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
DDoS protection	Network and edge	0%	11 of 51	7%	15	accepted challenger
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0%	74 of 87	38%	8	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 55%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Google Cloud Armor 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 Google Cloud Armor across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	3	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	2	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	2	1	4
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	1	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1

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

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative25 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative57 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.

“Google Cloud Armor — standard tier starts around $5/policy/month plus usage fees” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DDoS · budget prompt · alternative

“using AWS Shield or Cloud Armor is a no-brainer due to the integration benefits” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DDoS · comparative prompt · alternative

“Google Cloud Armor is GCP's equivalent (~$3,000/mo for Premium tier)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DDoS · comparative prompt · alternative

“or Google Cloud Armor Standard if you're already on those platforms” GPT-5.4 mini · 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.

“tied strictly to their respective ecosystems ... Use them only if you are 100% committed to staying on that specific cloud platform” Qwen 3.7 Flash · WAF · negative prompt · soft negative

“warns to be cautious with major cloud providers like AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle Cloud when relying on them for DDoS defense alone” Perplexity Sonar · DDoS · negative prompt · soft negative

“High false positives (57%); fail-open on large payloads.” Grok 4.1 Fast · WAF · negative prompt · soft negative

“Google Cloud Armor | ✅ Vulnerable” Kimi K2 · WAF · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google Cloud Armor, over the 57 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare44 of 5739Not in the top three

AWS Shield40 of 571Not in the top three

Akamai Prolexic27 of 571Not in the top three

Azure DDoS Protection27 of 570Not in the top three

Imperva24 of 571Not in the top three

Radware21 of 570Not in the top three

AWS WAF15 of 570Not in the top three

Sucuri13 of 570Not in the top three

Fastly12 of 570Not in the top three

Fastly Next-Gen WAF10 of 570Not 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 Google Cloud Armor. 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 47 of the 57 answers that named Google Cloud Armor and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cybersecuritynews.com32

cyberpress.org28

flowtriq.com23

geekflare.com19

radware.com18

expertinsights.com16

gartner.com15

esecurityplanet.com13

cloudflare.com12

wafplanet.com11

187 of the 187 domain citations in answers naming Google Cloud Armor came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cybersecuritynews.com/ddos-protection-tools25

cyberpress.org/ddos-protection-services-to-consider22

geekflare.com/cybersecurity/ddos-protection-service19

flowtriq.com/blog/best-cloud-ddos-protection15

esecurityplanet.com/products/distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-protection-vendors13

flowtriq.com/ddos-protection-facts12

gartner.com/reviews/market/ddos-mitigation-solutions11

myrasecurity.com/en/the-10-best-ddos-protection-services10

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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.

Google Cloud Armor Standard 2Cloud Armor 1GCP 1

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