Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 6 → 14 of 62
1 category · RankedFastly Next-Gen WAF
56Judge labels
2First choices
9Negative labels
14 / 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.
Best standing
4% in WAF for enterprise buyers
Rank 13 of 82 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 9% of its 22 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Fastly Next-Gen WAF →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business21 of 75
0%11 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market13 of 82
0%22 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise5 of 90
4%22 labels
accepted challenger
In waf · 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 Fastly Next-Gen WAF 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web application firewalls | Network and edge | 0% | 13 of 82 | 9% | 22 | accepted challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Fastly Next-Gen WAF held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · WAF · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 3 → 13 of 80
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 4 → 5 of 77
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAF | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 → 13 of 82 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Fastly Next-Gen WAF across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Fastly Next-Gen WAF across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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
Direct10 labels1
Paraphrase9 labelsNone
Comparative11 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained13 labels1
Negative10 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative56 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 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.
“High-performance APIs | Fastly Next-Gen WAF | Signal Sciences tech, low latency, quote-based” Kimi K2 · WAF · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Solutions like Cloudflare, Fastly, or Imperva sit in front of your applications via DNS changes.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · WAF · scale prompt · alternative
“Mid-market teams wanting simpler app protection | Modern architecture, good mid-market fit” DeepSeek V4 Flash · WAF · direct prompt · alternative
“Protect your applications at the Edge/DNS level (e.g., Cloudflare, Fastly, or Akamai)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · WAF · negative 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.
“Misconfigured CDN-WAF integrations (Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, Imperva) expose origin servers directly” DeepSeek V4 Flash · WAF · negative prompt · soft negative
“This is the BreakingWAF condition for Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, Imperva and similar CDN-WAF combos.” Muse Glimmer 30B · WAF · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Fastly Next-Gen WAF, over the 56 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fastly Next-Gen WAF was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Fastly Next-Gen WAF, over the 56 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fastly Next-Gen WAF was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Fastly Next-Gen WAF. 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 49 of the 56 answers that named Fastly Next-Gen WAF and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
radware.com24
imperva.com20
wafplanet.com18
openappsec.io16
akamai.com15
gartner.com15
checkpoint.com14
cybersecuritynews.com14
fastly.comYour site14
indusface.com13
149 of the 163 domain citations in answers naming Fastly Next-Gen WAF came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
fastly.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Fastly Next-Gen WAF takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare WAF takes 69%.ShowHide
Search and answers
fastly.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Fastly Next-Gen WAF takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare WAF takes 69%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “web application firewall”
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not in the top ten
Position for “web application firewalls”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 70 a month (“fastly next-gen waf”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 107,961 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 21,224 · 548 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 15,362
- Paid Google search
- 5 searches its ads show for, about 95 clicks and $2,460 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 13 of 82 in WAF
Segment leader
69%
Cloudflare WAF
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 56 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 49 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on fastly.com
12,334
subdomains included
Content
1,680
counted in the table below
Documentation
5,413
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 927 | 1 | 2026-07-31 | WAF, Object storage | |
| Blog | 649 | 30 | 2026-09-28 | CDN, WAF | |
| Case study | 57 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 14 | 0 | 2025-12-15 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 13 | 2 | 2026-09-16 | Object storage | |
| News or press | 9 | 7 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Conference or event | 5 | 0 | 2025-02-14 | ||
| Comparison | 4 | 0 | 2026-05-21 | CDN | |
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | 1 | 2026-09-16 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Fastlys 2025 sustainability report running decarbonization marathon blog
- 2026-09-28Press releases news or press
- 2026-09-28Comcast and fastlys new content deliver model powers highest quality experience news or press
- 2026-09-23Control ai bot scraping with fastly bot management blog
- 2026-09-23Datasheet blog
- 2026-09-22Building metered streams with mpp and fastly compute blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page fastly.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Fastly Next-Gen WAF
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Fastly Next-Gen WAF; a claim can dispute any of them.
Fastly 10Fastly Next-Gen WAF (formerly Signal Sciences) 3Fastly (Signal Sciences) 1Fastly WAF 1Fastly WAF / Next-gen WAF 1Fastly/Fastly WAF 1
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The company
Fastly Next-Gen WAF is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Fastly Next-Gen WAF is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- real-time threat protection, scalable security, and low-latency performance
- Free plan or trial
- Try Fastly free fastly.com/documentation/guides/integrations
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Fastly Next-Gen WAF's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: fastly.com, fastly.com/blog/category/security, fastly.com/blog/category/customers, fastly.com/documentation/guides/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Fastly Next-Gen WAF by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Fastly Next-Gen WAF 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 Fastly Next-Gen WAF, 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.