Every category where a model named Imperva API Security 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
API security platforms	Security operations	2%	12 of 93	24%	25	accepted challenger

Movement

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

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

Direct12 labelsNone

Paraphrase6 labels1

Comparative14 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained12 labelsNone

Negative11 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative58 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Best Overall Choice: Salt Security or Imperva for discovery and external API exposure monitoring” Claude Haiku 4.5 · API security · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Choose Imperva API Security if you already want a unified app-security console spanning cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.” Perplexity Sonar · API security · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Imperva | Strong if you already use Imperva WAF/CDN | May be redundant if you don't use their ecosystem” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API security · scale prompt · alternative

“Compliance-Focused Mid-Market ... Considerations: Less specialized than pure-play API security vendors” Kimi K2 · API security · direct 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.

“Imperva reviews note strong inventory/visibility, but also comments about lacking deep detections/protections in some environments.” GPT-5.4 mini · API security · negative prompt · soft negative

“legacy players are criticized for "bloated" dashboards and difficult integration processes” Qwen 3.7 Flash · API security · negative prompt · soft negative

“These are often bolt-on features rather than purpose-built API security platforms.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API security · negative prompt · soft negative

“Requires tuning/expertise; higher complexity/cost | Hybrid/legacy setups” Grok 4.1 Fast · API security · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Imperva API Security, over the 58 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Imperva API Security was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Salt Security47 of 5816Not among the top eight

Akamai API Security46 of 5811Not among the top eight

Wallarm API Security31 of 582Not among the top eight

Cloudflare API Shield23 of 582Not among the top eight

Traceable AI20 of 582Not among the top eight

42Crunch19 of 580Not among the top eight

Cequence Unified API Protection19 of 580Not among the top eight

Traceable15 of 580Not among the top eight

Noname Security13 of 580Not among the top eight

StackHawk10 of 580Not 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 API Security. 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 54 of the 58 answers that named Imperva API Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

radware.com38

learn.g2.com25

akamai.com22

zuplo.com22

beaglesecurity.com21

getastra.com19

ciopages.com17

axis-intelligence.com15

g2.com14

gartner.com14

207 of the 207 domain citations in answers naming Imperva API Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/choosing-api-security-solutions33

learn.g2.com/best-api-security-tools25

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/api-security-platforms24

zuplo.com/learning-center/best-api-security-tools-202620

beaglesecurity.com/blog/article/best-api-security-solutions-enterprises.html17

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/api-security17

getastra.com/blog/api-security/api-security-companies17

axis-intelligence.com/best-api-security-tools-2026-tested-guide15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

imperva.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Imperva API Security takes 2% of first choices and Aikido Security takes 12%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “api security platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “api security platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 40 a month (“imperva api security”)
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 93 in API security

Segment leader

12%

Aikido Security

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 58 answers
Its own site cited: in 54 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 API Security

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

Imperva 16Imperva / Thales 1

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The company

Imperva is the company behind Imperva API Security.

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On record

Company records

Also from Imperva: Imperva Advanced Bot Management, Imperva Advanced Bot Protection, 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: Unified API Security Platform
imperva.com/products/api-security
For: organizations protecting APIs across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments
imperva.com/products/api-security
Price stated: Pricing varies based on customer needs. Contact for a custom quote. imperva.com/products/api-security
Starting price: 0.00 imperva.com/solutions/secure-applications-apis
Free plan or trial: Free trial imperva.com/products/api-security
Hosting: Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP
Customers named: SA Power NetworkshibankTop 3 US RetailerTowerSmallpdfQuálitasBanco PopularDiscovery Inc.
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, certifications

What Imperva API Security's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: imperva.com/products/api-security, imperva.com/solutions/secure-applications-apis, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/datasheets/imperva-api-security, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/datasheets/api-security-anywhere, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/reports/imperva-api-threat-report. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Imperva API Security by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Imperva API Security 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 API Security, 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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