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Imperva · 3 categories · Named, not ranked

Imperva Application Security Platform

9Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

3 / 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.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Imperva Application Security Platform was named 3 times in API security and 2 other categories, where Aikido Security led with 12%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market64 of 93

under the label threshold

Enterprise24 of 82

under the label threshold

In api security · 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 Imperva Application Security Platform 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	0%	64 of 93	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12%
Bot management	Network and edge	0%	64 of 83	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare Bot Management at 56%
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0%	56 of 82	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare WAF at 69%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

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

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative8 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Imperva Application Security Platform, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Imperva Application Security Platform was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Akamai API Security3 of 91Not among the top eight

Akamai Bot Manager3 of 91Not among the top eight

Cloudflare Bot Management3 of 91Not among the top eight

Check Point CloudGuard WAF3 of 90Not among the top eight

DataDome3 of 90Not among the top eight

Cloudflare WAF2 of 91Not among the top eight

Salt Security2 of 91Not among the top eight

42Crunch2 of 90Not among the top eight

AWS WAF2 of 90Not among the top eight

Akto2 of 90Not 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 Application Security Platform. 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 9 of the 9 answers that named Imperva Application Security Platform and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peerspot.com7

radware.com7

g2.com6

indusface.com5

akamai.com4

cequence.ai4

expertinsights.com4

learn.g2.com4

checkpoint.com3

fastly.com3

Forty-seven of the forty-seven domain citations in answers naming Imperva Application Security Platform came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cequence.ai/learn/bot-management/best-bot-management-solutions-for-large-enterprises3

g2.com/categories/api-security3

learn.g2.com/best-api-security-tools3

peerspot.com/categories/api-security3

peerspot.com/categories/bot-management3

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/api-security-platforms3

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/api-security-solutions3

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/choosing-api-security-solutions3

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 Application Security Platform takes 0% 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

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 64 of 93 in API security

Segment leader

12%

Aikido Security

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 9 answers
Its own site cited: in 9 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.

Follow Imperva Application Security Platform

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

Imperva is the company behind Imperva Application Security Platform.

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On record

Company records

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

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: best-in-class Application Security Platform
imperva.com/products/application-security
For: digital businesses
imperva.com/products/application-security
Price stated: Pricing varies based on customer needs. Contact for a custom quote. imperva.com/products/application-security
Free plan or trial: Free trial imperva.com/products/application-security
Customers named: TowerSmallpdfQuálitasBanco PopularDiscovery Inc.BSESilver Fern FarmsSA Power Networks
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Imperva Application Security Platform's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: imperva.com/products/application-security, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/datasheets/imperva-application-security, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/infographics/ai-apps-bot-api-security-2025, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/infographics/combat-todays-threats-with-a-single-platform-for-app-and-data-security, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/reports/idc-marketscape-worldwide-web-application-and-api-protection-enterprise-platforms-2024-vendor-assessment. 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 Imperva Application Security Platform'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 Imperva Application Security Platform, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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

where Imperva Application Security Platform 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 Application Security Platform, 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.