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 7 → 6 of 35
Google Cloud · 3 categories · RankedGoogle Cloud Armor
62Judge labels
0First choices
9Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
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 11 of 58 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 19% of its 16 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Google Cloud Armor →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business6 of 38
0%11 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market11 of 58
0%16 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise10 of 41
0%16 labels
accepted challenger
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 Google Cloud Armor 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% | 11 of 58 | 19% | 16 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Web application firewalls | Network and edge | 0% | 30 of 82 | 17% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare WAF at 69% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Bot management | Network and edge | 0% | 35 of 83 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare Bot Management at 56% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Google Cloud Armor held within the floor in all three categories: 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 11 → 10 of 52
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 10 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 11 of 58, unchanged |
| WAF | 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 55 → 30 of 82 |
| Bot management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 35 of 83, unchanged |
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 Google Cloud Armor 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 Google Cloud Armor 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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
Direct6 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative28 labelsNone
Budget-constrained12 labelsNone
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative10 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative62 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.
“If your company already uses Google Cloud, Cloud Armor is a good integrated option.” Mistral Small · DDoS · budget prompt · alternative
“such as Cloudflare, Akamai, Imperva, Radware, AWS Shield, or Google Cloud Armor” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDoS · negative prompt · alternative
“Google Cloud Armor - Offers a free plan that includes DDoS protection.” Llama 4 Maverick · DDoS · budget prompt · alternative
“Google Cloud load-balanced apps; some hybrid or multicloud web apps” GPT-6 Luna · DDoS · 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.
“we identified and confirmed 1207 bypasses across 5 well-known WAFs, AWS, Azure, Cloud Armor, Cloudflare, and ModSecurity” Muse Glimmer 30B · WAF · negative prompt · soft negative
“they are cloud-locked and the paid tiers are $2,944\u2013$3,000/mo, making Cloudflare the cheaper cross-platform option” Muse Glimmer 30B · DDoS · budget prompt · soft negative
“you might be tempted to turn on their native premium DDoS protection. Be very careful.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDoS · budget prompt · soft negative
“Google Cloud Armor (starts ~$200/month, GCP-only)” Grok 4.20 · DDoS · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Google Cloud Armor, over the 62 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Cloud Armor was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Google Cloud Armor, over the 62 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Cloud Armor 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 Google Cloud Armor. 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 57 of the 62 answers that named Google Cloud Armor and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
esecurityplanet.com29
radware.com26
flowtriq.com23
indusface.com21
cybersecuritynews.com20
geekflare.com19
sourceforge.net14
guideflow.com13
myrasecurity.com13
cyberpress.org12
190 of the 190 domain citations in answers naming Google Cloud Armor came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
google.dev is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Google Cloud Armor takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare takes 82%.ShowHide
Search and answers
google.dev is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Google Cloud Armor 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”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 260 a month (“google cloud armor”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 30 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 881,346 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 22,650 · 2,977 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 29,239
- 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 11 of 58 in ddos
Segment leader
82%
Cloudflare
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 62 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 57 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.
Names read as Google Cloud Armor
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Google Cloud Armor; a claim can dispute any of them.
Cloud Armor 2Google Cloud Platform 1
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The company
Google Cloud is the company behind Google Cloud Armor.ShowHide
The company
Google Cloud is the company behind Google Cloud Armor.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Google Cloud Armor by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Google Cloud Armor 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 Google Cloud Armor, 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.