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F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side Defense

4Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

4 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side Defense was named 2 times in Client-side protection, where cside led with 13%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market14 of 120

under the label threshold

Enterprise32 of 98

under the label threshold

In client-side protection · 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 F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side 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
Client-side protection	Security operations	2%	14 of 120	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by cside at 13%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side 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 Client-Side 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	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct1 label1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“the strongest fit for many mid-market B2B companies is usually F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side Defense” GPT-5.4 mini · Client-side protection · direct prompt · first choice

“compare Akamai and F5 for enterprise runtime detection and mitigation” GPT-6 Luna · Client-side protection · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side Defense, 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 Client-Side Defense was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Imperva Client-Side Protection3 of 41Not among the top eight

Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance2 of 40Not among the top eight

Jscrambler Webpage Integrity2 of 40Not among the top eight

Reflectiz2 of 40Not among the top eight

Cloudflare Client-Side Security1 of 41Not among the top eight

Akamai Client-Side Protection1 of 40Not among the top eight

Cloudflare Application Security and Performance1 of 40Not among the top eight

DomDog1 of 40Not among the top eight

Feroot PaymentGuard1 of 40Not among the top eight

Feroot Security1 of 40Not 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 Client-Side 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 4 of the 4 answers that named F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side Defense and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cside.com2

gartner.com2

slashdot.org2

startupstash.com2

us.fitgap.com2

akamai.com1

developers.cloudflare.com1

f5.comYour site1

f6s.com1

g2.com1

Fourteen of the fifteen domain citations in answers naming F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side Defense came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cside.com/blog/top-client-side-security-tools-full-guide2

slashdot.org/software/client-side-protection/f-enterprise2

startupstash.com/top-client-side-protection-tools2

us.fitgap.com/search/client-side-protection-solutions/enterprise2

akamai.com/products/client-side-protection-compliance1

cside.com/blog/best-digital-skimming-protection1

cside.com/blog/real-time-browser-attack-visibility-tools1

cside.com/compare1

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 Client-Side Defense takes 2% of first choices and cside takes 13%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “client-side protection tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “client-side protection tools”

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not in the top ten

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 14 of 120 in client-side protection

Segment leader

13%

cside

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.

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The company

F5 is the company behind F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side 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 Bot Defense, F5 Shape

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: A client-side runtime security solution that detects, monitors, and blocks malicious JavaScript to protect against browser-based attacks.
f5.com/products/distributed-cloud-services/client-side-defense
For: organizations
f5.com/products/distributed-cloud-services/client-side-defense
Free plan or trial: start a free trial f5.com/resources/demos/introduction-to-f5-distributed-cloud-client-side-defense
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side Defense's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: f5.com/products/distributed-cloud-services/client-side-defense, f5.com/resources/demos/introduction-to-f5-distributed-cloud-client-side-defense, community.f5.com/t/automation-of-f5-distributed-cloud-platform-client-side-defense-feature-part-i/71043, f5.com/de_de/products/distributed-cloud-services/client-side-defense, f5.com/es_es/products/distributed-cloud-services/client-side-defense. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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where F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side 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 Client-Side 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;
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