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
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0%	8 of 87	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 55%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Fastly Next-Gen WAF yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Fastly Next-Gen WAF across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct7 labels1

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative14 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative27 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.

“If your product relies on complex APIs and you are terrified of false positives locking out your B2B customers, prioritize Fastly (Signal Sciences)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · WAF · direct prompt · alternative

“Fastly Next-Gen WAF if your team is very DevOps/API-heavy and wants strong edge-native controls” GPT-5.4 mini · WAF · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Choose Fastly (Signal Sciences) if you have a modern CI/CD pipeline, run microservices” Gemini 3.5 Flash · WAF · comparative prompt · alternative

“Choose Fastly if you are building modern, API-heavy microservices architectures.” Kimi K2 · WAF · 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 Fastly Next-Gen WAF, over the 27 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

AWS WAF19 of 270Not in the top three

Akamai App & API Protector14 of 272Not in the top three

Cloudflare WAF13 of 2711Not in the top three

Google Cloud Armor10 of 270Not in the top three

Imperva8 of 271Not in the top three

F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF7 of 270Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiWeb7 of 270Not in the top three

Radware Cloud WAF6 of 270Not in the top three

Cloudflare5 of 275Not in the top three

Akamai5 of 271Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 19 of the 27 answers that named Fastly Next-Gen WAF and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertinsights.com16

wafplanet.com15

cybersecuritynews.com12

openappsec.io12

imperva.com9

cyberpress.org8

guptadeepak.com8

fastly.comYour site7

radware.com7

cloudflare.com6

Ninety-three of the 100 domain citations in answers naming Fastly Next-Gen WAF came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-web-application-firewalls16

wafplanet.com/13

openappsec.io/post/best-waf-solutions-in-2024-2025-real-world-comparison11

cybersecuritynews.com/best-web-application-firewall-solutions/amp9

cyberpress.org/waf-solutions-by-business-size8

cybersecuritynews.com/best-web-application-firewall-waf8

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-waf-web-application-firewall-tools-20268

imperva.com/blog/best-waap-solutions7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 Next-Gen WAF (formerly Signal Sciences) 3Fastly Next-Gen WAF (Signal Sciences) 1

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