Small business▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 2 → 8 of 35
1 category · RankedGcore DDoS Protection
18Judge labels
0First choices
2Negative labels
8 / 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
0% in DDoS for mid-market buyers
Rank 15 of 58 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 10 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Gcore DDoS Protection →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business9 of 38
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market15 of 58
0%10 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise24 of 41
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In ddos · 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 Gcore DDoS Protection 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDoS protection | Network and edge | 0% | 15 of 58 | 20% | 10 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Gcore DDoS Protection held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · DDoS · by segment
Mid-market=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 13 of 52, unchanged
Enterprise=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 24 of 41, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDoS | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 13 → 15 of 58 |
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 Gcore DDoS Protection 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 Gcore DDoS Protection 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
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
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative4 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 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.
“Free tier; $3.9/Mbps paid | High traffic | Less established for free use.” Grok 4.20 · DDoS · budget prompt · alternative
“GCore has a free tier available; Basic plan starts at $3.9/Mbps.” Muse Glimmer 30B · DDoS · budget prompt · alternative
“GCore — Good Free Alternative” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DDoS · budget 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.
“Trustpilot 2.3/5; some praise DDoS filtering but docs/support gripes; expensive.” Grok 4.20 · DDoS · negative prompt · soft negative
“G2 reviews from late 2025 describe dysfunctional support” Muse Glimmer 30B · DDoS · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Gcore DDoS Protection, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Gcore DDoS Protection was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Gcore DDoS Protection, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Gcore DDoS Protection 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 Gcore DDoS Protection. 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 18 of the 18 answers that named Gcore DDoS Protection and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
esecurityplanet.com16
sourceforge.net10
geekflare.com9
indusface.com9
radware.com8
cyberpress.org7
cybersecuritynews.com7
flowtriq.com7
g2.com7
comparitech.com6
Eighty-six of the eighty-six domain citations in answers naming Gcore DDoS Protection came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
gcore.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Gcore DDoS Protection takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare takes 82%.ShowHide
Search and answers
gcore.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Gcore DDoS Protection takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare takes 82%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ddos protection service”
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not in the top ten
Position for “ddos protection services”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 20 a month (“gcore ddos protection”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 23,524 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 12,760 · 167 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 5,135
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 15 of 58 in ddos
Segment leader
82%
Cloudflare
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 18 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 18 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 gcore.com
3,598
subdomains included
Content
723
counted in the table below
Documentation
1,828
Product · Integration
4 · 8
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 443 | 7 | 2026-09-09 | CDN, DDoS | |
| Glossary or explainer | 105 | 0 | 2026-04-27 | CDN, WAF | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 45 | 1 | 2026-08-03 | CDN | |
| News or press | 39 | undated | |||
| Case study | 24 | undated | CDN, DDoS | ||
| Comparison | 21 | 0 | 2026-04-20 | ||
| Template or tool | 17 | 0 | 2024-03-04 | ||
| Conference or event | 14 | 0 | 2026-03-09 | ||
| Podcast or video | 8 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 7 | 0 | 2025-06-02 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-09How gcore built global private backbone blog
- 2026-08-03Diagnosing live stream stalls cdn webinar or virtual event
- 2026-07-27Sifted 100 france benelux top 100 blog
- 2026-07-24Gcore connect recap 2026 blog
- 2026-07-22World cup streaming blog
- 2026-07-20Global inference routing blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- September 29, 2026 to October 1, 2026SBC 2026place not stated · exhibited
- April 6, 2026 to April 9, 2026SIGMA South America 2026Transamerica Expo Center, São Paulo, Brazil · exhibited
- March 2, 2026 to March 5, 2026MWC 2026Stand 6D44, Hall 6, Fira Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain · exhibited
As the event pages on gcore.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page gcore.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name CDN (68); 10 name the category the models place it in. 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 Gcore DDoS Protection
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Gcore DDoS Protection; a claim can dispute any of them.
GCore 5Gcore 4
Follow Gcore DDoS Protection
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
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The company
Gcore DDoS Protection is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Gcore DDoS Protection is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Gcore DDoS Protection safeguards servers and networks against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
- For
- servers and networks
- Price stated
- Basic protection is free and on by default, while Advanced protection is a paid add-on. docs.gcore.com/ddos-protection
- Starting price
- 2.60 gcore.com/ddos-protection/servers
- Free plan or trial
- Basic protection is free and on by default. docs.gcore.com/ddos-protection
- Certifications
- GDPRISO 27001PCI DSS
- Customers named
- MicrosoftProSiebenHiggsfieldFawkes GamesWargamingAlbion OnlineSaber Interactive
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What Gcore DDoS Protection's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: docs.gcore.com/ddos-protection, gcore.com/ddos-protection-gaming, gcore.com/emergency-ddos-protection, gcore.com/gcore-fastnetmon-ddos-protection, gcore.com/ddos-protection/servers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Gcore DDoS Protection's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Gcore DDoS Protection, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Gcore DDoS Protection by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Gcore DDoS Protection 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 Gcore DDoS Protection, 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.