Every category where a model named Imperva Advanced Bot 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
Bot management	Network and edge	0%	12 of 83	17%	35	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Imperva Advanced Bot Protection yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Imperva Advanced Bot Protection across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	2	3	6
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	1	2	5
Llama 4 Maverick	1	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	3	1	0	4
Kimi K2	1	3	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	1	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	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

Direct27 labelsNone

Paraphrase17 labelsNone

Comparative24 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained13 labelsNone

Scale-constrained13 labelsNone

Negative13 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative107 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 2 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.

“Strong in behavioral analysis, device fingerprinting, and customizable rules for enterprise-scale protection” Grok 4.1 Fast · Bot management · comparative prompt · alternative

“this is usually the best choice if you already have or plan to buy Imperva's Web Application Firewall (WAF)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Bot management · direct prompt · alternative

“Imperva - offers on-premises and cloud protection, including WAF, DDoS protection, Bot attack mitigation” Llama 4 Maverick · Bot management · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Best for: Organizations needing strong API security and those with complex, multi-cloud environments” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Bot management · 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.

“A very high block rate can indicate strong coverage, or over-blocking depending on your traffic mix. Teams report needing significant tuning” Muse Glimmer 30B · Bot management · negative prompt · soft negative

“Reviews note that "false-positive management can require sustained tuning effort." Good for enterprises but can frustrate smaller teams.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Bot management · negative prompt · soft negative

“fits mid-sized budgets better than enterprise-heavy options like Imperva, Akamai, or Radware (often custom-priced in the thousands)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Bot management · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“Enterprise-focused tools (Akamai, Imperva) often have high costs for advanced features, unsuitable for SMBs.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Bot management · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Imperva Advanced Bot Protection, over the 107 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Imperva Advanced Bot Protection was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare Bot Management92 of 10750Not among the top eight

Akamai Bot Manager89 of 1077Not among the top eight

DataDome79 of 10720Not among the top eight

HUMAN Security32 of 1077Not among the top eight

Radware Bot Manager31 of 1071Not among the top eight

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense23 of 1070Not among the top eight

Kasada21 of 1071Not among the top eight

Indusface AppTrana17 of 1072Not among the top eight

Arkose Labs15 of 1070Not among the top eight

PerimeterX12 of 1072Not among the top eight

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 Imperva Advanced Bot 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 99 of the 107 answers that named Imperva Advanced Bot Protection and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cequence.ai55

indusface.com54

securityboulevard.com54

radware.com53

g2.com40

forrester.com39

developers.cloudflare.com37

cside.com34

techtimes.com34

cloudflare.com29

429 of the 429 domain citations in answers naming Imperva Advanced Bot Protection came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

indusface.com/blog/top-bot-management-software53

securityboulevard.com/2024/02/13-top-bot-management-software-in-the-market-for-202447

forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-tm-bot-management-software-q3-2024/RES18101339

radware.com/cyberpedia/bot-management/best-botnet-protection-tools34

cside.com/blog/best-bot-detection-software33

techtimes.com/articles/319760/20260706/best-bot-detection-mitigation-software-2026.htm30

securityboulevard.com/2024/10/what-is-bot-management29

cequence.ai/learn/bot-management/choosing-bot-management-vendors-top-8-compared27

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

imperva.com ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Imperva Advanced Bot Protection takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare Bot Management takes 56%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “bot management solution”

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not in the top ten

Position for “bot management solutions”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 70 a month (“imperva advanced bot protection”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Its company's site: imperva.com shared with Imperva's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site: about 417,309 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 20,176 · 3,001 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 21,050
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 12 of 83 in bot management

Segment leader

56%

Cloudflare Bot Management

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 107 answers
Its own site cited: in 99 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 Imperva Advanced Bot Protection

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Imperva Advanced Bot Protection; a claim can dispute any of them.

Imperva 16Imperva Advanced Bot Management 2Imperva Bot Management 2Barracuda/Imperva 1Imperva / Incapsula 1

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The company

Imperva is the company behind Imperva Advanced Bot Protection.

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On record

Company records

Also from Imperva: Imperva API Security, Imperva Advanced Bot Management, Imperva Application Security Platform, Imperva Bot Management, Imperva Bot Protection, Imperva Client-Side Protection

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Protect your websites, apps, and APIs with Imperva Advanced Bot Protection. Stop sophisticated bots without sacrificing user experience or business flow.
imperva.com/products/advanced-bot-protection-management
For: Organizations
imperva.com/products/advanced-bot-protection-management
Price stated: Pricing varies based on customer needs. Contact for a custom quote. imperva.com/products/advanced-bot-protection-management
Free plan or trial: Free trial imperva.com/products/advanced-bot-protection-management
Hosting: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Customers named: SabreTop 3 US Retailer
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, certifications

What Imperva Advanced Bot Protection's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: imperva.com/products/advanced-bot-protection-management, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/datasheets/imperva-bot-management, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/datasheets/imperva-bot-management-for-e-commerce, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/datasheets/imperva-advanced-bot-protection-for-aws, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/datasheets/imperva-bot-management-for-financial-services. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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where Imperva Advanced Bot 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 Imperva Advanced Bot 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;
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