Every category where a model named Fortinet FortiWeb 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%	12 of 87	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 55%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Fortinet FortiWeb 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 Fortinet FortiWeb 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	1	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1
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

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative13 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Fortinet offers the best value for money when its products are combined” Claude Haiku 4.5 · WAF · budget prompt · alternative

“If you are a Fortinet shop → Fortinet FortiWeb” DeepSeek V4 Flash · WAF · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for Fortinet shops: FortiWeb” Perplexity Sonar · WAF · comparative prompt · alternative

“For hybrid needs: FortiWeb or Barracuda.” Mistral Small · 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 Fortinet FortiWeb, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fortinet FortiWeb was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

AWS WAF19 of 220Not in the top three

Cloudflare WAF11 of 226Not in the top three

Akamai App & API Protector11 of 221Not in the top three

Cloudflare9 of 226Not in the top three

Imperva8 of 220Not in the top three

Akamai7 of 220Not in the top three

Fastly Next-Gen WAF7 of 220Not in the top three

Barracuda WAF6 of 220Not in the top three

Radware Cloud WAF6 of 220Not in the top three

F55 of 220Not 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 Fortinet FortiWeb. 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 21 of the 22 answers that named Fortinet FortiWeb and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertinsights.com18

openappsec.io17

wafplanet.com17

cybersecuritynews.com16

radware.com11

cyberpress.org8

imperva.com8

aimultiple.com7

guptadeepak.com7

akamai.com6

115 of the 115 domain citations in answers naming Fortinet FortiWeb came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-web-application-firewalls18

openappsec.io/post/best-waf-solutions-in-2024-2025-real-world-comparison13

wafplanet.com/13

cybersecuritynews.com/best-web-application-firewall-waf12

cybersecuritynews.com/best-web-application-firewall-solutions/amp10

openappsec.io/post/best-waf-solutions-in-2026-real-world-comparison10

cybersecuritynews.com/best-web-application-firewall-solutions8

aimultiple.com/waf-solutions7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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