ Distributed Cloud Bot Defense) 1F5 Shape 1

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The company

F5 is the company behind F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense.

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On record

Company records

Also from F5: F5 BIG-IP LTM, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, F5 BIG-IP VE, F5 Bot Defense, F5 Distributed Cloud API Security, F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side Defense, F5 Shape

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Detect and stop malicious automation while allowing trusted users and approved AI agents to interact without friction.
f5.com/products/distributed-cloud-services/bot-defense
For: Security and fraud teams
f5.com/products/distributed-cloud-services/bot-defense
Free plan or trial: Request a Free Enterprise Trial f5.com/resources/demos/f5-distributed-cloud-bot-defense-demo
Hosting: Distributed Cloud global networkUSEMEAAPJCNorthern Virginia (US-EAST-1)
Customers named: PUMA North AmericaQ2Deltatech Gaming Ltd.
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, integrations, certifications

What F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: f5.com/products/distributed-cloud-services/bot-defense, f5.com/resources/demos/f5-distributed-cloud-bot-defense-demo, community.f5.com/t/f5-distributed-cloud-bot-defense-overview-and-demo/69204, community.f5.com/t/protect-your-mobile-applications-with-f5-distributed-cloud-bot-defense/70175, community.f5.com/t/f5-distributed-cloud-bot-defense-protecting-aws-cloudfront-distributions/70802. 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 Bot Defense by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense 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 Bot Defense, 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.